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David B. Smith Gallery is proud to welcome back Denver-based artist Chris Oatey for his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Aerial Perspective. Presented in the gallery’s project room, Oatey’s minimal grayscale palate, realized in techniques ranging from precision hand drawings to abstracted carbon “rubbings” create a harmonious dialogue between restraint and release in the artistic process.

Chris Oatey’s practice has been consistently informed by a cartographic sensibility. He produces a wide range of works from the intricately hand drawn to the raw, immediate recording of his everyday …