Gallery Artists
Welcome to the Gallery at the armory in Downtown Greeley! Come on by during operating hours to see this current season's artists! Pieces and Prints found upstairs can be purchased on location.
Meet the artists currently on display!
Bee Martinez | Instagram | Website
Bee Martinez is a Denver-based visual artist who specializes in colorful, surrealist, and whimsical work. Their main mediums are acrylic and collage, though they often combine the two in mixed-media pieces. They are also experienced in watercolor, drawing, and are a budding ceramicist and print maker. They greatly enjoy exploring new mediums and broadening their artistic horizons, while bringing their penchant for color and exciting design elements to everything they touch.
Mac Capps | Instagram
Mac Capps is a self taught artist, born and raised in Colorado. They find inspiration from the entanglement of ecosystems. Striving to invoke improvement in the world through curiosity, compassion and activism. They enjoy a variety of mediums, resulting in mixed media pieces and an accumulation of different skills. They’re consistently developing new techniques and furthering their knowledge. Mac has been making art for as long as they can remember. Making comics about original characters through elementary sparked the joy of creating. This led to their love for world building and storytelling. They started their art business in 2020 through online commissions for logos, and digital character designs. Their business has been up and running for 6 years. Currently Mac has been painting, and sewing plush companions. Often getting tailoring commissions and still designing characters.
M.C. Zimmer
A singularly selfish act, my art is the result of a compulsion to put things together--colors, textures, images, patinas, shapes--with items I have at hand and in a way that amuses me. I am always surprised and gleeful when others are amused, too. My works tend to revolve around people and other living things and their interactions with one another or with their environment. I enjoy creating images that hold layered meanings, that have some element of humor, and that express ideas that are intellectually accessible. I feel most accomplished when I've created a piece for which each viewer presents a different and completely plausible story.
Russ Ward
Russ is a retired college professor and a member of the Greeley Arts Association. Russ has explored a wide range of creative mediums over the years. Today, their practice is devoted mainly to acrylic painting, and abstract works.
Freebird Funnday
Freebird is a passionate artist known for her expressive finger paintings. The journey of self discovery and inspiration led this artist to explore and create in multiple cities across the US and now resides in Colorado. As she continues to evolve as an artist, she is always seeking new ways to merge her mediums and immerse herself in the process. She hopes to invoke a desire to reconnect to all the things that bring one's soul joy. She is available for commissions and live painting opportunities. She also sells originals and reproductions of her artwork.
Resident Artists:
August Moss | Instagram | Linktree
August Moss is like a plant with many leaves! Their work materializes through a variety of disciplines but is currently focused on hand-poke tattoo, illustration and screen printing. August's queerness and Northern Colorado roots are inherent to the work they make as they explore themes of nature, small creatures and connections found in, and fostered with, the earth. Each piece they create invites viewers to contemplate their place on this planet with the hope to plant seeds for environmental compassion.
Devyn Wood | Instagram | Website
Devyn Wood, a Northern Colorado based artist, is best known for her dynamic scratch art and monochromatic oil paintings. Her delicate, yet expressive, work incorporates striking movement, color, and pattern that invites the viewer into her world. As a young artist, Devyn moved frequently and experimented with mediums that became available to her due to her locale. This made her the amazingly diverse artist she is today. Although she uses a variety of mediums, her dynamic use of color has always been a prominent feature in her art. Today, she still considers herself a multi-media artist and finds herself switching mediums to best encompass her creativity, heart and soul.
Her source of inspiration is primarily the natural world. However, her ability to fully engage and interact with her muse has become limited due to becoming disabled. As a result, her grief over this loss has also become an influence in her art. Because Devyn's disabilities often prevent her from participating in life, she recreates the emotional toll it takes through limited color palettes. Pastel color schemes in particular represent the “invisibility” of her disability, while the pattern and movement of her work illustrates her internal struggles. As a result, animals are often the subject in Devyn’s work as they allow her to reveal herself better than a self-portrait ever could.
Devyn studied visual arts at the University of Northern Colorado as well as Aims Community College. Notably, she was the recipient of the Aims Review Art Award in 2021, and her work has been featured in several shows and publications. As a youth, Devyn's talent and passion had already emerged. She received numerous best in show awards for her art before graduating high school. Her work, especially her scratch art and oil painting, has been praised by prominent artists and connoisseurs of excellence in art everywhere.
When she is not busy painting, Devyn enjoys cloud-watching, reading about other worlds, spending time with her husband and three cats, as well as teaching painting in the Greeley, CO area.
