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Up & Upcoming: Salt Lake Area
Up & Upcoming This Month:
Compiled by 15 Bytes Staff. Unless otherwise noted, UPCOMING shows begin July Gallery Stroll, July 20, 6 to 9 pm. Prepared by 15 Bytes staff unless otherwise noted.
KAYO GALLERY UPCOMING: Solecist, sculptural prints by Camilla Taylor, opening July 20. The artist says, "A solecist is someone who blunders, someone who makes mistakes. Each piece in this series is the comodification of an idea of a person or type, the friends who you can't quite trust whose characteristics are made apparent by their appearance. Camilla Taylor, owner of Vegan Erotica, is often referred to as a sculptor by the press. She's more accurately a printmaker, as the medium and editioning of is most distinctive about her work. This solo show consists of a series of relief prints, in a palette limited to black ink on colored and white fabric. The three dimensionality has been made an intrinsic aspect to the pieces, as the individual prints which comprise each piece only become coherent when put together. Patrons at the gallery are invited to touch and interact with the pieces, with a sign which reads "You may gently interfere with their lives."
PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: Michael Mogus, Marwan Nahle and Susan Slade. Sculptor Michael Mogus explores the world of formal abstraction. Mogus, who works primarily in steel, creates pieces centered in the dynamic, be it in shape or color. Although static, diagonal lines, tilting planes and balls that appear to be caught in mid motion produce a tension that is at once captivating and sound. Marwan Nahle brings a bit of mysticism to this exhibit with his graceful abstracted figures. Appearing to have simply emerged from the push and pull of paint, in full length gowns, they are of a different era or perhaps a fanciful place. Susan Slade's colorful paintings have taken a new turn for this exhibit. Set between bands of vibrant color, she has incorporated beautiful flowing letters from ancient alphabets which are no longer in use. A seemingly apropos theme for a school teacher, in which she has unearthed that which combines the historic with the new. UPCOMING: Summer Group Show July 20 - August 17.
ART ACCESS GALLERIES UP: Art Access Gallery Contours Group Exhibition (page 6) and in Access II Gallery Amy Jorgensen's Photography in Motion. For an article on Amy Jorgensen see our December 2006 edition. UPCOMING: July 20 through August 10 oil paintings by Wynter Jones' Oil Paintings and in Access II Gallery JoNell Evans' Children's Book Illustrations. UPCOMING: Black and White Color, current work by Wynter Jones that visually references fossils and humans, particularly the slight and repetitious variances shared by each organism. She says, “ I seek to visually glorify the complex subtleties amongst the overwhelming similarities. Using oil on canvas to exemplify my obsessions, I impose these structures onto overworked, spastic surfaces and seek to entertain myself in the process of doing so.” AND: 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.
VISAGE SALON STUDIOS (2006 South 900 East) UPCOMING: SERIES: CONNECTION, paintings by Jodi Monaco, and Alexandr Taymer, July 19 – August 15. Jodi Monaco grew up in Salt Lake City, and attended Utah State University on an art scholarship. She has been a visual artist and graphic designer, and marketing and communication professional for more than 15 years. Her current artistic journey has her exploring various emotional arenas through the use of color, texture, found objects, language and symbols. Each of Monaco's mixed-media abstract paintings represents the concept of being drawn to someone or something, as illustrated by abstract representations of doors, ladders and windows. The works incorporate mixed media elements such as fiber, found objects, and paper, are highly textural, intensely colored and filled with emotional expression. Alexandr Taymer, painter, philosopher, writer, and fashion designer, was born in Moscow in 1960, immigrated to Utah in 1997. He has since developed a unique style of painting he terms, POPEX, (popular expressionism), also known as “Popcorn Expressionism,” characterized by bright, vibrant colors, the strict use of pallet knife, acrylic media, and no pre-mixing of paint. The artist functions as explorer of the acrylic medium, by means of tone, shade and color.
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ART AT THE MAIN UP: A Sense of the Southwest featuring artist Suzanne Barton from June 11 - July 14 (artist's reception on June 15, 4-6pm). UPCOMING: Journey featuring abstract paintings by Cary Griffiths July 16 - August 11 (artist's reception on July 20, 4-6pm). Griffiths' work is highly reminiscent 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.
SCHORR GALLERY (3rd Floor West Jordan City Hall) UP: Works by Derek Nielsen and LaDawn Sorensen, through July 27. Nielsen is an abstract artist who works in acrylic on masonite. His works express the moving forces of the universe in exciting, monochromatic, fractal patterns. LaDawn Sorensen paints scenes of people, landscape, and architecture which have meaning in her life.
