{"id":8359,"date":"2011-11-11T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:58:45","slug":"randall-hankins-hyperobjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/randall-hankins-hyperobjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall Hankins HyperObjects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t get confused, Salt Lake’s Gallery Stroll<\/a> isn’t for another week, but you’ve got great opportunities tonight for an art-viewing free date night. There’s Perspectives: Art and Autism<\/em> at Kayo Gallery, which we blogged about yesterday, and another exhibit is popping up at Cordell Taylor’s studio, which since for the past couple of years has functioned part-time as a gallery.<\/p>\n

Cordell Taylor features sculptural works by Randy Hankins. This is Hankins first solo exhibit, featuring work created in the past decade but inspired by much earlier experiences. In the mid 70s, Hankins says, he began making small pen and ink drawings that “seemed to arise spontaneously” from some sort of imagined hypersapce. He saw them as a form of communication that needed to be shared in steel.<\/p>\n

In 2001 he began creating a series of 23 steel sculptures that he calls HyperObjects. They arose out of his drawings from 35 years ago, and inspired by key concepts of Terence McKenna — especially his belief that he was “drawing mankind and history toward catarcts of transcendental change.”<\/p>\n