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BACK TO BACK EXHIBITS BY CHRISTINE BACZEK by Jim Frazer
Photography by Christine Baczek will be presented in two consecutive exhibits starting in December. The two exhibits represent separate but connected bodies of work. In both groups of images, the subject is not the objects or landscapes depicted, but the relationship of the viewer to the things depicted, the act of observing things or spaces and the relationship of details, or parts, to the whole.

In Contact, which opened Saturday December 1 at the Main Library in downtown Salt Lake, the images have the appearance of slightly enlarged sheets of contact prints made from 35mm color negatives -- we see the edges of the film, sprocket holes, sequential numbering. The individual frames function both as separate images and as parts of larger images which appear, as it were, behind the black grid formed by the film edges. The sites photographed are ordinary -- a park, a street corner, the interior of an inhabited room -- which draws our attention to the process of depiction rather than the objects in the pictures.|0| Contact runs through January 13, 2007.

Beginning January 12 Finch Lane Gallery will show Baczek's Vertical Landscape series. In this work, black and white enlargements of individual 35mm frames are butted together in a vertical stack which comprises a 180 degree top to bottom scan of a slice of landscape. The locations photographed range from rural roadsides to back country hiking trails. Without the intervening black lines of the film edges the tones in adjoining frames play off one another so that the effect from a distance is that of shimmering bands of tone. Vertical Landscapes will be on display through February 23.

GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE (Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 524-8200) — Contact by Christine Baczek featuring photography by Baczek. Also Dancing With Pattern and Color by John Hess. Both exhibits run through Jan. 13, 2007.

WASATCH FRAME SHOP UP: Apricot Alley photographs by Justin Carruth and C.W. Cannon through December 14th. Carruth is a painter who recently turned his attention to photography and in this exhibit presents a selection of his photographs that explore his personal life and relationships. Cannon concentrates on the human form as subject matter, cropping images so as to compartmentalize sections of the whole to bring attention to the separation achieved.|1| "Ultimately, I am inspired by the complexity of the human form," the artist says. "Casual, social, intimate, or otherwise a singularity in physicality and gesture varies within their contexts. But what truly interests me are the subtle oddities that are so easily missed: a person simply turning or a hand gesture.

RIO GALLERY UP: Susan Barratt, K Stevenson and Amy Adams through January 5, 2007. Adams has become recognized for her unique and elaborate "voodoo" dolls.|2| The faces are sculpted using beeswax, natural resins and pigments. Each figure suspends on a single vertical axis of cord or wire that runs through the length of the torso, exiting through the crown of the head. Torsos are assembled of various cast-off materials including old textiles, rusty bailing wire, bones, weathered sticks, enameled tin, glass or metal beads, and plastic flowers. Says Adams, "My movement over years has been toward figures that are raw, visually susceptible to gravity, time* all the forces to which humans are susceptible. These figures speak to me of struggle and transcendence."

Barratt's work consists of various photographic processes.|3| "I believe the photograph is simultaneously an elemental truth (action of light on photo-sensitive particles) and a patent fiction (a fraction of time, fragmented and rendered in single point perspective). The photograph is the perfect foundation for my work. It embodies a certain division of meaning that I am continually attracted to."

Stevenson explores both collective and personal memory and perception in her installations and mixed media works.|4| "Within our habits of the ordinary, we are stymied by shadows, hints, misconceptions, unknowing. In this work, as in our experiences, we are called upon to patchwork together an ever fluid interpretation and translation of meaning, to seek the deepest of desires within the minutia of the most common."

VISAGE SALON (2006 S. 900 E., 860-4333) UP: An exhibit of fine art photography featuring artists and photographers Tiffany Daines and Whitney Lauren Robinson Stubbart, through December 11th. The exhibit will be available for public viewing during normal salon business hours or by special appointment. Tiffany Daines is a Salt Lake City fine art nature and landscape photographer. Her love of photography started at age 10 when she received her first camera. Since that time she has studied photography seriously, had her photographs published and won several awards. Tiffany’s work is inspired by her deep appreciation for the earth. Artist and photographer Whitney Lauren Robinson Stubbart currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her passion for artwork and photography also began at a young age. Stubbart has worked with a number of mediums, though her photography holds a special interest for her. Formerly doing freelance work, she has developed her own business, Lambi Arts Artwork & Photography, which opened in January 2004. For more information call Kacie Hersh at 860-4333.