Welcome to SYNC GALLERY
931 Santa Fe Drive, 80204. In Denver's Art District on Santa Fe.
Monica Hokeilen
931 Santa Fe Drive, 80204. In Denver's Art District on Santa Fe.
A premiere gallery located in the
Arts District on Santa Fe Drive in Denver Colorado
known nationally for its arts and culture.
Thursdays: 1pm - 4pm
Fridays: 1pm - 4pm
(1st & 3rd Friday 1-9pm)
Saturdays: Noon - 5pm
Sundays: 1pm - 4pm
(Last Sunday of the month 11-3pm)
or by appointment with individual artists.
SYNC Gallery presents
Unmapped
by
Pamela Hake & Lois R. Lupica
April 16th through May 10th, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY April 17th, 6 PM to 9 PM
Artist
Artist
The paintings by Pamela Hake in Unmapped are emotional responses to the earth and
the events unfolding on it around her. Using acrylics, charcoal, inks, and collage, she
releases those emotions in an unmapped representation coming from her soul. Whether
it is storm clouds, dead flowers, crashing waves, or sunshine finding its way through the
darkness, each is an abstract rendition unique to her.
Lois Lupica has observed that some places resist the precision of a map. The Big Island
of Hawai'i is one of them — a landscape still actively becoming itself, where molten
earth meets ocean and the light shifts from volcanic haze to blazing gold in a single
breath.
Lois's paintings in Unmapped are a body of encaustic and cold wax works born of
repeated journeys to this island, each visit revealing something a photograph could
never capture. These paintings don't trace coastlines or mark coordinates. Instead, they
chase what lingers after the trip is over: the way late afternoon light turns the air amber,
the impossible blue where deep water meets shallow reef, the raw authority of lava rock
that has barely cooled.
Working in wax allows these impressions to build the way memory does — in
translucent layers, one experience settling over the last, edges softening, colors
deepening. The encaustic surface holds light the way the island itself does, glowing
from within rather than simply reflecting what's above. Some pieces push toward
recognizable horizons; others dissolve into pure color and texture, capturing the feeling
of a place rather than its likeness.
Unmapped is an invitation to travel without a guidebook — to stand inside a landscape
that is felt before it is understood, and to find your own way through.
Lois R. Lupica
Pamela Hake
Beauty In Indigo
Acrylic ink on canvas
20” x 30”
SYNC Gallery presents
Your Wife Says "Buy It All!"
by
J. Popeye Olson & DCD Dixon
May 14th through June 15th, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY May 15th, 2026, 5 PM to 9 PM
Artist
Artist
J. Popeye Olson
My sculptures and paintings are figurative in nature, with abstraction used to enhance composition and ignite imagination. I find great joy in the use of line and texture, as these elements convey emotion and create a connection between my hand, my personality, and the work itself. Shape and color help me establish a sense of character and space, allowing the figures to come alive in their own way. My work explores the interaction between the human form and our physical, spiritual, and environmental worlds. For me, visual art is the most effective way to consider the complexities of life and the human condition. It is through my creations that I explore the relationships between perception and expression, experience and meaning.
DCD Dixon
In Sacred Noticing, DCD Dixon presents a body of photographic work rooted not in spectacle, but in a spiritual awakening toward attention.
After years of moving quickly—through career, responsibility, and expectation—Dixon began to reconsider how he sees. What emerged was not a dramatic reinvention, but a quiet shift. He slowed down. He started noticing. Light falling across an ordinary surface. The geometry of shadow. Weathered walls. Quiet thresholds. Moments most people pass without pause.
These photographs are not constructed for grandeur. They are gathered through presence.
Dixon engages in what he calls a practice of “Sacred Noticing”— While the subjects range from architecture to landscape to human trace, the thread connecting them is not genre but awareness. Each image marks a moment when something small revealed a deeper order — a hint of grace embedded in the everyday.
Over time, this practice has become more than a photographic method—it has become a way of living. The work reflects an ongoing construction of attention, humility, and care. The camera functions not as a tool for spectacle, but as a witness.
This collection invites viewers to reconsider their own relationship to the ordinary. What might reveal itself if we slowed down? What quiet structures are shaping our days without our awareness?
These photographs are part of an ongoing construction: a life shaped by faith, patience, and the belief that the sacred is not distant, but woven into the fabric of daily experience.
Markers along a path of learning to see.
J. Popeye Olson - Corbizi 52x47
DCD Dixon - Sacred Noticing - Building 12x18
Film Photograph Archival pigment print
Edition 1 of 7
J. Popeye Olson - Pisana Street 28x26
DCD Dixon - Sacred Noticing - Studio 4 12x18 Film Photograph Archival pigment print
Edition 1 of 7