NARCISSUSISUS

Mansour Al-Amin, Kiah Butcher, Manuel Ferreira, Sharifa Lafon, Jenny Nagashima and Brooke Tomiello

Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present Narcissusisus, an exhibition by 6 curators: Mansour Al-Amin, Kiah Butcher, Manuel Ferreira, Sharifa Lafon, Jenny Nagashima and Brooke Tomiello

December 12, 2025 - January 25, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, December 12, 8pm - late

Closing Party: Saturday January 24, 4pm - late

As the clock ticks down the final days of 2024, Lane Meyer Projects gears up to present Time After Time, a series of durational karaoke performances featuring Denver-based artist, curator, writer, and singer Adam Geluda Gildar, alongside his band of Denver artist collaborators, the Right on Time  (Derrick Velasquez, Joshua Ware, Laura Shill, Ben Coleman, Elle Hong, Matt Shaw and April Frankenstein). With the central theme of time determining each night’s setlist, endurance, exhibitionsism, and catharsis cycle through physical and emotional barriers from the start of each night’s repetitive ode to amateurism.

Written by Marsha Mack

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Curator Bios:

Mansour Al-Amin - TBD

Kiah Butcher -  is an independent curator with a focus on uplifting and engaging community. Butcher presents contemporary art in museum and public spaces; from site-specific installations, to open community exhibitions. In addition to her curatorial practice, Butcher is a video artist and filmmaker, working primarily with new media, video and photography. Inspired by the passing of time, repetition and the human attention span, she uses theatrical conventions to create and celebrate work that unites viewers in small, timeless moments.

Manuel Ferreira - is a museum professional specializing in visitor engagement, interpretation, and culturally responsive programming. Since 2022, he has worked as an Interpretive Specialist at the Denver Art Museum, where he develops accessible and engaging interpretive experiences for diverse audiences across exhibitions focused on arts of the ancient Americas, Latin American art, and modern and contemporary Latin American art, arts of Oceania, and arts of Africa.

With a background spanning curation, collections management, exhibition design, education, and visitor research, Ferreira has worked across art, anthropology, and natural history institutions. His approach bridges scholarly research with audience engagement, creating inclusive interpretations that connect visitors with art and cultural narratives. Previously, as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College, he led collaborative projects exploring migration, identity, and other complex social topics.

Ferreira is a regular speaker at professional conferences, addressing representation in the field, community partnerships, and museums' evolving role in contemporary society. His work is grounded in a commitment to fostering meaningful museum experiences that emphasize inclusive practices and the transformative power of art. He holds a BA in anthropology from Lawrence University and an MA in anthropology with a concentration in museum and heritage studies from the University of Denver.

Sharifa Lafon -

Jenny Nagashima - is a curator living and working in Denver, CO. She has a BFA in Art Practices from the University of Colorado, Denver and a MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and has held various positions at organizations in Denver and beyond. Jenny is currently a Co-Director at Friend of a Friend, Lecturer at CU-Denver, and a Curatorial Assistant at the Pardon Collection.

Brooke Tomiello - is a curator based in Denver, CO. She has a BFA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY). Brooke has been independently curating since 2012 in New York, Colorado and Germany. Her focus is in emerging and mid-career artists and their connection and opportunities within alternative spaces.

Artist Bios:

MaryV - she/her (b. 1998) is a queer Guatemalan American photographer. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, MaryV attended Parsons The New School in New York. With a uniquely sensitive approach to her subjects, MaryV focuses on documentary, portraiture, and self-portraiture photography.  She explores love, vulnerability, intimacy, self-identity, sexuality, gender, sex, disability, relationships, bodies, and emotions.

Srikar Hari - (b. 1993, India) is a visual artist, currently pursuing his PhD at University of Colorado, Boulder in the Critical Media Practices department. He holds an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design, USA and a Bachelor’s in Digital Video Production from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. His current interests combine various image-making devices to explore emotional, psychological and phenomenological effects of image production in the digital age. Creating portals of intervention in the viewers’ perceived reality that urge them to rethink the status of the digital image and our perception of the world mediated by devices. An exploration of the malleability of human perception and the devices’ ability to trigger and affect this plasticity. His work has been exhibited at Microscope Gallery (Manhattan, NY), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa, India), Jehangir Art Gallery (Mumbai, India), DRIK (Dhaka, Bangladesh) among other venues.

Cyrena Rosati - is an artist and musician based in Denver, Colorado. She is a co-founder and co-director of the DIY project space, Squirm Gallery. Her visual work, be is sculpture or assemblage, photography or collage, is concerned with the emotional relationships between person and environment, constructed or natural, and the transformations each go through as a result of the other. This is explored through her use of construction materials and process-heavy methods of making. Rosati received her BFA in sculpture from MSU Denver, and has presented work at numerous art spaces in Colorado.

Ian Park - I’ve had a lifelong fascination with scary movies because they are a significant part of my southern family’s bonding activities. Growing up, we would rent from multiple video stores around the towns. The visceral feelings helped tie us together with frightful enjoyment and cope with small town blue collar lives in rural Arkansas. I also discovered recorded VHS tapes in my grandparent’s wooden movie case, especially one I wasn’t supposed to watch, but secretly did, I Spit on Your Grave (1978). My love for horror grew stronger as I aged with discoveries of queer ideas and theories seen deeper than the screen. Such formative examples included May (2003), Sleepaway Camp (1983), and Basket Case (1982). 

My art is based on concepts of queer nostalgia, horror, class, camp, and humor, with an emphasis on influences from films. I am always creating challenges for projects in which I combine these subjects to weave my identity, interests, and upbringing together.

As for my current work, Serial Sissies, these plates focus on my colorful rendition of narcissistic fictional queer serial killers within horror/thriller cinema. Narcissism itself can be quite horrifying, but it also has different contexts within communities and cultures. I chose to focus on four films with queer serial killers who have a multitude of vain reasons for their homicidal acts. In Our Paradise (2011), Vassili goes on an angry sex working murder spree because youth is escaping him while his vanity morphs into a vicious monster. From Knife+Heart (2018), we see a character who cannot cope with past or current trauma from hate crime and pursues revenge on beautiful gay porn stars. Death on the Beach (1991) tells an egotistical closeted queer story through intertwined extreme manipulation, suppression, and oppression. Whereas, Hide and Go Shriek (1988) leads the viewer on a dark, yet confusing, death path of a love sick self-absorbed delusional blundering murderer. Each of these films' themes touch on gay egomania in some form or fashion, not to be praised or celebrated, but to be observed and studied. Throughout each plate, knives are present, as an allegory for the harm a penis or toxic masculinity can cause. I have artistically paused the films, so that the viewer can take a moment to look at the characters, since the characters have spent plenty of time staring at themselves

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