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Up & Upcoming: Salt Lake Area
Up & Upcoming This Month:
Prepared by 15 Bytes staff. Unless otherwise noted, UPCOMING shows begin September Gallery Stroll, October 19, 6 to 9 pm. For official Gallery Stroll information visit www.gallerystroll.org.
MODERN8 GALLERY UP: Anthony Siciliano |0| and Mark Biddle.|1| Anthony Siciliano's primary working methods are collage pieces on "paper, wood, printmaking, and canvas." The process begins with photography, usually combining his own photographs together with found images or text. "Bringing these pieces into the computer, I can layer them over one another and combine the fragments together to create new juxtapositions. By arranging and layering objects within the collage, I hope to create a visual language that speaks of no particular time period, but rather recontextualizes the imagery within my experience and to a shared past." Mark Biddle currently serves as a co-coordinator of the program in Visual Communication at Weber State University. His work, which uses type, photography and drawings, is probably best described by the artist. "The assemblages that began [for me] in the late '90's have become an effective way to weave together the disparate threads of daily existence. A few collected items are enough to begin. From there each piece sort of accumulates its way towards resolution."
PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: Francis Zimbeaux, and Dave Malone in the Dibble Gallery thru October 12. When he passed away last year at age 92, Francis Zimbeaux had lived a long and full life. He painted the images in this exhibit in the attic of his now 100 year old Wood Avenue house (see 15 Bytes article) nearly every day until his passing last year. He was an eccentric, frugal fellow whose needs where simple; to eat, sleep and make art. Phillips gallery has selected the finest of the artist's nudes |2| and landscapes with water; they are seemingly effortless yet distinct in palette and stroke. Showing concurrently in the Dibble Gallery are abstract paintings by emerging artist, Dave Malone whose work is fresh and fluid, bold yet delicate. UPCOMING: New works by Connie Borup. For a look at the artist's studio, see page 2.
SALT LAKE ART CENTER UPCOMING: Three new exhibits out of the west coast with an opening reception October 19, 6 to 9 pm. SF Recycled through January 26, features work from a unique artist-in-residence program at a solid waste transfer and recycling center in San Fransisco. The program sponsors up to four artists annually for four to six months at a time. With a focus on art and conservation awareness, art is created from what would have been sent with the rest of San Francisco's trash to landfills across the bay or recycling plants across the nation. SF Recycled includes work completed by artists during their residencies, as well as work that they created since their time at the Disposal Center. From discarded materials, the artists fashioned assemblages and collages, working in manners that parallel their concerns, while challenging them to extend their aesthetic response to materials that previously served other functions. The range of expressions in SF Recycled is varied, and along with examples of assemblage and collage, will include drawings, sculptures and photographic, and video installations. Through January 26.
AND: Masters of West Coast Assemblage and Collage
This exhibition honors five American artists who are now considered the innovators of the 1960's-1980's artistic expression of assemblage. Broaching subjects that address issues of social injustice, contemporary mysticism, and visual poetry, artists Wallace Berman, Bruce Connor, George Herms, Edward Kienholz and Betye Saar, have each made personal and significant contributions to assemblage and collage. Sensitive to over consumption and its promotion via mass media during post-World War 11 America, these artists as "dumpster divers," masterfully recycled trash from their own era, and like the Dada and Surrealist artists before them, created an aesthetic that is socially conscious and visually poetic. Through January 26.
ALSO: David Kimball Anderson: To Morris Graves Santa Cruz, California based sculptor David Kimbal Anderson pays tribute to the Pacific Northwest painter Morris Graves with a installation of bronze and steel vases (all created in 2007) that mimic the forms in Graves' series of flower painting. Through February 2.
GALLERY UAF UP: Photograpy by Julie Shipman. |3| Her childhood dream of being a National Geographic photographer led Shipman to change careers at age 35 and become a full-time photographer. As a national and local award-winning photographer, Shipman explores people and places through her work. Her best work is, “done spontaneously; capturing a moment, a glance, a movement or time that perhaps no one else witnessed.” She adheres to strict guidelines in her photographs. All prints are compositionally true-to-life. Any digital corrections are done purely for color or texture when she wants to achieve the look of a watercolor painting. UPCOMING: Photograpy from Cat Palmer, a socially conservative photographer who is anti-war, and Ty Norager, a soldier currently serving in Iraq in a war he does not believe in.
