This, Guild's first solo show, will close January 10, when the Kimball Art Center, like several Park City galleries, will temporarily suspend business in deference to the Sundance Film Festival, which annually utilizes this and other local venues. (Please contact individual galleries for schedules.)
For many galleries, it will be business as usual throughout January. "People can come watch me paint any time!" says Renee Mox Hall of Park City Colors, who will keep her doors open during the film festival. In her studio cum gallery, visitors can watch the life-long artist create acrylic and watercolor paintings: bold, gorgeous Park City- and western-themed pieces that she displays beside the works of other locals. The gallery, which highlights the work of five artists, shows wood and rock sculpture, as well as jewelry and ceramics, in addition to Hall’s paintings.
Terzian Galleries, too, displays work in several media, including oils, glass, ceramic, and wood. "A lot of people don’t know that we have not only paintings, but a lot of glass,” says gallery manager Emily Chaney. Pieces from diverse artists such as the Pacific Northwest’s Callahan Glass |0| and from Magan Stevens of RKS Glass in Readin, Pennsylvania make-up the gallery’s glass collection.
For early January, paint will take Terzian’s spotlight. Artist Deborah Hake Brinckerhoff’s bright and lively images|1| , created with a palette knife vibrantly swept across her canvases, will be featured until Sundance begins. During the festival, a wide array of Terzian’s staple artists’ work in several media will be on display. These works, says Chaney, are “mostly local.” The gallery will feature multiple Utahns including Nate Ronniger, David Maestas, and James Baker. Whether paintings of representational simplicity, bold abstract works, or aggressive mixed-media pieces, “everything has a contemporary spin on it,” says Chaney.
Various members of the Park City Gallery Association focus on myriad styles, combining to make Main Street, where 23 of the 26 associated galleries operate, a delectable smorgasbord of choices. Some galleries, such as Terzian and the Phoenix Gallery, emphasize contemporary, and often local, art. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Hope Gallery and Museum of Fine Art features works from old European masters to early 20th century artists, as well as their specialty: original Scandinavian art. Another gallery focusing on international art, specifically on Russian impressionism, The Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery, currently features artist Anton Arkhipov.
Connecting cotemporary and old-world styles, the multi-media pieces of Michelle Samerjan |2| cast a modern light on Eastern tradition. They can be viewed through January 20th at Thomas Anthony Gallery.
Other traditions represented by members of the Park City Gallery Association are Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni. The Crosby Collection deals in vintage and contemporary Native American collectibles. Among Crosby's features are jewelry, pueblo pottery, and kachinas.
Western-themed work abounds on Main Street. For example, Rich Haines specializes in life-size to monumental bronze sculpture. Silver Queen Fine Art features bronze sculptures by renowned artists including Tim Cotterill, Nano Lopez, Jocelyn Russell and Rodd Ambroson.
Three-dimensional work is currently on display at CODA Gallery as well. Dolls of Salt Lake City's Kim Brown, who has been sculpting her creations for 14 years, are featured in January. Brown, who also teaches nursing at Salt Lake's Westminster College uses multiple media, such as paper clay, wood, and fabric to fashion her works. These dolls can be viewed beside CODA's other early January feature: paintings of Tracey Lane, ethereal acrylics nuanced by emotions and memory. Beginning January 11th at CODA, a show featuring the bovine portraits of Utah artist Charley Snow |3| and the whimsical, figurative oil portraits of Utah artist Cassandra Barney can be viewed.
Park City's Montgomery Lee Fine Art offers impressionistic and realistic paintings and sculpture. This gallery represents a wide range of genres as well as a wide range of levels of experience among their artists, from novices to international art celebrities. Currently, the thought-provoking watercolors of Joseph Alleman are featured. The simplicity of his works suggests a narrative to the imagination of each viewer. Also featured now is Jared Sanders' earthy, peaceful portrayals in oil. These will be on display in addition to Montgomery Lee's standard variety of works available.
