Sage Sohier: To Utah 85

For her books of photographs from the 1980s, Americans Seen and Passing Time, Sage Sohier photographed primarily east of the Mississippi. But in 1985, when she drove through the Midwest to Utah and Idaho, it took her a while to figure out how to use her wide angle lens on the open skies and relatively treeless landscapes of the West. She became intrigued by how people looked in new housing developments with trampolines in backyards and distant mountain views. To Utah 85 presents 11 photographs from this road trip west. Sage Sohier has received a Guggenheim fellowship and has published eight monographs. She has exhibited widely and her work is in many permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum. To Utah 85 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist. Read more