Inversion
2024
Local soil, mixed media.
Through an “Inversion”, we contemplate the weight of human life.
As we navigate our daily lives, we often overlook the subtle, yet significant, affects our actions impart on the world around us. Remarkably, it only takes six individuals traversing a similar route to irrevocably alter the composition of the ground beneath. How can we become aware of this inevitability?
This installation illuminates a human effect on our shadowed subterranean landscape. Motion sensors track human movement to illuminate earthen Colorado beads, gently reminding us of this unseen, yet familiar, world. When dormant, shadows dance through deliberate fissures, crafting an ever-evolving landscape.
Documentation Photos by: August Ostrow
Design and Build 2024: Exploring the Luminous Shadow
Design and Build 2024- Exploring the Luminous Shadow
On View August 3, 2024 – November 1, 2024
Eight emerging artist interns came together over the summer, through our annual Design and Build Summer Internship Program, to collaboratively create several unique, site-specific installations for MOA’s Marjorie Park in only 8 weeks! Emerging artists worked under the direction of our 2043 Artist Fellow, Charles Levesque, and Resource Artist, Walter Ware, with additional assistance by Reece Bailey and Patrick Stolper.
The theme provided to the artists in 2024 was “light and shadow.” Join us for the opening reception and unveiling on August 3rd, 5-8pm to see these unique installations throughout Marjorie Park.
Emerging Artists:
Isabel Angulo
Josephine Clark
Oliver Cruz
Michael Earle
Zavier Gierisch
Katie Knudsen
August Ostrow
Christian Smith
The creation of our 2024 projects were generously supported through a facilities partnership with the University of Colorado Denver, College of Arts and Media and Metropolitan State University of Denver. Artworks were created within the sculpture fabrication studios on Auraria campus.