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Up & Upcoming: Salt Lake Area
Up & Upcoming This Month: Compiled by 15 Bytes Staff. Unless otherwise noted, UPCOMING shows begin January Gallery Stroll, January 19th, 6 to 9 pm.
SALT LAKE ART CENTER UP: Robert Taplin: Five Outer Plants, through January 7, 2007 in the Main Gallery. (see article November edition). UPCOMING:Salt Lake Art Center presents New Narrative: Warhol, Stella, Marden, Fitzpatrick in the Main Gallery, January 12 - March 17. This exhibition features four print suites by four exceptional American artists: Andy Warhol (above), Frank Stella, Brice Marden and Tony Fitzpatrick. These prints reveal how each artist works out visual ideas in a printmaking process while incorporating themes from history, folklore, current events and geometric abstraction, arriving at a new and personal sense of “narrative”. AND: In the Projects Gallery, January 12 - March 17 Ascension, a video installation by Bill Viola that has been described as “a 10-minute essay on death, beauty and resurrection.” Viewers might first be shocked by the sight and sound of a man suddenly plunging into water but what follows, is an entrancing, slow-motion “transcendence by descent”. Since the 1970s, Viola has received international acclaim for his video projects in the world’s most respected museums. ALSO: In the Street Level Gallery January 20 - March 10, Post-modern Utah featuring the work of eight Utah-based artists who work in a contemporary, post-modern manner inspired by Pop Art, Minimalism or idiosyncratic forms of figuration.Christian Arial, Matthew Choberka, Jann Haworth, Laurel Hunter, Rudolfo Juarez, Amanda Moore, Linda Peer, Edie Roberson.
PATRICK MOORE GALLERY (511 West 200 South) UP: Express Your Passion for Art, the Utah Watercolor Society Signature & 2-Star Member Show. This year's exhbition has a French theme with food, music, art and photography. Artists and art enthusiasts will be invited to write on a notecard what makes them Passionate About the Arts. They can be signed or not and posted on a wall at the gallery. Margaret Hunt, director of the Utah Arts Counciland Joseph Alleman, AWS, juried the exhibition. ALSO: Eclectic French Photo Impressionism by Don O. Thorpe January 19 to February 7. The artist says, "My love affair with France began the moment I first saw Paris. It was a magical experience I have never forgotten. When I returned to France a few years later, I met a lovely Parisian named Catherine who would later become my wife. It's no wonder I have spent many years exploring and photographing la belle France. Lately, I have been using special techniques to introduce Impressionist and abstract renderings to my photographs -- some of these effects are digital enhancements and some are camera created. I find that the colors and textures of Impressionism most accurately represent what I see and feel about France."
GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE (Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 524-8200) — Contact by Christine Baczek featuring photography by Baczek. Also Dancing With Pattern and Color by John Hess. Both exhibits run through January 13.
RIO GALLERY UP: Susan Barratt, K Stevenson and Amy Adams through January 5, 2007.
MUSEUM OF UTAH ART AND HISTORY UP: Painters of the Wasatch Front, an exhibit featuring paintings from the book of the same name. Drawn from private collections as well as museums and state collections, this exhibit will give viewers the opportunity to contemplate beautiful works depicting the Wasatch Front, one of the beloved landmarks in the state of Utah. Explore the intriguing geography of the Wasatch Mountains through the works of noted landscape artists in an exhibition based on the publication, Painters of the Wasatch Mountains through January 28, 2007.
JEWETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Westminster College, department of art, 1840 S. 1300 East) UP: Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory Places, featuring art by Anne Watson through January 2007.
UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: UP: Quilts Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum featuring 64 quilts by internationally known artists, from 1980 to the present, ALSO: Sideshow, an exhibition of new work by Bonnie Sucec, is on view in the UMFA’s Great Hall through January 28, 2007 (see November edition). UP: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition through January 21, 2007. The biannual exhibition reflects the latest in contemporary and traditional practices in the visual arts. "The concepts presented in this exhibition will be particularly interesting to seekers of ideas and culture, contemporary art collectors, students and prospective students," says Kathleen Carricaburu, UMFA's faculty exhibition coordinator. ALSO: Revisiting Utah’s Past: The Transformed Landscape December 22, 2006 - August 12, 2007. This exhibition places art by Utah artists in a historical context, It is an examination of some ways in which early settlers of the Utah territory established the beginnings of a unique culture. Selected to support the exhibitions’ themes (An Organized Cooperative Community, Personal Refuge, and Economic Potential,) the paintings are visual documents of the change from an undeveloped nature into a cultured, built environment.
HORNE FINE ART UP: HORNE Fine Art will feature new gems by several Utah artists including miniature snow and trolley car scenes by Ken Baxter, new alpine scenes by Phyllis F. Horne and pastels of Santa Fe, Palm Springs and downtown SLC by Karen Horne.
PIONEER PRECINCT COMMUNITY GALLERY(1040 West 700 South) UP: The Salt Lake City Arts Council, in cooperation with the Salt Lake City Police Department and Bad Dog Rediscovers America, announces a new collection of children's art on exhibit in the Community Gallery in the Pioneer Precinct Building.
The exhibit presents artwork by children in Bad Dog Rediscovers America’s after-school arts program.
