SLC Galleries
What's Up and Upcoming
FORUM GALLERY: Nothing can rival the intensity of color
that glass offers. Glass, as an art form medium, can be unfamiliar
to the casual art stroller. The Forum's "Forum & Fusion: A Warm
Glass Art Experience" presents a group show from 39 members of the Glass
Art Guild of Utah. This show will provide information and background
on how the pieces are created and a chance to meet the artists. Included
will be everything from exquisite pieces of jewelry to large free form
sculptures.
511 West 200 South. Reception June 18th.
NEW VISIONS :
Multi-media 3-dimensional
artist Sally Neilson is featured this month. Her exhibition, entitled
"Inner Illumination" is based on the artist's ideas of Spirituality:
the sense of the connection we receive through beauty, the divine, and
the divine within ourselves, and each other. The exhibit includes
cast iron works, hand-made paper figures, wood and mixed-media pieces.
For July gallery stroll the gallery presents "Dangerous Art," a group
juried-exhibition featuring controversial, eye-opening art.
UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS:
Through August 8th, the Museum presents the work
of 19th-century landscape artist Gilbert Munger. "Quest for Distinction
is an exhibition of historic landscape paintings including many views
of Utah as the pioneers saw it.
ART BARN
:
Through July 23rd, the Finch Lane Gallery features the paintings of Jimmy
Lucero as well as the collaborative work of Teresa Flowers and Gretchen. The
Park Lane Gallery features the photo-based work of Steve Rasmussen.
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IRWIN UNION BANK: presents a group show
entitled "The Fine Art of Banking" curated by Patrick Hoagland. The exhibit
features work by local artists in a variety of media. Open through Saturday
June, 19th, noon - 4:30. The public is invited to a reception during Gallery
Stroll, Friday, June 18th from 6 to 9 pm. On the occasion of the exhibit
the Irwin Union Bank will be presented a check to Artspace, Inc for their
continued support of the local art community. Located at 224 South 200
West.
ART ACCESS GALLERY: "House Guessed," featuring ceramic and
mixed media sculpture by Heidi Moller Somesen and egg tempera and mixed
media textile paintings by Downy Doxey, through July 13.
ROSE WAGNER ARTS CENTER
: "Pop-Nostalgia," an exhibition
of art by Joe Carter and Paul Heath continues through the month
of June (see page 4 for a review).
ALICE AT THE GLENDINNING:
A two-man show of a couple of Utah's Elder Statesmen
of the Visual Arts. Ted Wassmer, who lived and worked in New York state
for a number of years before returning to Utah, is well known for his
watercolors of clowsn, pierrots and other masked figures. Francis Zimbeaux
paints lyrical oils often featuring nymphs, satyrs and other mythological
creatures.
PHILLIPS GALLERY:
Opening June gallery stroll, Phillips
gallery presents eight decades of work by Waldo Midgley.
UTAH ARTIST HANDS:
Presents a stimulating expose to
whet your watercolor appetite. Six established and emerging watercolor
artists will share their talent with the public through August 14th.
Kathy Gehrke, Laurel J. Hart, Kelly L. Holtman, Nancy Maxfield Lund, Steven
K. Sheffield and Sheryl M. Thornton
LOCAL COLORS
:Jewelry show featuring work by Bea Layton, Jennifer Boyle
and Kristy Braby through July 14. Artists reception Friday evening
from 6-9 during monthly Gallery Stroll.
MAGPIE'S NEST: Celebrating
birds through watercolors & Chinese ink paintings by Richard
Hsieh, whose work is exhibited at the Art Museum of the Republic of
China as well as San Francisco. Watercolors by Jamaica Trinnaman, and
oils and watercolors by Mary Pearson. Also, lamps and furniture featuring
birds.
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Mixed
Media:
Recent Visual
Arts Articles
5/07
Kindred Spirits: Studio aims to help the brain
through art
5/14 Street artists
may get booted
5/20 Making a Scene:
Earl Jones sheds his own light on a landscape in flux.
5/23 Intersecting art — 40 years of Anna Campbell Bliss' work
is on display at UMFA
5/30 Art on a plate
6/01 TRAX line becomes
public canvas
6/02 Street Artists back
Rocky's plans
6/03 The dizzying art of Anna Campbell Bliss meets up with
science and technology.
6/11 Artists
will return to park
6/12 Vibrant
mural reflects culture
6/14 Wood, clay
become putty in his hands
underwriters:
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Exhibitions Review
What's Up and Upcoming Outside Salt Lake
OREM:
The Lucille T. Stoddard Annual Women’s Exhibit on display at
the UVSC Woodbury Art
Museum
will continue through July 31. Juried by Sharon Gray, Associate
Director and Curator of Education of Springville Museum of Art,
the exhibition will feature the work of three women artists: Lee Udall
Bennion, Jacqui Biggs Larsen and Penny Creasy.
Creasy has lived and worked on National Wildlife Refuges her entire
married life due to her husband’s career. This enabled her to experience
wildlife in a way few others can. She paints what some only glance
at during a packed vacation, but do not really see, striving to recreate
a particular mood or moment that is often quiet and almost sacred.
Larsen has an MFA from Brigham
Young University and has taught as an assistant professor at Northwest
College in Houston. She is married to the poet Lance Larsen.
They live in Springville, Utah with their four children. “As
a mixed media artist, I am constantly collecting---photographs, torn-up
maps or prints, string, casters, discarded quilts and clothing, old
savings stamps—all artifacts from our life stories. When gathered
together, combined in new ways, and layered with painted images and
text, I make discoveries about the commonplace, the ordinary, all the
fragments that make up the drama of our individual lives.”
Bennion, a well-known Utah figure painter says of her work,
“I loved the texture, smell, color and instant gratification of oil
paints. I still do…The strongest desire I have when painting is that
my work be beautiful and reflect the love and interest that I have in
what I paint. I hand carve and paint the frames for my paintings. I often
put as much time and energy into the frames as the paintings. I feel that
frames are an integral part of the piece.”
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BOUNTIFUL : Bountiful Handcart Days at
the
Bountiful Davis Art Center
continues through July 24th. year,
Bountiful/Davis Art Center is proud to host the art exhibit for
Bountiful Handcart Days. Over 150 entries in all media are received
for exhibit in Professional, Amateur, Youth, and Crafts divisions.
Handcart Days offers an excellent opportunity to view the work
of the talented men, women, and youth who live in our community.
BRIGHAM CITY: Brigham City Museum gallery
hosts an exhibition of folk art through June 26. The work on display,
by living Utah folk artists , includes retablos, Kachina dolls,
ceremonial baskets, cording flutes, ceremonial jugs, rugs, metal
sculpture, wood carvings, Polynesian quilts, clothing and more
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PROVO: Utah County Art Gallery features the
annual Utah County Art Board juried exhibition through June 30th.
151 S. University, Provo.
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ST. GEORGE: The St. George Art Museum features
an exhibit by folklore legend Everett Ruess through July 30th, dispalying
the artist's blockprints of Utah and the desert Southwest.
OGDEN: Through June, the
Eccles Community Art Center
features an artist invitational exhibition entitled "Artists of
Historic 25th Street and Friends" featuring the work of Shanna Kunz,
Brandon Cook, Julie Brandt, Nancy Clark,
Cara Koolmees, Kirk Larsen, Kevin Parson, and Mac Stevenson. In July
and August the Art Center will hold their 30th annual statewide competition
and exhibition. The show is open to all media except photography.
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