Exhibitions Archives - BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:21:20 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Stroll Through Paris at the MOA with “L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters” https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/museum-of-art/stroll-through-paris-at-the-moa-with-laffichomania-the-passion-for-french-posters/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:21:07 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=55947 The post Stroll Through Paris at the MOA with “L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters” appeared first on BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications.

]]> A Window Into the Past: Photography Exhibit “Fields of Labor and Recovery” Now Open at the MOA https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/museum-of-art/a-window-into-the-past-photography-exhibit-fields-of-labor-and-recovery-now-open-at-the-moa/ Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:32:09 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=55098 The post A Window Into the Past: Photography Exhibit “Fields of Labor and Recovery” Now Open at the MOA appeared first on BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications.

]]> MFA Art Student Uses Homemade Dresses and Campus Flowers in Her Art https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/department-of-art/mfa-art-student-uses-homemade-dresses-and-campus-flowers-in-her-art/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:56:20 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=54425 Sara Lynne Lindsay’s dresses represent themes of mothers and history as she connects generations through her art In room 3125 of the Jesse Knight Building, homemade dresses hang on every wall. A shelf holds jars of flowers and a green rocking chair sits in one corner — “My daughter’s chair,” said Master of Fine Arts student Sara Lynne Lindsay. As a wife and mother of six children, the green chair is just one of the room’s symbols of how much her family intersects with Lindsay’s work as an artist.  “When my husband and I were both working towards our undergraduate art degrees at Utah State University, there were often days when we had to take our first-born baby to class. My husband would be rocking our son with his foot while using his hands on a project,” said Lindsay. Mother and Daughter Themes The dresses Lindsay makes are often a reflection of the relationships between mothers and daughters. Several of her dresses were recently displayed at Granary Arts in Ephraim. “Eventually the daughter grows to be a mother and there’s this long chain of history of our mothers passing down things like the creation power. There is something really powerful about the sacrifice and nurturing of mothers,” said Lindsay. One of Lindsay’s recent passion projects has been taking journal entries from her own ancestors and writing the words out onto her dresses. “I have an entire journal from one ancestor and I feel like I understand her. My great-grandmother I don’t know as well — but she has shaped who I am through her choices just as much as someone I know more about,” she said. “Her experiences, though many of them are lost, are still a part of me.” All of the dresses are dyed different colors using unusual materials like Kool-Aid, wax, rust and even hibiscus flowers. “Like the dyed dresses, experiences change you and you can never go back, but sometimes they make you stronger,” Lindsay said.“A really difficult experience can be really beautiful in the end.”  Sara Lindsay’s “Tied” is a symbol of connecting generations Beauty and Pain Through Art Lindsay is planning a performance piece utilizing one of her dresses for an upcoming show in New York. “Taken Away” is a project of Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL curated by Furusho Von Puttkammer, with curatorial assistants Yasmeen Abdallah, Lorelle Pais and Natalie Ortiz. The dress Lindsay will be using for the show is inscribed with the names of Spanish Flu victims from the Manhattan neighborhoods surrounding the gallery space. These names are written in wax and will be revealed by Lindsay’s methodical staining of the fabric around them. She plans to carry the dress through the streets, laying it down and “dyeing” the fabric with leaves and dirt from Manhattan’s green spaces.  “It will look like a cross-section of a tree with the names and voices of those who died in the last pandemic. We haven’t talked about how many people were lost during the 1918 flu, but it was tragic and the pain they went through is similar to what we are seeing right now,” said Lindsay. “There is a lot of hope but there needs to be some mourning offered to those that died.” Besides her performance in New York and the show in Granary Arts, Lindsay has also interviewed for the magazine Exponent II, had her video work exhibited as a part of the College Art Association’s annual conference, and participated in an exhibition at the College of Sequoias in California.  According to Lindsay, art can truly transform the world. “We might walk away with a different interpretation than the artist was intending or even than the person next to us, but there is something beautiful about how art speaks to everyone personally,” said Lindsay. “You may not like what it says, but if you spend time with art, you can find some communication that can touch you in a way that words can’t.” A Family Effort Before moving to Provo to work on her MFA, Lindsay and her family of eight lived in Texas where her husband taught art at Texas Tech University. Lindsay has always considered herself a “full-time mom and a part-time artist,” but now that she is back in school, it’s a full family effort. “I have always had a hard time with school. I discovered this year that I’m dyslexic,” she said. “So I find that I have to read assignments to my husband to talk about and better understand them. My daughter edits my papers and I have children who come with me to collect flowers. It’s so great that my family has been here to support me. It’s like we are in school together.” Lindsay will finish her Master of Fine Arts program at BYU this spring 2021, and she is grateful for the time and space the program has offered her to expand her art. “I don’t usually want to show people my work. I like making it, but being in the program at BYU has put me in a situation to be vulnerable and to receive criticism and help. It has helped me to mature as an artist.” View more of Lindsay’s work at saralynnelindsay.com.

