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CONTACT: SARINA EHRGOTT
20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
TUES - THUR & SAT 11 AM - 6 PM | FRI 11 AM - 9 PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 05, 2017
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DISTILLATION AND DISLOCATION OF DESERT STRUCTURES
UMOCA Presents Kelly O'Neill's rend/er
A-I-R SPACE: APR 28 - JUN 3
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 19 | 7 - 9 PM
Salt Lake City, UT - The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is thrilled to present Artist-In-Residence Kelly O'Neill's exhibition, rend/er.
Kelly O'Neill presents 3D prints and CG photographic scenes constructed from photo documentation collected at the site of Nancy Holt's seminal 1976 work titled Sun Tunnels. The tunnels, located 200 miles west of Salt Lake City, consist of four 9' tall by 18' long concrete tunnels situated in an X pattern. Through their placement, Holt sets viewers in the encircling horizon of the Great Basin Desert, immersing visitors in both its place and its contemplation of presence and time.
Through rend/er, O'Neill asks, how close can one get to the tunnels without ever stepping outside? In some ways, through O'Neill's distillation of these desert structures, it is evident that something has been lost; rend/er's exacting proximity reveals the imperfect distance of digital recreation as each print and facsimile becomes marred by pixilation and the fragmentation of a simulated copy. However, in this dislocation, O'Neill argues that something has also been gained.
rend/er presses the audience to not only consider their place and presence in relation to Holt's project, but to contemplate digital experience and the models on which our contemporary understanding of space teeter. In a sense, rend/er re-performs Nancy Holt's artistic endeavor, attempting to reframe our relationship between physical and imagined spaces, emphasizing the ways in which these modes of experience diverge, coalesce, and interfere with one another.
About the Artist
Kelly O'Neill's artwork focuses on the intersection of digital technology and cultural production. Concerned with the ubiquitous dissemination of photographic forms and their various impacts in fields as varied as court room hearings and social media, Kelly's work tends to interpret these heterogeneous uses and highlight their many complicated intersections. Recently Kelly's work has focused on 3D imaging techniques and how they model our contemporary understandings of spaces both physical and imagined. Having recently graduated from the University of Utah with an B.F.A. in Photography/Digital Imaging, Kelly lives in Salt Lake City where he engages with the local art community through his work with the Honors College.
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About the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) has advanced and elevated the community of contemporary arts and culture since it was established in 1931. UMOCA is a fearless voice for innovation, experimentation and dialogue surrounding the topics of our time. Located in the heart of Salt Lake City, UMOCA invites curiosity and promotes understanding of the challenging concepts that art and its reflective social commentary can present. UMOCA is a force for social transformation that unites all points of view, backgrounds, experience, and ages through pertinent art exhibitions and educational programming. UMOCA evokes change, challenges ideologies, celebrates triumph, and introduces an array of contemporary voices with in the Museum and throughout the community.
UMOCA is a five-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation and a 2015 and 2016 recipient of the Art Works Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
UMOCA is a 501c3 institution that is supported by public foundation, and corporate gifts. Your donation in any amount is greatly appreciated, and admission is a $5 suggested donation.
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