BRIGHAM CITY:
Brigham City Museum-Gallery UP: Albert Tissandier: Drawings of Nature and Industry in the United States — 1885. In 1885, French journalist Albert Tissandier saw the Grand Canyon for the first time. He made three drawings of the canyon and wrote in his journal, "...the imagination remains overwhelmed at the thought of the incalculable progression of centuries that had to pass during the successive formation of all these marvels."

The journalist toured North America in 1885 and produced over 225 drawings of urban and rural subjects. Fifty six of these drawings will hang in the Brigham City Museum-Gallery through June 28. Throughout his travels, Tissandier’s perspective was multi-faceted. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and was knowledgeable about architecture, engineering, art, geology and anthropology.

Tissandier’s drawings and journal were acquired by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. E. Frank Sanguinetti, director of the museum, says Tissandier’s impressions of America are a "visual and verbal delight."

As a correspondent for Le Monde and La Nature, Tissandier knew his readership would be interested in the remarkable geography of the United States and its accomplishments in technology. He paid attention to the Brooklyn Bridge and electric lights of Madison Square Garden while in New York and Niagra Falls when he left the city. He depicted cities in the Midwest before reaching Yellowstone Park, where he was fascinated by the eruption of a large gyser.

Tissandier's Utah scenes include the "Great Salt Lake," the "White Cliffs and the Kanab River," "Colored Sands Near Panguitch," "Permian Bluff Near Kanab," the "Ute Indians" (see above) and the "Kaibab Forest." Tissandier also depicted scenes in Arizona (including Marble Canyon) and California.

The full collection of the Albert Tissandier collection can be viewed at the University of Utah's online database.


LOGAN
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: Eileen Doktorski: Domestic Arsenal, a memorial to victims of domestic violence and child abuse, through July 31. ALSO: Away Out Over Everything: The Olympic Peninsula and the Elwha River Photographs by Mary Peck selected from the artist's most recent body of work inspired by the landscape and wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. It features 30 wide format photographs that capture the mystery of the land and touches on ever-poignant issues of land management and conservation of nature. Thru June 30th.


OGDEN
Universe City (2556 Washington Blvd): UP: Happy Birthday, Carrie, an exhibit of paintings by LeRoy Jennings, in honor of his mother, Carrie Jennings, who is celebrating her 90th birthday. The exhibit will feature privately owned work and well as new paintings by LeRoy Jennings.The exhibit will continue Saturdays, June 10 and 17, noon-8:00 pm and Fridays, June 9 and 16. The exhibit can also be viewed at other times by making an appointment with Benjamin Jennings, gallery curator, 458-8959.

Many people will remember Carrie Jennings as “The Voice of Weber State” as she was honored several times. She began as the telephone switch board operator at Weber in 1953 and retired in 1985. She was widowed in 2000 and moved to British Columbia in 2003. She is returning to Ogden to celebrate her birthday with the friends she left behind.

Many of the paintings in this show hung in Carrie’s home in Ogden. When she “down-sized” her belongings to move into a retirement community, she gave most of her paintings by LeRoy to his children. Portraits of family members, local landscapes and abstracts will also be included. Many of the paintings are from private collections and will comprise a “family album” to be shared with the public.

LeRoy Jennings studied art at Weber State College 1964-1968. His work is generally photo realistic. His special interest is local landscape, which he paints with truthful, rather than romanticized, vision. His fascination by local geology has led more than one geology instructor to comment than his paintings could be used for textbook illustrations.

Eccles Community Art Center UP:Color is the theme for the two artists exhibiting in the galleries at The Eccles Community Art Center this June. All About Color, an exhibition of paintings by Barbara A. Slater, a resident of both Ogden, Utah and Bend, Oregon, occupies the Main Gallery. The Carriage House Gallery features the colorful watercolors of Mountain Green artist, Cara Koolmees. Exhibits continue through June 24, 2006

Barbara Slater is principally an oil painter, though she also works in colored pencils, pen and ink and pastel. Her large format floral oil paintings are sought after for their dramatic composition, sensation of depth, and intensely rich colors. "I enjoy taking Nature's floral creations, forms and patterns, and transforming them with a mixture of vibrant oil colors, glazing and adding layers of varnish to bring my canvas to life," Slater says. "Finding the right mixture of colors that best translates the real object is a challenge for me every time I pick up my palette. I paint as I have for 47 years, letting electric yellows and juicy green paint bring the canvas to life."

Slater was born in Ogden, attended Ben Lomond High School and Weber State University. She continued her education in California. After spending 30 years in the San Francisco Bay area she now resides in Bend, Oregon and Ogden. For the past eight years, she has illustrated for children’s books and focused on advertising and graphic arts.

ALSO: The first thing most people notice about Cara Koolmees work is her strong, bold colors. Koolmees says "My southern California roots inspire the bold saturated color of my watercolor paintings. While I seek to evoke my feelings of nouns (person, places and things), I do not try to recreate, but to record how the subject’s color touches me," Koolmees says.

When Koolmees acquired a studio on historic 25th Street in Ogden, the buildings in the area became her new subject matter. "These buildings are treated as portraits," she says. "Since then I have done numerous commissioned paintings for Historic 25th Street businesses, festivals, and brochures.”


PARK CITY
Julie Nester Gallery UP: Continuing through June 24th, Figures, a group exhibition of figurative work by five painters and one sculptor. The artists to be exhibited are: Tor Archer, Gerard Bourgeois, Philip Buller, Gregg Chadwick, Marshall Crossman and Marie Van Elder (see May edition).

Kimball Art Center UP: Material Matters: Art Quilts from the Front Range Contemporary Quilters thru July 23, 2006. For the first time in Utah, the nationally acclaimed Front Range Contemporary Quilters are showcasing their artistic quilts at the Kimball Art Center. A juried exhibition of more than forty innovative quilts, these works of art in fiber share traditional quilt making as a common point of departure but develop and diverge into distinct artistic expressions that are meant to be hung on a wall. As part of the exhibition the Center will feature an Art Talk with Renowned Quilt Artist Judith Trager Tuesday, June 27 at 6:30pm


BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Through June 9 Brent Christison, Ann Garrett, Richard Miles, Art Lee, Yihlin Chan and Clay Arts Utah. UPCOMING: June 21 - July 24 Bountiful Handcart Days Art Exhibit


HEBER AREA
Edelweiss Gallery (65 E. Main, Midway, 435-654-1335) — Featured artist Sherry Oman. Also work by Florence Ware, Donald Allan, Kory Bird and Dennis Smith

Two Sisters Fine Art Gallery: UP: New work from artist Kerrie Baldwin Penney. UPCOMING: June 10th, An Evening With Anne Gregerson from 6 to 9 pm.
Gregerson, a sculptor with a degree from Brigham Young University, will be working on a clay sculpture and available to discuss the medium of fired clay. She is the recipient of numerous awards and her work has been shown in dozens of juried group exhibitions locally, regionally and nationally. Born and raised in Idaho, Anne draws inspiration from her work from the human figure and the relationship between body, mind and soul. Using fired clay as her primary medium, Anne often incorporates metal, wood and found objects into her pieces. Two Sisters is pleased to represent Anne and will have a showing of her work mid September.