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]]> Visit Three MOA Exhibits Before They Close https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/museum-of-art/visit-three-moa-exhibits-before-they-close/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:47:29 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=54375 The Museum of Art will say farewell to three inspiring exhibitions in the coming weeks, but there’s still time for you to see them! Don’t miss out; these artworks have something for everyone. “Far Out: The West Re-seen, Photography of Victoria Sambunaris” and “Art for the People: Associated American Artist Prints from the Springfield Museum of Art” opened during Fall Semester 2020 and feature a large number of loaned works from outside the MOA collection. Far Out showcases 40 photographs from renowned photographer Victoria Sambunaris that bring to life the tension between the American West’s rugged natural beauty and the lives and creations of the people who inhabit it. Art For the People includes etchings and lithographic prints created by the Associated American Artists in the early-mid 20th century to provide accessible and affordable art to everyday Americans. Artists featured in this exhibition include Grant Wood, Doris Lee, Thomas Hart Benton, and more. The third exhibition, “From the Vaults: Minerva Teichert’s Book of Mormon Paintings,” contains the titular artist’s iconic series of artworks depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon, including Lehi’s flight from Jerusalem, the conversion of Alma the Younger, and the visit of the Savior to the Americas. These artworks will return temporarily to the Museum vaults, allowing the MOA to perform routine conservation work and plan for their use in other exhibitions. “All of these exhibitions provide BYU students and our local audiences with access to well-known and highly acclaimed artists,” said Janalee Emmer, Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programming at the Museum of Art. “Seeing this work up-close and in person can be a transformative experience. The precision of the etchings in ‘Art for the People,’ the scale and complexity of Sambunaris’s photographs, and the unique perspective of Teichert’s Book of Mormon paintings are all remarkable and demonstrate vastly different types of subject matter, media, and styles — essentially meaning that there is something for everyone at the Museum right now.” After the closure of these shows, the MOA will prepare those spaces for new exhibitions, including a celebration of the artwork of Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and a collection of photographs of Utah and its people during the Great Depression and World War II. Check the MOA website for additional updates on these future exhibitions. “From the Vaults: Minerva Teichert’s Book of Mormon Paintings” is on exhibit until April 28, “Far Out: The West Re-seen, Photography of Victoria Sambunaris” is available until May 1, and “Art for the People: Associated American Artist Prints” from the Springfield Museum of Art closes on May 21. Come see these beloved works of art yourself before it’s too late!

