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In viewing this exhibition, what is immediately apparent is that Schultz's paintings are over the top in the best sense of dramatic presentation. The scale of the largest paintings seem bigger than life, setting for mythic narration, where no painted form or gesture is lacking in meaning. If we equate these paintings to that of the theatrical stage, then his props are those of the painter's studio of the dream, and the painted gestures are those of the evolution of the self and the yearning for human interconnectedness. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
drawings, dreams, life, Salt Lake Art Center
Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah
Cassandra Barney; Tom Bettin; Ilya Bolotowsky; Manuel Alvarez Bravo; Angelo Caravaglia; Sam Collett; Cyrus Dallin; George Dibble; Carole Alden Doubek; Irene Fletcher; Scott Generic (Scott Smith); Alvin Gittins; james T. Harwood; Brent Herridge & Associates; Richard Johnston; Earl Jones; Michelle Macfarlane; Bejamin Media; Karl Momen; April Motley; Sara J. Northerner; Don Olsen; Denis Phillips; Jim Pridgeon; Henry Rasmussen Annie Redwiskers; Lee Greene Richards; Frank Riggs; Heather Romney; ViviAnn Rose; F. Anthony Smith; Trevor Southey; Unknown;
sculpture, censorship, expression, installations, Salt Lake Art Center
Tony Smitt: Raven Paintings, Landscape Paintings
Raven and landscape paintings by Tony Smitt. Exhibition held in the Phillips Gallery.
landscapes, Salt Lake Art Center
Looking Back: 75 Years At The Salt Lake Art Center
Susan Beck; Anna Campbell Bliss; Gordon Cope; Lee Deffebach; George Dibble; Larry Elsner; Alvin Gittens; Stephen Goldsmith; J.T. Harwood; Richard Johnston; Earl Jones; Frank McEntire; Waldo Midgley; Rodger Newbold; Don Olsen; Bonnie Phillips; Denis Phillips; Tony Smith; Doug Snow; Will South; LeConte Stewart; Bonnie Sucec; Maureen O'Hara Ure; Francis Zimbeaux;
This small exhibition is an imperfect reflection of the long and remarkable history of the Salt Lake Art Center. The artists chosen have been important and influential over much of its seventy-five year life, as well as in the broader arena of Utah's cultural community. Many taught at the Art Barn or at the art Center, some were students there, or speak warmly of having been influenced in their artistic growth by exhibitions or other events. Most have had solo exhibitions there, many more that once, and all of them, to some degree, have considered the Art Center their artistic "home." Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Salt Lake Art Center, community art, sculpture, Reflections, mixed media, Anniversaries
Ansel Adams; Connie Borup; Anna Campbell Bliss; Charles William Carter; Gordon N. Cope; Henry Lavender Adolphus Culmer; Robert Dawson; Rick Dingus; Florence Dominic; Christian Eisele; Teresa Flowers; Jim Frankoski; Steve Frederick; Brian Kershisnik; Whitney King; Mark Klett; Bent F. Larsen; Graig Law; J. George Midgley; Rodger Newbold; Maureen O'Hara Ure; Ron Richmond Edie Rberson; Devendra Shrikhande; Suzanne Simpson; Tony Smith; V. Doug Snow; LeConte Stewart; Bonnie Sucec; Edward Taggart;
This exhibition examines through the work of thirty individual artists, both historic and contemporary, a myriad of personal interpretations of this intriguing and basic element of our existence. Many of the images are sublime, still others are confusing or mysterious. All are intriguing and reflect the continual change characteristic of this non-static substance - WATER. The viewer should be challenged by the content of each individual work and how the artist has interpreted, appropriated or utilized water as and illusion, metaphor or subject. Simultaneously each person should be encouraged to reflect on their current appreciation and understanding of the theme of this exhibit. Awareness of this powerful, unique element is essential especially to those of us living in the arid west. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
water, photography, Salt Lake Art Center
The movement of light and color is the subject of Edith Carlson's paintings. Her canvases almost breathe, their geometric forms imbued with a radiance that seems to emanate from the multiple paint layers infused with nearly imperceptible gradations of color. Color and light advance and recede, shift as one walks past or observes from a distance, gain fresh perspective as effects first unseen are newly discerned. Even at night, and with the passing of the seasons, the paintings assume a particular kind of color and glow that is often dramatically different from that of the day. in these nuances of movement are found the magic of Edith Carlson's work. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
color, layers, perspective, Geometric, Salt Lake Art Center
Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings
A retrospective exhibition of Gaylen Hansen paintings over 30 years.
