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Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
PARK CITY
GALLERY MAR celebrates summer with three receptions during the month of July. UPCOMING: Local Fireworks, First Anniversary Celebration, with new artwork by Aaron Memmott, Penelope Moore, Ron Russon, Jan Perkins, Shirley McKay, Cristall Harper, Kerry Soper, and Adam Winegar. Reception on Friday, July 3rd, 2009. You can help the gallery celebrate Park City’s 125th Anniversary and enter to win prizes, giveaways, and complimentary treats all weekend long. AND: It’s a Lush Life, new works by Aaron Memmott |0| and Penelope Moore. Reception on Friday, July 10th, 2009 4 to 7 p.m., in conjunction with the Park City Food and Wine Classic’s Stroll of Park City. ALSO: Textured Stories, new works by Mary Scrimgeour and Ron Russon. Russon paints in oil, employing a loose brush and pallet knife to varied scenes, from a serene resting tractor in a windrowed field of hay to a cacophony of geometric colors creating luminescent bison. Through both abstraction and realism, his art reflects his relationship with nature and his communication with the outdoors. Scrimgeour interprets the world by painting what she sees and feels. Her paintings, thick with paint and imagery, often begin with a story or narrative. Reception on Friday, July 31st, 2009 6 to 9 p.m., in conjunction with the Park City Arts Festival and the Park City Gallery Association’s Gallery Stroll.
Julie Nester Gallery UPCOMING: Entropy, new paintings by Jeff Fontaine, opening with a reception for the artist, Friday, July 3, 5:30 - 8 pm. Through July 29. Fontaine, a Portland, Oregon artist, paints in oil and mixed media on steel in what he calls "quilted" metal panels.|1| In his latest series of paintings, Fontaine focuses on the innate beauty created as manmade objects break down and naturally age. Each work is based on photographs the artist has taken of old signs, rusting train cars and crumbling architecture. His entire process is a controlled attempt at reproducing and suspending the natural breakdown of things, or entropy.
Kimball Art Center UP: Danny Lyon: Bikeriders in the Main Gallery. In 1963, armed with a Nikon, a Rolleiflex, and a seven-pound tape recorder, Lyon became the chronicler of the notorious motorcycle gang, the Chicago Outlaws. With The Bikeriders, Lyon defined a new mode of photojournalism, one in which the picture-maker is deeply embedded in his subject matter. Through July 26. AND: Amanda Moore: Blue Sky Topographics in the Garage Gallery. Salt Lake based photographer, Amanda Moore, records the life of old highways, Mom & Pop motels and rundown buildings. Her images depict the evidence of life out west, whether in a state of ruin or revitalization (see June edition). Through July 26. ALSO: Mark Knudsen in the Badami Gallery. Mark Knudsen views his task as a simple one. He paints the West as it is, confident that the beauty of the world unadorned is sufficient. Through August 3.
Phoenix Gallery UP: Back from Africa: New paintings by Olivia Mae Pendergast. Pendergast has just returned from 14 weeks immersed in the small village of Nhotakota , Malawi, in eastern Africa. This was Pendergast's second trip to Malawi (for an account of the first see our June 2008 edition) and the artist spent her time living, working and playing with the subjects of the paintings she has now brought back to Utah.|2| One of the paintings will be the prize in a raffle to be held July 28th. The gallery is exchanging raffle tickets for gently used paperback children's' books to be donated to the Nhotakota village school. Through July 28. UPCOMING: Jared Gillett, opening July 31.
OGDEN AREA
Crowley Wilkerson Fine Art Galleries (Upper galleries of Artists & Heirlooms, 115 Historic 25th St. in Ogden, Utah) UP: Inaugural exhibit featuring the paintings of Ogden artist Eric Zschiesche, the featured artist at this year’s 6th Annual Ogden Arts Festival, picked by the festival committee during last year’s plein air competition for his portrayal of a beautiful cityscape reminiscent of downtown Ogden.
Eccles Community Art Center UP: 35th Annual Statewide Competition, featuring western theme works of resident Utah artists in the Main Gallery. The Carriage House Gallery will feature the paintings of Terry C. Johnson of Farmington. A reception for the artists and the announcement of awards is scheduled for Friday, July 3rd from 6 to 9 p.m. Through August 29th.
Gallery at the Station UPCOMING: 2009 Traces of the West Art Exhibition and Sale, celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Ogden Pioneer Days. $7500 in prize money will be awarded to western artists from across the country. Opening reception, Friday, July 3, 2009, 5 – 8 pm.