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]]> Art Students Initiate Collaborative Project Unifying Students Remotely https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/department-of-art/art-students-initiate-collaborative-project-unifying-students-remotely/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:57:40 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=53428 During an unusual semester, art students Jeffery Hampshire and Amelia O’Neill seek a sense of community by simulating Open Studios online At the end of every typical semester, the BYU Art Department holds an Open Studios event for its students. Friends, family, and members of the larger community are all invited to walk through art students’ personal workspaces to view their current work and works-in-progress. But this is not a typical semester. This is the second semester that routines and rituals have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. After an abrupt end to in-person learning and gathering in March, winter semester closed with a sense of disappointment for art students who had been looking forward to participating in Open Studios. This time around, BFA student Jeffery Hampshire and MFA student Amelia O’Neill hope to contribute to a sense of normalcy and community by creating a virtual platform for Open Studios to take place. The Origin of Online Open Studios Early in November, O’Neill read in a text for her business practices class about the advantages of Open Studios, including exposure to influential members of the art community. Discouraged by the prospect of missing out on yet another Open Studios opportunity, she texted Hampshire about her idea to move the event online. Hampshire, who is in the process of developing a separate online exhibition space for university art students in Utah, was immediately on board. After garnering the support of the department, Hampshire and O’Neill approached visiting artist and instructor Madeline Rupard, who helped organize an online show for COVID-19 relief in May of this year. Using the open source site artsteps.com, Hampshire, O’Neill and Rupard are building an online space that will simulate student studios as accurately as possible. This space will be the site of the semi-annual reception for faculty and students, and the exhibition will also be made available to the public. After viewing each submitted work, faculty members will award grant money for selected BA, BFA and MFA students. Between O’Neill’s first text message to Rupard about artsteps on November 11 and the date of the Open Studios reception on December 10, the team had less than one month to build a virtual exhibition. “We’re coming down to just a few weeks away,” said Hampshire before Thanksgiving, “but why not push for it? I don’t think we should wait until next year to have everything figured out. I think this is the first version of something that might turn into something even better.” Read the full story written by Abby Weidmer at art.byu.edu.

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]]> FAR OUT: THE WEST RE-SEEN, PHOTOGRAPHY OF VICTORIA SAMBUNARIS https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/museum-of-art/far-out-the-west-re-seen-photography-of-victoria-sambunaris/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:24:05 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=52973 EXHIBITION OVERVIEW A new exhibit will open up in the Museum of Art starting October 30 Victoria Sambunaris creates large-scale photographs that document the intersections of the natural and manmade within the American landscape. Each year, Sambunaris embarks on a lengthy journey on the road, using a large format wooden field camera to document what she encounters. With her photography, Sambunaris tries to capture the way in which humans inhabit the landscape, as well as highlight the beauty of the land and human interaction with it. Combining in-depth planning and research with a laborious mode of shooting and developing—sometimes waiting days for the right conditions—Sambunaris’s photographs communicate a deeply layered sense of place. Since 2002, Sambunaris has come to Utah numerous times to photograph the vast, complex, and beautiful terrain. This exhibition focuses on her photograph of Utah and the Western landscape. The large scale of her work simulates the actual environment, allowing minute details to materialize, subtle colors to emerge, and the viewer to feel as if they are standing in the place of the artist. This exhibition was made possible through the generosity of the: Marriott Daughters Foundation Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico Andrea and Patrick Lannan Michael Reynolds James Kelly Contemporary View more details at moa.byu.edu.

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]]> Closing this week, ‘A Studio of Her Own’ exhibit features powerful lessons for 2020 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/museum-of-art/closing-this-week-a-studio-of-her-own-exhibit-features-powerful-lessons-for-2020/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:41:42 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=52721 Home builders. Survivors. Trend-setters. Fighters. Standing in the gallery of BYU’s Museum of Art, students can almost hear them whispering from the walls. They are 58 remarkable female artists, and their messages of inspiration and hope are featured in the MOA’s “A Studio of Her Own” exhibit, which closes this week. “We had no idea that 2020 would be such an unexpected and unprecedented year with the pandemic, and with earthquakes and fires and racial unrest,” exhibition curator Janalee Emmer said. But in the paintings, she said, “there’s a lot of relevance for today’s moment.” “A Studio of Her Own” celebrates 110 works by female artists of diverse backgrounds and faiths. Some of their pieces celebrate racial diversity, like the vibrant quilt “Subway Graffiti #3” by prominent Black artist Faith Ringgold, who grew up in Harlem. The piece features superstars like Diana Ross and Michael Jackson as well as the faces of Ringgold’s own friends and family members. Emmer said the unique piece “Blanket Stories,” which features a tower of colorful handwoven blankets, speaks to the universal struggle for identity through the experiences of its creator, Marie Watt, the daughter of a native Seneca mother and a rancher father. While some of the artwork featured in the exhibition focuses on social tension and change, Emmer said there are also pieces meant to bring comfort and hope. Read the full article written by Maddie Mehr at universe.byu.edu.

