Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
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ST. GEORGE AREA
St. George Art Museum UP: Wood Takes Root, an exhibition that will showcase the state of the art in contemporary woodwork. The exhibition includes artists featured in the book New Masters of Woodturning, co-authored by exhibit curator Kevin Wallace and published by Fox Chapel Publishing to coincide with the exhibition. Through May 24.
AND: Legacy of Wood, in the Legacy Gallery, features paintings by many artists, including Roland Lee, Rhonda Rainey, Robert Call, Gerald Bishop, Oliver Parson, David Jackson, David Merrill, Russell Case, Jim Jones, and George Dibble. Through May 24.
ALSO: The Inspired Line: Selected Prints of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn from the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, a traveling showcase of prints from two renowned masters.
A series of Royden Card's woodblock prints of Zion National Park, From Blocks to Rocks, will also be on display.
Canyon Community Center (Springdale) UP: Diane Douglas Solo Exhibit of pastel works. Through June 2.
Sears Art Gallery UPCOMING: We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe; A Photo History of Latinos in Utah. This informative photographic exhibit hung in the Capitol Rotunda, in Salt Lake City. Dignitaries from St. George City and the Latino community will join our supportive patrons for the reception. Opening reception: May 30, 7-9 p.m. Through August 8.
Thunderbird Foundation at Mt. Carmel UP: New works by G. Russel Case through May.
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UTAH COUNTY
Thanksgiving Point Art Institute UP: Pixelism, Utah's first photographic exhibition of cell phone imagery. |0| In this exhibit, Utah-based artist, Brett Sykes, introduces his unique style of making fine art photographs using his cell phone. To explore modern themes of communication and the advancement of technology, the artist uses his cell phone to create large-scale photographic portraits. These initially small photographs, taken with the crude image sensor and low resolution of a typical camera phone (a Motorola MOTORAZR), are then cropped in on, and expanded to mural-sizes (4 x 6 feet). This process breaks the digital image down to its fundamental building blocks, pixels, and allows the viewer to see the color and shape relationships that happen beneath the surface of digital photographic realism. "We live in an age where millions of people have a camera on them at all times in the form of their cellular phone," the artist says. "This technology has created an army of photographers, a worldwide network of image-makers who are able to create and share images around the world in less than a minute and at the simple click of a button." Sykes believes this new technology will have a great impact on photography as a medium, and in this exhibit is eager to "explore the very nature of what digital photography is, while creating beautiful, abstracted images of color, form and technology." Through May 23rd.
Springville Museum of Art UP: Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting through 27 July 2008. 'Delicious' is perhaps the best way to describe the art of iconic American artist Wayne Thiebaud. Whether it is the delectable desserts of his paintings or his almost touchable painting surfaces, to see his work is a multi-sensory experience (see page 1).
UP: 84th Annual Spring Salon. Celebrating its 84th year, the Springville Museum of Art's Annual Spring Salon received nearly a thousand entries from Utah artists for the third consecutive year. Two hundred and eighty three of the submitted works were accepted into the exhibition.
Juror's First Place Awardee Justin J. Taylor painted a multiple-figured depiction of an introspective girl in split-second images in "Clarity at the End of Things." |1| With accepted works including lyrical and photo-realistic portraiture, pastoral and idyllic landscape, fine still life, grand sculpture, and signature Utah landscape photography and painting, it's unsurprising that the show represents the best in contemporary Utah fine art. Through July 6.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
UP: Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint, through May 26, examines how the American mural and pageantry movements influenced Teichert's artistic production through 45 of her large-scale narrative murals (see November edition).
AND: Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer, an exhibition of British works from the Victorian period from the private collection of Australian businessman and entrepreneur John H. Schaeffer (see page 5). Through August 16.
ALSO: Dismantling Geneva Steel: Photographs by Chris Dunker through November 1. For three years Utah artist Chris Dunker (see March edition) documented the dismantling of the Geneva Steel Works in Vineyard, Utah, through the lens of a large-format camera. His photographs utilize color, light and scale to explore the formal elements of the vacant industrial structures and to articulate a sense of loss and morning for an industry that profoundly shaped the life of Utah County throughout the twentieth century.
