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Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
Prepared by 15 Bytes staff unless otherwise indicated.
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Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP:Abstracting the Land: Southwest Transcendentalism, an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection focusing on painters working in New Mexico in the 1930s, called the Transcendental Painting Group. The group established themselves as artists who strove to define their art beyond the traditions of landscape, still life, and figurative imagery. The artwork selected for this exhibition exemplifies these artists’ explorations of the southwestern landscape, expressions of the sublime, and a universal shared sense of values in human experience. The group’s founding manifesto states the group’s intention to “carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world through new concepts of space, color, light and design to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.” Through May 3.
ALSO: Clay: Points of View in the Nora Eccles Treadwell Harrison Ceramics Gallery. Seven graduate students from the ceramics program, in the art department of Utah State University have curated an exhibition from the Museum’s collection. Each student has chosen a theme for their selection. Topics include: what is “beautiful,” architecture and architectural elements, the bowl, earthenware vessels, functional objects, works by Beatrice Wood, and the teapot. Through April 2008.
AND: 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. Art work will be installed to enhance a dialogue about the relationship of objects and concepts. Panel discussions and viewer participation projects will be sponsored during the exhibition through 2009. The museum’s major works of art will remain on display throughout the exhibit, but other elements of the exhibit will change as the exhibit explores what makes art "real" art. Through December 2008
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: The photography of Don O Thorpe in the Main Gallery. The Carriage House Gallery will feature paintings by Debra Martineau of South Ogden. An artist reception is planned for the evening of the First Friday Stroll on Friday, January 4th from 6 to 9 p.m. The work of these two artists will remain on exhibit through January 26th.
Wilkerson Fine Art & Consulting UP: The Fine Art of Living, an exhibit of original artwork beginning January 2nd at Wolf Creek Resort’s The Gallery. The Gallery, Wolf Creek’s new private dining nook located in the clubhouse is open daily to the public. This exhibit will ring in the New Year as it presents a celebration of life, rebirth and a new look and feel to the gallery space. Artists will be offering luscious images that will set the tone and feel for whatever space you want to create.
Myra Powell Gallery UP: Let Wonderland Tell Its Story, Alberttypes of William Henry Jackson through May.
Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at WSU UPCOMING: Life, Times, and Matters of the Swamp, chlorohyl prints by Vietnamese artist Binh Danh, January 7 - February 16. Binh Danh is the Dean W. and Carol W. Hurst Artist in Residence for the College of Arts Humanities for the 2007 – 2008 school year. As part of this residency Mr. Danh will work closely with students in the Department of Visual Arts during the week of January 11 – January 18, 2008. He will give a public lecture on Thursday January 10th, 2008 from 7 to 8 PM in the Lindquist Lecture Hall in the Kimball Visual Arts Center. A reception for the artist will follow the lecture.
Universe City (2556 Washington Blvd, Ogden) UP: Basin and Range III, a third annual artistic response to issues regarding the beautiful mountains that overlook the City of Ogden. Opening night (January 4) will also feature Celtic music by Cristine Jennings Lewis and Sue Hallin. The exhibit will run through January 19th. An abbreviated definition of Basin and Range is a “geographic region characterized by parallel mountain ranges separated by flat valley floors which extends from the Wasatch Front in Utah to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and from Mexico north to Oregon and central Idaho.” The focus of this exhibit is that part of the Basin and Range province that provides the beauty of our own backyard - or front yard, depending on which way your front door faces. The exhibit will include, among others: photography by Steph B. Parke, Dayle Record, Tom Szalay and Charles Trentleman; paintings by LeRoy Jennings and Roberta Glidden; ceramics by Suzanne Storer and poetry by Rob Carney and Ken Brewer.
Three special events are planned during the exhibit:
Saturday, January 5, 6:30-7:30 pm: “Ogden Wilderness: The Time is Now,” presentation by Sierra Club volunteer Dan Schroeder beginning the discussion of how much of our local mountains we want to preserve as wilderness. Explore the concept of creating a wilderness area right at the edge of our city, preserved for future generations.
Friday, January 11, 6:30-7:30 pm: Rob Carney, award-winning poet, recites “The Mother of the Mountains” and other poems. Carney's dynamic style of recitation is not like any poetry "reading" one would expect. These words are not confined to a page but are actually embodied by this fine performing artist.
