To take in Sandy Dyas’ retrospective is to be overwhelmed at the start. To absorb the show in a meaningful way, you need to take your time. The show caps off four decades of work. It is, for the artist, a “memoir”: “Looking back at it all tells me a lot about where I have […]
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A review of Earthly Beauty: the liberation from “things as everyone sees them”
If you are familiar with Dyas’ body of work, one might assume that the current exhibit is a continuation of her lifelong passion of documenting Iowa with the dedication of a self-trained ethnographer. In a way, it is, but it is also a step in a different direction.
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Studio Visit: Liz Munger Photo Club at the studio of Sayuri Sasaki Hemann
This June, Iowa City filmmaker Jason Smith invited photographers Sandra L. Dyas, Dawn Frary, Tonya Kehoe and Barry Phipps to produce portraits in the studio…
