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Up & Upcoming: Salt Lake Area
Up & Upcoming This Month:
Prepared by 15 Bytes Staff. Unless otherwise noted, UPCOMING shows begin August Gallery Stroll, August 17, 6 to 9 pm. For official Gallery Stroll information visit www.gallerystroll.org.
ART ACCESS GALLERIES UP: Black and White Color, oil paintings by Wynter Jones through August 10. Jones displays a body of current work that references fossils and humans, particularly the slight and repetitious variances shared by each organism. AND: Illustrates Hidden Treasures, A Children's Book, thirteen colorful oil paintings by artist JoNell Evans, representing the pages of her unpublished children's book Hidden Treasures. Painted text will also be part of the show. Evans, who has poignant memories of visiting Native American sites and ruins in the Western desert, as a child, has written a delightful story based loosely on the National Parks motto, "Take only pictures, leave only footprints."
UPCOMING: 13th Annual Partners Exhibit, featuring seven emerging adult artists with their professional artist mentors, August 17 through September 13. Participating this year are emerging artists: Cori Redstone, Roger Reeves, Blake Palmer, Joe Fairbanks, Josee Pribbanaw, George Salerno and Deena Lee. Their mentors, respectively, are: Susan Gallacher, Sam Wilson, Trent Call, Paul Heath, Downy Doxey, David Ruhlman and Travis Tanner. Each partnership develops individual goals which are then worked on, along with art, usually in the professional artists' studios.
AND: 10th annual Art Access Teen Workshop Exhibition, featuring the juried work of 50 teens with and without disabilities, who participated in this year's program, August 17 through September 14. Professional artists, who taught this year, were: Jimmy Lucero (Personal Folklore Painting), Matthew Jones (Sculptural Origami), John Berry & Sadie Hoagland (Writing & Illustration), Linnie Brown (Mixed Media Abstract Painting), Kent Miles & Maureen Morris (Documentary Photography) and Alice Perreault Steubing (Altered Books), All these mediums will be represented in the exhibition.
GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE UP: Recent Paintings by Paul Reynolds, through August 18. Paul Reynolds studied art at both the University of California and at the University of Utah. The artist says, "Lately I have shifted to a method of working with oils which involves lots of scraping and wiping after a quick application. I'm trying to continually expose the bones of the piece as I go, and to develop layers, a history of the decisions made as the piece progresses, a record of shifting sensibilities. I want the finished painting to look translucent and partly obscured at the same time. I think there is something very compelling about seeing the pentimento, fragments, and hints of previous parts. This work is probably a physical representation of my fascination with loss and recovery, memory, forgetting, the fugitive nature of things. For the past several months, I have been writing and drawing on my panels, scratching the words and marks into the paint. Then, I paint out or glaze over parts and turn the panels sideways or upside-down, avoiding a specific message, and instead just giving a suggestion, a hint of the subliminal, a look at the fluid nature of our experience, the blurring, obscuring, and scraping over we do with our stories."
ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UP: Oil paintings with gold leaf by Olivia Celine Glascock and alternative media artwork by Annie Kennedy through September 14th. An artists' reception will be held for the artists on Friday, August 3, from 6:00–8:00 p.m. Olivia Celine Glascock’s paintings are figurative, illustrating both Classical and Christian mythologies. Her final aim, she says, "is a modern interpretation of age-old stories. I try to develop an irony between the two by using the same techniques and media. Most are Classical representations, infused with symbolism, and told from the matriarchal standpoint, rather than the accepted patriarchal view of that myth.”
Annie Kennedy works primarily with alternative materials and processes not traditionally used for art-making. She explains, "I am interested in the power, presence and beauty of the everyday. I use common materials with the hope that they will transcend their ordinary nature; the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts." As a result of her upbringing in the Mormon Church, Kennedy says she has always been aware of her genealogy and heritage, and that seeing the extensive maps of her family’s ancestral tree has influenced her perception of her own mortality. Though much of the material and imagery she uses carries specific meaning within the Utah and Mormon community, she says she strives to communicate ideas of spirituality, safety, legacy and ceremony that can be understood by a universal audience.