BYU Harold B. Lee Library Exhibits
UP: Keiko Tanifuji's Humuhumu Nukunuku through June 25, 2008. Auditorium Gallery, level 1
Sego Art Center (169 N. Univ. Ave; 599-0680) UP: Genesis, a group show featuring 9 local artists: Hyunmee Lee, Jared Clark, Ruel Brown, Chris Purdie, Ryan Neely, Jared Latimer, Valerie Atkisson, Jeff Larson, and Brian Christensen. This is the inaugural show for this new contemporary art space.
Coal Umbrella UP: New works by Nate Ashby |2|.
Metropolitan Salon UP: New Oils by Jesse Royston.
Gallery OneTen UP: The State Street Project, through April 15. A cross-section of Utah as seen by eight artists and one road. From the Idaho border to the Arizona state line, via highway 89. Work by: Namon Bills, Steven Stradley, Justin Wheatley, Steph Johnsen, Liz Wilson, Shawn Stradley, Sarah Bigelow, Steven Hardman.
Mode Boutique UP: New works by Hayley Barker, a.k.a. HPLovecraft.
Coleman Studios UP: Verdie Taggart, works in encaustic .
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Terra Nova Gallery UP: His & Hers, an exhibit of works by husband and wife artists. Exhibiting husband and wife teams include: Andres & Jenny Bravo, Sharron & Paul Evans, Ben & Kerri Hammond and Clay & Rebecca Wagstaff.
Flower Basket Boutique (409 N. Univ. Ave., 375-8096) UP: New works by local artists.
Maestro's Gelato Cafe (22 W Center St; 691-5550) UP: Erin Knutson, new photographs.
Muse Café (151 N University Ave) UP: New works by local artists.
Utah County Gallery (151 S University Ave; 785-2059) UP: UCAB Spring Juried Show .
Storefront Galleries (250 W Center, 273 W Center, 48 N 300 W; 377-5700) UP: "Reliquaries" by Jason Lanegan. "Curious Discoveries and Treasure Boxes" an installation by Kathryn Kennington, paintings and sculptures by the BYU Visual Arts Club.
Covey Center for the Arts UP: Something Broken 2, Mike Evans.
SANPETE COUNTY
Central Utah Art Center UP: Three County High School Juried Art Exhibit, featuring work by students from Sanpete, Juab & Sevier counties. Juried by Amy Jorgensen, a Snow College professor, Ron Staker, the Fairview Museum Director, and Dale Peel, a local artist and furniture maker.
SOUTH EASTERN UTAH
Helper Arts Council UPCOMING: Maynard & Mozart, a performance by the Utah Symphony and exhibit of a private collection of 40 rarely seen pencil drawings by iconic western artist Maynard Dixon. In conjunction with Helper Gallery Stroll on May 17th in historic downtown Helper. Performances at 7pm and 8:30 pm. at the Rio Theater at 214 S. Main in Helper. The gallery stroll begins at 3pm and continues until 9pm and is free to the public. Area restaurants and shops will also be participating in the event. Tickets for the two Utah Symphony performances are $20 each. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Melanie Steele at 435-472-0318.
Moab Art Works UP: Animal Transformations, paintings by Moab artist Alex Burbidge (aka ALEA). Artist's Reception 6-9pm Saturday May 10th. Through June 30.
AND: Speed Week, photographs from Bonneville Salt Flats by Richard Morgenstein. For over twenty years Richard Morgenstein has photographed people for magazines, corporations and private clients. Some of his favorite projects have included Olympic athletes, the workings of a grass-fed cattle ranch, and "Speed Week" at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The common denominator for these diverse subjects is Richard's interest in all kinds of people, their passions, and their environments. Within the profession Richard is well-known for his technical expertise, his lighting acumen, and his easy-going way with people. His photographs of politicians and business leaders have featured regularly in Business Week and Forbes magazines and he was recently called one of the world's finest portrait photographers. Through May 31.
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