Farnham Galleries - Simpson College

Heaven & Earth - Farnham Gallery, Indianola, IA
The Lost Nation Photographs

Heaven & Earth - A Photo Installation

Heaven & Earth - the Photo Installation went up on Sunday and Monday. I did have some installing help from a number of faculty, staff and students. A nice and interested crowd of people were there for the Monday reception. Justin Nostrala, Painting and Drawing Professor at Simpson College invited me to show in two galleries. One gallery was devoted to The Lost Nation Photographs and the other to Heaven & Earth. Both exhibitions will be up until February 5th, 2010. For more information about the exhibitions - see this link at Simpson College. Gallery Hours: M-F 8am- 4:30pm. Call 515.961.1761 for more information.

If you are interested in having me present this very large installation, Heaven & Earth, I would welcome environments to show it. I am also available for artist/student residencies. My contact information is on www.sandydyas.com - and I am also a member of the IOWA Artist Directory. My newest work can be found on my website and on my blog - Picture This.

Farnham Galleries - Simpson College

Getting ready for a big up-coming Sunday. I am driving to Indianola, Iowa to install the show at Simpson College. Two shows. Two Galleries of Work. One room will house "The Lost Nation Photographs" and the other will be a very large and unusual photo installation called "Heaven & Earth". It takes a few days to hang the photos (see installation), pin the photos to the walls to create something new. Hope I will see some friends at the reception on Monday, January 11th from 5-6pm, 2010.

Farnham Galleries - Simpson College

This exhibition will be shown in two galleries. One gallery will have a large body of older work entitled "The Lost Nation Photographs". The second gallery will be a monumental photo installation of new work entitled "Heaven and Earth". There will be an Opening Reception and Gallery Presentation on Monday, January 11th, 2010 in the Farnham Galleries at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. The exhibitions run from January 11th through February 5th, 2010.

Heaven & Earth - a photo installation

Some photo documentation of my installation at Luce Gallery, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Cornell College Art Faculty Exhibition

MOUNT VERNON – The Cornell College department of art and art history will celebrate Homecoming 2009 with an exhibition featuring works by current studio art faculty in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery, McWethy Hall. Cornell Studio Art Faculty 2009 runs Sept. 13 – Oct. 18. A Homecoming reception will be held Saturday, Oct. 10, 3-5 p.m.

Featured artists include Doug Hanson, Sandy Dyas, Tony Plaut, Susan Coleman and Maria Schutt, with works in a variety of media, including: ceramics, assemblage, drawing, painting, photography and installation art.

Doug Hanson’s functional clay pieces meld Western and Eastern influences to create objects both beautiful and useful. Among his most stunning works are his large-scale platters, which incorporate form and color reminiscent of water, earth and sky.

Sandy Dyas uses collage and juxtaposition to form hybrid thematic relationships, incorporating both traditional and digital photographic techniques in a monumental two- dimensional installation spanning two walls.

Tony Plaut’s assemblages and drawings employ diverse materials and fabrication processes, with thematic strands that point to the very act of perception, prompting the viewer to “look and listen.”

Sue Coleman’s intimate landscapes are based on her immediate environment, and draw from an awareness of nature as a living presence. Her works for this exhibition are primarily in pastel, but featured are a select group of new oils on canvas.

Maria Schutt’s current work is inspired by puppetry and informed by the observation of a young child, RJ, as he plays without interruption. Using drawing and assemblage, the figures are crafted in a posture of doing, implying the potential for action, but the nature of the action is not revealed.Gallery hours are Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sundays: 2 – 4 p.m.

Heaven & Earth - a photo installation

Sue Coleman (our Cornell Gallery Director) and I spent two solid days installing my new body of work entitled Heaven & Earth. This is a relatively new way of working for me although years ago I did many installations involving lights, sound, dresses, etc.

Lots of challenges hit me as I began to hang the photographs by pins to two large gallery walls. I hung a similar body of work (albeit very differently) at Wartburg College in Waverly this past February. I really like the way spontaneous way of working - it is similar to how I have made photographic collages on paper. The installing gives me a great amount of freedom in responding to the space at hand.

This is strictly photographs - they are pinned to the walls of the gallery creating a map-like space. Radoslav calls it modern hieroglyphics. The images combine in numerous ways - repeating themselves, juxtapositions, various sizes, color, etc.

Challenging to do this on-the-spot but I like how I can respond to the space in front of me. The work reminds me of my past work, especially the otherworldly aspects of The Lost Nation Photographs. I have re-worked many of the black and white photos from that body of work and they appear in Heaven & Earth as visitors from the past.

Kate Greenstreet, my poet friend, says we continue to say the same things over and over again in our work - we just say it in different ways. True.

The Cornell Faculty show will open on September 13th but the reception will be held on October 10th, a Saturday from 3 - 5pm in the Luce Gallery, Cornell College. Maybe I will see you there!