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September 16 through October 9, 2005
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Art Access Gallery
"What's Lost What's Found" work by Jacqui Biggs Larsen and Suzanne Simpson |
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Long before Suzanne Simpson and Jacqui Larsen met, they knew each other's work. Jacqui was haunted by Suzanne¹s dream-like inner landscapes, where fears and desires collide. Suzanne was taken with Jacqui¹s gathering of personal artifacts to create strong female centers. Though the artists had never met, their work met fairly often, hanging in the same juried shows once even on opposing walls, facing each other as though in conversation. When a real conversation finally took place between the artists, the idea for this show was inevitable.
Both artists are driven by similar concepts. What¹s Lost, What¹s Found, explores loss and discovery in several ways. The artists¹ individual works, whether they are digital montage (Suzanne) or collage and paintings (Jacqui), are all composed of images once lost and now found. The variety of subjects addressed deal with the many ways that the artists experience loss and discovery in their lives.
Suzanne Simpson¹s installation consists of suspended banners of digital montages displayed on four walls. Floating behind the banners will be sporadically placed pieces of the whole, each small rendition revealing a clue to a perceived truth.
 Jacqui Biggs Larsen asks herself, "How does the future slip into the present, then tuck itself into the past?" She has created a series of 365 collages, one for each day of the year, to deal with these questions.
The artists both have earned MFA¹s - Suzanne¹s from the University of Michigan and Jacqui¹s from Brigham Young University. Jacqui was born in New York, Suzanne in Michigan. Both artists have shown extensively in galleries throughout Utah and the United States.
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