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Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
Prepared by 15 Bytes staff unless otherwise indicated.
PARK CITY
Phoenix Gallery UPCOMING: Abstractions in Primaries, a new body of work by Claudia Coberly, with opening receptions 3 to 6 pm on Friday, July 13th, and Saturday, July 14th. This body of work focuses on the artist's use of unconventional elements in her mixed-media paintings to create compositions filled with strong colors and interesting textures. Having studied and taught figurative drawing at the University of Utah, Coberly will randomly and playfully insert the human figure in some paintings. She feels that these forms emerge in fragments from which her former figurative style changes into something new and exciting. The imagery has varied over the years from figures and body parts to simple symbols and geometric shapes. Coberly's process is a continuous cycle of building up and tearing down, burying some parts only to dig them out later. Using trowels, knives, sticks and brushes, she will scratch into the surface of a work in progress or add scraps of old works or an object to complete a composition. The challenge is observing and translating color, texture, lines and shapes into a personal language. Coberly's painting, "Park City Red," which graced the cover of Park City Magazine this year, was the first abstract work used for the cover of the publication in their 30 year history. “It is very exciting that Claudia’s work is in the limelight now and that Park City Magazine recognizes the importance of abstract artwork and contemporary design,” says Phoenix Gallery owner, Judi Grenney.
Kimball Art Center UP: In the Main Gallery, through July 15, the work of mixed-media painter Jacqui Larsen. Larsen uses a unique mixture of materials including papers, maps, stamps and cloths. Larsen grew up in New York and then attended BYU. She has spent most of her life in Springville, Utah with her husband Lance, who is a poet and BYU professor of English. AND: Photographer Keith Sharp brings his unique style and sense of humor to the Kimball Garage Gallery. His photos capture nature in comical moments sure to amuse gallery goers. ALSO: Erin Berrett of Holladay, Utah, captures magical moments in her paintings. Entitled, Under Construction, her artwork is on display in the Kimball's Badami Gallery. Berrett and Sharp exhibits run through July 24.
UCOMING: 38th Annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival, with four days of events and two days of the arts festival. Events begin with the Kimball Art Auction & Gala, Thursday, August 2 at 6:30 pm, with premier Art, Castle Creek wines and savory delights. Tickets are $150/person for the dinner and auction. The entertaining World Champion Auctioneer, Bruce Brock hosts the auction. Reservations: 435.649.8882. Friday August 3rd is the Park City Gallery Walk and The Park City Kimball Arts Festival will be Saturday, August 4 from 9 am to 7 pm and Sunday from 9 am to 6pm. The festival showcases a variety of artists including: potters, painters, jewelry designers and more! The artwork is different every year; 220 artists were selected from 800 applicants. Last year an estimated 42,000 people attended the festival on Saturday and Sunday, a strong increase from the 37,000 who came the previous year.
 Julie Nester Gallery UP: New paintings by Whitney Nye, through July. There will be a reception for the artist on July 6 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM. Nye is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her paintings contain a rich and complex style of layering, achieved through the incorporation of contrasting surfaces, as well as by sanding, carving, and the use of different paints. Working in different mediums and sizes, Nye consistently examines patterns of repetition. She explores the rhythms and pauses of our natural world, becoming a conduit for their character. Her art explores both entropy and renewal.
Redstone Gallery (1678 W. Redstone Center Drive, Park City, 435-575-1000) UP: Equine art by Mostafa Darehbaghi, Gladys Morante, Erica Nordean, Judy Summer, Susan Van Seters and Diane Whitehead, through August. Reception Friday July 6 from 6-9.
Meyer Gallery UP: Wet Paint, a new show featuring select Meyer Gallery artists through the month of July. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 14th from 6 to 8 PM. New paintings this month from Jeff Pugh, Brad Overton, Douglas Aagard, Slava Tchistiline, and Will Pope. Also, check out the July/August issue of Utah Style and Design Magazine for an interview with gallery owner Susan Meyer.
BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Bountiful Handcart Days Art and Craft Exhibit thru July 21st. The theme for this year's exhibit is "Celebrating Our Heritage." Along with the many entries from talented amateur artists in Davis County there are several entries from invited professional artists in the exhibit.