oil painting, bugs, Salt Lake Art Center, narrative
Paintings by Fay Jones. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, painting
Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textile
Susan Taber Avila: Lia Cook; Jean hicks; Wendy Huhn; Elaine Reichek; Judy Singer
There is accord between the anthropological definition of material culture and its application to this exhibition. These six artists have produced artworks that not only meet, but exceed the criteria. All use textile and associated techniques, but each is a solitary and significant representative of one technique without duplication. All are included for their common threads and divergent techniques. Exhibition held in the Man Gallery and Projects Gallery spaces.
Textile art, Textiles, culture, hand sewing, textile working processes and techniques, abstraction, narratives, Salt Lake Art Center
Friese Undine: Machiavelli and the Bottle
Undine is fascinated with propaganda and more overt activities of persuasion: brainwashing, coercion, enticement and threat. In this exhibit, what might Undine's intention be? Proselytism? But for what? And certainly satire. This artist obviously wants us to think about the everyday uses of force, and especially the rhetoric we use to justify our actions to those less powerful than we are. Like every satire from the classical Greek "Satyricon" to Voltaire's "Candide" to "Saturday Night Live," Undine's work attacks society in order to improve it, ironically a hopeful act. Whether we are shocked or we laugh or both, we should not leave this gallery feeling neutral. If giving people easy answers is the function of propaganda, asking people hard questions is the function of art. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
propaganda, politics, philosophers, irony, Salt Lake Art Center
Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection
Tilo Baumgartel; Tim Eitel; Martin Kobe; Neo Rauch; Christoph Ruckhaberle; David Schnell; Matthias Weischer
This exhibition presents the country's foremost collection of paintings and drawings, 68 in all, from the New Leipzig School - a collection built by the Rubell Family in Miami. The seven prominent artists featured are from the esteemed Leipzig Art Academy in Germany and have been hailed as "the 21st century's first bona fide artistic phenomenon." Exhibition held in the Main, Projects and Street Level Galleries.
Fab Ab: New Acrylic Abstraction
William Betts; Susie Rosmarin; Joseph Drapell; Jesse Simon; Prudencio Irazabal; Culin C. Smith; Graham Peacock
The seven artists in the exhibition "Fab Ab: New Acrylic Abstraction" approach the use of acrylics differently and, as a result, achieve different modes of abstraction. From artworks rooted in the period following 1940s and 1950s Abstract Expressionism, including Post-Painterly Abstraction and Op Art of the 1960s and 1970s, to styles paying homage to automotive and surfboard design and fabrication, Fab Ab represents a range of national and international trends. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
acrylic paintings, Plastics, Digital Arts, Abstract Expressionist
Sophie Matisse: Be Back in 5 Minutes and Zebra Stripe Paintings
This New York City artist has created paintings that combine a conceptual point of view with historically acknowledged masterpieces from the art of painting. The "Be Back in 5 Minutes" paintings use subtraction as the conceptual device through the elimination of the people and animals from the original compositions, while the "Zebra Stripe" paintings make use of addition by the confluence of two painted realities and the reintroduction of people and animals in the copied museum art. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
masterpieces, additions, art history, Surrealist, Salt Lake Art Center
The exhibition honors the legacy of Lee Deffebach (1928-2005), one of Utah's most talented artists. The exhibit features six paintings that provide ample evidence of Deffebach's originality, her unabashed love of color. As she expressed it, her abstract paintings were based on an intuitive and tactile experience that was only possible through an engagement with the painting process itself. In her view, the shapes and colors of nature seen and felt, do not emerge from a preconceived rendering of reality, but rather as a result of the integrity of the painting process, especially through spontaneous acts. Her depictions of nature are a metaphorical not literal. In this sense she adheres to Greenberg's insistence that Abstract Expressionism can only be a valid expression if it evolves "solely on its own terms." Exhibition held in the Projects Gallery space.