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Prepared by 15 Bytes staff. Unless otherwise noted, UPCOMING shows begin June Gallery Stroll, JUNE 18, 6 to 9 pm. For official Gallery Stroll information visit www.gallerystroll.org. UPCOMING and UP listings should reach us by the last Wednesday of the month. Those accepted will run until the closing date, or for one month if no closing date is given. Readers using the guide are cautioned to check with the exhibitor if the accuracy of the listing is crucial. Please send listings for this page to editor@artistsofutah.org

GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE UP: Eclectic Paintings and Automata by Edie Roberson. Edie Roberson is known for her extensive "post modern" work and for her trompe-l'oeil paintings, which make it difficult to tell where the two-dimensional painting ends and the three-dimensional real world begins.|0| Roberson's unique style has evolved over the decades and has slipped the bounds of traditional artistic categorization. Her pieces range from colorful impressionistic natural landscapes, to super-realistic still-life, to ethereal free-flight through cloud-filled dreamscapes, to light-hearted parties and gatherings of various human, animal, and antique toy "beings" (see page 3). This exhibit is presented in partnership with the Utah Arts Festival. Through July 9. Talk with the artist: Saturday, June 26, 3 - 4 pm. Public reception: Saturday, June 26, 4 - 5:30 pm.

HOUSE GALLERY UP: Contemporary Landscapes, work by three contemporary artists whose conceptually driven works explore the landscape. Anita Bunn dissects the meaning of depth of field within the context of landscape photography, calling to mind the minimalist paintings of Ellsworth Kelly. |1| Also, Tanja Kunz's new series of drawings of black and white outlines of abstracted forms rooted in the landscape. Pete Grady's digital photographic landscapes deconstruct the cliché view of the landscape. In a cubist manner Grady collages rectangles of photographic information, both his own and appropriated images, with colored geometric forms transforming our expectation for the seamless photograph of nature.

SALT LAKE ART CENTER UPCOMING: Contemporary Masters, 18 fully playable works of artist-designed miniature golf fill the Art Center's Main Gallery.|2| The idea was launched over a year ago by the 337 Project, which has now become a program of the Salt Lake Art Center. To extend playing time, the Art Center will also be open Sundays, noon to 5 pm throughout the duration of the exhibit. June 18 -- September 16. AND: In the Street Level Gallery, Not Just Another Pretty Face, the latest installment of the Art Center's fundraising program. The exhibit features newly-commissioned works of art created by Utah artists at the request of new collectors. June 8 – July 24.

CHARLEY HAFEN GALLERY UP: Marquadt and Hall. Rob Marquadt |3| explores the play between pure art form and the rugged, simple, utilitarian functionality of ceramics. He utilizes found objects to decorate a wide range of ceramic forms including vases, bowls and teapots. |4| UPCOMING: Imaginal Alchemy, Lisa Scopes Oliver's free-flowing mixed media paintings of ethereal abstract compositions and colorful interplay.|5|

UTAH CULTURAL CELEBRATION CENTER UP: High Desert Splash, the 2010 Western Federation of Watercolor Society's 35th annual show,|6| hosted by the Utah Watercolor Society. Artists from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Oregon and Utah will all be included in this dynamic exhibit featuring 101 pieces of art (see May edition). Through June 28.

SUGAR HOUSE GALLERY UP: The Art of Obsession featuring paintings by Jeannie Hatch and sculptures by Julie Lucus (see page 4). Their works converge through abstract and avant-garde interpretations of psychological myth and drama in contemporary life. UPCOMING: Greg Sumner, a local photographer who after being "trapped" working in a TV Station for twenty-seven years, has returned to fine art photography. This, his first one-man show since his hiatus, features color, digital photographs shot in the central Mountains of Mexico in the last two years.|7|

UMFA UP: Africa: Arts of a Continent. Explore themes of the spirit world and afterlife with African art objects from the UMFA’s permanent collection. Through September 6, 2011.AND: Pablo O'Higgins: Works on Paper, a selection of lithographs by the late Pablo O'Higgins, a Utah artist dedicated to creating heroic depictions of the working class in revolutionary Mexico (see May edition). Through September 19. AND: Las Artes de Mexico, on loan from the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, explores the art, history, and culture of Mexico across many eras and regions, from the ancient work of the Mayans and Aztecs to groundbreaking modernist painting of the twentieth century. Through September 26. INCLUDES: Accompanying the Artes de Mexico exhibit, view a variety of objects from pre-conquest Central and South America from the UMFA's permanent collection. Community: Eat, Work, Play Big a collaboration between the UMFA, Lincoln Elementary School, and the University of Utah's Artsbridge Scholars inspired by Las Artes de México and the Mexican muralist movement. salt 1, the first of an ongoing series of semiannual exhibitions entitled salt, features the work of Mexico City-based artist Adriana Lara. Lara takes the exhibition format itself as an object of inquiry, arranging objects in unexpected, sometimes humorous configurations that foreground and dismantle the conventions of displaying and looking at art.

