Hidden Cube Podcast: Recent Episodes
Hidden Cube Podcast
Hidden Cube Podcast explores the art and gallery scene that grows independent of America's large cultural art hubs. Jeffery, Daniel, and Sam take you on guided show tours. Often it is off of the art world’s mainstage that innovation happens, both in art and where it is displayed, and Hidden Cube Podcast reviews the good and the bad to broaden your perspective.
The Hidden Cube Podcast hosts, Jeffery Hampshire and Daniel Johnson are excited to introduce you to the Bountiful Davis Arts Center 47th statewide competition. This annual competition was juried this year by Nancy Rivera, and showcased 25 artist from all over Utah, and includes a variety of different mediums and techniques. Tune in to this episode to hear a review of this show from our perspective, and to hear what the BDAC has to offer the art community.
We want to give a special thanks to the Visual Art Institute for hosting our podcast recording space and providing Utah an amazing art educational space for all ages in Salt Lake City and Utah County.
BDAC Website: https://www.bdac.org/statewide
VAI Website: https://www.visualartinstitute.org
HC Website: https://www.hiddencube.art
The Hidden Cube Podcast is happy to present Alejandra Ramos in this weeks episode. Ale Ramos is an artist who currently lives and works in Provo, Ut. Ramos is a recent graduate from Brigham Young University with a BFA in Fine Arts. We have a conversation with Ale Ramos about her recent show Finding Memory, which was displayed in the BF Larsen Gallery at BYU. We also discuss the role of film and photography in art, Ramos’s recent trip, and her future plans.
“Alejandra Ramos uses video and photography to make works about the overlapping of dreams and memory. She adds installation to create an atmospheric presence. Each video portrays surreal settings, fluid movement, and soft lighting to create intimate interactions between subjects and objects. Alejandra draws from her Central American heritage, which emphasizes the superstition of dreams. She believes her inability to distinguish dream from conscious memory is a collective frustration. In response to her discontent, Alejandra uses abstracted imagery and ambiguous settings to highlight how dreams and memory lack clarity, certainty, and reality.”
Instagram: @aleramos58
Website: alejandraramos.squarespace.com
The Hidden Cube Podcast hosts, Jeffery Hampshire and Daniel Johnson had the opportunity to speak with artist Rocio Vasquez-Cisneros. In this episode we discuss Vasquez-Cisneros's recent BFA show Mestiza, which was up at BYU's gallery 303 Main from March 12 - March 23, 2022.
Rocio Vasquez-Cisneros is a Mexican-American, Utah based artist, who works primarily in photography and video but also takes an interdisciplinary approach to her art making, which has included soft sculpture and performance. "Her work is narrative, and includes elements such as self portraiture, much of her work takes on performative rituals and is documented through photo and video. Vasquez-Cisneros merges religious symbols and imagery with the voices of real people who deal with issues of racism and immigration every day."
Instagram: @rocio_cisne
Website: www.rociovasquezcisne.com
We welcome Katelyn Garcia to the Hidden Cube podcast. Katelyn is from Logan Utah, currently attending the BFA program at BYU, and has recently completed her Senior BFA solo show in Gallery 303 (Main). Her solo show Pilgrimage was on display February 12-23 2022. Listen to this episode to hear our conversation with Katelyn, as we discuss her motives and actions in an effort to connect with land and body.
“Pilgrimage is centered on meditative interactions with the land through the use of the artist’s body. Drawing from these performances and the surrounding landscapes, she creates photos and sculptural works that highlight the interconnectedness between the body of the earth and our own bodies. Pilgrimage began as the artist’s attempt to connect to something higher through the landscape, and grew to become about not only how our interactions with the land can be meditative and spiritual experiences that change us but how the earth serves as record of the complexities of our relationship with it.”
Instagram: @katelyncgarcia
Website: www.katelyngarcia.art
The Hidden Cube Podcast is excited to bring you season 2 starting March 10, 2022. Jeffery Hampshire and Daniel Johnson speak to a friend and artist Myleka Bevans about her current show: We're going to talk about it. The show is up at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) in Salt Lake City from Feb 9, 2022 - April 2, 2022.
Myleka Bevans works with themes of grief and loss associated with the loss of her daughter of only five days old. She is considered an installation artist who's choice in materials and theme reflects not only loss, but involves the rituals, offerings, and community intertwined with grief. It may be surprising to see how bright and peaceful her instillations feel. The space she creates in this show becomes a reflective space filled with illuminated cotton like clouds, recognizable stuffed animals and floating balloons. Listen to this episode to learn more about Bevan's work and visit UMOCA through April 2, 2022 to see her show in person.
