In Places and Revisions, Hazel Z Weckbach revisits locations, images, and ideas that have followed the artist across decades of painting. Some works begin as direct observations of everyday environments, such as a crowded street or a quiet winter landscape. Others emerge from earlier paintings that Weckbach returns to years later, allowing past decisions to interact with new gestures and perspectives.

This process gives the paintings a distinctive sense of time layered within the surface. Thick passages of paint, energetic marks, and shifting color relationships suggest movement and transformation rather than static depiction. Familiar scenes appear slightly unsettled or reconfigured, as though memory itself is reshaping the landscape.

The resulting works carry a balance of immediacy and reflection. A bustling city street becomes a study of fleeting human presence, while a winter riverbank or wooded landscape reveals the subtle rhythms of change in the natural world. Across the exhibition, Weckbach’s paintings invite viewers to consider how places evolve, not only in the physical world but also through the act of remembering and revisiting them.

Exhibition Details

• 📅 March 7 – March 28, 2026
• 🎉 Opening Reception: March 7, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
• 📍 Location: Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St, Denver, CO 80204

Artist Statement

My work is a retrospective glimpse of who I was in space time. Painting works as a metaphor to catch those moments like a camera, yet a camera cannot snap a shot of moments. A photographer can; I’m not a photographer. Painting has a way to exist with that extended time space and overlap my present moment. This is how it feels to me when I rework an older painting. In this way moments can be stretched through the fabric of our universe. I just visited a painting that is 20 years old. Working on it I recalled who I was, not with picture memories, but with a place in time that is felt without emotion or thought. It was not replaced with today’s experience, it overlapped it like unconscious waves reshaping stones of many shores.

Artist Statement

My work is a retrospective glimpse of who I was in space time. Painting works as a metaphor to catch those moments like a camera, yet a camera cannot snap a shot of moments. A photographer can; I’m not a photographer. Painting has a way to exist with that extended time space and overlap my present moment. This is how it feels to me when I rework an older painting. In this way moments can be stretched through the fabric of our universe. I just visited a painting that is 20 years old. Working on it I recalled who I was, not with picture memories, but with a place in time that is felt without emotion or thought. It was not replaced with today’s experience, it overlapped it like unconscious waves reshaping stones of many shores.

— Hazel Z Weckbach

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