FEATURED EVENTS

The artist statement for this exhibit boldly begins: "I have decided to love my stomach. The round curvaceous mound that I have carried with me. As she gained inches through life, I chose to compress her under Spanx that were sizes too small. Form contouring tights hid under loose fitting jeans, leaving only gaps for breathe. I am curious if she was telling me to take up space. If my expanding waistline was yelling at me to grab at more area on this earth. To stretch the skin around me and claim for myself this slightly larger circumference of life. I declare that my fat cells are my heroes. The only ones in my body who owned up to the audacity of growth." Bea Hurd is a Salt Lake City based artist who studied Sculpture Intermedia at the University of Utah. After college, she went on to teach art at West Jordan High School, where she currently teaches. After realizing her devotion to materially based sculpture, Bea uses her practice as a way to meditate on what has her mind at any given moment.