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OGDEN AREA
The Ogden First Fridays Art Walk takes place every month on the First Friday. Galleries are open from 6 to 9 pm for receptions.
Eccles Community Art Center UP: 33rd Annual Statewide Competition, a juried competition that features recent works by Utah artists in all media except photography that opens Friday, July 6 and continues through August 30. A reception for the artists and the public will be presented will be held July 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. in association with the First Friday Street Stroll. Awards will be announced at this reception. Awards presented at the reception will include monetary awards of First, Second, Third, as well as the Purchase Award. For the Purchase Award, the juror, Stephen “Woody“ Shepherd, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Utah State University and the center's Board of Directors will choose a piece of art to be included into the center's permanent collection.
Opening in the Carriage House Gallery on the same evening will be an exhibit featuring paintings by Farrell R. Collett. Collett was one of Utah's most successful and well-known painters. The Collett Family is exhibiting and making available to collectors a limited selection of his paintings. Collett touched many lives both as a teacher and as an artist. He often said "A work of art is only half completed unless it is shared by others."
Gallery at the Station UP:Glass collages by Christine Chambreau and monotypes by Martha Klein through August 1.
Universe City UP: Portraits of Ogden's people and places by local artists, opening in conjunction with Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll, Friday, July 6th, 5:00 - 8:00 and continuing Saturdays, July 7, 14, and 21, noon - 8:00 pm, and Fridays, July 13 and 20, 5:00 - 8:00 pm, or by appointment by calling 458-8959. Artists featured in the exhibit include: Larry Carr, Mark Brough Goodson, LeRoy Jennings, Judy Johnson, Cara Koolmees, Brock Porter, Charles Trentleman, Tom Szalay and others. Larry Carr's photographs of Ogden in the 50s and 60s will bring back plenty of memories for old-timers and will give younger folks a fresh look at Ogden history. Mark Brough Goodson, a recent BFA graduate from WSU, will present a number of very large portraits of working people in Ogden, including "Hershel," a UTA bus driver familiar to many Ogdenites. LeRoy Jennings work features local landscapes, including Ogden Canyon just below the Oaks at a favorite fishing spot. Judy Johnson's prints feature iconic buildings, as do Koolmees' posters and Brock Porters' giclee prints. Charles Trentleman and Tom Szalay present photographs of people "in your neighborhood." In addition to the art, a Weber Pathways map and the book Ogden Anecdotes: Stories from Our First 50 years, by Irene Woodhouse, will be included in the exhibit. Copies of the Woodhouse book will be available for purchase.
LOGAN
Cache Valley Artists Celebration UPCOMING: Cache Valley Artists Celebration at the Thatcher-Young Mansion, 35 West 100 South Logan. An artists reception will be held June 13th from 6 to 9 pm and the exhibit will continue through the month of July. Art sales will benefit the Alliance for the Varied Arts. Over twenty-five area artists will participate, including Joseph Alleman, John Berry, Michael Bingham, Glen Edwards, Luke Frazier, Colleen Howe and Michael Malm.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: May Swenson's Muse: Art and the West through August 4. Vignettes featuring new acquisitions from the permanent collection, audio recordings, paintings, sculpture and photographs that are combined with language from May Swenson's poems. Each vignette explores how visual objects inspired Swenson's writing and her relationship to the region.
AND: Dark Metropolis, Irving Norman's Social Surrealism through October 6. Originating at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento California, this exhibit, curated by Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., Chief Curator at the Crocker Art Museum, consists of approximately 25 large-scale paintings by Irving Norman along with 14 examples of the artist's works on paper, and it is accompanied by a 228-page color catalogue. Unmasking the realities of human nature and the contemporary society in which we live, Irving Norman aimed only "to tell the truth of our time." His highly detailed paintings are powerful critiques of modern life, painted in the hope of promoting change. The atrocities Norman witnessed in volunteer service during the Spanish Civil War jolted his consciousness, and he began to express his experiences through drawing and then painting from the 1940s to the 1980s. With the belief that his paintings could act as agents of social reform, Norman felt that pointing out the inequities, horrors and foibles of human behavior might somehow cause people to reconsider their actions. Most paintings were intended for public institutions, particularly museums, where the artist thought "all people could come and study them and contemplate."
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