Up and Upcoming
Up and Upcoming to the North
OGDEN AREA
Eccles Community Art Center UP: Faces of Africa will be the theme for an exhibit of oil and pastel paintings by Jerry Hancock of Ogden in the main and second floor galleries through October 26. An artist reception will be held on Friday, October 6th from 6 to 8 p.m. in association with Ogden s first Friday street stroll.
The inception of this exhibit began when a group including a nurse and two surgical technicians shared photos from a medical mission to Africa with local artist, Jerry Hancock. The colors and patterns of the African costumes and the faces of the people intrigued Jerry. He borrowed the photographs and from them he created an exhibit of oils and pastels that make up Faces of Africa. The medical personnel, Julie Madsen, Michelle Martin, and Diane Ercanbrack that provided the original photographs, have added written memories and impressions as captions to accompany the paintings. Madsen, Martin, and Ercanbrack belong to a small medical team who travel to the village of Ouelessebougou in Mali, West Africa to perform gynecological surgeries for women in Ouelessebougou and its surrounding villages. The three will be attending the artist reception and will be available to answer any questions about their time in Ouelessebougou and the medical mission. They have had a quilt made from African fabric and a book donated by Wisebird Bookery that they will be auctioning to raise funds for their next medical mission.
ALSO: The Carriage House Gallery will feature watercolors by Sandra Cooney of Roy during October 2006. Sandra Cooney watercolor landscapes’ are filled with soft monochromatic shades and planes of space. Her paintings offer the viewer a calm, meditative escape into the solitude of nature.
Universe City (2556 Washington Blvd 458-8959): UP: Honoring Hispanic Heritage: Ruby Chacon and Kim Martinez. In conjunction with the First Friday Art Stroll in downtown Ogden, Universe City will feature the paintings of Ruby Chacon and Kim Martinez with opening night Friday, October 6th. The exhibit will run through October 21st: Fridays, 5:00-8:00; Saturdays, from noon-8:00 pm. This exhibit is scheduled to coincide with the 16th Conference of the International Association of Hispanic Women Literature, hosted by Weber State University. Both women examine their cultural heritage through their art work.
Working on a large scale, with brilliant colors and striking images their work provides a very contemporary view. Ruby Chacón, a Utah native, is recognized as one of the contemporary voices in American Art. She received her BFA in painting and drawing in 1998 from the University of Utah. Chacón’s work has been exhibited around the Southwest and in London, Tokyo, and Osaka, Japan. She has been invited to Self-Help Graphics in Los Angeles, where her work has been silk-screened and added to The Chicano Art Collection, a body of work that is archived in various international museums, including parts of Europe and Mexico City. Chacón received the Cultural Heritage Award in 2003.
Salt Lake City. V. Kim Martinez , Assistant professor of painting and drawing at the University of Utah, received an M.F.A. (2000) in Painting & Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.F.A. (1998) in Painting & Drawing from the University of Utah. She is accomplished in painting, drawing, sculpture, foundry, mosaics, and murals. Regarding her work in this exhibit she says, “ ‘Mujeres de Colores,’ are paintings created from fragments in my memory of specific women. By deconstructing their personalities and behaviors, I determine qualities I am interested in referencing. With this information, I consider the emotional and physical effects their experiences may have on their persona and appearance. Eliminating contextual details allows me to keep the viewers attention, focused on the action and expressions of the reconstructed individuals.”
Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery UP: Latin American Graphics: The Evolution of Identity from the Mythical to the Personal through October 7. This exhibition showcases the work of 39 artists as it surveys the evolution of modern and contemporary Latin American printmaking from the mid-20th Century to the present. The exhibition explores the early influence of Latin American artists who sought to define national identity through the use of iconography that combined the traditional and the mythological. At the same time, other Latin American artists drew upon European movements such as surrealism as alternatives to Western modes of expression. Today, contemporary Latin American artists utilize personal, literary, and cultural reference points to explore issues of identity, heritage, and hybridization.
UPCOMING: Society for Photographic Educators Southwest Region October 23 - November 22, 2006 This exhibition highlights the work of members of the southwest region of the Society for Photographic Educators. Members are faculty at universities and colleges throughout Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.
|
|
Ogden Vallery Library Huntsville
UP: Nature's Symbols in ART thru October 26th. Experience fine art while you learn about symbolism in nature at this unique exhibit, a portion of whose proceeds will go to benefit the Ogden Valley Library. Nature has been a theme throughout history -- certain images creating not only the artwork itself but hidden meanings symbolically portrayed through the use of elements found in nature. This Wilkerson Fine Art Group Show includes: Bill Barber, Alison Benjamin, Doug Braithwaite, Julie Brandt, Robert Call, Travis Crowther, Lynn Federspiel-Young, Mike Gardner, Jerry Hancock, David Jackson, Thomas McCormick, Hadley Rampton, Steve Songer and Eric Zschiesche. Also featured are Alaskan Artist, Garry Mealor and Denver Artist Desmond O'Hagan.
