Where Man and Nature Meet: New Exhibitions at BDAC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bountiful Davis Art Center announces all new exhibitions on view April 17, with a reception May 9:
Adam and Eden: 6th Annual Plein Air Competition
Amy Ungricht: The Toxic Earth
Ron Linn: Followed Fire
Because I’m Still in Love with You: BDAC Artist-In-Residence Nancy Andruk Olson
David Winward: One Tree
Bears Ears: Pictures in Silver by William Van Beckum
Bears Ears: Pictures in Silver
William Van Beckum
In response to the reduction in Bears Ears National Monument, Boston artist William Van Beckum’s exhibition “Bears Ears: Pictures in Silver” is an installation of 500 individual silver gelatin prints of the monument as seen through various digital screens. Visitors may purchase and remove a print from the installation for $10. As prints are removed the monumentality of the vast installation is reduced. Repeat visitors will get a sense of loss, and first time visitors will get a sense that the landscape is incomplete.
Artist website: https://williamvanbeckum.com/
Instagram: @williamvanbeckum
Followed Fires
Ron Linn
Ron Linn’s work deals in issues of place and the connection between human and non-human nature. His finely-detailed drawings and paintings examine memory, myth, and both personal and imagined histories. He has become increasingly fascinated and horrified at the growing role that wildfire exerts on the landscapes of the American West, both as an artist, and especially as someone who calls these lands home. Through the translation of images of human-caused and natural destructive events, he hopes to complicate the story and its role in shaping our lives and the land we live on.
Artist website: ronlinnportfolio.com
Instagram: @ronlinn87
Because I’m Still in Love with You
BDAC Artist-In-Residence Nancy Andruk Olson
In this immersive and colorful exhibition, Olson explores the sensorial experiences we attach to memories of our physical world. Painted with vibrant watercolor on expansive panoramas of paper, this exhibition will captivate your senses and take you to new (or perhaps, familiar) worlds.
Artist Website: www.nancyandrukolson.com
Instagram: @nancyandrukolson
The Toxic Earth
Amy Ungricht
By using an impressionistic painting language and amorphous, bisected surfaces, Ungricht explores environmental damage and toxicity in the natural landscape.
Instagram: @ungrilla
One Tree
David Winward
With “One Tree,” Winward presents all the leaves of a single tree as a factual reality. The everyday experience of seeing a tree is portrayed not as an image of a tree, but as the individual parts of a tree. As hundreds of leaves cover every surface of the gallery, Windward turns the expression “Can’t see the forest for the trees” into “Can’t see the tree for the leaves.”
Artist Website: davidwinward.com
Instagram: @davidkwinward
6th Annual Plein Air Competition: Adam and Eden
In "Adam and Eden," BDAC's 6th Annual Plein Air Competition, BDAC challenges artists to depict their observations of situations where humans interact with the land. The landscape of Utah is rich with sites where humans act as stewards, neighbors, and parasites. At times the land even commands submission from humans. Whether the interaction is worshipful or exploitative, we want to see your observations through art.
Open to artists working in traditional and non-traditional plein air media.
Website: bdac.org/plein-air
Location: Bountiful Davis Art Center, 90 N Main St. Bountiful, UT 84010
Reception: May 9th, 6 - 8 PM - refreshments and live music.
Exhibitions on view: April 17 - May 20, 2020
Gallery Hours: Tues - Fri: 10 AM - 6 PM Sat: noon - 5 PM
Contact:
Cara Krebs, BDAC Director of Marketing and Exhibitions
1.801.295.3618