For as long as he can remember, Hutchison’s family has grown, harvested, and preserved food each fall as part of their annual food supply. Last year, his mother bottled approximately 140 quarts of grape juice, 100 quarts of pears and peaches, and dried about six bushels of pears, five bushels of apples, and three bushels of peaches, along with other items such as jams, hot sauce, beans, elderberry juice, and asparagus. Hutchison grew up immersed in scriptural language, often reading passages that use seeds, fruit, and growers as metaphors to make sermons relatable and meaningful. Inspired by one such passage, this work features every pear harvested from a single pear tree.

The exhibit includes 637 printed photographs of pears arranged in a floor-to-ceiling grid. At the center of the space is a small table (approximately 30"x 30" x 28") holding a bowl of dried pears, which viewers are encouraged to eat and which will be refilled throughout the exhibition. Each photograph, approximately 7" x 10", is unframed and typically hung with adhesive or pins, though framing options are available if necessary. This installation invites viewers to engage with themes of sustenance, memory, and the interconnectedness of faith, nature, and daily life.

ARTIST STATEMENT
After Lorentz: If I could write a love poem to mathematics, this would be it. Specifically, towards the math that gave weather patterns form: strange attractors, slope fields, chaos theory, and topographics. Norton Lorenz is the mathematician who first wrote equations for convection rolls in clouds, later formalized the math that describes “the butterfly effect”. ‘After Lorenz’ is a body of work exploring this relationship between measured, observed natural phenomena (in the sky primarily) and the kind of visual form math elucidates: slope fields, graphs, polygons, geometry, and the like. I think of these works as a haiku (as it were) to the sky, the earth, and the world of simulacra made possible through mathematical abstraction.

BIO
Bryan Hutchison is an artist that uses literature as a strong underpinning to his art exploration and practice. From biblical texts of seed parables to Spanish Golden Age Morality plays to family history for a local mine, or post apocalyptic science fiction, he uses texts as a context of comparison. His work explores the brevity and preciousness of mortality, the human longing to belong to place, and the urge to preserve what is inherently perishable. Bryan’s work spans various mediums: photography, installation, sculpture, sound, and video.

Bryan completed his undergraduate studies at BYU (2013), MFA at Pratt (2015). He currently resides in Provo, Utah, teaches as an adjunct professor at local universities, and works part-time as a piano technician and rebuilder.