Starr Sprite Presents: Something Has Happened

Artist Starr Sprite (she/her) is a Denver-based mixed media artist. We recently visited her solo exhibition, Something Has Happened, at Meow Wolf, Convergence Station. The exhibition is on view through September 25 and is included in general admission. Something Has Happened is dripping with whimsy and is located in the temporary exhibition space and features paintings, drawings, laser cut acrylic artworks, and soft sculpture plushies.

Starr’s artwork is magical, fanciful, and playful. While there is a youthful aspect of the work, it is far from innocent. Starr Sprite’s aesthetic seems both haunted and hallucinatory, as if from a magical and surreal dream. Spirals, stars, roses, and bright colors adorn the fabric of this artist’s tapestry of artwork.

Starr Sprite’s artwork is well-positioned for a warm reception in Denver. Many Denver based artists and collectives have built the overwhelmingly queer soft sculpture scene into Denver’s core artistic vocabulary over the last decade. Artists and collectives like Secret Love Collective, Frankie Toan, Rainbow Dome, Tricia Waddell, and Ladies Fancywork Society have stitched together a great foundation for exhibiting soft sculpture in the Mile High City.

When she isn’t exhibiting her work, Starr Sprite can be found vending upcycled fashion through her online shop, teaching workshops at Squirm Gallery, and generally putting the magic touch of creativity on things throughout her world.

There is a certain surreal wonder that comes across me when I engage with Starr’s work because of the world-building that happens through her multimedia approach. Her body of work as a whole becomes stronger than any one of the individual parts because it is something we can look at, hug, put on our keychain, wear, and bring with us. Starr’s world is something we can walk through in Something Has Happened.

Make sure to check out Starr Sprite’s Instagram at @starrsprite.

Photo courtesy of Starr Sprite