Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
PARK CITY
Gallery MAR UP: Bread and Blue, new works by Randall Lake.|0| Lake's new work first caught the attention of gallery owner Maren Bargreen when she read his profile in the January 2010 edition of 15 Bytes. For this new “Blue” body of work, Lake’s ideas came to him in the middle of the night; he got “slammed with the idea and had to draw it out, right then and there in the kitchen” and then worked on the piece the next day, using his brush as a cudgel. The new work is focused on human misery, and inspired by Goya’s “Disasters of War.” For Lake, the work is intensely personal: “The imagery in these works, I saw this and I witnessed this.” This work is Randall Lake’s life. These paintings are coming honestly from this artist, without censure. Moving away from teacups, dinghies, florals, and portraits, Randall is now embarking on a new frontier. He is no longer fulfilled, faithfully painting the realistic way objects or landscapes look. UPCOMING: Local Fireworks, new works by local Utah artists including Aaron Memmott, Penelope Moore, Ron Russon, Ryan Brown, Jan Perkins, Shirley McKay, Kerry Soper, Brooks Yates, and Adam Winegar. Opening reception Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 from 3-5 pm.
Meyer Gallery UP: Twenty new painting by Utah and Montana artist and writer Dave Hall.|1| "Dave Hall's oil paintings embody a singular encounter, an internal landscape inspired by the physical experience of the setting," says writer Michele Corriel in the latest issue of Big Sky Journal. Hall's evocative, tonalist landscapes are blended scenes of the inter-mountain west. "A corner of my heart resides there, due in large part to the poetry associated with the convergence of family and friends, moving water and mayfly hatches," writes Hall. Through June 15.
Julie Nester Gallery UPCOMING: Self Portrait Invitational features the self portraits of 17 new and returning artists.|2| Opening reception June 12 from 5:30-8pm. June 12-June 30.
Kimball Art Center UP: Don't Fence Me In: Contemporary Quilts. Quilts feature Western motifs for a wry look at the American West in fabric. Two quilting groups, the Piecemakers from northern Colorado and Denver-based Quilt Explorations, combine forces for this exhibit. June 5-July 25. AND: Bridget Conn: Conjure Tales. Conn creates art from found objects and uses them to tell stories that help her connect to cultural, geographic or familial traditions. June 5-August 1.
AND: Justin Wheatley. The Salt Lake artist Justin Wheatley is fascinated by the way people create their surroundings and inhabit them (see here for a video interview with the artist). His layered images, a combination of photographs and painting, are salvaged fragments of individual places and moments that bring attention to beauty often overlooked in forgotten detail. June 5- August 8.
VERNAL
Western Heritage Art Museum UP: Wild and Woolly, annual Uintah Arts Council Juried Show, includes oil, water colors, pen/pencil/charcoal drawings/sketches, wood carvings, stone carvings, or metal casting. Opening reception Thursday, June 10, 6:30 - 8 pm. June 7 through July 2.
BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Moving Space Sculpture Exhibit and Collaborations, |3| features a wide variety of 3-D art from figurative to contemporary works (see page 5). The companion exhibit, Collaborations, features artists who work together in a collaborative manner. Through June 18.
OGDEN AREA
Eccles Community Art Center UP: Jeff Hepworth and Johnny Hughes. West Haven painter Jeff Hepworth creates his works from plein air studies, pencil sketches, and photo references in an impressionistic, luminous style.|4| Johnny Hughes is best known for ceramic frogs which adorn tea pots, vases and bowls. Recently he has created a line of whimsical ceramics.|5| AND: In the Carriage Gallery, paintings by Ian Ramsay.|6| Through June 26.
Gallery 25 UP: Keith Dabb spent last winter completing a residency at the "Arizona Fine Art Expo" in Scottsdale Arizona. This exhibit will feature the work he completed during the program. Through June.
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BRIGHAM CITY
Brigham City Museum UP: Anniversary Show. In celebration of the museum's 40th anniversary they will display a retrospective of artists who have shown their work and participatied in making the museum what it is today. Through June 26.
