Yang Yongliang, (Chinese, b. 1980), The Flock, 2016, film on light box, 20 x 25 cm, courtesy of the artist Yang Yongliang.
salt 14: Yang Yongliang
October 26, 2018 - June 2, 2019

Yang Yongliang presents the ancient tradition of Chinese landscape painting (shanshui) through a twenty-first-century, photographic lens. Similar to painters of the near and far past, Yang creates landscapes to reflect his view of the world, yet his photographic interpretations offer a critique of a dire reality.

Alejandro Magallanes, Mexico, Image courtesy of the artist.
The International Tolerance Project: Promoting Dialogue Through Design
Thursday, January 17–Sunday, June 23

The International Tolerance Project: Promoting Dialogue Through Design illustrates the power of visual communication and encourages community dialogue around the unifying theme of tolerance.

Alejandro Magallanes, Mexico, Image courtesy of the artist.
Andrew J. Russell (American, 1830­1902), East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail, 1869, albumen print, courtesy Union Pacific Railroad Museum. The ceremony spotlighted Union Pacific locomotive No. 119 meeting Central Pacific locomotive Jupiter. From left, shaking hands, are Samuel S. Montague, chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, and General Grenville M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West
February 1–May 26, 2019

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the construction of the transcontinental railroad through original photographs by Andrew Joseph Russell and Alfred A. Hart 

Comptez sur mes sermens [Count on my Oaths], Augustin de Saint-Aubin, France, engraving, 1789
Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art
July 11, 2019-December 8, 2019

Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art considers how two interdependent works, called “pendants,” reveal a variety of artistic strategies at play.

Comptez sur mes sermens [Count on my Oaths], Augustin de Saint-Aubin, France, engraving, 1789
Spencer Finch, Great Salt Lake and Vicinity (detail)
Spencer Finch
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An installation inspired by the artist's hike around Great Salt Lake 

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