THE UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE UP: Harmony and Resonance, sculptures and paintings by Heysook Cho and Mary Street, through July 28, with an opening reception Friday, July 6th, from 6 to 9pm. This exhibit brings together the work of two female artists who explore the interaction of abstraction, thought, and personal connection. Heysook Cho is a ceramic artist whose works are based on the circle form in which the circle represents harmony of thought and spirit. Cho began her career in art in Seoul, Korea in 1979 at the Han-Yang Women's College where she majored in Ceramics. She recently completed her MFA at Brigham Young University. Cho says that her work is influenced by her mother's teachings that it is better to have a soft heart than a hard mind. Her recent series of ceramic and bronze sculptures, all based on rounded forms, is an "endless series" leaving an anonymous conclusion of when it will end. Mary Street is a self-taught artist. Street favors large formats upon which she creates paintings characterized by gesture, deep texture and vivid color. Street paints spontaneously, letting gesture and interaction with each new element determine the outcome.
ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UP: Exhibits by Frederick Brayman, Jim Frazer (see June edition) and Michael Haring through July 27. Brayman's exhibit, a series of large lithographs and mixed media paintings, was created while the artist was teaching at the University of New Mexico and studying at the Tamarind Institute, an internationally recognized center for fine art lithography. Brayman says that he holds to Berthold Brecht's tenet that "Art is not a mirror to be held up to reality, but a hammer to shape it." Jim Frazer exhibits, Curiosity Boxes, a group of assemblages created out of found boxes. Michael Haring, a recent graduate of the Printmkaing program at the University of Utah, exhibits work that incorporates combinations of lithography, intalgio, pen and ink and digital mediums. He portrays animals, creating new environments for them to inhabit.
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 page 1)
PALMERS GALLERY UP: Paintings by Monika Del Bosque, July 19 - August 10. Paintings by Monika Del Bosque, 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.
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MUSEUM OF UTAH ART AND HISTORY UPCOMING: Deseret Morning News/Days of ’47 Landscape Art Exhibition, July 7 - July 24, a juried selection of landscape art presented by the Days of ’47 celebration committee and the Deseret Morning News. (see page 6)
UTAH ARTIST HANDS: UP: Rural Abstraction, paintings by Ron Russon, through July 14th. A cacophony of geometric colors meeting somewhere between abstraction and realism, Russon's art reflects his intense relationship with nature.
HORNE FINE ART UP: A Walk in the Park, a breezy new exhibit just in time for the warmer temps. This exhibit celebrates the pleasures of moving outdoors as the temperatures rise. Artists include Jamie Wayman, Ken Baxter, Karen Horne, Phyllis F. Horne, and Mathew Stuver.
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).
UTAH CULTURAL CELEBRATION CENTER UP: Face of Utah Sculpture III, thru August 1. (see page 4)
ANDERSON-FOOTHILL LIBRARY UP: Utah's West Desert and Arizona's Sonoran Desert: Silver Photographic Prints by Vernon Sears through Aug. 18.
SPRAGUE BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Western landscapes, featuring water color and mixed media work by Sandi Olson, through Aug. 16.
DAY-RIVERSIDE LIBRARY UP: Color and Contour, featuring oil on canvas and mixed media by Mary Boeren, through Sept. 1. Reception Saturday, Aug. 4, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
A GALLERY UP: Featuring sculptor Ryoichi Suzuki.
KEN SANDDERS RARE BOOKS UP: Exile on Church Street, the esoteric posters of R.P. Bissland. This Bissland is for real (or not) and due to a temporary rent in the time-space continuum he has been trapped temporally and temporarily on Parade Street (better known as Second East).
WASATCH FRAME SHOP UP: Works by Jeff Hepworth, Aaron Fritz and Amy Davis through August 30.
MICHAEL BERRY GALLERY (163 E 300 S; 521-0243) UP: The Streets of San Francisco, featuring mixed-media works by Paul Heath (see page 2) and glass mosaic by Donna Pence, thru July 14.
LOGE GALLERY (Pioneer Theatre 1340 E. Broadway, U., 581-7222) UP: Paintings by father and son artists Gary Collins and John Collins through July.
RIO GALLERY UP: Design Arts Exhibition thru July 28.
SALTGRASS PRINTMAKERS UP: Saltgrass member artists.
Paintings by Cary Griffiths (see June edition)
GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE UP: A Failure of Imagination by Jeffrey Winkler and Obstructions by Joshua Luther through July 7 (see June edition).
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.
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