Covey Center for the Arts UP: Observations from Life, showcasing the work of Springville artist Ryan S. Brown.
|4| Brown has a degree in illustration from Brigham Young University. He has studied with William Whitaker and at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. "It is important to me to create beauty," says Brown. "The most beautiful things to me are God's creations: the human figure, the natural landscape, etc. It is my goal to imitate nature as closely as possible in order to bring to the viewers beauty as I see it and those aspects of our natural world that are most appealing to me." Brown's work with the Hudson River Fellowship and his Center for Academic Study and Naturalist Painting (CAS) in Provo were featured in
our October edition. Through November 30.
Terra Nova UP: Great Things Small Packages, the gallery's annual exhibition of works by Utah artists in small formats. Through December 24.
CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UP: Jim Jones: Recent Paintings. Jim Jones has captured the essence of the American West and red rock country through his paintings of Zion Canyon and the Grand Canyon. A majority of the pieces that will be on display during this exhibition will become part of the University’s permanent collection. Through December 12.
ST. GEORGE AREA
Sears Art Gallery UP: Selections from the Collection, new acquisitions -- including one of Edith Carlson's elegant "abstract luminism" paintings -- and favorites from the Dixie State College Permanent Art Collection. AND: In the Grand Foyer, Ernesto Perez: Photography, Pam Bird:
Feminine Archetypes from Around the World and Through the Ages, and ceramics: DSC students. Through November 21.
St. George Art Museum UP: Visions of Zion, a juried show of all media showing the best of Zion, from Kanab to Ivins, Cedar to Mesquite
. Through January 16.
AND: A Tribute to Gaell Lindstrom 1919 - 2009, an exhibition of works by the recently deceased artist who was a well-known artist in the area as well as strong supporter of the museum. Several themes run throughout Gaell’s art. In this exhibit his interest in house and roof scapes, people working and engaged in activities, abstraction, boats, and landscape can be seen as threads that appear throughout his career and connecting themes that he returned to time and again (see
page 6). Through January 16, 2010.
Xetava Gardens Cafe (815 Coyote Gulch Court - Kayenta/Ivins Utah)
UPCOMING: Slice of Royden, an exhibit of recent small paintings from the series "VLS" (Vertical Landscape Slices). These paintings of
Royden Card tend to gently shock, with their intense color and nearly abstract structure. They are fragments which hint at a whole, like a salient quote lifted from an expansive poem. November 11 - 15 2009 Reception: November 11 7-9 pm.
SANPETE COUNTY
Central Utah Art Center UP: Sensory Movements, works by Meridith Pingree, October 9 - Novemer 9 (see our review in the
October edition). Opening Reception: Friday, October 9 from 6-8pm.
UPCOMING: Bubble Gum Pop, an exhibition of works by Micol Hebron.
|5| Micol Hebron is a video and performance artist, writer, and curator based in Los Angeles. Her practice explores and illuminates the idiosyncrasies of everyday behaviors as they are determined by gender, social context, power structures, and the art world. In this exhibit the artist presents a two-projection installation entitled “Bubble Gum Pop.” The work responds to, and comments on, the futility of war, and how society sanitizes and inures itself to the realities of war through mechanisms of entertainment. On one wall, young women are seen being styled and "made up" in projected salon-style portraits, while on an opposing wall, plays a projection of young men having their heads shorn, as if in preparation for military service. The ensuing youthful act of gum chewing and popping by both the men and the women evolves into sounds of gunshots, and disappearance. November 14 - December 9. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14 from 6-8pm.