THE UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE UPCOMING: Photograpy by Derek Dyer, October 5 - 31.|4| Opening reception October 5 6-10pm with live music and belly danicing. The show will feature a few choice older works from the glow people and projection people series as well as a bunch of new work from the Glitter People seires and other recent works.
THE PICKLE COMPANY UPCOMING: EXPOSED: a large-scale mixed-media exhibition exploring the legacy of nuclear testing featuring new work by Trent Thursby Alvey, Jan Andrews, Jean Arnold, Frederick Brayman, Jim Frazer, Suzanne Kanatsiz, Frank McEntire, Michael McGlothlen, Shawn Porter, Eric Ristau, Suzanne Simpson, and Maryann Webster as well as the images of Pickle Company Artist-in-Residence, Carole Gallagher, internationally acclaimed photographer and author of American Ground Zero: the Secret Nuclear War (see page 5).
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GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE UP: The Saint John's Bible: Illuminating the Word through October 31. Commissioned by Saint John's Abbey and University, The Saint John's Bible is a contemporary work created in the tradition of medieval manuscripts commissioned by the monks of Saint John's Abbey. The Saint John's Bible's construction parallels that of its medieval predecessors, written on vellum, using quills, natural handmade inks, hand-ground pigments and gold leaf while incorporating modern themes, images, and technology of the 21st century. The 17 prints on display are take from digital scans of the originals and printed using a giclee process on Hahnemuhle stock paper with pigment-based archival inks.
UPCOMING: Springfield and Beyond: The Art of Bill Morrison, October 6 - November 24, features works by Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Bill Morrison who in addition to working on the Simpsons and Futurama has written and drawn his own comic book series, the four-time Eisner Award-nominated Roswell: Little Green Man, and cocreated the series Heroes Anonymous with Fillmore creator Scott M. Gimple. He has also written a Captain Carrot mini-series for DC Comics. AND: The Best of Bad Dog: A Ten-Year Retrospective, October 22 - December 7. Public reception, Thursday, October 25, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Bad Dog Rediscovers America celebrates its tenth year in operation with this retrospective student show comprised of mixed media artwork.
ART ACCESS GALLERIES UP:
Silence & Spirit, depictions of the Western landscape by David Meikle |5| and John Berry.|6| Both artists have spent many years refining their own unique visions of the land. In describing their vision for this exhibit, about man and nature, the artists speak of "the paradoxes in man's spirit as well as the land's silent adaptive capacities." For this exhibit, Meikle has focused on land that has been touched in some way by mankind. Berry's focus is land untouched by human presence. AND: Mobility, an exhibit of interactive mobiles, created under the guidance of artists in residence Lenka Konopasek and Cordell Taylor. Kindred Spirits, a non-profit organization serving young children with severe disabilities and their families, has developed this collection of whimsical figures that move through space.
KAYO GALLERY UP: Predilection Print Exchange and Exhibit. Organized by Salt Lake City native Camille Taylor, this exhibit will show concurrently at Trunkspace Gallery in Phoenix and at Kayo Gallery in Salt Lake. Each artist will make a print in an edition of 60. Half of the edition is to be exchanged amongst the participating artists while the remaining 30 will be sold at a uniform price of $30 a piece. UPCOMING: Brian Patterson.
ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UP: Clay Arts Utah (CAU) and Meredith Prévôt Exhibits, thru November 2. Down to Earth features more than two dozen works in clay created by members of Clay Arts Utah (CAU), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the education and advancement of the clay arts. Meredith Maynes Prévôt's artwork consists of small-to-medium-scale paintings and prints and drawings that look to historical design for meaning. The patterning of textile design and decorative arts has become a significant interest in her work, especially the evolution of design techniques, the iconography of textile motifs, and the vocabulary of pattern.
