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October 16 through November 13, 2009
Artists' Reception: October 16, 2009 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Marcee Blackerby¹s Exhibit Documents a Colorful Life
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 Art Access Gallery is pleased to host Marcee Blackerby, "My Life," a mixed media journey through the poignant, but always amusing life stages of the artist as she searches for identity. The exhibition will hang from October 16 through November 13, with the Artist¹s Reception being held on Friday, October 16 from 6 to 9 pm.
Blackerby lost the ability to walk when she contracted polio at age six. She and her mother were shunned, and as Blackerby says, "I stepped out of the audience of normal people and onto the stage of strange. Perhaps standing apart helped me develop my creative self. I was always looking for a world I could fit into to."
She determined that if she were going to be different, she would be extremely different. The artist¹s journey brought her through a variety of life stages, including: "hooking up with a carnie"; embracing the Flower Child lifestyle; being a motorcycle chick and going to cowgirl bars.
" My disability caused me to re-learn and re-think everything, the simplest asks becoming monumental. I never lost the desire to dance, just the legs to do it with. This show has given me the opportunity to create an exhibit of these various life stages. I believe that people will find them not only visually fun, but full of emotion and human growth."
Blackerby's exhibit at Art Access will consist of large autobiographical assemblages with narrative panels.
Marcee Blackerby has become a well respected artist, known for her innovative assemblages. She has shown her art at the Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, as well as in a one-person exhibit at Finch Lane. She has also shown her work in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and at the United Nation Headquarters in New York City.
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Art Access II Gallery
Lindon Artist Photographs Senior Citizens
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 Access II Gallery is pleased to host photographer Amanda James and her exhibition titled Shadows. The exhibit will hang from October 16 through November 13. The Artist¹s Reception will take place Friday, October 16 from 6 to 9PM.
Amanda James, who majored in photography at both UNLV and the University of Utah, has always felt the need to photograph people. She goes one step further, however, in order to best understand them. She photographs them in their surroundings, focusing on their material possessions. This additional information provides not only a reflection of whom they are, but how their possessions become part of them, telling a story.
James first started photographing her beloved grandmother in an effort to make a record of her "forever." The photographer says, "I found it interesting how vulnerable she had become. I grew extremely curious to discover how other older people were living. I started photographing other older individuals living in their homes surrounded by their possessions things that they had collected throughout their lives."
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