King Exhibition 2021
Left Image: Our Wishes | Nuestros Deseos is an open collaboration between Abad◮Anaya and the public. They collect wishes from the public which are placed on flags. Once the messages are collected, they exist in an outdoor installation and are archived in a virtual world called: Our Utopia / Nuestra Utopia (www.unidos.club). Displayed at Boulder One Plaza & the Pearl Street Mall in support of BMoCA, One Boulder Plaza & Downtown Boulder Partners. Right Image: Flags of Hope — Banderas de Esperanza is an open collaboration with the public about imagined futures. Projected onto the Clock Tower in Denver from Feb 2-26. The community offers their wishes and hopes in various languages that are then featured on flags. Projection video by Alejandra Abad.
As a visual artist, I ask myself everyday how art can shape our world, how it can surprise people, and what social impact it can have. These questions drive me to create public works that bring people together by opening the audience to new perspectives. While my work can stand alone, it grows through collaborations that allow me to explore and discover new ways to address compassion and unity.
My recent projects feature conceptual and collaborative pieces that work to break down the barriers between artist and audience. The visual language I am developing involves honest and symbolic narratives that depict postcolonial themes, along with transformation, fragmentation, mythology, and folklore. My approach is interdisciplinary as well, utilizing drawing, installations, video, animation, sculpture, etc. Stylistically, my body of work involves detailed processes of layering and abstraction; light and movement work to create immersive environments that reflect my identity and values.
When the rabbit gets the gun, Lithograph Hand Colored, 11 " x 60 "
Alanna Austin is from Boulder, Colorado currently resides as a master of fine art student at the University of Colorado. Austin's work focuses around her background in psychology and anthropology meaning the commentary she continues to work with his derived in body, mind, and culture. She has a unique heritage of family history belonging to Greece as well as the deep south of the United States. Much of her work pulls from these places, utilizing its iconography as means to describe her own psychological state. Although there were many beautiful parts of her childhood, there is a lot of discontent with events that aged her beyond her years too soon. Her goal in work is for her to express her own pain as a means of coping as well as showing others in similar abusive situations that learning to move past it without ignoring it makes you stronger. Austin makes work via sculpture, painting, and her main medium of printmaking.
Description: A performance-for-camera work exploring the shame and guilt surrounding trauma and chronic illness.
[video:https://vimeo.com/464065436]