Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
prepared by 15 Bytes staff
SANPETE COUNTY
Spring City Arts UPCOMING: Spring City Art Festival and Plein Air Competition takes place at the end of this month. The Plein Air Competition begins Wednesday the 29th and ends Friday the 31st and has over $5,000 in cash prizes and purchase awards. Works from the competition will be on display Saturday, September 1, during the Spring City Art Festival. Art Festival activities include an exhibition of local Spring City & Sanpete County artists at the Old School, demonstrations of fine and folk arts (blacksmith, ceramic painting, pottery, stained glass, fabric art, woodcarving/woodworking), kids art workshops, musical performances food booths. In addition an Artist Studio Tour will allow visitors to visit the studios of 40 local artists. |0| For more information go to www.springcityarts.com
Central Utah Art Center UP: Sanpete County Juried Show, August 3 - September 4 with an open house, Friday, August 3, 6-8pm. The jurors this year were Herman Dutoit and Dawn Pheysey from the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University. 15 artists were selected to exhibit. The show will offer a broad range of images as well as artistic experience. The artists are: Brad Aldridge, Doug Fryer, |1| Pam Paulson, Ron Richmond, John Stevens, Kathleen Peterson, Osral Allred, Scott Allred, Lee Bennion, Russ Evans, M’Lisa Paulsen, Kelly Brooks, John Parsons, Chandler Paulsen, and Steiner Paulsen
UTAH COUNTY
Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP: Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum through July 8 is a major exhibition tracing the changing traditions of the Barbizon and Impressionist movements as their popularity rose in France and influenced the art of America.
UPCOMING: Splendor and Spectacle: Images of Dance from Court Ballet to Broadway, a new exhibition at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, illustrates the evolution of ballet from the 18th-century courts of Europe, through the great 19th-century Romantic Ballet, to the arrival of the art form in America in the 1860s. Opens this Friday, July 6 through Tuesday, January 1 and features 65 prints and 33 objets d'art from the private collection of BYU faculty members Madison and Debra Sowell.
AND: Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint, July 27 through May 26, 2008, will examine how the American mural and pageantry movements influenced Teichert's artistic production through 45 of her large-scale narrative murals. When Minerva Teichert attended art school in Chicago and New York in the early 1900s, mural paintings and theatrical pageants were dynamic components of American popular culture. Teichert embraced these popular art forms and used the visual language they provided to tell the stories of her religious heritage and the American West. "This is a new approach to looking at Minerva Teichert's work," says Marian Wardle, curator of American art at the Museum of Art. "I hope visitors don't get the idea that this is the only way to look at her work because her work can be examined and interpreted in many different ways. But the influence of mural painting and pageantry is one important element that I think will cause people to look at her paintings in a different light. I hope it will help viewers understand where Teichert was coming from and the culture of the time, because, among other things, her paintings are cultural artifacts of her day."
Simple Earth UP: Works by Elizabeth Matthews, through September. The images Mathews chooses to represent are repackaged in unusual textures and vibrant colors. This approach delivers an inviting tension, revealing unexpected content. Elizabeth’s paintings lead her on a search for beauty, pattern and order in the drama of nature.
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Springville Museum of Art UP: Impressions of Utah: Selections from the Stewart Collection through December 31. Utah's stunning and varied beauty as seen through the "eye of the artist," is depicted in this exhibition curated by Diane P. Stewart. Works by LeConte Stewart, Lee Greene Richards, and Waldo Midgley are among the notable Utah artists on display. AND: 34th Annual Quilt Show through September 2. An unforgettable display of color, pattern and skill is showcased through the creative medium of quilting in this exhibition. ALSO: Jinny Lee Snow: Painted Quilts or Quilted Paintings? July 21 – September 2. Snow takes the basic techniques of quilting and experiments in her own direction, following her impulses and pushing the limits. Her quilts sometimes appear as though they may be paintings, and in fact she often will paint on the fabric itself. View this exhibition as an interesting counterpoint to the 34th Annual Quilt Show.
