Exhibitions

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries This Month Before They Close

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Sara Lynne Lindsay’s dresses represent themes of mothers and history as she connects generations through her artIn room 3125 of the Jesse Knight Building, homemade dresses hang on every wall. A shelf holds jars of flowers and a green rocking chair sits in one corner — “My daughter’s chair,” said Master of Fine Arts student Sara Lynne Lindsay. As a wife and mother of six children, the green chair is just one of the room’s symbols of how much her family intersects with Lindsay’s work as an artist. “When my husband and I were both working towards our undergraduate art degrees at Utah State University, there were often days when we had to take our first-born baby to class. My husband would be rocking our son with his foot while using his hands on a project,” said Lindsay.Mother and Daughter ThemesThe dresses Lindsay makes are often a reflection of the relationships between mothers and daughters. Several of her dresses were recently displayed at Granary Arts in Ephraim.“Eventually the daughter grows to be a mother and there’s this long chain of history of our mothers passing down things like the creation power. There is something really powerful about the sacrifice and nurturing of mothers,” said Lindsay.One of Lindsay’s recent passion projects has been taking journal entries from her own ancestors and writing the words out onto her dresses.“I have an entire journal from one ancestor and I feel like I understand her. My great-grandmother I don’t know as well — but she has shaped who I am through her choices just as much as someone I know more about,” she said. “Her experiences, though many of them are lost, are still a part of me.”All of the dresses are dyed different colors using unusual materials like Kool-Aid, wax, rust and even hibiscus flowers. “Like the dyed dresses, experiences change you and you can never go back, but sometimes they make you stronger,” Lindsay said.“A really difficult experience can be really beautiful in the end.” Sara Lindsay’s “Tied” is a symbol of connecting generationsBeauty and Pain Through ArtLindsay is planning a performance piece utilizing one of her dresses for an upcoming show in New York. “Taken Away” is a project of Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL curated by Furusho Von Puttkammer, with curatorial assistants Yasmeen Abdallah, Lorelle Pais and Natalie Ortiz. The dress Lindsay will be using for the show is inscribed with the names of Spanish Flu victims from the Manhattan neighborhoods surrounding the gallery space. These names are written in wax and will be revealed by Lindsay’s methodical staining of the fabric around them. She plans to carry the dress through the streets, laying it down and “dyeing” the fabric with leaves and dirt from Manhattan’s green spaces. “It will look like a cross-section of a tree with the names and voices of those who died in the last pandemic. We haven’t talked about how many people were lost during the 1918 flu, but it was tragic and the pain they went through is similar to what we are seeing right now,” said Lindsay. “There is a lot of hope but there needs to be some mourning offered to those that died.”Besides her performance in New York and the show in Granary Arts, Lindsay has also interviewed for the magazine Exponent II, had her video work exhibited as a part of the College Art Association’s annual conference, and participated in an exhibition at the College of Sequoias in California. According to Lindsay, art can truly transform the world.“We might walk away with a different interpretation than the artist was intending or even than the person next to us, but there is something beautiful about how art speaks to everyone personally,” said Lindsay. “You may not like what it says, but if you spend time with art, you can find some communication that can touch you in a way that words can’t.”A Family EffortBefore moving to Provo to work on her MFA, Lindsay and her family of eight lived in Texas where her husband taught art at Texas Tech University. Lindsay has always considered herself a “full-time mom and a part-time artist,” but now that she is back in school, it’s a full family effort.“I have always had a hard time with school. I discovered this year that I’m dyslexic,” she said. “So I find that I have to read assignments to my husband to talk about and better understand them. My daughter edits my papers and I have children who come with me to collect flowers. It’s so great that my family has been here to support me. It’s like we are in school together.”Lindsay will finish her Master of Fine Arts program at BYU this spring 2021, and she is grateful for the time and space the program has offered her to expand her art.“I don’t usually want to show people my work. I like making it, but being in the program at BYU has put me in a situation to be vulnerable and to receive criticism and help. It has helped me to mature as an artist.”View more of Lindsay’s work at saralynnelindsay.com.

During an unusual semester, art students Jeffery Hampshire and Amelia O’Neill seek a sense of community by simulating Open Studios online At the end of every typical semester, the BYU Art Department holds an Open Studios event for its students. Friends, family, and members of the larger community are all invited to walk through art students’ personal workspaces to view their current work and works-in-progress.But this is not a typical semester.This is the second semester that routines and rituals have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. After an abrupt end to in-person learning and gathering in March, winter semester closed with a sense of disappointment for art students who had been looking forward to participating in Open Studios. This time around, BFA student Jeffery Hampshire and MFA student Amelia O’Neill hope to contribute to a sense of normalcy and community by creating a virtual platform for Open Studios to take place. The Origin of Online Open StudiosEarly in November, O’Neill read in a text for her business practices class about the advantages of Open Studios, including exposure to influential members of the art community. Discouraged by the prospect of missing out on yet another Open Studios opportunity, she texted Hampshire about her idea to move the event online. Hampshire, who is in the process of developing a separate online exhibition space for university art students in Utah, was immediately on board. After garnering the support of the department, Hampshire and O’Neill approached visiting artist and instructor Madeline Rupard, who helped organize an online show for COVID-19 relief in May of this year. Using the open source site artsteps.com, Hampshire, O’Neill and Rupard are building an online space that will simulate student studios as accurately as possible. This space will be the site of the semi-annual reception for faculty and students, and the exhibition will also be made available to the public. After viewing each submitted work, faculty members will award grant money for selected BA, BFA and MFA students. Between O’Neill’s first text message to Rupard about artsteps on November 11 and the date of the Open Studios reception on December 10, the team had less than one month to build a virtual exhibition.“We’re coming down to just a few weeks away,” said Hampshire before Thanksgiving, “but why not push for it? I don’t think we should wait until next year to have everything figured out. I think this is the first version of something that might turn into something even better.”Read the full story written by Abby Weidmer at art.byu.edu.

