The BMoCA exhibit, “Grossly Affectionate,” has gotten some press! Check it out the full article in the Denver Post here.
Denver Art Museum performance
Please join us Friday, July 29th, 6-10pm at the Denver Art Museum. I will be performing in a multi-location installation and have co-created the night’s collaborating artists and events. Find more information and purchase tickets here.
Join multimedia artist Sam Grabowska, printmaker and multimedia artist Javier Flores, and a cast of contributing creatives for the next Untitled: Creative Fusions. Javier and Sam invite visitors to consider what traces of ourselves will remain to impact future generations.
The night’s theme is “Restos/Remnant/Resztka,” an evening of echoes, remnants, and voices that persist throughout time, inspired by Age of Armor, Modern Women/Modern Vision, and Who tells a tale adds a tail. An altar to the traces of our humanity and cultures is the focal point of the evening.
Roving sound performances will waft through the museum, video projections will resurrect walls, a nomadic performance will collect hair from visitors and haunt the space, and print- and sculpture- making workshops will encourage visitors to leave their own trace.
Contributing Creatives: Ally Eden, David Fraile, Lizeth Hernandez, Sarah Jane, Isaac Linder, Kalyn of Wheelchair Sports Camp, Cindy Loya, Cherish Marquez, Gabriel Mervine, Eutimia Cruz Montoya, Zoe Pendelton, Autumn T. Thomas, and Emma Zimmerman.
Read more about Sam and Javier’s vision and inspiration for the show here
Artist Talk at BMoCA
Please join me and four other artists in the “Grossly Affectionate” show at the Boulder Museum of Art for an artist talk where we discuss the pieces in the show. Tickets can be purchased here.
Opening at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
This show is so intimate and fecund and alluring and strange. Brilliantly curated by Pamela Meadows. It opens Thursday, June 23rd and we would love to see you there. I am debuting my largest installation to date.
Grossly Affectionate explores hybridity and challenges binaries, such as human/nonhuman, hard/soft, and organic/synthetic. The seven exhibiting artists play with and push against the possibilities and limitations of their materials. Each artist alludes to or references bodily form while abstracting its appearance. As a result, the works evoke interpretations and undertones that reference a body, but are amorphous and oppose definitive categorization. Grossly Affectionate presents the idea that a body can be a host of things: an architectural structure, a virtual space, a landscape, and even a humorous costume.
Please join me on May 13th at 6pm for the opening of “AURA” at Union Hall in Denver, CO. I will have a multimedia installation up alongside some other wonderful artists’ work.
The show runs May 13 — July 9, 2022.
The pandemic is changing how art is being created, seen, and sold. With the over-saturation of digital communication platforms and the increasing dissonance of the impersonal, how are artists questioning and bridging these gaps in their practice? We observe the art industry embracing a massive shift towards technological space ever more than before. How are artists coping and pivoting with the technological shift in their practice?
AURA explores the interdisciplinary territory of art and technology – presenting a mix of traditional and experimental art forms that challenge the possibilities of creative innovation to enlist technology as new modes of valuation and expression in cultural production and critique. AURA seeks to challenge the preconceptions about art on the forefront of innovation, in what is next and to inspire new ways of creative thinking.
AURA is produced collaboratively by Union Hall, Denver Film Festival, and Eriko Tsogo/Hilitehead LLC and features works by Alex Branch, Sam Grabowska, Esther Hz, Anna Kaye, Christine Nguyen, Jodi Stuart, Autumn Thomas, Melanie Clemmons + Zak Loyd.