AS LONG AS HOPE SHOWS SOMETHING GREEN

Dec 20 2024 - Jan 11 2025

Deca – Solo Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, December 20, 2024 – D+  6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
First Friday: Friday, January 3, 2025, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Bitfactory Gallery is proud to wrap up the year with the first solo exhibition by visual artist and musician Deca entitled As Long as Hope Shows Something Green running December 20 through January 11, 2025, at 851 Santa Fe Drive. The paintings in the show highlight the dreamlike, animated quality of his artwork, achieved through thoughtfully and precisely rendered patterns and colors using acrylic paint and ink on wood. To put more formal terms to his style, one might recognize elements of Tessellation Art with clear references to Modern Psychedelic Art. The public is invited to meet and visit with the artist during an Opening Reception at the gallery on December 20, 6-9 p.m., and to view the exhibition during First Friday, Jan 3, 6-9 p.m. and regular gallery hours Tues -Sun, 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Deca describes his process as an intuitive one. Starting with a vague idea of what he wants to achieve, he begins with a line drawing and slowly builds the piece from there. He often gets ideas from his dreams, pulling in inspiration from patterns and quilt books. He discovers the color palette as the piece evolves. Some works focus on fine details, others include figurative profiles skillfully collaged together, arranging color and shape to provide subtle dimension.

Deca is originally from Denver but is currently based out of NYC. He is mostly self-taught, creating comics and graffiti since a young age. After years of focusing solely on making music, he reignited his interest in visual art in 2011.

“I got back into art as a way of creating that didn’t feel as heavy to me as my process of making music. It’s a lot more meditative…it’s my very small way of trying to aid in the healing of what I see as an extremely sick society. That’s the main intention behind both my visual art and my music”. – Deca

His work has been exhibited in galleries in NYC and Denver including previous group shows at Bitfactory. He has also designed most of his album covers.

Bitfactory Gallery, located at 851 Santa Fe Drive in the heart of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, exhibits work by the best emerging and up-and-coming local, national, and international visual artists, striving to showcase art that may not be a good fit for other galleries. They also host one major or renowned artist a year, bringing new and exciting work to Denver. The building also houses Bitfactory Studios with the vision of providing a helpful, friendly working atmosphere for artists and Garage Gallery at Bitfactory, a pop-up gallery space available to rent in one-, three-, or seven-day blocks. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. and by appointment. For additional information please contact Bill Thomason at [email protected] or (303) 862-9367 or visit www.bitfactory.net. They can be found on Facebook and Instagram @bitfactorygallery and on X at @bitfactoryg