Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
prepared by 15 Bytes staff
UTAH COUNTY
Terra Nova Gallery UP: Pastel in Provo, featuring art by gallery group of pastel artists, through July 27. In conjunction with the exhibit, a special art event is planned for Friday July 6th. A Sidewalk Art Exhibit will be created during the day and be ready for the Downtown Provo Gallery Stroll that evening. Local professional artists will bring their talents and create unique, temporary "sidewalk art" right on the sidewalk in front of Terra Nova Gallery. These artists will set aside their normal media of choice and using chalk and pastels create their "masterpieces" outside the gallery for all the world to see. Alongside these professional artists; muralist Todd Orchard, children's book author & artist J. Kirk Richards, ceramist Melanie McGee, portrait artist Donna Corno, and others, we will have limited space for gallery guests to create their own masterpieces. Starting around noon the artists will be creating throughout the day. Stop by and see their creations, visit the gallery and chat with the artists.
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.
Storefront Galleries (250 W Center, 273 W Center, 48 North 300 West; 377-5700) Art by Amy Robinson, Bepe Kafka, Rochelle Wise, Jen Harmon Allen, Rebecca Cooper, Ruel Brown, and Ryan Neely.
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."
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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.
UPCOMING: 34th Annual Quilt Show July 21 – September 2. An unforgettable display of color, pattern and skill is showcased through the creative medium of quilting in this exhibition. Submissions by Utah quilters are judged by a panel of talented artists and quilters based on quality in workmanship, design, color, originality, and general appeal. AND: 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. For more on art quilts, see page 5.
Simple Earth UP: Works by Elizabeth Matthews, through August. 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.
ST. GEORGE AREA
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. Many times, Bunnell anonymously provided funds to help students go on art trips, buy art supplies, and to continue their education. He has been the instrumental force in Moapa Valley in bringing the arts to that community and building a prestigious art collection there. 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.
St. George Art Museum UPCOMING: Paint America in the Main and Mezzanine Gallery Paint America and the Legacy Gallery will feature works from the permanent collection. July 21 - September 22
EPHRAIM
Central Utah Art Center UP: Open Secret:Undisclosed Works of Kent Wing, Alex Bigney, Frank McEntire, through July 31. Can you keep a secret? Can you guess what the secret is? These artists are challenging you to figure out what their secret is. They expect you to look at the exhibit and then to look again, take a double take so to speak. This double take is somewhat prurient in nature, a bit voyeuristic maybe. But this is how you will be able to zero in on the secret. Are you curious? Can you expose their secret without revealing too much about yourself? Each of these artists is interested in appropriation and creating conundrums into which the viewer may find him or herself. Each artist has a passion for symbols and sharp eye on culture and history. Kent Wing is profiled on page 3 and Alex Bigney on page 7.
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SOUTH EASTERN UTAH
Moab Art Works UP: Sunburn and Platinum Prints photographs by Chris McCaw, through July 12. By putting black & white photographic paper in the film holder in place of film the artist creates one of a kind paper negatives. The sun scorches each image to a different degree, sometimes burning completely through the paper base, making every work a unique and often fragile item. In addition to these unique solar prints, Moab Art Works features the artist's large format platinum prints.
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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