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]]> BYU’s Department of Art Displays Student Artwork in an Online Exhibition for the Public https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/exhibitions/byus-department-of-art-displays-student-artwork-in-online-exhibition/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:24:22 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=52291 Due to the global pandemic, this year’s annual student art show is being displayed online  Every winter semester, students from the BYU Department of Art have the opportunity to display artwork in a special gallery exhibition in the Harris Fine Arts Center. This year, faculty and staff adapted to the social distancing requirements due to the pandemic and displayed the artwork online.  “The day the university decided to vacate the campus and move to remote learning was the day before the gallery was set to accept submissions for what would have been this year’s physical student show,” said gallery director Eric Edvalson. “Unfortunately, we had to cancel the physical show, but we still wanted to give the students an opportunity to show their work. The online exhibition displays over 50 pieces of art from the students. Although seniors have opportunities throughout the year to display their work at their final BFA exhibitions, the annual student show is a valuable opportunity for the wider student body of the Department of Art to display their work and to possibly win awards.  This year, guest juror Madeline Rupard selected the award-winning artwork for the online exhibition. Rupard is a recent graduate of Pratt Institute with an MFA in painting, and she is an alumni of the BYU Department of Art. Tess Cowley won first place for her piece “Untitled – Ceramic” while Carrie Jube Everett took second with “Figment” and Elisabeth Baird took third with her piece “Bread.” Honorable Mentions included: Stephen Clawson, “The Regular Price;” Jeffrey Hampshire, “Google Earth Series;” Carolyn Koo, “A Picnic Feeling;” Hannah Landeen, “Travis’ Hoodie;” and Ricey Wright, “See You At the Top.” “Without a doubt, we would love to be viewing this art in person if we could,” Edvalson said. “Still, the diversity of work really shines in a digital environment, both individually and collectively.” To view the exhibition visit 2020 Annual Student Exhibition.

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]]> BYU Magazine: Playing with Pattern https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/department-of-art/byu-magazine-playing-with-pattern/ Fri, 15 May 2020 18:34:11 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=51897 A solo exhibition in a reputable museum is something that few artists ever achieve, usually only after years of work. But for BYU art student Rachel A. Henriksen (’20), the opportunity found her. The offer came from Jared Steffensen, director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), after he saw one of her drawings in the Bountiful Davis Art Show. “It was a huge honor,” says Henriksen. “That doesn’t happen; you usually have to apply. I was on cloud nine.” Henriksen’s show Knew/New recently closed after several months on display in the UMOCA. Read the full article by Erin Johnston at magazine.byu.edu.

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]]> BYU Magazine: Minuscule Masterpieces https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/alumni/byu-magazine-minuscule-masterpieces/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:04:32 +0000 https://cfac-archived.byu.edu/?p=50810 The Harold B. Lee Library had some unusual visitors in October. Just inside the east doorways, miniature patrons admired postage stamp–sized art in one of alumna McKay Lenker Bayer’s (BA ’18) latest Tiny Art Shows. She held her first back in 2016 for a BYU art class, hanging self-made bitty art a few inches off the ground on Provo’s Center Street. Bayer added the final touches—a tiny spotlight and magnifying glass—and staked out a spot to watch. “I was amazed by the reaction—people squealed with joy, even lay down on the dirty sidewalk to get a good look,” says Bayer. See the full article by Lauren K. Lethbridge at magazine.byu.edu.

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