Moe Gram is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Denver and works on a diverse array of mediums that include painting, mural, collage, and installation. Gram graduated from California State University Bakersfield with a major in Visual Arts and a minor in Cultural Studies with a focus in Italian Culture, during which she participated in a 6-month museum studies and studio arts program in Florence, Italy.
Gram’s work involves themes of identity, empathy, human connection, and self-reflection. Immediately upon viewing her work, you are met with a boom of vivid colors, movement, noise, and texture that settles into a controlled and intentional vibration. The viewer’s eyes harmoniously dance across the piece along the lines and curves of her brush strokes and end on the powerful, simple message at its core. The beauty of Gram’s work is beyond the aesthetics of her carefully curated color palette and found within her request of encouraging the viewer to dig deeper within themselves. This is illustrated in her murals scattered throughout Colorado. Iinspired by her personal experience, observation, and self reflection, she presented a potent message of empathy in works developed during residencies with the La Napoule Art Foundation, Friend of a Friend Gallery, and UnderStudy. When viewing Moe's work, the audience contemplates the meaning of empathy, how it pertains to the self, and what it truly means to extend empathy to not only others, and also, to ourselves.
Her dedication to social justice is integrated into her work with the Denver community and youth. Gram, a mentor and educator, is involved in numerous youth collaborations and community-building organizations, with notable projects like Our Voice, Our Views, Our Vote (PlatteForum Art Lab), Buddy Benches at SOAR Elementary, and Youth Art Mentoring through RedLine Contemporary Art Center. Her passion for community and social change lead to Gram’s participation in Babe Walls in Westminster, CO in 2020, a mural festival celebrating women and non-binary humans. Her involvement was a firm reminder to a male-dominated community that their permission and acceptance were never needed.
From works on canvas to installations and murals, Moe Gram’s work is distinctive, engaging, and thoughtful. Her work has been exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Arvada Center, and Issue 13 of Photo Trouvee Magazine . Through her signature color palette, messaging, and use of juxtaposition, Gram’s work encourages the viewer to absorb and reflect- for the betterment of oneself and collectively for us all.
