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EPHRAIM — Three new exhibitions are set for presentation May 25-Sept. 28, at the Granary Art Center, 86 North Main Street, Ephraim. Art center hours are Wednesday thru Saturday, 11-5 p.m. The main gallery will feature, “Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape” by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman. The upper gallery will feature “Concealed At First, At Last I Appear”, which is a solo exhibition by Amy Theiss Giese. The CCA Christensen Gallery will feature “Looking Forward, Looking Back”, by Rachel Farmer. There will be a special presentation gallery talk by Rachel Farmer on Saturday, May 26, at 1 p.m. Processed Views Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape interprets the frontier of industrial food production, the seductive and alarming intersection of nature and technology. In their commentary on the landscape of processed foods, artists Ciurej and Lochman reference the work of photographer, Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). His sublime views framed the American West as a land of endless possibilities and significantly influenced the creation of the first national parks. However, many of Watkins’ photographs were commissioned by the corporate interests of the day; the railroad, mining, lumber and milling companies. His commissions served as both documentation of and advertisement for the American West. Watkins’ images upheld the popular 19th century notion of Manifest Destiny – America’s bountiful land, inevitably and justifiably utilized by its citizens. As people move further away from the sources of their food, they head into uncharted territory replete with unintended consequences for the environment and for human health. These views examine the relationship to consumption, progress and the changing landscape. Concealed At First Concealed At First, At Last I Appear, by Amy Theiss Giese, combines photography and sound to create site specific installations exploring the dynamic between actual and perceived space. Her images are photographic skiagrams, Greek for shadows written, and they are a visual translation of the shadows cast in a room at night. The sound is derived from recordings made in the same room and are
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BARBARA CIUREJ AND LINDSAY LOCHMAN
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, Fruit Loops Landscape, pigment print, 2012-14. One of the three new exhibits set for presentation May 25Sept. 28, in the Granary Art Center, 86 North Main Street, Ephraim.
Rachel Farmer, Looking Forward Looking Back, installation detail, 2018. This exhibit features miniature sculptures depicting pioneer women in action. Hand-built from ceramic stoneware, they are delicate and sturdy, ghostly and spirited. They will be on display May 25-Sept. 28, at Granary Art Center, 86 North Main Street, Ephraim. modified into a digital translation of the images, pixels to MIDI notes. Embedded in each skiagram scroll is an abstracted compression of an experience, yet they simultaneously hold the direct reference to the actual space and time. The sound is again an abstraction, a reinterpretation of the original experience through the filter of a visual understanding, and yet it too holds moments of a direct recording of the space itself. Both elements have an indexical relationship to the physical space of the building but do not actually depict
the building itself. Rather, they evoke a sense of being in the building at this time, in this moment. The resultant installation is removed from all literal telling of what was there, and the shadows and sound have created a play of space and time that evokes rather than depicts reality. Looking Forward Rachel Farmer has roots in the mountain west, going back to the mid 1800s. Currently based in New York City and originally from Provo, for the past nine years, Farmer has been working on a series that draws inspiration from a variety of sources.
Including her Mormon pioneer ancestry, childhood play with ceramic figurines, her grandmother’s quilts, historical dioramas, and mythologies of the American West. Her work dissects and re-imagines the stories that populated her childhood – various skewed histories that got passed down through family, church, and popular culture. Farmer’s miniature sculptures depict pioneer women in action. Handbuilt from ceramic stoneware, they are delicate and sturdy, ghostly and spirited. They are arranged by the artist into implied narrative scenes, in a desire to visualize and play with tales of her foremothers while also acknowledging the missing details of their personal stories. Looking Forward, Looking Back is a new installation created specifically for the historic C.C.A. Christensen log cabin. The work features twelve new figures, housed within three quilted landscapes. Ciurej and Lochman Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman collaborate on photographic projects that explore the confluence of history, myth and popular culture. Ciurej is a Chicago-based photographer and Lochman is a photographer and educator in Milwaukee, WI. Having met as students at the Institute of Design in Chicago, they have been collaborating for over three decades. Exhibitions include numerous solo and group shows, nationally and internationally. Their work is in private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Walker Art Center, Worcester Art Museum and the Yale Center for British Art. Processed Views has been featured online in the New Yorker Photo Booth, BBC, CNN, Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others and in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea and Italy. For more information visit www. ciurejlochmanphoto.com. Amy Theiss Giese Amy Theiss Giese is a Boston based artist and educator. Giese’s work is rooted in materialism, exploring what the fundamental forces are for a given medium. Focusing on photographic and sound recordings of spaces and places, she looks at how slipping from Please see EXHIBITIONS, Page 3
North Sanpete Fire Departments seek volunteers FAIRVIEW — Indianola Valley and Fairview City Fire Departments plan a two-day open house to welcome both young and old enjoy a meal and become familiar with the work of the volunteer firefighters, equipment and techniques. A barbeque will be held Friday, May 18, from 6 to 9 p.m., and a breakfast on Saturday, May 19, from 9-11 a.m. Both events will be held at the Indianola Valley Fire Department building located just off of Highway 89 south of Indianola, about 12 miles north of Fairview. The public is welcome at both events.
Artist Clegg Anderson, Spring City, will be honored with a reception Friday, June 1, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Fairview Museum of History and Art, 85 North 100 East.
Spring City artist to exhibit at Fairview museum FAIRVIEW — Clegg Anderson, artist extraordinaire, will be honored with a reception Friday, June 1, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Fairview Museum of History and Art, 85 North 100 East. His art will be on display until Saturday, Aug. 11. Clegg Anderson, Spring City, was raised in Fairview. He had an artistic mentor in Lyndon Graham, who has created wood carvings that are very well known. Graham was a janitor at the elementary school and Anderson learned wood carving from him during breaks at school. After high school, Anderson entered into the Navy Nuclear Power Program. He was able to travel the world and during his travels, he was exposed to many different forms of art that inspired him. That exposure gave him a more profound appreciation for all arts, which affected his artistic views in painting. While recovering from a broken ankle, Anderson learned how to sew while making different flags. Using this new talent, he made money on the side sewing personalized silk pillowcases for guys on board the ship. Later, after recovering from a knee surgery, he taught himself how to cross stitch. This has been a pastime for Anderson for many winters. For much of his life, Anderson was so busy building a career in engineering and then building a business, and building a family, that he never considered pursuing any form of art as a serious endeavor. But then, in 2010, Anderson walked into John McNaughton’s Art Gallery in the Provo Towne Mall. McNaughton was working on a painting and Anderson struck up a conversation with him. McNaughton told Anderson about the art classes he teaches and suggested that Anderson try it out. After only three paintings, McNaughton could tell Anderson had a special talent and offered to take him on as an apprentice. After a year-and-a-half under McNaughton’s mentorship, Anderson was awarded with the designation of apprenticeship instructor and taught Please see ARTIST, Page A3
A volunteer firefighter works on some hot spots during the Wood Hollow wildfire. The fire departments in Fairview and Indianola are currently recruiting new volunteer firefighters. The two entities are hosting a dinner and a breakfast Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19 at the Indianola Valley Fire Station, located about 12 miles north of Fairview on Highway 89.
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