Denver sculpture and installation artist Sam Grabowska needs a lot of room. Behind an unassuming door on Walnut Street in the RiNo Art District , Grabowska's materials — fleshy foam blobs and PVC tubes — are laid out on the concrete floor of a once-vacant space.

Grabowska is working on a series of sculptures about people's postures, taking inspiration from a variety of models through sessions of recorded conversation. Together, the artist and model come up with a body posture in which the model feels most protected,and Grabowska traces the postures with the tubes. "It's almost like figure drawing, but in 4D," Grabowska says.

As for the space Grabowska has been working out of for the past several weeks, it's "a fucking gift," Grabowska says. "Especially with sculpture, we generally ne

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