Koko Bayer
Location: Old liquor mart
with Captian Eyeliner
Photo by Peter Kowalchuk
Koko bayer
@kokonofilter
"Artist Koko Bayer has blanketed the Denver metro area with temporary works featuring her grandfather Herbert Bayer’s world-renowned art. Koko lives and works in the RiNo Art District, and focuses on “wheatpasting”, a technique for temporarily attaching paper to walls. She emphasizes the nuance of temporary art structures, leveraging her late grandfather’s design components to create new works. Koko photographs her installations and re-pastes the images onto wood or other structures." (c/o RkyMtnWalls)
"She isn’t afraid to collaborate with other artists and she isn’t motivated by ego. Although her insistence on pasting her images up as frequently as possible falls in line with other famous wheatpasters, namely Shepard Fairey, and graffiti artists who want people to recognize their monikers simply by seeing them all the time, her motivation comes from somewhere else. Maybe it’s about identity, about creating a visible representation of her personality. As a transgender woman who transitioned less than a decade ago, Bayer understands the nuances of being someone and being that same someone to everyone else." (c/o 303 Magazine)
THANK YOU
to Guiry’s Boulder for hosting and sponsoring the festival!
