VISIBLE PLANETS 2024

Aug 2 2024 - Sep 14 2024

Juried Group Exhibition

Participating Artists: Quelle Chris, Fresh Daily, Deca, Lili Fangs, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Odessey

First Friday: Friday, August 02, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00 pm & Friday, September 03, 2024 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, September 13, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Bitfactory to host Art Exhibition for 2^nd Annual Visible Planets: World-Renowned Rappers and their Visual Art
Art show on view August 2- September 14, 2024

Bitfactory Gallery is proud to present the second iteration of Visible Planets: World-Renowned Rappers and their Visual Art, an exhibition that first launched in 2023 under the vision of artist Dan Drossman and Rapper Homeboy Sandman. The show runs from August 2 through September 14, 2024, with a public Opening and Artist Reception on First Friday, August 2 from 6-9 p.m., kicking off an exciting weekend highlighting the versatile creative talents of well-known hip-hop artists who carry messages of social justice, peace, respect, self-worth, and community. The art exhibition will feature paintings and mixed-media work by Georgia Anne Muldrow, Del the Funky Homosapien, Quelle Chris, Deca, Fresh Daily, Oddisee, Lily Fangz, Kristina Johnson, Mick Burson and Natalie del Villar (Homeboy Sandman’s Sister). Visitors are welcome to view and purchase work during regular gallery hours and these additional special events:

The Art District on Santa Fe will have several blocks of Santa Fe Drive closed to car traffic for their yearly expanded First Friday Artwalk. Come to Bitfactory to meet the musicians behind the artwork and stay for the lively atmosphere on the street, including a myriad of art exhibitions, food vendors, music, and street performers. Rideshare or public transportation is encouraged for this very popular evening.

A selection of the artists, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Quelle Chris, Deca, Fresh Daily, Lily Fangz along with DJ Felix Fast4ward and Homeboy Sandman will perform a ticketed rap concert on Saturday, August 3 at El Jebel event center and—new this year—will participate in a free outdoor Jam Session on Sunday, August 4, 10:30 am led by Georgia Anne Muldrow entitled “A Joyful Noise”. This community event at Benedict Fountain Park invites anyone to join in on the session/play with the rappers, or just watch. Participants are encouraged to bring their own amplification and instruments. There will also be a “free-trade outpost” open for donations or for people to take what they need, including backpacks filled with necessities. Tickets to the all-ages concert are on sale now via visibleplanets.com.

Georgia Anne Muldrow refers to herself as an “Instrument of the Ancestors”, cultural technologist, electronic musician, mother, mentor, activist, vocalist/ songwriter and producer. She describes her OMNISTUDIES collection of artworks as seeking to “catalog the deep visions of The Beloved’s love and mercy. What is seen in the Holy Spirit is shared in simplified forms and colors in hopes [of establishing] confirmations for those who have the ‘eyes to see’.”

Unconventional and hard to categorize, producer/lyricist Quelle Chris has created work in several genres, including punk rock, poetry, abstract soul, as well as instrumental and vocal hip-hop. He is also a self-taught visual artist having been featured in Chicago and New York galleries, with most of his public artworks existing in the music world—created for himself and fellow rap artists—as animated visuals and videos, promotional pieces, and album cover artwork.

A mostly self-taught visual artist, creating comics and graffiti from a young age, Deca is originally from Denver and was a vital cog of Denver’s early 2000’s hip-hop machinery. After years of focusing solely on making music, in 2011 he reignited his interest in visual art, using acrylic paint and ink as his medium. His work has been exhibited in galleries in NYC and Denver and he has designed most of his album covers. He currently works out of NYC.

Fresh Daily, an MC originally from Brooklyn, New York, is known for his creative approach to hip-hop. Now residing in Oakland, CA, he blends elements of jazz, soul, and classic boom-bap in his music, often focusing on themes of everyday life, self-improvement and artistic expression. Fresh Daily is not just a lyricist but also an illustrator and graphic designer whose style is influenced by graffiti, street art, cartoons, comic books and manga all seen through the diasporic lens of his Caribbean heritage and African American experience growing up in Brooklyn, NYC. His artwork is bold, bright and reflective of his culture.

The son of Sudanese and American parents, Oddisee has put together a series of photographs entitled, “Memories from Sudan.” Participating only as a visual artist for this event, these works aim to shed light on what day-to-day life is like in Sudan and bring awareness to the current conflict. His music has been featured on the Facebook Series Humans of New York, in countless films, television ads for everything from snowboards to bicycles, and even at Google’s product unveiling. In 2017 he performed at over 110 shows around the globe with his band Good Company in support of his album “The Iceberg.”

Lily Fangz is an internationally touring live performance artist, producer and poet, blending genres and invoking the magic of freestyle MCing and crowd participation on every stage from Red Rocks Amphitheater to Ted Talks, dive bars, street corner cyphers and festivals. She has been drawing and painting even longer than she has been writing and “spitting”, experimenting often with animals, shapes, and colors.

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 the Garage 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