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Join us in Denver, Colorado November 17, from 6 – 8 PM for the opening reception of ”Liminal Landscapes", a solo exhibition by Priscila De Carvalho at the Hydro Building Gallery, CSU Spur Campus.

With this exhibition, De Carvalho presents a series of meticulously rendered dreamscapes that explore the architecture of perception—how built forms and visual design construct tropical landscapes and ideas of progress within the shifting space between nature and artifice.

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Priscila De Carvalho, Liminal Landscapes

Hydro Building Gallery, Denver (USA)

17.11.2025 - 27.02.2026

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De Carvalho assembles fragments of personal memory—places visited, architectures encountered, flora remembered—into imagined worlds that illuminate how paradise and progress are designed and mediated in contemporary visual culture. Her paintings stage encounters where architecture and nature overlap, reflect, and interrupt one another, embedding endangered species within impossible structures to reveal the fragile balance between human design and ecological systems.

“My paintings hover between reality and fiction, suggesting utopian possibilities while revealing what we stand to lose: the fragility of ecosystems and the impermanence of our constructed worlds,” says De Carvalho.

About the Artist

Priscila De Carvalho (b. Brazil) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose multidisciplinary practice investigates how a place is constructed—through image, memory, architecture and cultural narrative. Working across painting, public art, sculpture and installation, she examines how environments and ecologies are idealized, designed, and marketed through visual and cultural systems—from commodification to utopian ideals and ecological fragility.

De Carvalho is a recipient of the 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship (2008), with major public art commissions for MTA Arts & Design (New York City Subway, 2015), Public Art for Public Schools and the School Construction Authority, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program, NYC Department of Transportation, University Health Women's & Children's Hospital (San Antonio, Texas), Colorado State University (Denver), Utah Transit Authority (Ogden), and Valley Metro Light Rail (Phoenix). She is currently preparing a large-scale sculpture for the Boston Public Library's Adams Street Branch in Boston.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at Artium, The Basque Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain), the Bronx Museum Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, the Kathmandu International Triennial, and Socrates Sculpture Park, and has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic and other major publications. Her work is represented in the collections of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artium The Basque Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain), the Siddhartha Art Foundation (Nepal), and the Lower East Side Printshop (New York City).

Her commissioned ceramic tile installation "Animals at Play" permanently resides in the Vida Building at CSU Spur.

Exhibition 17 November 2025 - 27 February 2026. Opening Reception: Monday, November 17, 6-8 PPM. Hydro Building Gallery, 4750 National Western Drive - Denver, CO 80216 (USA). Hours : Monday-Friday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2nd Saturday of every month: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (closed all other Saturdays). Closed Sundays