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Exhibition Announcements
Up & Upcoming to the South
Prepared by 15 Bytes staff unless otherwise indicated. UPCOMING and UP listings should reach us by the last Wednesday of the month. Please send listings for this page to editor@artistsofutah.org

UTAH COUNTY
Covey Center for the Arts UP: First Annual Covey Center Statewide Summer Art Showcase, designed to highlight the best work of Utah artists, featuring juried winners Mary Houge, Michael Soelberg, Carrie Wilson, Maria Hurlbert, Robert Krejci, Kirk Parkinson, Jordan Weisenburger, and Russell Ricks. Through July 31. UPCOMING: Works on Paper features drawing and mixed-media art from Orem artist Namon Bills.|0| The exhibit includes pieces from two series of work: a set of mixed media pieces (collage, drawing and painting), and the second is a series of drawings (mostly graphite, but with various drawing media mixed in). Both series are an exploration of form taking as their subject matter sculpture (mainly Egyptian), geometry and birds. Opening reception Friday, July 6, 6-9pm. Through August 26.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP: Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with Arts of Islamic Culture poses the question “What makes Islamic Art, Islamic?” To address this, Dr. Al Khemir has created a show of over 250 works that features historical and geographic background with succeeding sections of calligraphy, figurative imagery and pattern. Through September 29. |1| 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. Through January 19. |2| AND: Object of Devotion, medieval English alabaster sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum that date back to the early 1300s.|3| AND: In e.g. video artist Will Lamson visualizes relationships between serenity and chaos through the art of balancing.|4| Through October 6. 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.|5| Through March 23, 2013.

BYU Library Exhibits UP: Michael Slade Sweden: Family History Sites. Auditorium Gallery, level 1. Through August. AND: BarbraJean Hardwick Whiteley: Celebrate Park City. North Gallery level 2. Through July 13. UPCOMING: Rick Nye: Decades. July 16 - August 30, North Gallery, level 2

Utah County Art Gallery UP: .Freedom Festival Children's Show. Artist's Reception Fri. July 6, 6-9pm. Through July 27. UPCOMING: Jewel Queenbury. July 28 - August 24.

Woodbury Art Museum UP: Art of Our Century, contemporary work from the western region of the United States selected by jurors Julie Nester and Melissa Soltesz. July 5 - August 8.

Springville Museum of Art UPCOMING: The 39th Annual Quilt Show, co-sponsored by the Utah Valley Quilt Guild and the Corn Wagon Quilt Company, celebrates the talent and creativity of quilters across Utah.|6| July 14 - August 29. AND: 150 Years of Cyrus Dallin, celebrates the native son and co-founder of the museum's collection, with forty of the artist's works. July 14 - August 29. AND: Explorations: 50-Year Retrospective of Painting by Anton (Tony) Rasmussen. A well-known presence in Utah painting for decades, Rasmussen is well-regarded for his abstract works and his masterful and powerful renderings of Utah's canyons and deserts. July 14 - August 29.

Sears Art Gallery UP: There are Always Stories to Tell, St. George artists Craig Fetzer, Sam Lawlor, Dilleen Marsh, Lonni Clarke, BJ Thorkelson and Bonnie Conrad paint the local landscape. Through August 24. AND: In the Eccles Grand Foyer: Greg Murray: Photography. Through August 24.

CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UP: Center Into the Woods: A Painted Diary of the Dixie National Forest, twenty works by Arlene Braithwaite marking the opening of a new campus exhibition space in the Hunter Conference Center.|10|Through August 25. AND: The Southern Utah Art Invitational Exhibit features works by some of Southern Utah’s most celebrated artists as well as introducing the art of rising young talent. Through August 25. AND: The Psychedelic Years: Rock Posters & Handbills from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1966-1971. Through August 25.

Utah Shakespeare Festival (SUU campus) UP: Truth, Mirth, and Turmoil: Shakespeare Paintings by Richard Lance Russell features a score of paintings, depicting powerful scenes and memorable characters from Shakespeare's plays. In Russel's work, loose areas contrast with well developed portions to concentrate the viewer's eye on a dramatic moment or thematic tension (see page 3).|11| Through October.

SANPETE COUNTY
CUAC UP: superHUMAN features artists who pull freely from speculative models, (from classic Greek myths to comic books and graphic novels, from sci-fi literature to television) working in various mediums to help shape modern hybrid styles and bring new audiences into the conversation, challenging the assumptions that have sometimes kept speculative art outside serious discussion (see page 1). Works by Blanka Amezkua, Edgar Arcenaux, Kevin Darmanie, Kurt Forman, Chitra Ganesh, Fay Ku, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kerry James Marshall, Wanda Ortiz, Dulce Pinzón, William Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Xaviera Simmons, Saya Woolfalk. Through August 3. AND: The artists in New Mystics reinvent the role of mystic for themselves, calling attention to the ambiguities of both creativity and mysticism while also invoking the shaman’s important role as the community’s first artist. They direct us toward our own human frailties and vulnerabilities, their work suggesting that these supposed imperfections may, in fact, be genuine strengths—and for the artist especially, the very source of his or her greatest creativity. Featuring work by Fidalis Buehler, Tyrone Davies, Allan Ludwig, Fionn McCabe and Art Morrill. Through August 3.