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Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
UTAH COUNTY
Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP:
Think Flat: The Art of Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami features selections from the Freedman Family Collection and the BYU Museum of Art and focuses on the two artists' relationships to works that explore the "low" of pop art and a celebrity-driven world (see our review in the October 2012 edition).|1|Through February 18. AND: People in a Hard Land: Iconic Images of Life in the Southwest focuses on iconic images of people in the American Southwest: pioneers, cowboys, and Indians moving across a vast uninhabited landscape;
men and women engaged in the hard labor of taming a wild land.|2| Through January 19. AND: Object of Devotion, medieval English alabaster sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum that date back to the early 1300s.|3|AND: michael whiting: 8-bit modern, in the Museum's Sculpture Garden, features brightly painted, massive, pixilated sculptures exploring the visual relationship between early video games and 1960s minimalism. Through March 23, 2013. AND: We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art, delves into the growing captivation with super heroes and monsters in contemporary pop culture.|0| Includes artists from Korea, Romania, Poland, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Mexico, Japan, the U.K., and others. Opening reception Friday, Dec 7, 7-10 pm. Through April 16, 2013.
BYU Library Exhibits UP: Weir Was Here – Secret Rooms, Doors and Windows,
photographs by New York artist Xiomáro, featuring photographs from the first artistic collection documenting the beauty and textures of the interiors of American impressionist Julian Alden Weir's house and studio, never seen by the general public.|4| These photographs feature rooms, doors, and windows, adding a sense of intimacy with their lives, thus humanizing their art. In the
Auditorium Gallery, level 1.
Woodbury Art Museum UP: Global Spotlight Russia: Pastoralism features works from Soviet artists from the 1950-1980s.|5| Through December 15.
Springville Museum of Art UP: Milne & Swanson Collections Exhibitions, with Soviet/Russian Art donated by Gordon and Hollie Milne will be in the Steed Gallery and Utah Art donated by Vern and Judy Swanson will be in the Four-plex Gallery. Through April 13, 2013. AND: 27th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah Exhibition. This annual exhibition celebrates spirituality and belief through the visual fine arts. Artists working in any style or media are invited to submit their work for the exhibition. Through January 18, 2013. AND: 27th Annual Christmas Lamb Exhibition showcases the art of school-age children from around Utah County. Through December 30. AND: Nativity: Images of the Life of Christ celebrates scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, painted by figurative artist Mark Missman and designer Jason Bullard. Through December 30.
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Covey Center for the Arts UP: Visionism: Hagen Haltern and Jared Harlow consists of digital images printed with archival inks and paper in limited editions. These images are created from a variety of source material (ink washes, paintings, drawings, photographs, etc.), and composed in Photoshop on an iMac. They follow the ideal of greatest variety in strongest unity.|6| Through December 31.
Terra Nova Gallery UP: Great Things Small Packages annual group show. Through December.
Utah County Art Gallery UP: Barbara Wardle's Senior Students. Through December 28.
Artist's Reception Fri. December 7, 6-9pm.
CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UP: Senior BFA Portfolio Show. Through December 15.
SUU Hunter Conference Center UP: Ron Spears, Landscapes from Zion National Park features 20 remarkable vistas as depicted by the artist. In spring 2012, painter Ron Spears, Assistant Professor of Drawing/Entertainment Design at SUU, was an artist-in-residence at Zion National Park for two full weeks. This remarkable program gave Ron the opportunity to experience the wonders of the Park on a deeply personal and life-changing level.
ST. GEORGE AREA
December Art on Main takes place December 14, 6-9 pm. Go to StGeorgeArt.com for more details.
St. George Art Museum UP: For the Love of Travel & Art by Sue Cotter & Spike Ress. The artist couple will be exhibiting works inspired by their various travel experiences. Spike paints directly on location, Sue often writes, sketches, collects found objects, seeks stories and details she will later assemble into a symbolic whole. Through December 31. AND: A Dream, works by J. Kirk Richards and Brian Kershisnik. J. Kirk Richards is a favorite among admirers of contemporary spiritual artwork. In a genre dominated by sanitized, manufactured-under-studio-lights imagery, Richards has embraced subtlety with textural, poetic, and mysterious images (see our article in the October 2012 edition).|7| Kershisnik's images of simplified drawing and washes of color display a deep understanding of human psychology. Through December 31. AND: Metal Imagined, sculptures by Matt Clark.
A self-taught welder who has been in a wheelchair since an injury at age 17, Clark has been creating sculpture for thirty years. The steel, stainless steel, copper, stone and found objects he uses in his art were originally created to perform a specific function but had outlived their usefulness. |8| Through December 31. AND: Idaho Gallery of 12, a group of 12 professional artists residing in Idaho Falls, Idaho who have banded together to promote each other and themselves at the same time. Through December 29.
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