Saturday January 19th, 6:30-7:30 pm: Basin and Range Geology and Ancient Peoples, by Jeffrey Eaton, WSU Geology and Linda Eaton, WSU Anthropology. Find out about the geological forces still working under our feet. Know more about the people living here before the pioneers.
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BOUNTIFUL
Apple Frame Gallery UP: Small Works Show, by Nathan Pinnock, Michael Albrechtsen, Glen Hawkins, Colleen Howe, Kate Starling.
PARK CITY
Meyer Gallery UP: Two-person exhibition featuring new works by George Allen and Rich Bowman. Rich Bowman was recently featured in an Art Talk feature that described Bowman’s greatest influence: the midwestern sky. One of the great landscape “Hallmark Artists” out of Kansas City, Bowman paints what he knows: lustrous, richly hued sunsets and sunrises over vast open spaces. "The painting is my experience, but I don't want to tell the whole story. I want to render it," he explains. "My goal is to trigger a familiar feeling in the viewer as they connected to a painting. They bring their own experiences to each piece." That partnership creates a heightened emotional experience and a shared sense of renewal for both painter and viewer. George Allen is an award-winning artist whose still life and figurative works hang in public and private collections throughout the United States. George Allen has lived and studied art in France, where he became directly acquainted with European art. His signature painting style is the culmination of years of study and practice with drawing and oil painting: evocative brushstrokes and rich layers of paint. His work has been featured in Utah Artists, a respected book of work from Utah’s best artists.
Kimball Art Center UP: Ginny Ruffner: Aesthetic Engineering through January 6, 2008. Internationally renowned artist, Ginny Ruffner, has brought her bronze, steel and glass sculpture to the Kimball Art Center for Utah residents and tourists. There are ten pieces, some up to 6 feet tall. Seriously injured in a car accident in 1999, Ruffner defied her doctors by continuing her artwork and striving to achieve such incredible success. Although she was told she couldn’t continue to be an artist, she did. Ruffner's exhibition, Aesthetic Engineering, is open to the public and admission is free thanks to a special sponsorship provided by Geneva Rock and generous donors. Washington School Inn and the Miners Club provided lodging for the exhibition.
AND: The Kimball Holiday Glass Ornament Display in the Garage Gallery through January 7.
ALSO: Award-winning photographer, Carolyn Guild displays her black and white images at the Kimball Art Center in the Badami Gallery through January 10.
Phoenix Gallery UP: Language Fields, new Works by Curtis Olson. In his new show, Olson continues to explore his vision of a contemporary Western esthetic. These mixed media works use texture, photography, symbols, metal and an architectural division of space to evoke memories of the wind rustling in long grasses, the way constellations travel across the sky, the vernacular of pioneer architectue, and the lyrical nature of weather patterns on rust. The show features a new series of simple symbols, a more literal depiction of a ‘language’ to help define the western esthetic that is the dominant theme of his artwork.
Coda Gallery UP: Tracy Lane & Kim Brown, Through January 26.
Thomas Anthony Gallery UP: Arkhipov's Winter Wonderland, a holiday show featuring new paintings, scuplture and limited editions from the Russian American artist.
Montgomery Lee Fine Art UP: Joseph Alleman and Jared Sanders.
Terzian Gallery UP: Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff.
Julie Nester Gallery UP: Passports from the Realm a one-person exhibition of new paintings by Gregg Chadwick. Chadwick's figurative paintings in oil are ripe with movement and color. In his paintings translucent veils of color are layered over a rich underpaint so that light penetrates the surface and lets the image glow. His mysterious paintings evoke image, mood and substance. A variety of subjects are included in this latest body of work, including Buddhist monks, strangers walking down the street and Japanese geisha.
In describing the new work, Chadwick says "Movement, travel and pilgrimage are themes of the 21st Century that often appear in my paintings. Travel can involve a physical relocation or it can exist in the realm of the senses. The new paintings in this show travel like the visual notes of a modern Marco Polo. They move from Venice, to India, to Tibet, to China, to Burma, to Thailand, to Japan, to New York to New Orleans, sometimes through my eyes and sometimes through the eyes of others."
The exhibition will run from January 4 - 29 and there will be a reception for the artist on January 4, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
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