GALLERY UAF UP: Natural Environment,
works by Shanna Brady, Ryan Buffington, Krystal Rogers and Jennifer Marie Suflita. Brady’s sculptural jewelry is a meditation on natural elements. Buffington’s works are figurative compositions in atmospheric invented spaces intended to isolate and stage the figures. Krystal Rogers and Jennifer Marie Suflita are collaborating using collage, and fabric to explore humankind's most basic relationship to the earth: growing our food. The materials they use are equally important to the imagery portrayed. A series of 6 fabric panels portray the parallels between human development and seed development and where they come together.

A GALLERY UP: Kathryn Stedham (the subject of a 15 Bytes artist profile in February 2010). UPCOMING: Summer Solstice event.

ALPINE ART UP: The Bigger, The Better, new paintings by Tyler Bloomquist, and Steven Sheffield as well as graphite work Regina Stenberg. UPCOMING: Best in Show, artwork by local artists benefiting No More Homeless Pets.

KAYO GALLERY UP:Into the White,new works by Cara Despain and Mary Toscano that value negative space and the subtle qualities of a hand-draw line (see page 3). For a video interview with Toscano see our May edition. UPCOMING: 24 Hours, annual exhibit of work produced by University of Utah students in a 24-hour art-making marathon.

PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: A new series of paintings by Joe Ostraff |9| and sculpture by Dan Toone, |10| with photographer Bill Patterson in the Dibble Gallery (see page 3). UPCOMING: Rural Utah landscapes by Tom Howard.

PATRICK MOORE GALLERY UP: A Gathering of Glass, the Glass Art Guild of Utah's annual exhibition features work by professional glass artists working with kiln formed, torch worked, and blown glass. Through June 11.

MUSEUM OF CHURCH HISTORY & ART UP: The Salt Lake Tabernacle: Gathering the Saints under One Roof. The exhibit examines the architectural influences on the Tabernacle's design and construction, and displays historical photographs that document the construction progress. Upper Level. Through September 5.

GITTINS GALLERY (U of U dept of art) UPCOMING: Querl, a mixed media installation and performance piece by Stefanie Dykes that examines the act of contemplation and the role of the artist.|11| The MFA exhibition centers around a collection of transformed books, exploring notions of accumulation, enculturation and identity. June 14 - July 2. Opening reception Thursday, June 17, 6 - 9 pm.

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ROSE WAGNER ART CENTER UP: Thomas Aaron, a graduate of the University of Utah, displays large canvases using an abstract vocabulary to evoke the Utah landscape. |12| Through May.

ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UPCOMING: Works by Al Denyer, Aurora Hughes Villa and Sunny Belliston. In her newest series of drawings, Flow, University of Utah professor Denyer works in graphite to create subtle evocations of the landscape seen from an aerial viewpoint. Wall-Paper, an exhibit of mixed-media objects employing porcelain wall objects and hand-printed wallpaper panels by Aurora Hughes Villa, explores objects and images related to domestic space and the body. In the Park Gallery BYU professor Sunny Belliston exhibits a series of small, sculptural paintings that reference the modernist shaped canvases of such artists as Frank Stella and Imi Knoebel. June 11 - July 22.

HORNE FINE ART UP: Fresh additions to evolving show Phyllis Horne Paints Spring and Summer. Through July 23. UPCOMING: Summer in the City, another series of cityscape paintings by Karen Horne. The exhibition depicts the "parade of life" at outdoor cafes, |13| plazas and parks, including an ongoing series on the Utah Arts Festival, showing crowd scenes at different times of day.

APERTURE GALLERY UP: Illumination, an exhibit by photographer Will Thompson|14| that deconstructs the facade of perfection to reveal the inner whisper of truth (see page 6). Opens Pride Weekend, (June 4, 6 - 9 pm) and 30% of sales go to benefit Equality Utah, the state’s largest LGBT civil rights organization.

WILLIAMS FINE ART UP: David Meikle and Erin Berrett.|15| From Utah landscapes to paintings of diet Coke cans, these two dynamic talents will have over 30 new paintings (see page 6). UPCOMING: The Wasatch Society of Artists first annual exhibition. Artists include: Gary Ernest Smith, Jim Morgan, John Berry, Richard Hull, Bonnie Posselli, Rob Colvin, Ron Russon, G. Russell Case, and Steve Kropp.

ALCHEMY COFFEE UP: New pastels and images of the Great Salt Lake by Dayle Record including "Persephone Re-enters the Third Dimension, Somewhere in Utah." Through June 12.

SAANS DOWNTOWN UP: Oil paintings and watercolors by Alojz Petras and Roman Turcel.
UPCOMING: The Holga Show returns to the gallery with work submitted from around the world by aficionados of the cheap Chinese camera.


SCHORR GALLERY (8000 South Redwood Rd., in the West Jordan City Bldg., 3rd floor) UP: Plein air painting by artists of the Utah Artist's League. June 5 - July 16, reception Saturday, June 5, 7 - 8 pm.

EVERGREEN FRAMING UP:Works by Carel Brest van Kempen, who combines art and biology with stunning detail.



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