PORTFOLIO
2020 // image: Wes Magyar
2020 // image: Wes Magyar
2023 // image: Tobias Fike
2020 // image: Wes Magyar
RECENT WORKS
Recent works are a dissection of diagrams and architecture using a disorientation of elements in space. I place sculptural works on the wall or floor that visually confuse and fluctuate between foreground and background. As a viewer walks around the work, the arrangement of forms change and take on different interpretations at each angle. Some of the objects appear to follow the rules of gravity while others do not. I dismantle linear, logical, and language-based structures and rearrange them into my own visual grammar. I also flatten certain spaces to mimic the way we experience dimension on a flat, digital screen. It's a continuous exploration of real vs. imagined spaces.
ABOUT
Alicia Ordal is a visual artist who was born in Minnesota and raised in Colorado. The artist received a BFA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and spent her formative art years in Denver’s DIY community collaborating with other creatives. Ordal was a resident artist of RedLine Contemporary Art Center from 2008-2011 and is a current associate member of the artist-run collective Hyperlink. She is also a studio member at Tank Studios. Ordal has exhibited locally and nationally in spaces including BMoCA, Arvada Center for the Arts, Black Cube Museum and MCA Denver. Ordal has art in the collection of the Hyatt House Denver/Lakewood at Belmar.
PRESS
2023
Gina Pugliese. "Hyperlink and Land Report Collective Re-Activate a Uranium Mine Ghost Town in Remote Wyoming." Southwest Contemporary
Sommer Browning. "Colorado Artists Shine in Massive Exhibition." Hyperallergic
Gina Pugliese. "Breakthroughs; A Celebration of RedLine at 15 at MCA Denver" Southwest Contemporary
2017
Corey H. Jones. "Why the Artists of Denver's Black Cube Are Currently Obsessed With Cars." Colorado Public Radio
2013
Paddy Johnson. "First Draft: A Survey of Denver's Artistic Talent." ArtFCity
2011
Kyle MacMillan. "Offbeat art approach: "Do It", and then undo it at Denver Exhibit." The Denver Post