Good Grief Opens at PlatteForum

For the past eight weeks I've been the artist-in-residence at PlatteForum in the Riverfront neighborhood of downtown Denver. My show Good Grief runs this Thursday and Friday nights. Come check it out!

Hot off the Press Release:

Good Grief is a one-woman performance and exhibit Andrea created in response to the death of her father four years ago.  The material reflects on personal and cultural perceptions of grief with a particular emphasis on the pressure in American culture to make sense of loss and rebound quickly. Andrea stretches this notion to its extreme, using graphs, numerical data, and information batching to visually quantify an experience that defies linear expression.  She also employs performance poetry and storytelling to connect the dots and give context to the visual art.
 
Andrea’s creative process mirrors her own grief experience: in the moment, the work is reactionary, disconnected, and responsive.  Only in hindsight is it possible to make “sense” of the journey and isolate themes and through lines. The writing and performance explore two main tensions – our infinite desires cannot be satisfied by finite resources, and grief flares when our core assumptions and expectations are replaced by reality.  The work is bolstered by photographs exploring these themes, including portraits of children in Uganda who have been orphaned, primarily by AIDS, as well as portraits of Andrea’s father in the final days of his illness and of his body after his passing.
 
During her residency, Andrea led an intense series of poetry workshops with eleven amazing teens from Joan Farley Academy. The workshops guided the teenagers in developing, editing, and performing their own slam poems.

PERFORMANCE + RECEPTION:

Thursday, March 3 and Friday March 4

6 - 8:30pm

Slam Poetry by Joan Farley Academy students at 6:30

Good Grief by Andrea Moore at 7:00
         

EXHIBITION: 

Visual art exhibition continues through March 25, 2011

Monday-Friday, noon - 4:00 pm or by appointment, 303.893-0791