{"id":36082,"date":"2018-01-02T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=36082"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:01:52","slug":"whats-new-in-2018-jim-frazer-hopes-to-call-attention-to-things-that-have-been-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/whats-new-in-2018-jim-frazer-hopes-to-call-attention-to-things-that-have-been-overlooked\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s New: In 2018, Jim Frazer Hopes to Call Attention to Things That Have Been Overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Frazer at Spiral Jetty. Photo by Melissa Nickerson.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cPart of what artists do is to call attention to things that have been overlooked, and do so in a way that causes people to start noticing on their own,\u201d says Jim Frazer, an artist originally from Georgia who has been working in Utah since 1999. Forty-five\u00a0years ago he started out as a photographer, and though it isn\u2019t always obvious, he says his current work is still photo-based.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGlyph 23,\u201d work on paper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This past year he developed two bodies of work using photographic sources to trace the outline of natural patterns.\u00a0Glyphs<\/em>\u00a0is derived from the paths of bark beetle larvae that Frazer found etched into tree trunks in the woods. The other,\u00a0Maps<\/em>, is based on patterns of cracked mud in the desert. Both were exhibited at the\u00a0Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education\u00a0in Philadelphia and at the\u00a0Dalton Gallery of York County Arts Council, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. \u201cI was also honored to be invited to be part of\u00a0The Earth Issue, a London based collective of environmental artists which exists both online and in print publications,\u201d Frazer says.<\/p>\n

Recently, he\u2019s been translating the\u00a0Glyphs<\/em>, which have the appearance of calligraphic characters, from works on paper to sculptural versions having the same shape but made of wood and copper. \u201cI\u2019m excited about this because the larger sculptural versions have a greater presence. My intention is to create something recalling a ceremonial object, with the idea that if something is presented as having special significance, it will encourage people to look more closely at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2018, Frazer hopes to exhibit both versions of the Glyphs together. In the meantime, he\u2019ll continue teaching himself philosophy, which he says is a new area of interest. \u201cThe most interesting books I\u2019ve read lately are\u00a0Vibrant Matter<\/em>\u00a0by Jane Bennett, and\u00a0The Spell of the Sensuous<\/em>\u00a0by David Abram. Both of these books argue \u2013 though from very different perspectives \u2013 that humans exist not as privileged beings but as a part of a larger whole which encompasses all matter, living and non-living. \u00a0This is important for my work, because I\u2019m trying to point out ways in which forms that resemble human communication (calligraphic characters, maps) can arise from non-human sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Glyph,<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGlyph 23,\u201d sculpture.<\/p>\n

To view more of the artist\u2019s work, visit\u00a0jimfrazerart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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