VISAGE SALON STUDIOS (2006 South 900 East) UP: SERIES: CONNECTION, paintings by Jodi Monaco, and Alexandr Taymer, through August 15. UPCOMING: Photography by Krista Ellis and children's portrait paintings by Molly Williams, August 16 - September 19th. Molly Williams is a portrait artist, specializing in oil paintings of children. In both 2005 and 2006, she received recognition in the International Portrait Competition hosted by the Portrait Society of America. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Brigham Young University, while apprenticing for over two years under William Whitaker (Whitaker will be featured in our September edition). "When you look at a child, you see their spirit," the artist says. "A painted portrait is unequalled because it is one human’s interpretation of another through the medium of paint. As I am painting a child’s portrait I remember their smile, the way they shine, the jokes they tell and the way they talk.”
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ART AT THE MAIN UP: Journey featuring abstract paintings by Cary Griffiths through August 11. Griffiths' work is highly reminiscent of twentieth century painters from the New York school and the comparisons to Pollock in many of Griffiths' painting cannot be denied, yet his is a post-modern revisitation of old themes in very contemporary ways. "Visually the works are highly striking, something that if seen at a distance one would stop one and encourage a closer look. And with this closer look one is drawn into the work, where one may loose one's self in these compositions, the emotive colors, the patterns, and the fluidity as forms emerge." (from a recent 15 Bytes review of the artist's work by Ehren Clark).
UPCOMING: "...wish you were here!" an exhibition of works by watercolorist, Dana Ballard, August 13 - September 15. From aspen groves to Zion National Park, from arches and bridges to the Wasatch Front, this exhibit is a visual love letter to Utah. An artist reception will be held Friday, August 17 4-6pm.
UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: UP: Revisiting Utah's Past: The Transformed Landscape, through August 12, places art by Utah artists in a historical context. ALSO: The Art of Robert Sabuda: Travels in Time and Space, featuring pop-up books by the artist (see May edition).
THE UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE UP: A group exhibit by Utah artists, Kristen Eden, Travis Faber, Kathryn Gehrke, Faith Hansen, Nada Meeks, James Rees, Suzan Rasmussen, and Lauren Z. Woodward, though August 31, with a public reception for the artists August 3rd, from 6 – 9 p.m. The artists will be on hand to answer questions and discuss their works. Art works to be exhibited will range from paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and ceramics.
SALT LAKE ART CENTER UP: Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, curated by Mark Coetzee and Laura Steward Heon, thru September 29. Based in Leipzig, Germany, these painters - Tilo Baumgartel, Tim Eitel, Martin Kobe, Neo Rauch, Christoph Ruckhaberle, David Schnell and Matthias Weischer - breathe new life into the east German tradition of social realist figure painting with strange surrealism and discordant palettes that pervade interiors, cityscapes and landscapes - often populated by disaffected figures, enigmatic narratives with surrealist overtones (see July edition)
PALMERS GALLERY UP: Paintings by Monika Del Bosque, through August 10. These paintings bridge the gap between the external and internal world of an individual. Monika’s paintings map gender roles, gender, ethnicity, class and our collective experiences. The text and collage elements that are incorporated in the artists richly colored paintings harken back to picture books from our childhood. Her use of enigmatic domestic settings and household objects allude to a narrative, yet never force one upon us. Monika was born in Virginia and lived in California since she was 8 months old. She recently moved to Ogden Utah to become the gallery director of the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University, where she also teaches in the department of visual arts as adjunct faculty.
MODERN8 GALLERY UP: Susan Spransy and Jared Miller. "I paint to face the things I fear most about myself," says Susan Spransy. "I paint to confess the thoughts I have had, without actually having to use words. I combine the hideous with the beautiful for in my eyes, this makes me feel whole. I paint to masquerade myself into the world." While making his way through college, Jared Miller worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, eventually receiving painting and psychology degrees from Brigham Young University. He is presently going to the Art Institute of Chicago. “My work seeks the spiritual and the psychological,” says Miller, “to touch something beyond us. I want to find the strings, which connect us all as humans, and pluck them. Then, I want the viewers to hear the echo of the infinite and know they are a part of something larger and grander than themselves. The show speaks to me of an upward pull towards something above, an unconscious draw towards a higher unseen. It speaks to our precarious journey, as we are lifted higher and higher.”
