EARTHLY BEAUTY

Susan Coleman (drawings and paintings) and myself (photographs) discuss our artwork. Thank you Jason Smith for your wonderful creative energy putting this video together! The Homecoming Reception for Earthly Beauty is Saturday, October 6th, 2018, 3-5pm. 

EARTHLY BEAUTY VIDEO with SUSAN COLEMAN & SANDRA LOUISE DYAS

This project, in part, is supported by THE IOWA ARTS COUNCIL, a division of the Iowa Council of Cultural Affairs. I received a grant in early summer in support of my new work for Earthly Beauty.

EARTHLY BEAUTY AT LUCE GALLERY - CORNELL COLLEGE

SUE COLEMAN AND SANDRA LOUISE DYAS

I received a Project Grant from the Iowa Arts Council this spring!

Lost in the Midwest Gallery Talk on June 19, 2018

Gallery Talk at Dubuque Museum of Art

June 19th, 2018

Lost in the Midwest: Photographs & Video

Giving talk at the Dubuque Museum of Art. June 19, 2018 (photo by Kay Schroeder)

My Dad and I in Dubuque, June 19, 2018 (photo by Susan Becker)

LOST IN THE MIDWEST - SANDRA LOUISE DYAS: PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO

Show Opening Reception is June 1st, 5-8pm 

with music by Dave Moore

Lecture in the Gallery Space: June 19th at Noon

Lost in the Midwest began in 2008 and continues. It is photographic work about living in the Midwest, how landscape informs who you become over time. Intuitively I search for cultural landscapes that have a strong sense of place. Finding poetic beauty in the everyday through close observation of the cultural landscape is my central vision.

I am interested in people and the traces we leave behind, the ghosts that inhibit a place. Wim Wenders, an important German filmmaker and photographer has said he believes landscapes tell us stories about who we are if we take the time to listen. Another philosophical influence of mine is Rebecca Solnit, a writer who believes we must “leave the door open for the unknown” because that is where the “most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

In the end, all I have in this world are the experiences I encounter with people, animals and the landscape. Using a camera, I can document time passing; my photographs are a testament to my life here and now. 

PRESS RELEASE

SANDRA LOUISE DYAS

NEW WORK

HUDSON RIVER GALLERY

IOWA CITY, IA

RECEPTION IS MARCH 2ND - 6PM - 8PM

Truth & Beauty, Sandra Louise Dyas

Jamie Elizabeth Hudrlik -- My Daughter! (click here)

Fashion Forward: Jamie Elizabeth Hudrlik of Dirty Birdies Vintage

Elemental: Edgelands from Sandy Dyas on Vimeo.

HOMEGROWN STORIES

The year of Elemental

osted on November 8, 2017

“There’s a place I always go… the tangled, messy border where human and nature collide and collude. Edgeland.” – NYTimes writer Rob Cowen

This idea of Edgelands – that space between city and country, wild and tamed, was the inspiration for this fifth edition of the Elemental series.  For this topic we asked Catherine Pancake, a US-based sound designer and composer, to create an original soundscape based on the idea of Edgelands.  Using Catherine’s piece as the starting point, we each created a video interpretation to accompany the sound- one more narrative, the other more experimental- yet both walking that imaginary line.