Terra Nova Gallery UP: Summer Perspective – Utah Valley Art Guild Group Exhibit, August 3 - 31 with an opening reception August 3rd, 6-9 pm.
Freedom Gallery (230 W Center St; 375-1150) UP: Featuring the art of Gary Kapp with the work of thirty other artists also on display.
Utah County Gallery (151 S University Ave; 785-2059) UP: 2007 Freedom Festival Children's Art Show.
Anderson Gallery at Provo City Library (550 N University Ave; 852-7691) UP: American West, drawings by Everett Ruess.
Coleman Studios UP: Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit.
Gallery OneTen UP: Main Gallery: Darren Breen. Front gallery: Greg Caldwell.
ST. GEORGE AREA
St. George Art Museum UP: Paint America in the Main and Mezzanine Gallery Paint America AND Works from the Permanent Collection in the Legacy Gallery, through September 22. PaintAmerica “Top100” Show features a selection of paintings from the 2006 PaintAmerica Top100 competition, one of the richest national artists’ competitions in prize money and purchase awards. Also included in the exhibit are selections from the “Mini Top50”, a special exhibit for paintings of 180 square inches or less. Artists include Deborah Chapin, Nancy Fortunato, Frank LaLumia, Dino Paravano, Marion Hylton, Eva Van Rijn, Julie Houck, Deian Moore, Ray Brown and Joseph Yarnell
The Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts (Mt. Carmel) UPCOMING: Maynard Dixon Country, an art show, gathering and sale of work by thirty-five to forty of America's premier painters, August 24 & 25. During this event, Maynard Dixon Country artists gather for a week of painting, discussion and celebration of the artistic life. The weekend art show, which is open to the public, features lectures, an art preview, a wet paintings sale, on-site painting demonstrations and a gala awards dinner. Much of the proceeds from art sales at Maynard Dixon Country support the Thunderbird Foundation's projects, including art day camps for people with special needs, the artist retreat program and the emerging artist scholarships, which allow three Utah high school students to join the professionals at Maynard Dixon Country. Tickets available online here.
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Sears Art Gallery UP: Max Bunnell: Retrospect of an Artful Life, through August 25. Max Bunnell, is an accomplished water and oil painter and excellent sketch draftsman. In addition, he has been a beloved teacher for 51 years, sharing his talents with eager students, many of whom have become renowned artists themselves. The DSC Sears Invitational Show and Sale began because Bunnell had created one of the most successful shows in the region; but, most of all his kind and generous persona is reflected in the content of his artwork and it is that same artful spirit that we honor in him.
SOUTH EASTERN UTAH
Moab Art Works UP: New Photographs by Steve Mulligan an exhibition of silver gelatin prints by the Moab-based photographer through August 17th. Covering a wide range of places and landscapes, Mulligan has published several books of photographs and also produces images for calendars in Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and the tall grass prairies of the Great Plains. Steve lives with his wife Vicki and daughter Alyssa in Moab, Utah. "Photography has become, over time, a completely intuitive process for me," the artist says. "I have adopted a philosophy that relies on an emotional response to any given composition, relying on a visceral reaction from the initial step to the final print. Satori is defined as "a sudden perception of felt knowledge", and this quick and inexplicable realization is what I hope for in my photography."
UPCOMING: My Models and Muses by Louise Seiler features paintings inspired by the artist's friends and family. Artist's Reception Saturday August 4th at 6pm
Edge of the Cedars Museum, Blanding (435.678.2238) UP: Works by Serena Supplee through 2007. The inspiration behind Serena Supplee's body of work comes from twenty-five years of living within the Colorado Plateau. Her oil paintings and watercolors reveal her depth of intimacy with the landscape -- the magic of moonlight, the transformative force of river currents, and the solace found in the landscape's expansive embrace. In canyon country, every change of light presents amazing views that flow onto the canvas in a brilliant interpretation of color, space, time, and emotion.
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