Pleasant Valley Branch Library (5568 S. Adams Avenue) UP: Of Silence and Shadow: Two Views, featuring paintings by Korean born artist Hyunmee Lee and assemblages by Frank McEntire. Through July 15.
Gallery 25 UPCOMING: Featured artist Doug Wride, a watercolorist residing in Pleasant View. Wride attended BYU on an art scholarship, but instead graduated in finance. He worked as a stockbroker for 18 years before returning to his first love, watercolor. Opening reception Friday July 3rd, from 6-9 pm. Through July.
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BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Bountiful Handcart Days Exhibition, with the theme of "Celebrating Our Heritage." Through July 25. This exhibit extends an opportunity for the talented people and unique artistic visions in our community to display their work. Inspired by cultural, historical, natural and whimsical themes, artists from all over northern Utah offer pieces that touch on most every medium of art and craft.
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Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: Uses of the Real: Originality, Conditional Objects, and Action/Documentation, Contemplation, an exhibit that uses works from the Museum's permanent collection to explore the question, "What is art?" Panel discussions and viewer participation projects will be sponsored during the exhibition through 2009. Through December 2009.
BRIGHAM CITY
Brigham City Museum UP: Annual Quilt Festival, with featured quilter Judith Tomlinson Trager of Longmont, Colorado . Festival will also feature quilts by Marta Amundson, Riverton, Wyoming; Kazuko Covington, Irvine, California; Jinny Lee Snow, Salt Lake City; Marilyn Fashbaugh, Clinton; and other artists from Northern Utah. Through August 1.
Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
UTAH COUNTY
Springville Museum of Art UP: 85th Annual Spring Salon, encouraging diverse applications of style and technique and promoting varied conceptual and formal directions in art. Through July 5. AND: Selections the John Schaeffer Collection of Victorian Art, through September.
UPCOMING: 36th Annual Quilt Show, a favorite with museum goers, highlights the beauty, artistry and skill of Utah's best quilters. July 17 - September 2, 2009.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
UP: Dan Steinhilber, an exhibition of installations by the Washington, D.C.-based artist. The exhibition consists 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 January edition). Through August 1.
AND: Visions of the Southwest from the Diane and Sam Stewart Art Collection (see March edition). Through July 3.
ALSO: Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic, a photography exhibition of a familiar make-believe world created from buttons, dice, marbles, rubber frogs, toy robots, and other whimsical items. Forty large-scale photographs by Walter Wick, author and photographer of more than 30 children books that include the popular “I Spy” (with Jean Marzollo) and “Can You See What I See?” series, are on display along with five models that Wick used to create some of the images, and a behind-the-scenes video presentation that will help visitors understand how Wick creates the images in his books. Through August 1.
BYU Harold B. Lee Library Exhibits UP: Whitney Hardie: Daughters of Eve, through August 6 in the Hallway Gallery, level 2.
GALLERY 303 at the HARRIS FINE ARTS CENTER (BYU campus) UP: Reappropriated Passion, an exhibit of assemblage sculptures by Frank McEntire, curated by Jason Lanegan (see page 1). Through July 15.
Covey Center for the Arts UP: Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit July 29. The 13th annual exhibit held in conjunction with America's Freedom Festival at Provo. Painting, drawing, sculpture, print making and fiber art are displayed in this juried show. Artists throughout the state submit hundreds of entries, and approximately sixty are chosen for display Three prominent Utah artists juried this year's show: Sunny Belliston, LeRoy Transfield , and Justin Taylor. Through July 29.
Terra Nova UPCOMING: Paper Cutting, July 3 - 31. Opening Reception & Downtown Provo Gallery Stroll Friday July 3rd from 6-9pm.
SANPETE COUNTY
Central Utah Art Center UP: Robert Marshall, long-time BYU professor of art AND sculptor Lyuba Prusak, through July 7. UPCOMING:
CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UP: Southern Utah Art Invitational, Summer Exhibit and Sale. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, the Cedar City Art Committee and Cedar City Artisans presents an exhibit of work by invited Southern Utah artists. Through September 5.
ST. GEORGE AREA
St. George Art Museum UP: From Pale to Brilliant-Photography of the West. Through September 12. Main Gallery: Through the Infrared Lens-Curated by Barry Parsons, Mezzanine Gallery: Whispers of the West by Steve Mohlenkamp; Legacy Gallery: Shakespeare as Muse by Gina Jrel.
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