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Air

Institution
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Grant Cycle
Fall 2019
Amount
$80,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
https://umfa.utah.edu/air ↗
Air, installation view.
Air, installation view.
Air, installation view.
Kim Abeles, Smog Map, 2009. Smog on cellulose.
Air, installation view.
Naomi Bebo (Menominee/Ho-Chunk, Woodland Child in Gas Mask, 2015. Mixed media. Photo by Jason S. Ordaz, courtesy the artist ©️ Naomi Bebo
Merritt Johnson, Forest seed basket for present and future understanding, 2019. Handwoven black ash wood and Sitka Spruce cone seeds. Image courtesy of the artist, Accola Griefen Gallery and Patel Brown Gallery
Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Evolvers, 2019. Archival pigment print.
Will Wilson (Diné), Mexican Hat Disposal Cell, Triptych, Halchita, Utah, Navajo Nation, 2019. Archival pigment prints.

Inspired by the 1968 exhibition Air Art that positioned air as a conceptual artist’s medium par excellence, UMFA’s Air exhibition will explore contemporary approaches to air as an artistic subject, a physical material, and a conceptual lens through which to understand our cultural moment. While some artists continue earlier generations’ productive engagement with air’s immateriality, others invest it with political weight. Socially engaged projects around environmental activism for example illuminate the everyday impact of deteriorating air quality, and bring new, needed attention to a pollution crisis that imperils the entirety of the natural world.

 Included in the exhibition is a large-scale, site-specific digital installation by Andrea Polli that uses custom software, LED panels, and projection technology to raise awareness of environmental issues.  Polli will use networked sensors to conduct comparisons of local air quality and to chart regional pollution rates. Other works include Sabrina Raaf’s painting robot, which translates carbon dioxide levels into green paint strokes on gallery walls, making explicit the inhalations and exhalations of a single community; Kim Abeles’ Smog Collectors series in which the artist leaves plates with stencils on them on local rooftops where they collect particulate matter that will form an image once stencils are removed; Anirudh Sharma and Graviky Labs’ “soot ink” that will be used in posters for the Native environmental activist group SLC Air Protectors; and the artist-led think tank Center for Genomic Gastronomy and Edible Geography’s Smog Tasting, which involves whipping eggs for cookies at various busy intersections around the city as a way of gauging variations in taste to indicate different hyper-local pollutants.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Fall 2019 Grants

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On May 13, 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum opened its doors to the public. The museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials, and is the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world and the largest in North America.

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