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a couple with their back to the camera looks at Periphery, a painting of a woman in a filed in the UMFA European gallery
Curator Highlight
Moving from the Periphery

By Sabita Bastakoti, University of Utah student and curatorial intern
and Whitney Tassie, senior curator

This spring UMFA staff installed a special contemporary work in the European galleries—the oil painting Periphery (2013) by the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Originally commissioned for the artist’s salt exhibition at the UMFA, the painting has since been hanging among the contemporary collection, but it’s time to examine it in a new context.

a couple with their back to the camera looks at Periphery, a painting of a woman in a filed in the UMFA European gallery
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From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | Matthew Sketch

Hear Matthew Sketch's audio recording on Conspicuous Fraud Series #1 (Eminence) by Kehinde Wiley.

Hi, my name is Matthew Sketch and I’m an artist from Houston, Texas.

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From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | Alexandra Barbier

Hear Alexandra Barbier's audio recording on Repugnant Rapunzel (Let Down Your Hair) by Chakaia Booker.

Hello, my name is Alexandra Barbier and I’m a dance artist and educator living in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | James Jackson, III


Hear James Jackson, III's audio recording on how I got over (2011) by Henry Taylor.


Hi, my name is James Jackson, III, founder of the Utah Black Chamber in Salt Lake City, Utah.  

Hurdle after hurdle. Obstacle after obstacle. Barrier after barrier. Yet, we as a people, we got over. That’s what this picture says to me.  

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From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | Leslie D. Pippen

Hear Leslie D. Pippen's audio recording on Moussakoo by Tom Lloyd.

I’m Leslie D. Pippen, an experimental concepts artist originally from East Texas who has lived in Utah for 20 years.

If you type in any search engine for early light artist, chances are you won’t find Tom Lloyd. Amazingly, Tom Lloyd’s solo exhibition in 1968 of light works launched the Studio Museum of Harlem into an international art institution.

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From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | Meligha Garfield

Hear Meligha Garfield's audio recording on Kevin the Kiteman by Jordan Casteel.

Hi, I'm Meligha Garfield and I'm the director of the Black Cultural Center at the University of Utah.

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From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | Ruth Gooden


Hear Ruth Gooden's audio recording on Portrait of a Young Musician (1970) by Beauford Delaney.


Hi, my name is Ruth Gooden and I’m a docent at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts from Park City, Utah.