Blue Sky Gallery | August 6 - 27, 2022

“Blue Sky is pleased to announce stupid little life, an exhibition of recent work by Yuyang Zhang. stupid little life, an exhibition of Yuyang Zhang's mixed-media digital collages and photographic diptychs, tells a visual story of finding a new identity between two cultures. This exhibition also encapsulates the artist's mindscape during the turbulent 20-month process of O-1B visa petition as a Chinese diaspora. Zhang's digital collages playfully yet delicately navigate the complex channel of cultural hybridity, societal authenticity, queer identity, and the mentality of being acceptable as a member of the diasporic communities.”

Blue Sky Gallery | August 6 - 27, 2022

“Blue Sky is pleased to announce Louisiana Trail Riders, an exhibition of photographs by Jeremiah Ariaz. These photographs share an important aspect of Louisiana’s cultural heritage and assert a counter-narrative to the limited depictions of Black life in popular culture. Ariaz’s project began around the fiftieth anniversary of many of the achievements of the civil rights era, as well as in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, when violence and indifference to the value of young Black lives was brought to the national spotlight in incidents across the country, from Ferguson, MO to Baton Rouge, following the tragic death of Alton Sterling in 2016. Louisiana Trail Riders reflects contemporary Creole culture and the celebratory spirit of the rides while sharing one of the many histories in the American story that has largely remained untold.”

Colorado Photographic Arts Center | August 12 – Sept. 24, 2022

Colorado Photographic Arts Center is pleased to present Industry Standard, an exhibition featuring artists Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern, who reconsidered guidelines and tools used in the creation of a photograph to produce work that explores old and new standards of the medium. Inspired by the once-popular “Kodaguide” — handheld reference cards used to determine exposure and other camera settings — Mattern photographs these vintage picture making aids individually and meticulously dissects them with a digital process and Gould’s work is a study in playful resistance, an attempt to infuse flexibility into the often rigid structures of photography, by freeing pigmented ink from its normal environment in photographic practice. Their separate investigations come together in this two-person exhibition Industry Standard, creating a visual conversation about how photographic tools and conventions can be rethought in order to expand the notions of what we can expect and accept from the medium.