PALMERS GALLERY UP: Artwork by Jody Plant. Jody Plant considers her work a form of psychic unearthing, a way of finding the sublime in the ordinary. Text plays a major role in her work. To quote the artists directly, "Words become the tools with which I sift through the layers of the ordinary to where mystery, magic and the sacred lie." UPCOMING: Utah Watercolor Society Fall 2007 Member Show. There will be 48 luminous and vibrant paintings juried from the members of the UWS by the well respected South Pasadena California based artist Brenda Swenson.
ART AT THE MAIN UP: Passages in Pastel featuring pastel artist, Diana Stover through October 13. "I choose to work primarily in pastels because I love the immediacy of them," the artist says. "I also love having so many beautiful colors right at my fingertips without having to mix them!"
UPCOMING: My Daily Obsession, works by Terrece Beesley on display October 14 - November 10, will be an exhibition of watercolors from a unique point of view. Beesley is drawn to "the trivial things that we hold onto, the cultural icons of our daily life. To me these mundane objects say more about us as a culture than any landscape could aspire to. So I paint the 'gems' from my personal collection. In my world, flowers and crystal goblets coexist with comic strips, coffee cups, old photos, postcards and popsicles." Her intricately composed paintings reveal very few flat washes. She mixes her colors on the paper, her energetic brushtokes giving the work rhythm and power.
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HORNE FINE ART UP: Featuring new fall and winter landscapes, including large-scale as well as smaller paintings by Phyllis F. Horne. These reflect Phyllis Horne's gift for painting various seasons, from the warm hues of autumn to the crisp value shifts of winter snow scenes. Also featuring street and restaurant scenes by both Phyllis and Karen Horne from local neighborhoods including Liberty Park, the Avenues and the East Bench.
UTAH ARTIST HANDS: UP: Reflections of Spirit, new work by David Maestas, through November 14.
MICHAEL BERRY GALLERY (163 E 300 S; 521-0243) UP: Mobile Home, paintings by Scott Nelson Foster, through October.
THE HIGH LIFE (245 E. Broadway) UP: Works on Paper by Rockford Orvin.
CHAPMAN BRANCH: UPCOMING: Long Views, Lonely Places: Southern Utah and the Four Corners by Valerie Orlemann, October 16 - November 27. Public reception, Saturday, November 10, 2-3:30 pm.
SPRAGUE BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Blue Highway, featuring oils by Blue Critchfield, through October 16. UPCOMING: Works by Mark Regni, October 29 - December 17. Public reception, Thursday, November 8, 6-8 pm.
ANDERSON-FOOTHILL LIBRARY UP: Watercolors & Pastels by the Gough Family, through October 27.
CORINNE AND JACK SWEET BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Mysterious Compositions: Abstractions and Other Delights by Michael Vincent Wright through October 26.
OASIS CAFE (151 South 500 East) UP: Animals and Abstracts works by Shami Kanear.
PATRICK MOORE GALLERY (511 W 200 S; 521-5999) UP: Travel & Garden: Paintings by Daniel Ramjoue.
RIO GALLERY UP: Statewide Annual Exhibition, Mixed Media and Works on Paper, through November 3.
ROSE WAGNER ART GALLERY UP:
VISAGE SALON STUDIOS (2006 South 900 East) UP: Exhibit of fine art including intaglio prints by Jared Nielsen and paintings by Jennifer Suflita, thru October 17.
EVERGREEN FRAMING AND CO. (3295 S. 2000 East, 467-8770) UP: If the Shoe Fits ... a group exhibit eight artists' interpretation of shoes.
IAO GALLERY (511 W. 200 South) UP: Ceramics by Joseph Pesina through November 25.
LOGE GALLERY (1340 E. Broadway, University of Utah) UP: Works by John Berry, Rob Colvin and Ron Russon through October 13.
SALTGRASS PRINTMAKERS UP: Prints by Saltgrass Printmakers studio members
UTAH CULTURAL CELEBRATION CENTER UPCOMING: Niu World: Being Polynesian in America, October 5 - November 4. Opening reception Friday October 5, 6 - 9 pm.
814 GALLERY (814 East 100 South) UP: Dorothee Martens mixed media works.
WASATCH FRAME SHOP UP: No Object, group abstract show through (see page 7).
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