Due to the global pandemic, this year’s annual student art show is being displayed online Every winter semester, students from the BYU Department of Art have the opportunity to display artwork in a special gallery exhibition in the Harris Fine Arts Center. This year, faculty and staff adapted to the social distancing requirements due to the pandemic and displayed the artwork online. “The day the university decided to vacate the campus and move to remote learning was the day before the gallery was set to accept submissions for what would have been this year's physical student show,” said gallery director Eric Edvalson. “Unfortunately, we had to cancel the physical show, but we still wanted to give the students an opportunity to show their work.The online exhibition displays over 50 pieces of art from the students. Although seniors have opportunities throughout the year to display their work at their final BFA exhibitions, the annual student show is a valuable opportunity for the wider student body of the Department of Art to display their work and to possibly win awards. This year, guest juror Madeline Rupard selected the award-winning artwork for the online exhibition. Rupard is a recent graduate of Pratt Institute with an MFA in painting, and she is an alumni of the BYU Department of Art.Tess Cowley won first place for her piece “Untitled - Ceramic” while Carrie Jube Everett took second with “Figment” and Elisabeth Baird took third with her piece “Bread.” Honorable Mentions included: Stephen Clawson, “The Regular Price;” Jeffrey Hampshire, “Google Earth Series;” Carolyn Koo, “A Picnic Feeling;” Hannah Landeen, “Travis’ Hoodie;” and Ricey Wright, “See You At the Top.”“Without a doubt, we would love to be viewing this art in person if we could,” Edvalson said. “Still, the diversity of work really shines in a digital environment, both individually and collectively.”To view the exhibition visit 2020 Annual Student Exhibition.

A solo exhibition in a reputable museum is something that few artists ever achieve, usually only after years of work. But for BYU art student Rachel A. Henriksen (’20), the opportunity found her. The offer came from Jared Steffensen, director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), after he saw one of her drawings in the Bountiful Davis Art Show. “It was a huge honor,” says Henriksen. “That doesn’t happen; you usually have to apply. I was on cloud nine.” Henriksen’s show Knew/New recently closed after several months on display in the UMOCA.Read the full article by Erin Johnston at magazine.byu.edu.

Pilgrimage is an aspect of the human experience that has persisted through time and different cultures. While each journey may have different destination, each pilgrim will be influenced through the experience that they have.This theme is addressed in Movement and Meaning, the sixth exhibition by the Department of Visual Arts’ Faith in Works Committee. Through the works of a diverse group of artists, the purpose and change that their own personal pilgrimage brings is examined. International artists Alinka Echeverria, Beth Krensky, Dane Johansen will be featured.This free exhibitions will be on display from October 2 to October 30 in the B.F. Larsen Gallery. The gallery is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. and is located in the third floor of the Harris Fine Arts Center.View images from the exhibition here.

Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem across the nation, but is especially prevalent in Utah. An art show responding to this epidemic will take place on Friday, April 12 when six local artists showcase works about prescription drug abuse at the “Rx Art Show.” The show is sponsored by the BYU Department of Visual Arts.The art show will take place at The Consignment Store located at 148 W 600 S Provo. Art pieces seek to communicate the gravity of the prescription drug abuse issue, as well as provide serious and uplifting art pieces highlighting important information the public should know.The show will feature works by local artists Maggie Golightly, Dylan Burt, Natalie Wood, Raphael Morin, Tiana Birrell and Summer Ellison. The event is free and light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.Read more about people whose lives have been affected here: http://letgo2013.tumblr.com/#/#Also follow Let Go on Pinterest for helpful information regarding prescription drug addiction: http://pinterest.com/letgobyu/ Read the Universe article

Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library announces the opening of 'Documents from the Ancient World,' a new exhibit that highlights some of the pieces from the library's ancient documents collection as well as its collection of published documents. Located on the Level 3 exhibit space, the display will run through Friday, Aug. 12.The Lee Library has a small collection of original documents from the ancient world and actively collects modern publications of documents from all periods.'The documentation of humankind is considered particularly important at BYU,' said Roger Layton, communications manager with the library, 'given Latter-day Saint theology that teaches that records have been kept by God's children from the beginning and modern revelation requiring continued record keeping.'Documents from the Ancient World' is the fourth of seven exhibits to celebrate 50 years of the Lee Library's current location. Throughout the year, visitors to the Level 3 exhibit space will be able to learn about collecting, preservation and history as well as see some of the treasures of BYU.For more information about the exhibit, contact Roger Macfarlane at (801) 422-2864 or macfarlane@byu.edu, or contact Roger Layton at (801) 422-6687 or roger_layton@byu.edu.Source: BYU News