ST. GEORGE AREA
Sears Art Gallery UP: Milton Goldstein: Magnificent West, featuring the best of Goldstein's famous collection of vintage posthumous dye-transfer photographic prints presented by his widow, Martha Goldstein.

Milton Goldstein was born and educated in New York City and experienced a varied career, including practice as an attorney and a CPA, before becoming a photographer and author. His love of the landscape of southern Utah eventually led the photographer to leave Los Angeles and make his home in Kanab, and later in Hurricane, Utah.

Goldstein developed a photographic style that expressed in aesthetic language the intensity of his experience of nature. He favored central, monumental forms, saturated color, strong shadows, and dramatic atmospheric elements. His concentration on these elements often led to the unexpected and atypical compositional choices that mark his individual style and perspective.

Doubleday published two of his books of photographic beauty: The Magnificent West: Yosemite and The Magnificent West: Grand Canyon.

Dye transfer prints are the highest type of professional print. No two are exactly alike, but only those prints of a required standard of excellence, are signed. The prints start with a 2 ¼" x 2 ¼" color transparency. From this transparency three separation negatives are made and three sheets of matrix film are printed, enlarged from these separation negatives, and then soaked in separate dyes—cyan, magenta, and yellow. These matrix film sheets are then successively placed on special print paper, utilizing special techniques to transfer the dyes to the paper so that the final print may attain the quality of the original transparency.

Goldstein passed away at the age of 84 in St. George in 2000, surrounded by magnificent, richly colorful mountain views, near his beloved Zion, where he completed his last work in 1998.

Bingham Gallery UP: Small Painting Show & Sale, through December 31. A collection of small paintings, featuring many of the artists from Maynard Dixon Country 2007. Subjects include southern Utah landscapes and images of the southwest. All sales will benefit the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts in their efforts for preservation of the Maynard Dixon home and studio in Mount Carmel Utah.

St. George Art Museum UP: Dixie Quilt Guild & Southern Utah Watercolor Society through December 22. The Dixie Quilt Guild's mission is to encourage, promote and preserve the art of quilt making. Formed in 1983 by a group of eleven quilters in St. George, Utah, the group met monthly to share their knowledge and joy of quilting. They were soon joined by more women interested in this art, and today have a membership of 185+ women and men of all ages. In 1989, the Guild started publishing a newsletter, holding workshops, and quilting for local charities. In 2007 the Guild hosted its first quilt show, which was a great success drawing in non-quilters and quilters alike from surrounding areas to view the quilts. Several of the members are known nationally and internationally for their outstanding contributions to traditional quilting projects, art quilts, and wearable art. The Dixie Quilt Guild has succeeded in putting St. George on the map in the national quilting community.

The Southern Utah Watercolor Society (SUWS) has an active dues paying membership of over 80 talented artists from basic beginners to professionals, instructors and teachers who are located from southern and northern Utah as well as southern Nevada. They meet monthly for continuing education in the form of demonstrations, presentations, to show new artwork and to share ideas. Two to three times per year they hold professional workshops. The SUWS artists can be seen at both the ongoing Staircase Gallery in Zions Bank in downtown St. George and the Rim Rock Gallery located on the 2nd floor in the Dixie Regional Medical Center, as well as in special exhibits at the St. George Art Museum, Mesquite Art Center and the LaVerkin Art Center.

UPCOMING: Bear River: Last Chance to Change Course in the Main Gallery, A Reflective Nature from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in the Mezzanine Gallery and in the Legacy Gallery, A Legacy of Water, featuring works from the permanent collection. January 12 - March 22, 2008.

CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UP: The High School Fine Art Competition Exhibit, featuring work by selected entrants from Utah high schools, this exhibit offers younger artists an opportunity to display their artwork and receive awards and critiques from the faculty of the SUU Department of Art and Design. "Our annual Fine Art Competition offers high school age students, 15-18 years old in grades 9-12, the opportunity to submit their work in drawing, painting, ceramics and graphic design," says Reece Summers, Gallery Director. Through December 15, 2007 & January 7-19, 2008.