{"id":104043,"date":"2026-06-23T08:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=104043"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:41:04","slug":"alexis-rausch-rapture-rupture-at-umoca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/alexis-rausch-rapture-rupture-at-umoca\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Rausch: Rapture | Rupture at UMOCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"53\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104044\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM-350x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM-350x195.png 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM-1200x668.png 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM-1536x855.png 1536w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM.png 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Salt Lake City<br data-start=\"18\" data-end=\"21\" \/>June 26 \u2013 September 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"513\">In <em data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"117\">Rapture | Rupture<\/em>, Alexis Rausch examines the uneasy space between spiritual exaltation and violence, drawing on the visual language of roadside memorials, religious imagery, and billboard evangelism. Through paintings and installations, Rausch explores how gestures associated with communal worship, dance, and religious gathering can be read in dramatically different ways depending on the viewer\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"851\">Working from found photographs of Christian gatherings and dances collected from across the United States, Rausch depicts bodies moving in and out of focus as participants seek fellowship, unity, ecstasy, and grace through collective movement. At the same time, those same gestures can appear chaotic, feverish, threatening, or violent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"1131\">Rather than offering a definitive interpretation, the exhibition embraces ambiguity. By presenting images that resist a clear moral hierarchy, Rausch invites viewers to consider how personal beliefs and experiences shape perceptions of religious practice and its visual culture.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1133\" data-end=\"1215\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utahmoca.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Utah Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a><br data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1171\" \/>20 S. West Temple<br data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1191\" \/>Salt Lake City, UT 84101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake CityJune 26 \u2013 September 12, 2026 In Rapture | Rupture, Alexis Rausch examines the uneasy space between spiritual exaltation and violence, drawing on the visual language of roadside memorials, religious imagery, and billboard evangelism. Through paintings and installations, Rausch explores how gestures associated with communal worship, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":104044,"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":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-salt_lake_area"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-23-at-9.39.19-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-09-13 08:39:39","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\/104043","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=104043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104045,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104043\/revisions\/104045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}