Two Y Magazine Articles, “Visions of Desert Beauty” and “Wit and Vision,” Highlight the Work of BYU Artists
Visions of Desert Beauty
W. Royden Card (BFA ’76, MFA ’79) has a deep love for the hues of high-desert landscapes. He taught printmaking at BYU for 16 years, but he’s painted the desert for more than 50 and has made Southern Utah his home. Card loves how beauty can connect people and since age 10 he knew he needed to interpret the beauty that he sees for others.
Of his style he says, “I simply paint the beauty I see and what I’d like others to see.”
Read the full Y Magazine article and view examples of Card’s artwork in the Winter 2024 Issue here.
Wit and Vision
Norman A. Darais (BA ’71, MA ’73) and McRay Magleby’s “Parrot,” now hanging in the BYU Museum of Art (MOA), first occupied a college bulletin board. Created in 1992 as a poster reminding students to register for class, the piece was one of a series that hung in BYU hallways from 1978 to 1996.
Printing each silk-screen poster was labor-intensive, requiring squeegeeing colors, layer by layer, through custom stencils. When they saw the posters, many students became “unwitting art collectors,” says Kyriaki Colasante Oteo (BA ’02, MA ’08), Museum of Art educator. They found them “beautiful enough to tear down” and take home. Now, decades later, the posters are back at BYU in a MOA exhibit that features Magleby and Darais’s collaborations as well as solo works by Magleby.
Read the full Y Magazine article by Miriam Brantley Merrill in the Fall 2023 Issue here.