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Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
PARK CITY
The next Park City Gallery Stroll is Friday, February 27, from 6 to 9 pm.
Phoenix Gallery UP: Into the Bright Stillness, new work by mixed-media artist Jay Kelly. This new series of collage works incorporates the artist's photography as well as images carefully collected from vintage magazines, books and old product packaging.|0| Sealed under a glossy coat of resin, the work presents a fluid transition between new and old, peppered with clippings of layered text to unlock the inherent narratives the images create. "The title of the show is drawn from a found bit of text featured in one of the pieces, reflecting a sense of juxtaposition in my work, and highlighting the beauty waiting in unexpected places," says the artist. "While my focus for this series is the great outdoors and timeless winter scenes, these are not traditional landscapes or wildlife portraits, rather, they are contemporary compositions derived from a careful blend of classic beauty and modern life. UPCOMING: Siddharth Parasnis and Claudia Coberly, opening February 14. AND: Carole Wade, opening February 27.
Julie Nester Gallery UP: Dimensional Poetics, an exhibition of new paintings by Hyunmee Lee.|1| Lee combines bold, expressive brushstrokes with soft, subdued fields of color, thereby creating a strikingly beautiful balance in composition and design. "I have always been more interested in the substance of the brush stroke than its symbolism; I am concentrating on spontaneous gestures," Hyunmee Lee writes. "My work is a contemplation of the spirit as it embarks on to the canvas and a conscious and unconscious step toward "Big Mind," the Buddhist concept of meditation resulting in a Zen-like form of enlightenment and connectedness to nature and the universe."
Coda Gallery UP: James Beckner, Brian McGuffey and Leif Holland. UPCOMING: New work by Wendy Chidester |2| and Chelsea James |3|, opening February 27, 6 - 9 pm. Both artists are graduates of the University of Utah and have an affinity for still lifes. Chidester looks for old, worn objects -- things that have been replaced and forgotten -- as the subjects for her paintings. With the development of rich surfaces she breaths new life into these objects. For her subject matter, James chooses objects "that evoke childhood memories, create situations of atmospheric mystery, and bring visual interest through interaction."
Terzian Galleries UP: New Paintings by Lenka Konopasek and Marshall Noice. UPCOMING: Creative Whimsical, works by Emily McPhie and Kina Crow. Both artists create works that are fun and unique. Crow uses ceramic and mixed-media, while McPhie (see January 2007) paints in layers of oil. Opening with a reception February 27 and continuing through March 13.
Gallery MAR UP: As Nature Unfolds, new works by Brooks Yates and Sharon Jackman. Reception Friday, January 30th, 2009 from 6 to 9 p.m. Through February 9. UPCOMING: First Annual “Art Lovers Valentine’s Eve” and Painting Demo. On Friday, February 13th, Ron Russon will be in the gallery starting at 6 pm for a painting demonstration. AND: Alternate Reality, new works by Ginger Bowen |4| and Fred Calleri, opening with a reception on Friday, February 27th, 2009 from 6 to 9 p.m. February 23 - March 9.
Meyer Gallery UP: Various Forces, thirty new works by contemporary figurative painter Brian Kershisnik. UPCOMING: Painter Mary Roberson and sculptor Sherry Sander, opening Friday, February 13th, 6 - 9pm. Roberson |5| paints wildlife and livestock in a variety of settings, with an eye to contemporary design and picture structure. Sander's bronzes of wildlife |6| are realistically rendered but characterized by swooping lines and impressionistic touch. AND: Cheryl Warrick (see January 2007), collage inspired paintings, opening Friday February 27, 6 - 9 pm, during the Park City Gallery Stroll.
