Springville Museum of Art
UP: The Museum starts off the new year with a host of shows. In addition to new additions to the permanent collection you'll find two exhibits featuring artists working in three-dimensions and three exhibits of Utah painters past and present

Fused, Formed, Fired, an engaging collaborative exhibit featuring works by Utah sculptors Jeanine Young, Dahrl Thomson and Anne Gregerson. Young's stylized men, women and animals are welded (fused) in steel and limited editions are cast in bronze.|1| Dahrl Thomson carves (or forms) her abstract figurative pieces. She views every stone as a unique visible memory of the earth's history.|2| Anne Gregerson's female figures reflect feelings and states of mind. She models her sculptures in water-based clay, then fires them in an electric kiln, often firing each piece multiple times as layers of underglazes and glazes are added.|0|

A Well-Woven Life continues the exploration in three-dimensional work with fiber artists Susan Madden and Joyce Marder. While Madden works in fabric and Marder weaves branches, both artists draw inspiration from nature and stretch their chosen media beyond the expected. Layering bits of fabric, one small piece at a time, Madden grows her art quilts organically, letting the image reveal itself as she works.|3| Similarly, Marder weaves willow, dogwood, and other twigs she prunes alongside roadsides and riverbanks to create fiber sculptures, whose shape and form emerge as she twines the branches together.|4|

Geometry of the Land: The Paintings of Rob Colvin highlights the work of the Morgan artist who enjoyed a successful 25-year career as a freelance illustrator and artist, before devoting himself to his characteristic geometric landscapes.|5|

Carlos Andreson (1904 - 1978), a Midvale artist whose style shifted to abstraction when he left Utah in the 1930s for New York, shared Colvin's interest in design.|6| This exhibit features later works recently donated by Lynn Anderson, a descendant of the artist.

The Museum will also be exhibiting works by Henry LeRoy Gardner, a Payson artist born in 1884.|7| Most of Gardner's career was spent teaching and supervising art in elementary and secondary schools. Most of his work depicts the valleys and mountains of Utah, which shows his love of and familiarity with nature.

All exhibits continue through February 1.

AND: Blaine & Louise Clyde Retrospective Exhibition. A collection of artwork donated by Blaine P. and Louise Clyde and their family members over a 25-year period. Through March 22.

ALSO: Utah Valley K-12 Educators Exhibition. This juried exhibition features works from educators of all subjects and ages throughout Utah county. Through February 1 2009.
2008 New Acquisitions

Woodbury Art Museum UP: Woodbury Invitational. Through February 29, 2009 (see page 3).

AND: Amazonia Photography. Photographs in this exhibit capture the immense and fragile beauty of the rain forest and the destruction often associated with the careless and unregulated exploration and exploitation of its abundant resources. Through January 16.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP: Windows on a Hidden World: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the BYU Museum of Art Collection offers museum visitors a glimpse into Japanese culture during its period of isolation by displaying many of the same woodblock prints that first circled the globe after the country opened to the world in 1854. Through January 17.

ALSO: Dan Steinhilber, an exhibition of installations by the Washington, D.C.-based artist. The exhibition will consist of nearly 20 installation works made specifically for this show from an assortment of everyday, consumer goods, such as dry cleaner hangers, trash bags, bottles of soda pop, fluorescent light bulbs, crowd control stanchions, Styrofoam packing peanuts, soy sauce packets, stacking lawn chairs, and PVC pipe (see page 1).