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NICHOLAS COURDY: METAPHORNOGRAPHY

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Friday, 6 May 2016 to Saturday, 23 July 2016
Opening: 
Friday, 13 May 2016 - 7:00pm

Salt Lake City, UT - The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is pleased to presentMetaphornography, an exhibition by UMOCA artist-in-residence Nicholas Courdy.

 

Nicholas Courdy explores the ways in which the internet's availability of media and social interaction shape the complexities within the spectrum of our romantic desires and perpetuate the maximum threshold of romantic fantasy.

 

Courdy creates videos using a variety of digital media sources, mostly from the public domain, that explore narratives which portray romantic relationships, passions, and impulses from different perspectives. Metaphornography is a culmination of these explorations and presents the viewer with an over-stimulation of visual metaphors that depict the emotional tensions found in love and lust. The works serve as an invitation to the viewer to personally reflect upon their own relationship with the digital landscape and how it has influenced their sensualities, desires, and compulsions.

 

Join us for the opening reception of Metaphornography May 13, at 7 pm.

In addition to Courdy's exhibition opening, for which the artist will be in attendance, UMOCA also presents: Jennet Thomas' The Unspeakable Freedom Device, Jennifer Seely's Supporting Elements, Jim Williams' 265 I ... Home as Self-Portrait, and the 2016 Gala artists.

 

 

About the Artist-in-Residence Program

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's long-term artist-in-residence program is designed expressly to meet the needs of artists living and working in Utah. UMOCA supports its residents by offering studio space within the museum, exclusive workshops with national artists and art professionals, and career-building opportunities. At the end of their residencies, artists have the opportunity to showcase the culmination of their work in a museum setting through a gallery dedicated to UMOCA's artists-in-residence, the A-I-R Space.

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About the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art 

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been an award-winning aesthetic force and community leader since it was established in 1931. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMOCA encourages exploration into what it means to exist in today's world through art that inspires imagination, stimulates thought, and transforms society. The Museum connects people around the contemporary art practice of Utah and beyond to shape an engaged and thoughtful global citizenry. UMOCA strives to be a place where all points of view, experiences, and ages feel welcome to explore the pressing issues of our time through socially relevant art exhibitions and programming.

 

UMOCA is a five-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation and is a 2015 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Art Works grant award.

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Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

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