Website: www.utahmoca.org
Instagram: @utahmoca
Instagram: @mylekabevans
Hidden Cube’s hosts Jeffery Hampshire and Daniel Johnson visit the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) in Salt Lake City, Utah. They review, the weight of a cloud, by artist Tiana Birrell. This show is currently up through Jan 8th 2022.
"In the weight of a cloud, Birrell uses video and image-based work to linguistically separate the language of a physical, ethereal cloud and digital storage. Although the name suggests a floating, ephemeral, and nebulous form, the digital cloud is physically grounded in racks of data servers, rows of concrete monoliths, and endless spools of wire, requiring massive amounts of natural resources. For example, The National Security Agency (NSA) data servers, located in Utah, use 65 megawatts of power and approximately 1.7 million gallons of water—a day—simply to operate.
Far from weightless, this NSA cloud functions as what Birrell calls a “water-sucking panopticon in the dry landscape of the mountain west.” The tension between a pithy marketable name, cloud, and the actual cost of resources through colossal water and power consumption illuminates the United States’ complicated relationship between power and land; cybersecurity and natural resources; and surveillance and water rights.
By tracing the origins of the data centers water source, Birrell’s work draws attention to the locality of these digital and watery issues and asks, “Can data-consuming habits and water regulations change when the connection between screen and backyard are made?” Although the relationship between one’s digital footprint and natural resource consumption is often concealed, forgotten, and rendered invisible, they remain materially present, and the separation is merely an illusion." - UMOCA's Show description
To learn more about UMOCA’s current and upcoming shows, as well as any upcoming activities please visit their website or instagram.
Website: www.utahmoca.org
Instagram: @utahmoca
Website: www.tianabirrell.com
Instagram: @tibirrell
The Hidden Cube’s host Jeffery Hampshire and Daniel Johnson talk with Brian Christensen an associate professor at BYU about the Department of Arts annual New York trip. Students at BYU have the opportunity to apply for scholarships to go to New York and see all the art possible within a 5 day period. Tune in to hear more about our experiences and the reasons why you should see New York’s art scene for yourself.
Hidden Cube is pleased to introduce Mandy Darrington, a recent BFA graduate from Brigham Young University. In this episode Mandy shares about her experience from being an artist, to teaching art, and her role as Art Studio Supervisor at Sundance Mountain Resort. Her works involve high detail rendered drawings and process based printmaking techniques.
Hidden Cube is pleased to introduce Rachel Henriksen, a recent BFA graduate from Brigham Young University. In this episode Henriksen shares about her recent achievements, notably her participation in two artist residencies, with a third residency on the way. Each residency has been unique from the other, ranging from online, in person, and out of the country. We introduce her work by discussing her most recent group show entitled Transformations shown at the Bountiful Davis Arts Center. This show was put together by Rachel Henriksen and Carrie Everett. Listen to this episode to hear about her experience and learn more about her work.
The Hidden Cube Podcast had the opportunity to speak with Mary Baum, one of BYU's visiting artists. Baum received her MFA from MICA Maryland Institute College of Art and works in a variety of mediums which include installation, photography, and sculpture. Baum discusses her current body of work, processes, and investigations. After a shift from her previous work, Baum describes her current work as somewhat of a departure from her previous spiritual themes, and fantasy. See her work by visiting her website at mary-baum.com or her instagram @mary.baum
Hidden Cube’s hosts Jeffery Hampshire and Daniel Johnson visit the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) in Salt Lake City, Utah. They review Waterman: Changing I a show on display in the Exit gallery of UMOCA by artist Jiyoun Lee-Lodge. “Waterman: Changing I is part of an ongoing series by Lee-Lodge that explores displacement, anxiety, and isolation in relationship to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, Lee-Lodge, like countless others, has been confined to her house, experiencing absolute solitude and loneliness in a space meant to provide comfort.” This exhibition will run from Aug 6 - Oct 23, 2021.
To learn more about UMOCA’s current and upcoming shows, as well as any upcoming activities please visit there website or instagram.
Website: www.utahmoca.org
Instagram: @utahmoca
Jeffery, Daniel, and Sam interview Aïsha Lehmann about her work and recent residency at Modern West in Salt Lake City. Aïsha Lehmann is an artist based in Provo, Utah. She is currently in Brigham Young University’s Studio Art BFA program, with minors in Sociology and Africana Studies. She is an artist and researcher, grappling with the complexities of identity in race, ethnicity, gender, and spirituality.
Entropy in Retrospect introduces Jeffery, Daniel, and Sam as they talk about "Entropy" a show held in Gallery 303 at Brigham Young University from July 28 - August 12, 2021. This episode includes a phone call with artist Malachi who conceived and curated this show from start to finish.