These artists relate to the Utah climate and culture as they create virtual, artificial and visionary images, generated by sight as well as the imagination. View the spectacular art they have created to channel nature’s rich associations, and even consciously engage with the history of man's long relationship with nature through art. For more information about this exhibit visit www.wilkersonfineart.com
LOGAN
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues: Recent Work of Alice Leora Briggs. Briggs' work is part of the contemporary revival of figurative realism in American art. Combining art historical references, medical illustrations, candid photographs and drawings, Briggs uses a method of incising a material called clayboard with India ink to create richly detailed drawings and mixed media installations.Among the exhibited works are scraffito drawings, a series of mixed-media tableaux of the seven deadly sins, and “Purgatorio.” A room-size installation, “Purgatorio” uses aluminum recovered from soda cans and offset printing plates that are obsessively attached with thousands of tacks to create a machine-like environment. The interior of the installation is papered with stock exchange tallies. It contains a chamber and an elevated reservoir — filled with trompe l’oeil turquoise water — and the Altar of the (L)apse, featuring a decapitated version of Andrea Mantegna’s “Dead Christ” undergoing open heart surgery.
BRIGHAM CITY
Brigham City Museum-Gallery: UP: Still Lifes in acrylics by Colette Bradford through Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006. Seashells, bird nests and teapots do not fidget, complain or fall asleep like live models, but painting them is still demanding and difficult. Colette Bradford of Brigham City, Utah, has been producing still lifes since she was seven years old.
BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UPCOMING:October 6 - November 3. Chairmen’s Choice: Graduate Students from University Art Departments, featuring works by 29 graduate students from Brigham Young University, the University of Utah and Utah State University.
Apple Frame Gallery UP: Second Annual LeConte Stewart Country, featuring work by 29 artists, including Joseph Alleman, Keith Bond, Russell Case, Nancy Crookston, David Koch, Elva Malin, Steve McGinty, John Poon and more, through October.
PARK CITY
Kimball Art Center UP: Andrew Smith: Kinetic Sculptures through October 29th. Andrew Smith, a Lehi resident, creates intricate moving (kinetic) and stationary sculptures out of found objects including old farm machinery, bicycle parts and amusement rides. The artist has installed a number of pieces both in the main gallery as well as outside the Art Center. ALSO: Mary Iverson: Containers and Cranes in the Garage Gallery through November 27. Seattle based artist Mary Iverson addresses issues of accumulation, industry, time, and ambiguity in her current series of paintings featuring containers and cranes. AND: Annie Kennedy: Preserved Emblems. Exploring the creative potential of cooking methods and materials, Annie Kennedy examines the visual imagery distinctive of her personal heritage and Utah culture. Art Talk with Annie Kennedy Wednesday, October 18, 6:30 pm.
Meyer Gallery UPCOMING: Opening Friday, October 27, Alexander Selytin and Roy Vellinga. Selytin's mastery of detail as well as light and shadow is evident in his exquisite still life: traditional florals, fruits, and intriguing compositions of Native American artifacts. His work is displayed in the Springville Art Museum, and featured in the floral book Best of Flower Painting. Originally from Russia, Selytin studied at the most prestigious art school in the USSR- the Academy of Fine Arts. Roy Vellinga, landscape artist, attended Weber State College with ambitions to be an architect. It was there that he discovered his strengths were in art more than math. Roy spent the next 30 years working as an Architectural Illustrator. Today Vellinga has transferred his knowledge into beautiful and contemporary paintings. He paints highly detailed landscapes using his incredible skills of composition; bright under painting, and smooth finishes complete each beautiful piece.
|
|
 Ruby Chacon's painting, "Self as Mestiza" graces the cover of the new book by Theresa A. Martinez and Marcia Texler Segal "Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class."
Ogden artist Roberta Glidden will be awarded the Ogden Mayor's Award for the Arts in Visual Arts at a ceremony Saturday, October 7, Noon, at Peery’s Egyptian Theater. The annual Mayor’s Awards In The Arts awards honor individuals living or working in Ogden City for excellence within nine arts disciplines: dance, music, media, literature, design, folk, visual, theater and advocacy. Nominees are considered for excellence within their discipline and for their community service and efforts for arts development within the Northern Utah community. The Ogden City Arts Committee recommends the arts award nominees from a pool of nominations received from the community-at-large.
|
|