LOGAN
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: Uses of the Real: What's New Now? displaying 31 new works donated by the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. Artists new to the museum include Manny Farber, Takako Yamaguchi, Don Suggs, Frances Celentano, Eric Orr, Michael McMillan, Michael Todd, William Wiley and M.A. Peers. Through April 2011. AND: Bobby Ross Draws, in the Study Center. The exhibit includes more than 100 graphite drawings rendered in the artist's meticulous narrative style. As part of the exhibition Ross will create a new drawing every two weeks. He will take suggestions from the public for the subject of his new works through a museum Blog. Through July 31.
These listings only include fine art exhibitions. If you are looking for information on lectures, art talks, classes, workshops, calls for entries, employment opportunities and more, visit our forum.
Special Feature: Statewide
Art Festivals and Street Fairs in Utah This Summer
Ogden Arts Festival
You can kick off your festival attendance this year with a stop at the one day event. Begun in 2004, the festival gets bigger every year and now features 80 booths, surrounding the Fountain Plaza at Union Station and extending down Historic 25th Street. In addition to musical events and kids activities the festival features plein air and quick draw competitions. June 12.
Summerfest Arts Fair
Utah's northernmost Arts Festival, Summerfest celebrates the arts in Cache Valley. June 17 - 19.
Utah Arts Festival
Happening right in the heart of Salt Lake City, the Utah Arts Festival is still the state's biggest. It features big name musical acts (Cowboy Junkies and Michelle Shocked kick off opening night), a local film-festival (including films you've seen in the pages of 15 Bytes), artist booths and a fine art exhibition (new works by Edie Roberson) and the presentation of the Mayor's Awards in the Arts (awardees include Teresa Flowers, Jeff Lambson and Saltgrass Printmakers). June 24 - 27.
Wasatch Plein Air Paradise
Sponsored by the Midway Art Association this event includes a variety of plein air competitions, with awards of over $6000, culminating in an exhibition and sale during July 4th weekend. June 25 - July 6.
America's Freedom Festival
This Utah County event is more about the stadium events -- fireworks and pop singers -- but it does feature a juried art show for children (ages 5 - 14). We couldn't find any information on adult exhibitors.
Sugarhouse Art & Street Festival
This festival tends to be small, taking place on one block of Highland Drive, between 21st South and Wilmington Avenue, but its proximity to Sugarhouse Park helps attract crowds from the July 4th festivities. July 3, 10 am - 7 pm.
North Ogden Arts Festival
In its fourth year the North Ogden Arts Festival takes place in North Ogden City Park and includes artist and vendor booths, a children's art yard, live music, and a community art project.
July 31.
Bountiful's Summerfest International
Over 50 booths of fine art and craft form the backdrop for this annual festival that celebrates ethnic food and international performers.
August 5 - 7.
Park City Arts Festival
What the Sundance Film Festival does for Park City in the Winter, the Park City Kimball Arts Festival does for it in the summer. Though human traffic in the summer may not be what it is in the winter in this former mining town turned ski resort, the Arts Festival still manages to attract over 40,000 visitors every year during the first weekend in August. Park City's Main Street fills with artists, artisans, vendors and musicians for Utah's longest running festival.
August 6 - 8.
Helper Arts Festival
With its disproportionate number of artists living in this small mining town Helper is a destination for many artists attending workshops in residencies. In August the town also attracts art lovers, who come for the festival's free musical lineup, art competitions, exhibitions and craft and food vendors. August 19 - 22.
Ogden Valley Balloon Festival
Postponed for 2010.
Spring City Plein Air Competition & Festival
Up to 100 artists participate in this annual event in this historic Sanpete town. Four days of painting and up to 5 canvases culminate in an artist exhibition and sale and local arts festival.
September 8 - 11.
NOTE: If you are an artist looking to rent a pop-up tent, grids or other festival material, or if you have that material and are willing to rent to local artists, visit our forum.
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