|
Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
PARK CITY
The next Park City Gallery Stroll is Friday, April 24, from 6 to 9 pm.
Julie Nester Gallery UP:Lighting the sun, new work by Donna Mintz (see above). In this exhibit the artist presents a series of paintings and a large installation made of 5,000 shards of glass. The impetus for the work comes from a man-made lake outside of Atlanta that has recently receded due to a prolonged drought. Lake Lanier was formed in the 1950’s when local authorities dammed two rivers. The land that the lake occupied was previously home to the Cherokee and Mississippian Indians and the settlers that followed them. Traces of these previous inhabitants were covered up when the lake was formed. Due to the drought, these traces are now being re-exposed. The artist has spent hours in the dry lakebed gathering artifacts and evidence of their existence. The almost 5000 glass shards that make up the center installation were gathered where they were discarded 60 or 100 or more years ago. The glass shards are strung on monofilament and are suspended from the ceiling. These floating bits of color and shape create a festive monument to reclamation and transformation. The collaged paintings in the exhibit, contain as many as 20 layers of paint, and refer to the archaeological process by which the artist found the artifacts – the alternate covering and uncovering in order to find what is beneath.
Kimball Art Center UPCOMING: Danny Lyon: Bikeriders in the Main Gallery, June 12 – July 26. 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. AND: Amanda Moore: Blue Sky Topographics in the Garage Gallery, June 12 – July 26. 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 page 5). ALSO: Mark Knudsen in the Badami Gallery, June 12 – August 3. 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.
OGDEN AREA
Crowley Wilkerson Fine Art Galleries (see page 2) 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: Jeanine and Loren Downing. New and old paintings by Jeanine Downing and gems and silversmith works by Loren Downing with paintings by Vivian Bergenthal in the Carriage House Gallery. Reception for the artists Friday, June 5, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Gallery at the Station UPCOMING: Traces of the West Art Exhibition and Sale, June 26, 10am - 5pm.
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 UP: Featured artist Mac Stevenson through the month of June. Stevenson, who lives in North Ogden, has spent his career teaching art to High School students, and was chosen as Utah High School Art Teacher of the Year in 1994. After seven years in University, and 29 years teaching art, Mac now directs his energy toward teaching himself.
BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Utah Watercolor Society's statewide show, comprised of artists working with water media on paper. Juried by Sterling Edward. Through June 19.
LOGAN
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: People, Places and Things Along US 89, presenting over 50 black-and-white photographs by Utah photographer John Telford. Telford traveled the entire length of US 89 in Utah multiple times while working on the four-year project. There are many larger-than-life characters in John Telford’s 503-mile photo tour of US Highway 89 in Utah. Telford turns his lens on rural Utahns who make caskets, musical instruments, boots, log furniture, knives and quilts. The lives of a turkey farmer, beekeepers, a fruit grower, book publishers, a barber and a stunt double for movies also unfold before the photographer’s camera. Through June 4.
|
|
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. Jurors Tom Alder, a partner at Williams Fine Art Gallery, and Jeff Lambson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the BYU Museum of Art, chose 253 works out of over 1100. First place was awarded to Wendy Chidester’s “Dalton on Red.” The two second place awards were given to Sunny Belliston and Laura Trinnaman. Randall Lake, Frank McEntire, and David Wayne Meikle received the three third place awards. Through July 3 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 presents an outstanding collection of artworks by major southwestern artists and will tell some of the stories and the strategies that shaped the Stewart’s 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, will be 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.
Covey Center for the Arts UP: Grove and Garden; Signum ProVita features the organic ceramic works of sculptor Gary Killpack as well as pen and ink and watercolor illustrations by Ellen Buchert, illustrator of books such as 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden. June 5 - June 15. UPCOMING: Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit, June 19 - 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. Awards are presented by Mayor Lewis K Billings at the exhibit's opening reception, June 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Terra Nova UP: Summer Glass 2009 through June 26.
SANPETE COUNTY
Central Utah Art Center UP: Heritage Highway Exhibition, juried by Gary Ernest Smith, through June 9.
CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UPCOMING: Southern Utah Art Invitational, Summer Exhibit and Sale, June 19- September 5. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, the Cedar City Art Committee and Cedar City Artisans presents an exhibit of work by invited Southern Utah artists. An opening reception is scheduled for 7:00 PM on June 26, 2009. This invitational Art Show and Sale will run concurrently with the summer season of the Utah Shakespearean Festival.
ST. GEORGE AREA
St. George Art Museum UP: The Museum will be closed May 31 - June 13. UPCOMING: From Pale to Brilliant-Photography of the West, June 13, to 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.
Rimrock Gallery UP: Springtime, a Southern Utah Watercolor Society Show . This Event is open to all water media and features local society members. Artists are invited to submit two pieces of any water media type. Dick Rose, President of the SUWS, said, “a portion of the proceeds go to the Dixie Medical foundation, which provides living facilities for patient families”. The Rimrock Gallery is located on the second floor of the Dixie Regional Medical Center at 400 E and River Road in St. George, Utah. Through June 10.
|
