Salt Lake City
December 14, 2024 – March 15, 2025
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’s The Big Field invites audiences to explore alternative relationships with local landscapes through pigments, printmaking, and traditional handcrafts. Inspired by the Chase Farmstead’s pioneer history, 18th-century maps of Salt Lake City, and observations of water, geology, and human movement between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Front, Tsoutsounakis reinterprets these elements through drawing and filet crochet. Using ochre sourced from the Wasatch Valley, the exhibition resists and reimagines the grid while reflecting on life (bios) and nonlife (geos) through materiality, domestic labor, and care.
Exhibition Highlights:
- Interactive Installations: In the Chase Home living room—once a gathering space for settlers—pieces representing the “Big Field” will be unraveled on a great spinning wheel and restitched by community members into new forms.
- Workshops and Public Engagement: Join the artist throughout the show for ochre workshops and public unravelings, where your own imagery of the Big Field can be incorporated into the exhibition.
Location:
Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts
Liberty Park
Salt Lake City, UT
Hours:
Thursday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Admission:
Free and open to the public.