Biography: Aging and the Grammar of Death
This exhibit is a conceptual installation of 128 digital images about aging, but also dealing with the effects of cultural memory on personal memory. To achieve this he graphically tackles such issues as gender and sexual politics, race, and religion. De la Rosa describes the project as creating, not re-creating a life that he imagined he lived, supported by photography and document. As the artist is not a journalist he leaves us to ponder the questions of whether with today’s technology, we can ascertain these documents to be true or genuine.

Residing in Boulder, de la Rosa’s exhibition was enabled by grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York and BCAA Addison Mini-Grant, and  partially funded by a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission. Trained classically as a painter, at 75 de la Rosa is now navigating the contemporary world of digital imagery and conceptual art.