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You’s paintings are often figurative, with large faces as the focal points of his compositions. His palette is a combination of overbright and muted, and pushes the viewer’s eye across the canvas. In Eternity, for example, flower-like patterns in neon pinks, purples, yellows and greens at the bottom mirror splotchy colored orange, magenta and turquoise fortune cookie shapes above. But between the ground and sky, five heads, dripping red from their t the age of 19, Boise State graphic design student and necks, are suspended from an unseen source by long braids. painter Jean You moved to the United States from his Corona was homesick and feeling out of place. Her mother had home country of China. Before high school, Boise State moved back to Mexico and her sisters were still in Idaho Falls, so photography student Allison Corona moved from her birthplace she began visiting Mexican tiendas. of Los Angeles to Idaho Falls. The stores and the people in them not only offered solace, but Though the helped her hang two 20-something on to something artists are ethnishe felt she was cally different, losing. they share an “I felt like I aspect of their was forgetting my lives, one they culture,” Corona will address in an said. upcoming, aptly In each of these named “Living stores, Corona Within Two Culalso found comtures” exhibit at fortable places the Student Union where she could Gallery. speak Spanish. In The genesis the center of each for the dual show of her black-andcame from a postwhite photocard announcing graphs is the store that Boise State proprietor or a students and store employee. faculty were welStoically, they come to apply for stand amid a Allison Corona, El Pueblo, Boise, Idaho Jean You, The Post Modern Life of Peter Chao the exhibit. plethora of “I thought, neatly arranged maybe I should do one of these,” You said. “I do have a body of items: pinatas, tiny white confirmation dresses, rows and rows of work and living in two cultures ties to my situation.” cowboy boots and more. He and Corona work together at the university, and You knew With this exhibit, both You and Corona’s histories become part that Corona also had enough work to convey a message as well of a larger consciousness and their work may help to promote a as fill an exhibition space. “Her work is amazing, and also fit into better understanding of how they and people just like them live in this title,” You said. two different worlds. Both young artists have grown up in a kind of cultural limbo. Exhibit opens Thursday, Sept. 3, 5 p.m. and runs through Oct. That is apparent in their work, though it’s not overtly spelled out, 18. Both You and Corona are scheduled to speak. SUB Gallery, nor is it completely subverted under layers of paint or by avant 1910 University Dr., 208-426-5800, finearts.boisestate.edu. garde camera angles.
TWO WORLDS Jean You and Allison Corona exhibit
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The image of the Barbie shape began to crystallize in McIntyre’s mind, an absurd shape that in no way conforms to a dancer’s figure. That absurdity was also reflected in the other two members of the trio, returning dancers Dylan G-Bowley and Annali Rose. G-Bowley—whose performances showed a new ast Friday night, Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project strength and sense of confidence not as readily apparent last performed the second of a two-night run at the new outseason—had a red balloon attached to his head, and Rose perdoor Sun Valley Pavilion. It was the company’s first time formed with one stuck to the palm of each hand. The costumes performing at the pavilion, and the first dance program for the elicited bursts of self-conscious laughter from the audience. amphitheater. The combination of dance and al fresco environ“What I really loved about it was that people let out their ment was stunning and hopefully set the stage for more of the initial reaction. They woo-hooed and laughed and then it’s over same for both the pavilion and TMP. with 20 seconds into it,” McIntyre said. “They accept the premThe program opened with Ma Maison, followed by (serious), ise and go with it. There’s something liberating about it.” followed by the world premiere of Shape, and then closed with Finishing out the evening was The Sun Road, which includes the Western premiere of The Sun Road, a multimedia producsegments of live dance interspersed with film clips. On screen, tion McIntyre created in Glacier National Park, Mont., for the the dichotomy of Chanel DaSilva, resplendent in a long, full Wolf Trap Foundation. red dress and G-Bowley, Jason Hartley, Brett Perry and John As Shape opened, several of the roughly 800 attendees at Michael Schert in formal tuxes with red cummerbunds dancing Friday night’s performance gasped when the lights came up on through snow, forested areas and pebbles at the bank of a river TMP newcomer Lauren Edson standing in a flesh-tone T-shirt was not lost on viewers. The dancers both exemplified and were stretched to capacity by two huge, overfilled red balloons stuffed dwarfed by the majesty of their surroundings. down the front. Company artistic director Trey McIntyre said “To me, it’s such a different way of thinking about movethe idea for the seven-minute dance found purchase in the lyrics ment, film versus live,” McIntyre said. “It’s like it’s a different of a solemn Goldfrapp song, which opens the piece. form to me ... I could be much more improvisational with the “I had really fallen in love with the song ‘Clowns.’ The lyrics, dancers when creating the film.” to me, are about someone talking someone else out of breast Read the full story online at boiseweekly.com. The Trey implants. I started thinking about that: ‘Only clowns / would McIntyre Project performs in Boise on Saturday, Oct. 17. play with those balloons. /... What do you want to look like Visit treymcintyre.com for more information. Barbie for?’”
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