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ART ACCESS GALLERIES: UPCOMING: Japan Town: Circa 1960 1962, an installation featuring the clay works of Etsuko Ogura, January 19th through February 9th. Etsuko Ogura explains that she is a product of two cultures Japanese and American. She says, "Because of my cultural duality, it makes it possible for me to draw from both as I create my work. The fleeting impermanence of our daily lives is of particular interest to me. I am always reminded of time and how it escapes. To capture and preserve a moment in time is one of my challenges." The artist grew up in the vicinity of downtown Salt Lake City in the early 60's. The community of Japanese Town existed along First South, an area currently occupied by the Salt Palace Convention Center. According to Ogura, Japan Town was uprooted in the name of economic progress. The shops disbanded and the communal center disappeared. Ogura remembers, "Japanese Town was a vital center of activities for Japanese families, especially those of the first generation of immigrants called Issei. It was a place to gather where families exchanged their latest news such as births, deaths, weddings, comings and goings of others, and upcoming events. Those vital events of bygone days are nonessential and nonexistent today. The language barrier is no longer an issue and necessary store products are now supplied through other means."
Etsuko Ogura's installation is based upon her childhood memories of growing up in this Japanese community of the early 60's in Salt Lake City. Her core medium is clay, with other media such as wood, metal, paper, rocks and plant materials included. She hopes that her installation will invoke in viewers the feeling that we are all immigrants a common ground that binds us all as Americans.
AND: In Access II Gallery, Scott Foster Presents the Trailer Park as an American Icon. Trailer Park, featuring oil and acrylic paintings on panel by Logan resident Scott Foster. The artist says that the subject for this body of work is a trailer park in Logan, Utah, "The University Trailer Court is a place where I have spent much time over the past year, painting and drawing from observation, as well as photographing for later reference."
He goes on to say, "Amid the culture of the consumer that has characterized America during the past century, the mobile home stands out as the application of simplicity, efficiency and utility to the realm of housing. Like our McDonald's and Wal-Mart's which offer uniform food and products independent to regional tastes and desires, the mobile home regardless of regional architecture or scenery is capable of being installed anywhere for any prospective homeowner."
Foster refers to a reticence on the part of the general American public to accept the mobile home into the strata of desirable housing and talks about the stereotype of those who make their homes in such dwellings. He says, "The trailer is not without beauty or elegance. Its spare exterior and simplified floor plan are a testament to the simple and stoic values that have shaped our nation. Devoid of ornamental architecture or massive physical bulk, the subtle shifts of corrugation and the contrast between metallic surfaces and foliage are appealing to my artist's eye."
Scott Foster is an MFA candidate at Utah State University, with an emphasis in painting. He expects to graduate in May of 2008.
THE PICKLE COMPANY UPCOMING: New Works by Nolan Baumgartner, Todd Christensen, and Stephanie Leitch, curated by Kenny Riches, January 19 - February 9. Stephanie Leitch, recent intermedia sculpture graduate from the University of Utah, creates a suspended installation consisting of 60 pounds of honey and 110 glass chemistry funnels. Visiting professor at New Mexico Highlands University, Todd Christensen presents hundreds of small collage works created from book jackets and other mixed media, along with bronze and found object sculptures. Nolan Baumgartner, an instructor at the University of Utah, creates large figurative sculptures using spray foam insulation and other mixed media. ALSO: By popular demand, the gallery will once again exhibit Aerial, a 5,000 square-foot collaboration between local artist David Ruhlman and his brother Mathieu, an internationally-acclaimed sound and video artist living in Vancouver, B.C.
MODERN8 UP: Justin Smith and Seth Calder. Justin Smith is a Salt Lake City native currently attending The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on a four-year scholarship. The selections in the exhibit are primarily taken from Justin’s sketchbooks and preliminary studies for larger works. Seth Calder uses graphite and watercolor in his portraits.
UTAH ARTIST HANDS: UP: All in the Family an exhibition of three generations of related Utah artists through January 13th. This family exhibit features the work of well-known Salt Lake City artist, M'Lisa Paulsen, as well as her daughter, Jenni Thompson, and her grandchildren, Finn and Maris Thompson and Steiner and Chandler Paulsen (ages 8 --12). UPCOMING:Five, an exhibit celebrating the gallery's fifth anniversary with city scenes by Bevan Chipman, Kindra Fehr,Paul Heath, Cara Koolmes, & David Marti.
ROSE WAGNER ART CENTER UP: 13th Utah Women Artists Exhibition," featuring art from the American Association of University Women of Utah, through Jan. 14, 2007.
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A GALLERY UP: Holiday Group Show featuring gallery artists.
SALTGRASS PRINTMAKERS UP: Trifecta, Saltgrass Printmakers' third annual fund-raiser, featuring prints by 19 invited artists, through Jan. 31.
LOCAL COLORS ARTWORKS UP: Holiday Group Show, featuring art in all media.
MICHAEL BERRY GALLERY (163 E 300 S) UP: Holiday Group Show, featuring Willamarie Huelskamp, Shami Kanekar, Chris Kapsa, Rebecca Livermore and more, through Jan. 13.
MAGPIE'S NEST UP: 7th Annual Holiday Show, featuring art by more than 30 gallery artists.
SOUTHAM GALLERY UP: Group Holiday exhibit.
ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UPCOMING: Photographers Christine Baczek and Momoko Fritz and painter Brian Kubaryzc beginning January 12th.
PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: Holiday Group Show through January 12th. UPCOMING: January 19 - February 9 Kathy Peterson & Blanche Wilson
LOGE GALLERY
(at Pioneer Theatre on the University of Utah campus) UP: New works by Chris Miles through January 31st.
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