Us Group Exhibition – 5th Biennial

Jun 19 2026 - Jul 11 2026

Participating Artists: Madi Brunetti, Christopher La Fluer, Raven Rohrig, Heather Schulte
Opening Reception: Friday, June 19, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
First Friday: Friday, July 3, 2026,,  6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

In celebration of Pride Month, Bitfactory Gallery presents Us the 5^th Biennial exhibition welcoming LGBTQ artists. On view June 19 – July 11­ the show features artwork by Madi Brunetti, Christopher La Fleur, Raven Rohrig, and Heather Schulte each showcasing their unique styles and perspectives. Their ideas are brought to life through a mix of quiet illustrations, captivating paintings, and colorful sculptural pieces. The public is invited to view and shop the show during the opening reception on June 19, 6-9 p.m., the First Friday Artwalk on July 3, 6-9 p.m. and during regular hours, Tues – Sat, 11 a.m. – 4 pm.

At 64 x 46 inches La Fleur’s piece, Toy Story (2026) serves as the keystone piece in the exhibition, creating impact through colorful acrylic paint, ultrafine polyester glitter, and archival high gloss varnish on raw canvas. It exudes raw sexuality and extorts an iconic gay archetype for little more than hedonistic arousal. The work draws on, and pokes fun at, highbrow classical depictions of the male nude, settling instead for a pop-contemporary pulp fiction; an exultation and exhibition of the male, shamelessly objectifying both the subject while revealing the secret desires of the voyeur. The cowboy remains one of several enduring masculine archetypes in gay culture—alongside sailors, policemen, construction workers, and bikers—because it combines ideals of strength, self-reliance, and a rich visual vocabulary that has been reinterpreted over decades.

Brunetti utilizes a variety of materials, from oil paint to insects and bones, playing with the balance between the grotesque and the beautiful, reflecting her relationship with mental illness and its fluidity. She describes her workas “A love letter, a pink-soaked memoir, sticky and warm with blood, glimmering as the cicada’s chirr. I become the specimen, in form, thought, and spirit reconciling the guilt bubbling within me.”

Schulte uses common and domestic materials (like thread, fabric, newspapers, rugs, paper, or acrylic glass) in her to emphasize language as a fundamental human tool, whether spoken, written, thought, gestured, or typed; communication is an essential part of both intimate and public life. It can connect and divide, wound and heal, build up, or tear down, hide and reveal. It shapes us, and we wield it to shape our world.

Rohrig explains her graphite, pen & ink pieces in the following context: “Devotion to making love, an art: my drawings are documentations of the passion I experience in my life; I earnestly draw the love I make with the lovers who I am lucky enough to care for.”

Bitfactory Gallery is located at 851 Santa Fe Drive in the heart of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. The building also houses Bitfactory Studios with the vision of providing a helpful, friendly working atmosphere for artists and Block Gallery, a pop-up gallery space available to rent in one-, three-, or seven-day blocks. Gallery hours are Tues. – Sat., 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. and by appointment. For additional information, please contact Brayden Espinosa at gallery@bitfactory.net or (303) 862-9367, visit www.bitfactory.net, or follow on Facebook/Instagram @bitfactorygallery and on X at @bitfactoryg.