ARTISAN FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY (Pierpont Artspace) UP: 1+1= 14 & other questions and answers- a visual dialogue of two artists, John Bell & Darryl Erdmann through August 15. The exhibition features paintings and assemblage sculpture totaling 7 pieces of work from each artist. Taking cues from related or unrelated themes, every piece is a reaction to the other artist’s work, creating a visual dialogue that is thought provoking, engaging and urges the viewer to explore their own set of questions about the art work. John Bell is widely known for his large-scale, dimensional canvases, ethereal backgrounds and geometric abstractions; will feature work that is significantly reduced in scale. Still working dimensionally however, the paintings range in size from 24”x 24” to 60”x 30.” Darryl Erdmann is best known for his lyrical abstraction and signature rhythmic style of broad sweeping strokes of bold push and pull of color, line and division of space.
ISA UPCOMING: Colleen Howe, nationally recognized artist and teacher, will be the featured speaker and demonstrator at the ISA meeting Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at Wheeler Historic Farm, 6351 South 900 East in Murray. Colleen Howe has a long list of honors and awards for her work in pastel and oil painting. ISA meetings begin at 6:45 with refreshments and announcements, followed by the presentation. A non-member guest fee of $5.00 is deducted from annual membership fees when a guest joins ISA.
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SCHORR GALLERY (third floor of West Jordan City Hall, 8000 S. Redwood Road) UPCOMING: digital photography by Steven Leitch. His work will be shown August 14 through September 21.
PATRICK MOORE GALLERY (511 West 200 South) UP: Painting, Sculpture and Photography, works by Leslie Thomas, Marjorie McClure, Gini Pringle and Linda Peer.
ANDERSON-FOOTHILL LIBRARY UP: Utah's West Desert and Arizona's Sonoran Desert: Silver Photographic Prints by Vernon Sears through August 18.
SPRAGUE BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Western landscapes, featuring water color and mixed media work by Sandi Olson, through August 16.
DAY-RIVERSIDE LIBRARY UP: Color and Contour, featuring oil on canvas and mixed media by Mary Boeren, through September 1 with a reception Saturday, August 4, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
WASATCH FRAME SHOP UP: Works by Jeff Hepworth, Aaron Fritz and Amy Davis through August 30.
KAYO GALLERY UP: Solecist, sculptural prints by Camilla Taylor through August 11. UPCOMING: Works by Emily Allen, Sri Whipple, Mary Toscano, Cara Despain and Laura Besterfeldt August 17 - September 15.
PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: Summer Group Show, through August 17, featuring fine art by the entire collection of Phillips Gallery artists.
MICHAEL BERRY GALLERY (163 E 300 S; 521-0243) UP: Paintings by Edith Carlson (1923-2007).
UTAH CULTURAL CELEBRATION CENTER UPCOMING: My Burial Chamber: A Celebration of Life by Pilar Pobil, August 10 - September 26. Opening Reception August 10, 6 - 8 pm.
UTAH ARTIST HANDS: UP: Rural Abstraction, works by Ron Russon.
HORNE FINE ART UP: A Walk in the Park, featuring Tony Cox, Ken Baxter, Karen Horne, Phyllis F. Horne and Jamie Wayman through August.
KEN SANDDERS RARE BOOKS UP: Photographs of Range Creek, Desolation Canyon and Nine Mile Canyon from "Treasures of the Tavaputs," a book by Jerry D. Spangler and Donna K. Spangler.
RIO GALLERY UPCOMING: Visual Sound Portrait of Salt Lake City, August 10 – September 7. Works by Jason Metcalf, Conrad Nebeker, Hales Swift, Chris Krauss, Wayne Madsen, Tim Lieshman and Brian Christensen.
SALTGRASS PRINTMAKERS UPCOMING: Bill Hosterman, visiting artist from Grand Valley State University in Michigan, August 13 - September 15. Opening Wednesday August 15 6-9pm.
ROSE WAGNER ART GALLERY UP: Linnie Brown and Glass Art Guild of Utah through September 28th
PIONEER PRECINCT COMMUNITY GALLERY (1040 West 700 South) UP: Desert Detours, a collection of color pencil drawings by children at Bad Dog Rediscovers America's after-school arts program, through August.
WOMENS ART CENTER UPCOMING: 3rd Annual Paper Dolls event August 17, from 6 to 10 pm. This year's event features the women of poster gig art. All proceeds go to funding and programs for the Women's Art Center. The show runs through September 14.
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