The Dubuque Museum of Art presented a limited selection of Iowa City photographer, Sandra Dyas’ black and white photographs from her book “Down to the River: Portraits of Iowa Musicians.” Dyas spent 20 years shooting live performances and portraits of Iowa musicians – compiling a visual record of blues and blues-inspired rock musicians and music that are uniquely Iowan. Dyas captures the lives of the musicians on and off stage; never as a paparazzi photographer exploiting her prey but as an artist who loves and understands her subject. Many of the musicians in her book are popular and frequent performers at nightspots in Dubuque and throughout the tri-states area.
Sandra Dyas graduated from the University of Iowa in 1998 with an MFA in intermedia and video art. She teaches photography at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa and is a freelance photographer. Dyas has exhibited her work in the Museum’s 2003 tri-state invitational and her series “The Lost Nation Photographs” was shown here in 2002.
Sandra Dyas
Selections From Down to the River: Portraits of Iowa Musicians
March 4, 2008 - April 27, 2008
Organized by the Dubuque Museum of Art