Art Exhibition: Once in a blue moon twice
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 05/16/2021
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Inspired? Dawn Kim will teach an original program, “Printing With the Sun: Cyanotypes Workshop,” on April 24. Register in advance, pick up your materials, and take the class from wherever you are via Zoom. Get details about this class and register here.
About the Exhibition
Once in a blue moon twice is St. Elmo Arts Fellow Dawn Kim’s response to a period of time defined by a string of unprecedented events. The site-specific installation is made of large-scale cyanotypes on fabric, hung from the rafters of an early pergola. Each sheet is composed of smaller, irregular cyanotype pieces, hand-stitched together with crimson thread. Deemed essential by Kim, objects that have been purchased, consumed or admired during the residency have been contact-printed on the fabric — from plant cuttings sourced at the Wildflower Center to a week’s worth of breakfast eggshells to the shed fur of her newly adopted dog, Blueberry Willy. Her photograms are as temperamental as Texas weather — some crisp and clearly distinguishable, others hazy and obscure. It is an unreliable inventory of her time in the Lone Star State.
About the Artist
Dawn Kim uses photography to examine the complex relationships between public and private spaces. Once in a blue moon twice marks the culmination of Kim’s yearlong residency as the St. Elmo Arts Fellow, an opportunity created in partnership between the Department of Art and Art History and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She graduated from Yale University in photography in 2020.
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