Sierra Cosmidis-Grove
(they/she)
b. 1998, Washington
Lives in Boulder, CO, USA
Sierra Cosmidis-Grove is an artist working in experimental film, performance, and photographic processes. They are a current graduate student at University of Colorado at Boulder, working at the Moving Image Archive and teaching Photography. Originally from Spokane, Washington and graduating from Evergreen State College in Olympia with a BA in Visual Arts and Moving Image, they have shown work regionally around the Pacific Northwest and in the Colorado area as well. Their filmic work, deeply committed to both traditional and alternative processes, utilizes 16mm loops, found film, and hand drawn animation.
Cosmidis-Grove describes themselves as “passionate about serving the future of experimental media arts...by creating art and spaces that uphold values of creative liberation and accessibility.” Their films feel both intimate and immersive, pulling content from their surroundings – images of friends, audio of family, and cataloguing their own body in space. They use play, chance, collage, and the unexpected nature of light, chemicals, and lenses in their work. Cosmidis-Grove reveals the magical qualities of filmmaking. Their work is grounded in the chemical process of film as a physical entity, and simultaneously in the alchemical intangibles that occur when bodies perceive the moving images produced by light and celluloid.