{"id":102948,"date":"2026-05-12T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=102948"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:29:00","slug":"survival-instincts-at-bountiful-davis-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/survival-instincts-at-bountiful-davis-art-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Instincts at Bountiful Davis Art Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"89\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-102949\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM-350x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM-350x185.png 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM-1200x635.png 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM-1536x813.png 1536w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM.png 1606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Bountiful<br data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"67\" \/>May 22 \u2013 June 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"879\"><br data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"109\" \/>In <em data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"132\">Survival Instincts<\/em>, Bianca Velasquez presents six intricate beadwork pieces examining the brutal and beautiful mechanisms of survival found in the natural world. Drawing parallels between insect behavior and human relationships, the exhibition explores themes of love, power, reproduction, and control through painstakingly mapped and constructed surfaces that balance delicacy with visceral intensity. From scorpions\u2019 lethal mating rituals to the damselfly\u2019s emergence into flight, Velasquez uses beadwork to reveal survival as both instinctual and psychologically charged. A beadwork and process artist working across painting, poetry, and abstraction, Velasquez approaches repetition and materiality as forms of meditation, healing, and narrative transformation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"881\" data-end=\"1008\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bdac.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong data-start=\"881\" data-end=\"911\">Bountiful Davis Art Center<\/strong><\/a><br data-start=\"911\" data-end=\"914\" \/>90 N Main St, Bountiful, UT<br data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"944\" \/>Tue\u2013Fri 10 am\u20136 pm; Sat noon\u20135 pm; Closed Sun\u2013Mon<br data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"996\" \/>801-295-3618<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BountifulMay 22 \u2013 June 19, 2026 In Survival Instincts, Bianca Velasquez presents six intricate beadwork pieces examining the brutal and beautiful mechanisms of survival found in the natural world. Drawing parallels between insect behavior and human relationships, the exhibition explores themes of love, power, reproduction, and control through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":102949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-to_the_north"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-9.27.02-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-21 08:27:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102950,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102948\/revisions\/102950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}