Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
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UTAH COUNTY
Woodbury Art Museum UP: Active Light: Photography by Barry Underwood and Chris McCaw.|1| A collection of works that employ light as an active participant in the photographic process Underwood is an Ohio-based artist, whose documented light installations create glowing scenes of nature in remarkable, energetic, large-scale photographs.|2| McCaw is a San Francisco-based artist and creator of the “Sunburn Series,” in which long-term exposures of the sun’s path actually burn the photograph’s negative, creating new perspectives about the camera and image produced. Through October 19.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP:Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime. A collection of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of industrial spaces – from factories in China to mines in Canada – displaying what Burtynsky calls “the beauty in the beast.”|3| Through November 16. AND: People in a Hard Land: Iconic Images of Life in the Southwest focuses on iconic images of people in the American Southwest: pioneers, cowboys, and Indians moving across a vast uninhabited landscape; men and women engaged in the hard labor of taming a wild land. Through December 28.

BYU Library Exhibits UP: Kev Nemelka + Friends: The Age of Godz: Transcendentalism Technicolored. Through October 31.

Covey Center for the Arts UP: Altered Interpretations by Carrie J. Cason. "Being a daughter of a photographer, the only way to stop being the subject was being behind the camera. From a very young age, I wanted to be an artist. My journey through life has taken me in many directions but I have always created, whether it was with a camera, paint, pencil, or clay. I am driven to be in that creative space where you lose all other sense of self."

Springville Museum of Art UP: Expressions: A Walter Rane Retrospective explores some of Rane's favorite religious works, as well as lesser-known genres of his remarkable career as a painter and illustrator. Through December 1. AND: Voices: People, Places and Things curates images of individuals from different time periods and social or economic backgrounds as they pursue varied interests and engage in different life experiences; grand landscapes, towering buildings and intimate everyday spaces; and a blend of artistic responses that stimulate the mind and the imagination. Continues through June 2016.

Terra Nova Gallery UPCOMING: Plein Air Provo. October 4 - 25.

ST. GEORGE AREA
St. George Art Museum UP: Dorothea Lange's America features 30 of her Great Depression era photographs, including the iconic, "Migrant Mother," "White Angel Bread Line," "Ditched, Stalled, Stranded," and "Migratory Cotton Picker," from Art2Art Traveling Exhibits. Just as in the Oregon Trail West, items that had to be jettisoned to continue the journey west littered the trail. In the quest for work, the 1930’s dust bowl casualties went west and that road too was littered with broken down vehicles. The recent economic difficulties give us a chance to pause and reflect on former difficult times in America. Through January 18.

CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UP: Jim Jones: The San Blas Years. Renowned for his vibrant canvases of the southern Utah and southwest landscape, Jim Jones lived in San Blas, on and off, for nine years.|4| During this time, he immersed himself into the daily life and rituals of the village; thus beginning a remarkable period of depicting life in the colorful village. From a street scene capturing a youngster learning the guitar to a series of vivid portraits of local personages, these paintings showcase a rarely seen side of Jones’ beginnings. A unique component of the exhibition includes displaying some of Jones’ early landscapes which were strongly influenced by his time in Mexico. Curated by James M. Aton, SUU Professor of English and author of a forthcoming biography of Jim Jones, the exhibition features numerous works from the San Blas period, many of which are being loaned to the gallery from private collections and are on public display for the first time. Through November 9.

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