Melons
Melons: a light installation at the Dunham Melon Stand
Michael Parker loves watermelons. He is known to eat three a week in the summer, so when invited to do a project in Green River, Utah, the land of melons, he naturally wanted to use these sweet bulbous earth-worked shapes. Melons is an installation of hand-pressed porcelain light sculptures cast-like-fossils from six watermelons grown by family farmer and matriarch Nancy Dunham. For this installation he invited Alyse Emdur to brush drawings on the
translucent glowing surfaces. Installed at the Dunham Melon stand, the lights will be on all night.
Sites: The Crystal Geyser and Dunham Melon Stand
OCTOBER 9, 2015 - OCTOBER 12, 2015
High Desert Test Sites heads to Green River, Utah for our next “big” event, HDTS: Epicenter.
Following the epic HDTS 2013 event, which took us on the road to Albuquerque, New Mexico, we are turning our focus in 2015 to the communities and contemporary art programs in rural Utah. For our next event we will be partnering with Epicenter, a Green River-based organization founded in 2009 by a group of architectural designers, in the spirit of Samuel Mockbee’s visionary Rural Studio. We are inspired by the energy and vision at Epicenter, and by the ways in which they provide resources to local residents through active involvement in their intimate community.
HDTS: Epicenter is a collaborative curation of artists’ projects, along with many regional points of interest and programs in diverse locations in and around the rural Utah community of Green River. Participating artists include:
Steve Badgett
Cabin-Time
Alyse Emdur & Michael Parker
Butchy Fuego & the Seeing Trails DFA (Division of Fine Art)
Kathleen Johnson & Mark So
Alison Kinney, Daniel Nickerson, Cyrus Smith & Matt Takiff
Nicole Lavelle
Charlie Macquarie
Allan McCollum
Jordan Topiel Paul & J. Gordon Faylor
Ephraim Puusemp, Kiersten Puusemp & Raivo Puusemp
Bennett Williamson
