Alicia Ordal

Alicia Ordal is a Colorado-based artist who received a BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design and spent her formative art years in Denver’s DIY community, collaborating with other creatives. Ordal was a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center from 2008–2011 and is currently an associate member of the artist-run collective Hyperlink. Her work has been shown nationally and locally at venues including BMoCA, the Arvada Center for the Arts, Black Cube Museum, and MCA Denver.

Ordal’s installation Liquid Amnesia is centered on water and the many ways it can be visually represented. For this body of work, Ordal creates sculptural elements using varied materials to evoke reflection, distortion, surface, and depth. Influenced in part by the fiction novel Something New Under the Sun, the work considers the uneasy boundary between natural water and its artificial counterparts, inviting viewers to reflect on a substance both essential and unstable.