One Foot in the Grave
September 29 — October 29, 2022
Featuring several local and national artists, One Foot in the Grave explores themes of the afterlife, with works that playfully celebrate human fallibility and our temporal lives' messy, unconventional beauty.
About the Artists
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Julio Alejandro
(he/him) is a 30 year old self taught artist living in Denver, Colorado. Julio was born in Juarez, Mexico in 1991, his mother moved to Denver in 1993. Julio’s mother would buy him markers, crayons, etc to encourage his love for art beginning at a young age. In his teens he wanted to put his drawings on t-shirts so he went to a boutique called The Work Shop that was attached to The Other Side Arts in LODO. He was just looking to print some t-shirts but upon seeing his art they offered him his first exhibit at the age of 15. Through out his teens into his early 20’s he created art and played music with his best friends. After countless group shows and a couple solo shows in the Denver area Julio was offered a great opportunity in 2016 to work with the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art that would provoke him to stop playing music and focus solely on his art.
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Dylan Griffith
(he/him) is an Arizona born artist and illustrator based out of Denver, Colorado since 2017. Drawing on a library of cultural and personal symbols, his work explores the material and metaphysical interaction between people and their environment, specifically in the American West.
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Precious Kofi
(she/her) is a South African visual artist. The artist’s work focuses on the freedom to exist outside of the lived in structures of race and gender. She exercises this freedom by a continued cross fertilization between different mediums and genres, from film to painting.
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Alicia Ordal
(she/her) is an artist based in Denver, CO and received a BFA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Her work often utilizes sculpture, performance and installation to explore ideas of other realms and the body’s perception of and relationship to space. Alicia is a former resident artist of RedLine Contemporary Art Center and has exhibited locally and nationally including MCA, BMoCA and Black Cube Museum.
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Kristin Reeves
(she/her) has exhibited her media art internationally in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Microscope Gallery, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art] Festival, CROSSROADS, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, EMAF, FLEX, Impakt. Reeves has collaborated in live multimedia productions including projects staged at The Boiler, Brooklyn; The Granoff Center, Providence; Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor of Intermedia Art at Ball State University.
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Masha Sha
(she/her) was born in Chukotka, RU. She graduated from Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, RU, and received an MFA from the University at Buffalo, NY. Masha also completed The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, NY. She primarily works in the medium of drawing. Masha received the International Award of Recognition from STRABAG in Vienna, Austria as well as the Young Artist Prize for “Innovation” in Moscow, Russia. She has participated in several artist residencies, such as Yaddo and most recently The R.A.i.R Foundation in Roswell, New Mexico. Masha currently lives and works in New Mexico.