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July 18 through August 8, 2008
Artists' Reception: July 18, 2008 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Two Utah Artists Explore the Female Vernacular
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 Art Access II Gallery is pleased to host Female Vernacular, an exhibition featuring the mixed media sculpture of Ogden artist Amy Adams and the mixed media paintings of Salt Lake artist Downy Doxey. Female Vernacular will hang from July 18 through August 8, 2008. The Artists¹ Reception will take place Friday July 18 from 6 to 9 PM during Salt Lake City¹s July Gallery Stroll.
Adams and Doxey are known for creating some of the most unique art presented by women artists in Utah today. In the Female Vernacular, both artists bring life experiencest and broad backgrounds in the arts to help viewers in understanding a variety of themes and emotions related to being women artists. While their approaches to making art are necessarily different, they both find common bonds with found objects, fiber arts and mixed media.
Ogden artist Amy Adams has devoted her focus to female figures for seven years. She says, "The female figure is my metaphor. During these years, I learned that if I made myself available to my creative process, the figures came to an intriguing fruition. I see these pieces as female figures afforded the spiritual room they need."
Adams was raised in the rural Deep South and, for her, assemblage implies conjuring and ritual. The artist thinks of her female figures as "helper dolls," a term that references voodoo ritual. Her figures are assemblages of various found materials. Faces are sculpted using beeswax, natural resins and pigments. Torsos are assembled of various castoff materials including old textiles rusty bailing wire, bones, weathered sticks, enameled tin, glass or metal beads and plastic flowers.
Downy Doxey explains that the most monumental and at the same time, intimate images that exist for her as a female artist, are photographs of relationships captured by our minds. Threads of memories and loosely woven allegories knit together are the fabric of her art.
According to Doxey, "Every year moves faster and I find myself urgently trying to recreate precious moments of life. The tactile surface and the domestic mediums such as embroidery and fabrics, are associated with being familiar, giving a sense of being right at home. I seek to involve the viewer globally with a implied greeting, reminiscent of Œremember when."
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