Opening: Nathan Storey: THEY DISAPPEARED TOWARD THE WATER

THEY DISAPPEARED TOWARD THE WATER is Nathan Storey’s fourth solo exhibition and marks the artist’s first in Colorado. Titled after John Rechy’s novel Rushes, these new works reflect on how queer histories slip from view—pulled away like a tide, carried forward, submerged, or lost. Working with reimagined queer archives and materials, the exhibition considers how ephemera circulates between disappearance and return. In queer hands, fragments are handled, reworked, and held close, reclaimed as evidence and as offerings: sites of memory, desire, and survival.

Nathan Storey is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator currently based in Boulder, Colorado. His work traces the relationship between printed matter and queer desire, memory, and loss. Storey’s work has been supported by ICA San Diego, 80WSE New York, Candice Madey Gallery, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and galleries internationally. Storey’s work has been featured in MATTE Editions, Queer Aesthetics Journal, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has attended residencies and workshops at Cornell University, Ithaca; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass; and the Prattsville Art Center; Catskills.

In 2019, he founded SUBLIMATION, an artist-run space supporting multidisciplinary exhibitions by underrepresented artists in New York’s Lower East Side. In 2024, Storey established UNDERTOW, an artist-run press supporting queer artists’ printed matter and ephemera, the first and only arts organization in Colorado dedicated to queer visual culture. He is a 2025 Queer|Art|Mentorship fellow working with Ken Gonzales-Day. Storey is the curator of the iterative exhibition, RUINS: PERFORMING QUEER HISTORY. He holds a BFA from NYU and an MFA from UC San Diego. Storey has taught at UC San Diego, MSU Denver, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.