Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
prepared by 15 Bytes staff
ST. GEORGE AREA
St. George Art Museum UP: Dixie Quilt Guild & Southern Utah Watercolor Society October 6 to 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 art work 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.
Sears Art Gallery UP: Reunion, a collection of awe-inspiring works from 22 artists who are coming together to celebrate their successes and friendships in this one-of-a-kind art exhibit through November 16 (see page 6).
SOUTH EASTERN UTAH
Moab Art Works UP: Red Rock in Detail, an exhibition of works by R. Geoffrey Blackburn opening Saturday October 6th at 6pm. Now a resident of Salt Lake City, Blackburn is no stranger to Canyon Country. In the 1970s he co-owned and operated a uranium mining and exploration company based in Moab and began painting the red rock landscapes that make the area so special.
Edge of the Cedars Museum, Blanding UP: Works by Serena Supplee through 2007.
SANPETE COUNTY
Central Utah Art Center UP: Public Property by Sean Slemon throug October 10. A video installation, the title piece of the show, will be presented, alongside drawing, photography and site-specific installation. (see our blog) UPCOMING: Elizabeth Tremante, October 12 - November 14.
Museum of History and Art in Fairview UP: Benson Whittle retrospective through October 13. This is the most comprehensive exhibit yet for the 63-year old, who has shown most recently in Salt Lake City and Provo venues. A native of Brawley, California, he divides his time these days between the unique home he built in Sanpete County's Milburn and residences in New Mexico. The exhibit features numerous sculptures in wood, stone and bronze, and such works in two dimensions as paintings, woodcuts and lithographs, the show will afford gallery-goers an unparalleled opportunity to experience the multiple facets of Whittle's unerring craft and powerful imagination (see September edition).
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UTAH COUNTY
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. AND: Exhibits of artists Douglas Fryer, Jeff Hein, and Bonnie and Denis Phillips, through October 16.
Covey Center for the Arts (425 W Center St; 852-7007) UP: Artful Fiber an exhibit of natural fibers formed, textured, pieced, dyed, printed, stitched, and embellished into unique objects of art by the Utah Surface Design Group.
Utah County Gallery
(151 S University Ave; 785-2059) UP: Showing Off Utah, fall juried show.
Anderson Gallery at Provo City Library (550 N University Ave; 852-7691) UP: Art by the Utah Valley Artist Guild.
Coleman Studios UP: Art from the Hole, Jackson Hole artist, A.D. Maddox, featuring paintings and fine art prints in her signature style, “Western Sass.” Also featuring watercolor prints of Kathryn Mapes Turner.
Gallery OneTen & The Art Seminary UP: Coney Island Photos by Zack Taylor.
Storefront Galleries (250 W Center, 273 W Center, 48 North 300 West; 377-5700) Art by the Boys & Girls Club, Amy Robinson, Jen Harmon Allen, Rebecca Cooper, and Ruel Brown..
Terra Nova Gallery UP: Plein Air Provo exhibit, to coincide with a plein air painting event. The event is Wednesday, October 3rd through Friday, October 5th 2007 and the exhibit runs October 5 to 26. The city of Provo, dotted with historic homes and architecture, parks, mountains, rivers and Utah Lake provide numerous attractions for artists. Artists may paint anywhere within the City of Provo. With autumn in the air possible scenes include historic structures, pastoral vistas, mountain and stream scenes, city and landscapes and agricultural subjects.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP: Cliché and Collusion: Video Works by Grant Stevens, an exhibition of twelve video works by contemporary artist Grant Stevens that incorporate familiar excerpts from advertising, music, film, and common conversation. Exhibit continues through February 9, 2008. (see page 7)
AND: 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. The exhibit features 65 prints and 33 objets d'art from the private collection of BYU faculty members Madison and Debra Sowell. Through December 31.
ALSO: Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint, through May 26, 2008, examines how the American mural and pageantry movements influenced Teichert's artistic production through 45 of her large-scale narrative murals.
BYU Harold B. Library Exhibits UP: The Rephotography of George Edward Anderson's Environmental Portraits, through October 12, offers the result of Dr. Peter Goss's life-long interest in photography. After earning a Ph.D. and persuing a career in architectural history and university administration, Dr. Peter Goss has turned to photography, purchasing specialized landscape cameras, pursuing training from noted American photographer Tillman Crane and attending an intensive training at The School of Journalism at Syracuse University.The exhibit features 20 images taken by Goss with 20 of the same images taken by George Edward Anderson nearly 100 years earlier. The goal in Goss’s work was to duplicate, as closely as possible, Anderson’s locations, compositions, lens and negative specifications, and even the times and seasons. This method is called re-photography, and it allows exhibit goers to compare and examine paired images that yield a surprising amount of information about Utah’s changing and unchanging ecology, agriculture, architecture, landscapes and more. In the Auditorium Gallery, level 1.
AND: Missionary, works by Mark Finch Hedengren in the Hallway Gallery, level 2 through October 28.
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ESCLANTE CANYONS ART FESTIVAL October 4-6. During the day on Thursday, Oct. 4, Boulder features include a show of landscape paintings by Escalante artist Valerie Orlemann at the Anasazi State Park and studio open houses by Boulder artists Scotty Mitchell and Kay Ripplinger from noon to 5 pm.
On Friday and Saturday, the vendor and plein air venues open at 10:00 am in the Escalante City Center area. Some nearly 50 vendors offer their creations and the landscape entries will approach some 100 pieces to be entered in the competition and to be featured in the Silent Auction.
Concluding the events of Saturday will be the awarding of prizes to the artisTs in the plein air competition at the Gala in the Community Center at 6:00 pm. Also, the Silent Auction will conclude and the buyers may pay for and claim their purchases.
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