Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
PARK CITY
The next Park City Gallery Stroll is Friday, August 29, from 6 to 9 pm.
Great Basin Cooperative (449 Main Street 435.649.8205) UP: Gary Ernest Smith: A Retrospective. This retrospective features 50 paintings, each rendered within the last 20 years, showcases Smith's bold, iconic figures |0| and tonalistic panoramas. Born in Oregon, Smith grew up on a farm where he learned the value of a solid work ethic as well as a love for rustic landscapes. He came to Utah over 40 years ago as a student and received his MFA from Brigham Young University. In Utah his affinity for the rural west grew and made itself manifest on canvas. Designated a neo-regionalist, the renowned artist manages to defy conventions with a humanistic perspective on his subject matter. An undaunted color palette and minimalist forms have since landed his work in galleries and collections across the country. The current exhibition will bring it back together in a stunning recollection of the last two decades.
Phoenix Gallery UP: People, Birds & Ruminants, new paintings by Jared Gillett. This body of work from the young Salt Lake City artist ranges from birds (painting at the Tracy Aviary) to cows |1|, and children to toys. The thread that ties them together is his bold, short brushwork and crisp color palette. He is able to capture a likeness that is very compelling and interesting without being photo-realistic.
Gallery MAR UP: New work by Jan Perkins, Fran Nicholson, and Allan Mardon.
Meyer Gallery UP: Sheila Norgate and Ted Gall. Sheila Norgate's work is fun, satirical and extremely well-crafted. This Canadian artist has created a series of paintings using animals - especially dogs -- as subject matter. Ted Gall's sculptures have faces that hinge open, doors which pull up, facades that change from front to back.|2| For this show Mr. Gall has included three large-sized works rarely shown in Utah.
Julie Nester Gallery UP: Transitional Forms, an exhibition of new paintings by Jeff Cohen.|3| Jeff Cohen is a painter from Atlanta, GA. In creating his oil and encaustic paintings, he applies a series of wood tiles to a panel. He then paints on the individual tiles to create his finished composition. Each of the painted wooden tiles is slightly different from its neighbors, both in color and alignment, adding a very interesting effect to Cohen’s compositions. In some of the paintings, the size of the tiles varies which serves as an effect to create both depth and focal points. Through August 27.
Kimball Art Center UP: Sharon Maney LoManto: Logical Consequences in the Badami Gallery through September 2.
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LOGAN
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: USES OF THE REAL: Originality, Conditional Objects, and Action/Documentation, Contemplation an exhibition of objects selected from the museum's collection, many of which will be shown in NEHMA for the first time. Through December 2008.
OGDEN AREA
Eccles Community Art Center UP: Statewide 2008. This statewide competition is open to all artists who presently reside in the state of Utah. Original works in any medium (except photography) including paintings, prints, monoprints, drawings, graphics, pottery, sculptures, and textiles are eligible.
Universe City (2556 Washington Blvd, Ogden 458-8959 ) UP: True Romance, works by Rosamond and Clarence Socwell. The Socwells have been married for 55 years and are still making art together. The exhibit will feature many photo/poetry pairs framed together. There will also be individual photographs as well as paintings by Clarence.
Gallery 25 UP: Lucile Chamberlin & Josey Munro.
Gallery at the Station UP: Lindsay Frei, Joe VanLeewen, Scott Yelonek and Peter Eckert
Artists & Heirlooms UP: Photography by Steve Groves; Captain Midnight, Nathan Allred & Jim Parrish.
HEBER
Two Sisters Fine Art UP: Large aspen paintings by Lynn Farrar through the summer.
BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Handmade in Utah: Folk Art from the State Collection. In 1976, when the Utah Arts Council's Folk Arts Program was established, the state began to purchase objects of traditional art made by living Utahns from every region and cultural community. The collection consists of Native American baskets and beadwork, whittling and woodcarving, rag rugs and needlework, saddles and horse gear made from rawhide and horsehair, and a variety of ethnic arts made by traditional artists from all over the world who have come to live in Utah.
AND: Sounds of Silk: Instruments and Textiles from the Ancient Silk Road. The ancient Silk Road extended from China to the Mediterranean. Silk was brought across Central Asia to the bazaars of Bagdad and Damascus and thus the Silk Route became a line of communication and exchange between the cultures of Persia, China, Central Asia, India and parts of the Arab world.
ALSO: Summerfest International. Walt Hunter and Jesus Silva, featured Artists for Bountiful/Davis Summerfest International, combine to call themselves Hunter Hernandez and practice a unique way of artistic expression they call "Dueling Art". Hunter is a mentor who uses art to inspire troubled young people to change their lives. He and Mr. Silva, a talented artist and former gang member, perform a style of collaborative art wherein each artist participates in the painting. Hunter and Silva will demonstrate the process they use to create unique works of art each day (August 7-9) at Bountiful City Park, 200 West 400 North, during Summerfest.
The 2008 Emerging Artist of Summerfest is Benjamin Davis. Benjamin has used art as means of expression since he was very young. He has always been interested in drawing, but through some very talented and encouraging high school teachers he started to learn how to paint. Benjamin has shown remarkable ability in any medium including acrylics, watercolor, colored pencil, charcoal and oil. His work will be on display at Bountiful/Davis Art Center and he will also have a booth at Summerfest where he will be demonstrating his art daily.
All exhibits continue through August 30.
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