Granary Arts invites you to join us for the closing reception of “Geontological Survey of Fossil Grains” an exhibition by artist Elpitha Tsoutsounakis.
Reception
Friday, September 13, 2024 / 6-8pm
On View
Wednesday, May 22 – Friday, September 20, 2024
“Geontological Survey of Fossil Grains” is an aggregate of three regional assemblies: archival materials, collective histories, and local geologies. The installation includes two maps that navigate the logic of worldmaking through Ochre practice, a bulletin of research that informs the works, and seven paper banners soaked in Ochre pigment each containing a “fossil of grain”.
The exhibit is the next installation of the Field Studio Geontological Survey (FSGS), a design research collective thinking with Ochre through field, community, and studio operations. The installation is a culmination of FSGS field work in Ephraim surveying local Ochres, and archival research in the Utah Pioneer Costume Research Project. This work explores the history of rural women’s mutual aid organizations and maps them through potentials in the space between stone and grain.
If the fossil is the rock’s memory of the shape of the body that once was; the photograph is the archive’s memory of the shape of the body that once was. Traces of color–the golden dust of the quarry to the pale glow of grain–map alternative routes in past/futures.
About the Artist
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis is a Cretan American designer, printer, and educator based in Salt Lake City. She is a founding faculty and assistant professor in the Division of Multi-disciplinary Design at the University of Utah where she teaches visual strategy, research methods, and design studio. She completed a BS in architecture at the University of Utah and a Master’s in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been featured in the “New York Times” and “Southwest Contemporary” and she was named a 2023 Design Arts Fellow by the Utah State Division of Arts and Museums. unknownprospect.org
Event is free and open to the public.