Kimball Art Center UP: Diane Tuft: Salt Lake Reconsidered, in the Main Gallery, January 31 – March 15. In her most recent body of work, New York based photographer Diane Tuft recorded the results of ultraviolet light on the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Since the Great Salt Lake attracts an unusual amount of ultraviolet light, these images reveal the vivid colors that exist beyond one’s vision. The photographs are completely natural with no alterations in color (our March edition will review the exhibit). AND: Lloyd Platt: Abstractions of Nature, in the Garage Gallery, January 31 – March 15. At the age of sixty-five, Lloyd Platt retired from his career as a notable Salt Lake architect to pursue his passion for painting. In the past eight years, Platt has created a prolific body of work. His paintings are bold in color and contrast, conveying an abstract perception of nature. ALSO: Sandy Brunvand: Trail Explorations, in the Badami Gallery, January 31 - March 15. Salt Lake artist Sandy Brunvand's new series combines drawings, etchings, wood engravings, wood cuts and relief prints that focus on an obsession with lines and marks. The images relate to natural forms found in and around the hills of Utah, but are abstracted and layered allowing for multiple interpretations (see page 1).
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BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: The 9 Muses, an interdisciplinary exhibit featuring the art and poetry of 18 Utah poets and artists through February 15. (see January edition).
UPCOMING: 2009 Statewide Competition, February 27 - April 3. Opening Reception on February 27 at 7pm.
OGDEN AREA
Universe City (2556 Washington Blvd, Ogden 458-8959) UP: The Art of Performing Arts, Arté Gras: Costumes from Beaux’ Stratagem and West Side Story by Weber State University faculty and Department of Performing Arts theatre costume designers, Catherine Zublin and Lindsay Keller. Zublin’s work will include actual costumes, original color renderings, photographs of the costumes on stage, and other aspects of the design and construction of costumes for the stage. These will include costumes from lasts year’s production of this fall’s production of “Beaux’ Stratagem.” Keller's work, a senior design project for "West Side Story," will feature women's dance dresses. The contrast between the two sets of costumes will be startling. Beaux’ costumes are all white, with different textures giving them depth and interest. They also reflect the era of the George Farquhar play which opened in 1706. “West Side” costumes are all selected from the women’s dresses from the dance scene in the gymnasium. All are in brilliant colors from the 1950s and are appropriately filled out with yards and yards of petticoat netting to make the skirts fashionably full. Through February 21.
Eccles Community Art Center UP: 16th Statewide Photographic Competition in the Main Gallery and the watercolor paintings of Terrece Beesley (see image below) in the Carriage House Gallery. The 16th Statewide Photographic Competition will feature recent (within the last two years), original photographs by resident Utah photographers. Salt Lake City photographer, Dr. Laurel Casjens served as the juror for the competition.
Beesley is an award winning artist, who has exhibit through the Western United States. Beesley's preferred medium is watercolor with her chosen theme: still life. A recent internet article said "the artist (Terrece Beesley) captures with an inquisitive eye and surprising sense of humor, the cultural signifiers of contemporary society and explores the quizzical interaction between natural and manmade objects. Although Beesley works with traditional mediums of watercolors and clay board, her still lifes are anything but old fashion, instead each of her paintings, filled with an assortment of knickknacks, present the viewer with not only a personal vignette, but a cultural commentary.” The article concludes with the statement that “Bessley paints with glimmering colors in a multitude of short, quick, brushstrokes, creating lively, energetic paintings which are a refreshing contradiction to preconceived notions of still life.”
Both open Friday, February 6th and continue through Saturday, March 21. An artists’ reception at which awards will be presented is scheduled for February 6th, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Gallery at the Station UP: Art by Weber County Teachers.
Shaw Gallery at Weber State UP: Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas. Virginia Dodier – photography historian, museum curator and a Mexican-American born in a Texas border town and raised in Alaska and Oregon – knows the feeling of living in two worlds. Her unique background led to a vision for Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas, a photography exhibition presenting positive images of women’s lives lived somewhere between the beloved home of their birth and a new home in America.
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Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: Women's Work, featuring the work of contemporary women printmakers from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. Included in the exhibition are 56 prints by a number of contemporary women artists, including Anni Albers, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Kruger, Bridget Riley, Kiki Smith, Judy Pfaff, Pat Steir and Kara Walker, among others. Through March 1, 2009.
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