The broad diversity of Park City's visual arts and the geographic concentration of its many galleries create an ideal setting for art-lovers. Member galleries are located on Main Street and nearby Iron Horse with one additional gallery located in Kimball Junction. On the last Friday of each month, the Park City Gallery association offers a three-hour stroll which runs from 6:00-9:00 pm. Attendees begin the evening at the Kimball Art Center located at 638 Park Avenue . An enticing atmosphere, complete with live music, hors d'oeuvres, and prize drawings further enriches the viewing experience. Each month, strollers are treated to interactions with multiple featured artists at the various galleries. A map and ticket may be purchased at the Kimball Art Center for $5.
For a complete list of members of the Park City Gallery Association, including their physical and web addresses, plus telephone numbers and gallery overviews, visit www.kimball-art.org/gallerystrollguide.htm, or visit Kimball, Park City's nonprofit community art center, for more information.
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Organization Spotlight
Not Your Grandmother's Stroll
Gallery Stroll Turns Two This Month
by Shawn Rossiter
To most of you in Salt Lake it might come as a surprise when I tell you that the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll is two years old this month.
"Surely," you'll say, "Gallery Stroll has been around longer than that. My grandma used to take me to Gallery Stroll!" And in a sense you're right. Gallery Stroll does go back more than twenty years, so while your grandmother might not have attended there's a good chance your parents did. But that's the old Gallery Stroll, the Salt Lake Gallery Association Gallery Stroll. The toddling two year-old I'm talking about is the new Salt Lake Gallery Stroll.
What was first known as the "Gallery Crawl" began in 1983. For more than twenty years Gallery Stroll remained one of the Salt Lake Gallery Association's major projects. That ended in 2006, when Gallery Stroll made a quiet split from the SLGA and became a 501 (c) 3 non-profit. Kristina Robb and Laura Durham helped make the split. Robb, Executive Director of the Pickle Company, and Laura Durham, Visual Arts and Traveling Exhibits Coordinator of the Utah Arts Council, were both serving as Vice Presidents of the SLGA. They had a vision for Gallery Stroll, where it could become more inclusive and seek greater funds in order to better reach and educate the public about the visual arts in Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake Gallery Association has a limited budget made up of members dues. As a commercial association, they can not seek foundation and grant money. Robb and Durham proposed that Gallery Stroll become its own entity so that, as a non-profit association, they could seek more funds and better serve both the Gallery Association and the wider visual arts community in Salt Lake.
"It only made sense to have the Gallery Stroll fit so it could focus on visual arts education in the community and the SLGA could focus on their mission, which was more focused on promoting the galleries and selling artwork," Durham says.
The SLGA voted unanimously to approve the split. In its new form, the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll has a mission to bring the value of visual arts to the forefront of Salt Lake City’s culture by stimulating interest and investment in our ever-growing art community. Robb now serves as its executive director and Durham as its program director. The Salt Lake Gallery Stroll is now more inclusive, allowing galleries that are not members of the SLGA to participate in the monthly event. This allows for a more accurate representation of the visual arts across the city.
The SLGA became one of the founding sponsors along with the City Weekly. The Salt Lake Gallery Stroll’s first project was to start an advertising campaign with the City Weekly. The week of Gallery Stroll, City Weekly features a four page inset with a list of participating galleries. The galleries stay open until 9 pm so visitors can view the art and meet the artists.
Many of the Gallery Stroll's sponsoring businesses, such as coffee shops and restaurants, also display artwork and their exhibits are listed as well. Gallery Stroll is a free event and you can map out your own route by picking up a City Weekly a couple days before the Stroll, or visiting www.gallerystroll.org.
As far as new organizations go, the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll has had a great head start with its twenty year history. Most people are still unaware that there ever was a split and the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll is a separate, and functioning organization with a 501 c3 and a board of directors. "The most difficult thing to overcome is the misinformation out there” says Robb. Search engines, local papers, local galleries, etc. publish their own particular articles and postcards that may or may not be correct as far as what’s actually happening with Gallery Stroll that month. Getting participating galleries to send their information in on time so the public can be informed in a timely manner is always a challenge (something we at 15 Bytes know very well).
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