Up and Upcoming: To The North
Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
PARK CITY
JGO Gallery UP: Sherri Belassen
Windows into the Modern and Mythic West.
Belassen's vibrant and multi-layered abstract figurative works depict icons of both the modern and mythic west.|1| The various subjects that enter Belassen's vision include larger-than-life mythic cowboys, longhorns, and horses, as well modern Western icons: dancers, gardens, and golfers. (see our article on Belassen's process in the February 2010 edition of 15 Bytes). Through March 20. UPCOMING: Inception: New Work by Krista Harris. |0| Krista Harris is a modernist painter whose work has its roots in the abstract expressionist tradition, yet embraces a style that is uniquely her own. Elegantly composed and delicately balanced, her work has a mesmerizing quality. Shapes and line appear to morph in and out of focus, colors shift like seasons, and subtle imagery whispers beneath the surface. Opening March 16th 6-9pm.
Through April 10.
Meyer Gallery UP: Modern Tradition, new work by landscape painter Jeffrey R. Pugh.|2| In his work trees are pixelated, cows are geometric shapes, even the barns and fields become flattened and planar. Pugh combines rough textures, bold and subtle colors and graphic shapes into compositions that move back and forth between representational and abstract. UPCOMING: On the Rise, featuring Santa Fe artist Fatima Ronquillo,|3| and Utah artists Darci Bertelsen and Mark Crenshaw. Opens March 30, 6-9 pm.
Gallery MAR UP: Up Close and Far Away, contemporary wildlife paintings by Matt Flint.|4| Opens February 24.UPCOMING: Tracing Tangents, contemporary abstract paintings by Michael Kessler |5| and Shawna Moore. Opens March 17, 6-9 pm. AND: Homeward Bound, works inspired by the mythology of the west by Maura Allen and Ronald Ray Rogers. Opens
March 30, 6-9pm.
Julie Nester Gallery UP: New artwork by Teresa Kalnoskas and Brian Usher. Brian Usher currently lives in Salt Lake City, after numerous years of living and exhibiting in Europe. His cast glass is beautiful in its ability to have both a sense of weight and delicateness. His goal is to use the pieces to create a space, both physical and emotional, which provokes the viewer to confront and consider the interplay of opposing ideas - strength versus fragility, stasis versus change, surface versus depth, light versus darkness - and to wonder about the possibilities of transformation.|6| Most of the paintings in this exhibit by Bay Area artist Teresa Kalnoskas are still lives of fruit, painted in an abstracted fashion. Kalnoskas uses oil paints combined with alkyds and wax, which allow her to layer, glaze, and scratch into the surface of the paintings. The result is very rich, flowing, vibrant paintings.
Her paintings speak of the essences of objects...their forms, the relationships of those forms and their presence in space.|7| Through March 27.
Kimball Art Center UP: 10th Anniversary of Salt Lake 2002 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games Retrospective, an exhibit of official Olympic photographs and memorabilia.|8| In addition, an Olympic community wall will be featured on the lower level of the Kimball where members of the community can post copies of their own photographs and stories sharing their Olympic experiences. In the Garage Gallery through April 7. Olympic Athlete Night on Thursday, March 22 from 6-7:30 p.m. AND: SCI Institute: The Art of Science. As internationally recognized leaders in scientific visualization, researchers at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah work constantly to develop new and better ways to visualize and communicate the results of scientific inquiry. Although their visual designs are created to serve science, many of SCI's visualizations of computer simulations in combustion or bioelectric activity in the heart and brain, or of data ranging from a galactic scale down to a cellular level, can also be viewed as works of art.|9| In the Badami Gallery through April 7.
AND: Visualizing Finance. Carl Richards’s simple sketches make complex financial concepts easy to understand for thousands of people every week on the Bucks blog on the NYTimes.com. Richards’ art, which is part of a larger movement that he refers to as Visualizing Finance, will also appear in his first book, The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways To Stop Doing Dumb Things With Money (Portfolio/Penguin, January 2012). The work of freelance artists from major publications such as The Economist will also appear in the exhibition.|10| In the Main Gallery through April 7.
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Coda Gallery UP: Ben Steele, paintings that examine the shifting sands between icons and everyday objects.|11| Through March 25. UPCOMING: New interpretations of nature by Charley Snow. Opens Friday, March 30, 6-9 pm.|12|
District Gallery UP: Surfaces Rendered, new works by
Chris Turri |13|and Jeff Ham.|14| Through March 24.
Thomas Anthony Gallery UP: Symphony of Color,
a new collection of impressionistic paintings by Vilanova.
Terzian Galleries UP: Life As We Know It featuring paintings by Sara Shepherd Edgar and sculpture by Linda Lewis.
An artist, mother and wife, Edgar layers thoughts, lists, and ideas on canvas about her everyday experiences. The artist relates life to a "circus" in our fast paced world. Frequently she speaks to the viewer through these ideas with constant friend, Gary, the dog.|15| Long time teacher, wife, mother, grandmother and artist, Lewis' funny and insightful interpretations of life capture the viewer and leaves them with a smile. March 12 - March 23. Opening Reception Friday, March 16th 6-9 pm.
VERNAL
Western Heritage Art Museum UP: 21st Annual Uinta Basin Local Artists Exhibit, with an open theme, is open to all Uinta Basin area artists, novice to professional. Artist Reception, March 7, 6:30-8 pm.
Through March 30.
BRIGHAM CITY
Brigham City Museum UP: Minerva Teichert Revisited features 36 of Minerva Teichert’s artworks from private and public collections, some of which have never been on display in a museum. While the artist is known for her religious paintings, she also created many portraits, still lifes and western scenes. Through March 22.
LOGAN
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UP: Bang! Thwack! Plop! %#$&!!!
Comics: an Influence on Contemporary Art explores the intersection of comics and art with specific attention on how certain themes and stylistic forms have crossed over from the genre of comics into the world of visual art. Through August 31, 2012. AND: Fragments of Terror: Drawings by Jim Starrett features approximately 25 drawings showing, in the words of Patrick E. White, how Starrett's works, "...vibrate with such cool passion, such fiery ice, that they seem at once both hard products of a systematic rationality, of an almost mechanical design, and works of extraordinary emotional resonance." Through June 8.
OGDEN AREA
Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery (Weber State University) UP: Weber State Student Art Exhibition. Through March 9.
Eccles Community Art Center UP: Art commemorating 100 years of
girl scouting by members
of the Palette Club of Ogden. Historical items from the girl scout of Utah’s past will be displayed with artwork that was created by members Palette Club of Ogden. Also on exhibit, works by members of Salt Lake's Art at the Main Gallery. Through March.
Gallery 25 UP: Carol Fielding's Images of Africa, featuring zebras, elephants, giraffes, and leopards among others, executed in oils and pastels.|16| Fielding will also be showing her hand-crafted jewelry, made with semi-precious stones, along with fashion beads.
BOUNTIFUL
BDAC UP: Bountiful/Davis Art Center’s Annual Statewide Competition, juried by Adrian Van Suchtelen, features works by Utah artists in all media, including first place winner Ruth Menlove. Through March 9.
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