incubator

november 14, 2024-february 2, 2025

conversation with the artists: January 23, 2025 from 6:00-7:00 pm

For Incubator, Travis Vermilye, Jaimé Belkind Gerson, Katie Caron and Robert Turek explore communication during preconception, conception and birth. “Pre-conception” includes ancestral history, DNA, trauma and environment, all of which influence the way we navigate life. They condition our nervous system and the way we develop and communicate.

Through the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to slow down and reflect on their own pre-birth, conception, birth stories, their beingness, and how communication affects all of it. The works of the artists provide opportunities to look deeply at our neurological and energetic relationship with self, each other, nature, science, art, and technology.

Think of it this way: your neural pathways listen to our self-talk and communication with others; depending on what we say those pathways will support a fight, flight, freeze, or a rest, reset, digest response. The flow of growth and evolution can be blocked by the way we talk with ourselves and each other.

Everything is interconnected.

What could happen to the collective consciousness if we considered how communication impacted the pre-birth and birth environments? How do we contribute to the collective wired consciousness in the way we communicate with ourselves and each other? How do we celebrate being human? From preconception through birth, some of us are asked to forget our natural intelligence and personal need for safety, care, growth, and love. Incubator makes space for us to remember. 

This exhibition is a collaboration with IL, a grassroots organization recently sprouted by Hope Carwile, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Kim LeClaire, a Global Educator, and Stewart Golditch, a Retired Bus Driver. The mission of IL is: “We will provide creative resources to the general public for exploration, and engagement with the 4 stages of life, and our relationship to the natural world, sciences, art and technology.

Image credit: Katie Caron, Cross Section, 2018, acrylic, silicone, LEDS and mixed media

  • Jaimé Belkind-Gerson

    Jaimé Belkind-Gerson is a contemporary artist exploring connection between art & science. Focusing on memories stored in mind & body and their dynamic lifetime transformation. He is also a pediatric gastroenterologist and Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz.

  • Katie Caron

    Katie Caron is presently Department Chair Art and Design at Arapahoe Community College. Caron graduated from Boston University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in English Education and minor in Theater Arts. After graduation, she decided to pursue her art fulltime and moved to Colorado. In 2007, Caron was accepted to the graduate program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and graduated with a MFA in Ceramics. In 2011, Caron created Apoptosis in collaboration with Martha Russo for the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition Overthrown: Clay Without Limits. She has completed numerous site-specific installations for Project Miami, Santa Fe Art Institute, University of Michigan, University of Northern Colorado, Redline Art Space Republic Plaza and the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics in Denver. She was reviewed for Drosscapes, an immersive environment, in Sculpture Magazine’s June 2013 issue and is profiled in Boulder Magazine in January 2017 issue for her body of work Autonomic Healing exhibited at Naropa University. Caron recently collaborated with the renowned Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf. Katie Caron resides in Littleton, CO with her family.

  • Travis Vermilye

    Travis Vermilye (ver-MIL-yuh) is a digital and mixed media artist who creates imagery inspired by the natural world. His abstract digital imagery and animated short films invite you to gaze into a dream-like microscopic realm and find a sense of joyous calm within the organic forms on display. Travis’s work grows from an award-winning 18-year career as a medical illustrator and animator with work shown on Dateline NBC, The Oprah Winfrey Show, in the New York Times, National Geographic, and via numerous medical organizations.

    Travis is an Associate Professor in the Digital Design and Illustration Areas in the Department of Visual Arts, College of Arts & Media, University of Colorado Denver. He teaches courses in 3D motion design, motion graphics, digital design, anatomical drawing, and illustration.