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Show e UMFA docent e 1n Sl f.t volunteer newsletter s~ptember 2012 from amy... wm z.oom out of the UMFA on Septen1bcr 17 but the galleries will not be empty for long. The Museum wm quickly shift gears and present five new exhibitions in the Fall. I think you wm find the content o( the exhibitions refreshing, challenging and. in some cases. familiar. SPEED 5 Blocks opens September 21 in the Education Gallery. It wJII be a central fo.ws for che Fall pART ners tolJ rs for Salt l~ke School District fourth graders where the theme of The: Built Environment as Landscape will be used. S Bloc.ks is. an exhibition of youth artwork by students at Hawthorne Elemenrary (Salt Lake City School District) and Granger High Schoof {Granite School Dlscrict) created in collaboration with UMFA educ.a.tors Annie Burbidge Ream and Tracey Mathews. Sy in11estigating a five block ar~a near their school. stu• dents demystifi<'!d how we shape the spaces we live in and how those spaces shape us. Through a vatlecy of media,,. this exhibition shares with viewers what stu* det1ts discovered when they left the dassroorn and got a chance to engage with the c.ity. A week later on September 28 Dale Nichols: Ttorisc:ending Regionalism op,ens. Dale Ni<:hots is well known as the fourth m4ljor. Regionalist artist, alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Stu.cart Curry, Their work. created in the Midwest during the Grea.t Depression. dofine:d a period in American art when artists mrned toward the land and known narratives in hope of creating u:niquely American themes and styfes of art. The exhibition spans much of Nichols' long career. His <1arly paintings focu~ed on the often difficult: rcfattoo~ ship between Mf.dwest farmers and their land. His stylized landscapes and red barns. representing both shelter and sustenance, held images of hope for a strug~ gling nation and honored the agrarian ideal. By the ! 940s Nichols indulged his wanderlust. traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of tim~ in Gmnernala and Mexico. Pairu:ings from this period are represented in this exhibition as well.. Finally. a ion,g time in the making, the UMFA is proud offer visitors the opportunity to explore the work of Nancy Holt in Nancy Holt Sightlines. The exhibition will offer :in in~depth look at the early projects of thi!i importantAmericao artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of att. arc:hitecwre, and time~based media. Since the! br.e f 960s., Holt has cr~.ated a far. reaching body of work, induding Land Art. films, videos. site-spedfk lnscal!ations, artist's books, concrete poetry, and major sculpture cormnissloM. Nan,y Holt Sightl,ries showc:ss~s the artist's tra.nsformation of the perception of the landscape through the use of different observatic;m;d rnod~s in her early films. vide<>s. and related works from 1966 to l980. With her k,erry director of ppes :tl'lfiiC 3ft in :a box '1:o«dinator virginia (:Ur.twr of educacloo amy volunteer coordin~tor joanna ~duonioo as,4tant 801,SSS.1!90 ~erry.og_rady@umb.utah.edu SO LSS5,S U,S aburbi•ream@umfa,ut'ah.et:Ju•;J SCH .S85.7 U,l veath~ralf@umfa.uta.h.c" 80LS9.S,987S aedw:wds@), novel use of cyiindrital forms, light. and techniques .of reflection. Hok developed a unique aesthetic of perception, whkh ,e nabled visitors to her sites like Sun Tunnels: (1973-76}, located in Utah's Great Basin, to engage with the landscape in new zmd <'.hnHenging ways. I look foN-tard to greeting these exhi~ bitions with you. |
