DESIRE LINES
DESIRE LINES
DESIRE LINES
UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
January 26th - May 26th, 2018
Man at the End of the Rainbows 2. Image courtesy of Barry Stone. 2015
APRIL 10TH, 2018
RESOURCE > SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
“Desire Line – a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. Desire lines emerge as shortcuts where constructed ways take a circuitous route, have gaps or are non-existent.” (Wikipedia)
The landscape as a genre has held captive the imagination of the American public for the better part of the last two centuries. With unbound adoration, we have embraced the landscape, from the grandeur of the paintings of the Hudson River School to the manifest destiny myth of a rugged and unspoiled west. Americans have been drawn to artists’ interpretation of place, real and fictional. Despite the popularity of the landscape, too often the public conceptualizes these works in a very traditional way, whether that is plein air oil, watercolor painting or photographs that are devoid of any hint of human disturbance.
Desire Lines highlights the various paths, ranging from archiving to reproduction to collaborations with nature to works that critique the history of landscape focused art, taken by the artists included in the exhibition to explore our complicated relationship to the landscape that shapes and supports us and our repeated desire to represent it.
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UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
20 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
(801) 328-4201
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Saturday | 11 AM - 6 PM
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