The Finch Lane Gallery presents two new art exhibitions: Intrinsic Nature by Casey Lou Miller and Unknown Prospect: Body, Pigment, Swatch by Elpitha Tsoutsounakis. Casey Lou Miller and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis both perform research for their individual exhibitions within the arid landscape of the Southern Utah desert. These exhibitions are open to the public from January 14 – February 25, 2022, at 54 Finch Lane. Finch Lane Gallery is open on Tuesdays from 9:30am-8:30pm and Wednesdays & Thursdays from 9:30am-5pm. There will be an artist reception on Friday, January 21, 6-9pm, open to the public.

Casey Lou Miller – Intrinsic Nature
Inspired by her time exploring Southern Utah, Casey Lou Miller’s work is comprised of three-dimensional large-scale birch plywood cutouts inspired of desert flora native to southern Utah. Miller portrays not only what she sees, but also what she feels when in the presence of these plants. Through Miller’s eyes these plants seem as if they are passing through the phases of life similarly to that of you and me.
Casey Lou Miller is visual artist based out of Southern Utah. She currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Dixie State University. She holds an MFA from Utah State University and a BFA from Dixie State University in 2018.

Elpitha Tsoutsounakis - Unknown Prospect: Body, Pigment, Swatch
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’ design process begins in the field, in active participation with Ochres (iron-oxide minerals) in their environment—largely inactive mine sites in Southern Utah. She uses` Ochres as a lens to look at human and non-human relationships. What results is an atlas of her experiences with Ochres in location. Ochre bodies, pigments, swatches, texts, and maps are among the visual language she’ll be exhibiting.
Tsoutsounakis is a Cretan-American designer, printer, and educator. She is an Assistant Professor and founding faculty in the Multi-disciplinary Design program at the University of Utah. As a first-generation college student raised in an immigrant family she completed her B.S. in Architecture at the University of Utah and her M.Arch at the University of Texas at Austin.