Prepared by 15 Bytes staff. Unless otherwise indicated UP and UPCOMING listings will open on Friday, December 6, 6-9pm. For official Gallery Stroll information visit www.gallerystroll.org. UPCOMING and UP listings should reach us by the last Wednesday of the month. Those accepted will run until the closing date, or for one month if no closing date is given. Readers using the guide are cautioned to check with the exhibitor if the accuracy of the listing is crucial. Please send listings for this page to editor@artistsofutah.org.

RIO GALLERY UP: Borderline, an exhibit centered around the ways that we perceive the boundaries between public and private worlds and featuring the work of three artists, Chuck Landvatter,|1| Megan Mitchell |2| and Joe Strickland,|3| working in three different mediums; painting, ceramics and photography. Through January 10, 2014.

UMFA UP: salt 8: Shigeyuki Kihara. The latest in the UMFA’s exhibition series focusing on emerging international artists, features the artist’s photographic, video, and dance-based explorations of cultural identity, colonialism, representation, gender roles, and spirituality (see our review in the October 2013 edition).|4| Through January 5. AND: Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This exhibition presents selections from the largest collection of contemporary prints in the United States.|5| Spanning the past five decades, it features works by thirty-nine artists from Jasper Johns and Sol LeWitt to Damien Hirst, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker. Under Pressure charts an array of artistic and social concerns, from minimalism to pop and conceptual art, and more recent works addressing race, gender, and identity (see our review in the October 2013 edition). Through January 5. UPCOMING: The Savage Poem Around Me: Alfred Lambourne's Great Salt Lake. Alfred Lambourne walked the Mormon Trail in 1866, at age sixteen, to Salt Lake City, sketching during much of the route. By the 1880s he had become a well-known local artist who painted and traveled with Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt on their many visits to Salt Lake City. Of the varied landscapes he painted, nothing held his imagination so thoroughly as the Great Salt Lake. Captivated by it, he painted many views of Black Rock, the infinite and varied moods of the weather, and the shipwrecks and the drama of the lake. December 13 through June 15.

UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART UP: Tala Madani's Painted Animations. Merging the satire of political cartoons with the style of American abstraction, L.A.-based artist Tala Madani creates underground worlds where middle-aged men flaunt and frolic in scenes of social calamity and fraternal absurdity.|6| Madani is the recipient of the 2013 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Through January 4, 2014. AND: Faithful Abstraction, a collaboration with CUAC curated by Adam Bateman exploring the connection between abstraction and Mormonism. Through December. AND: A selection of religious artworks from the LDS Church History Museum that shows views of Mormon culture by outsiders and insiders. Through December. AND: A Sublime of Conceptual Landscapes, a selection of works from the Salt Lake Art Center Collection. Through December. UPCOMING: Stephanie Leitch: Untitled Apogee. Drawing on the architecture of church spires, this installation explores the space between construction and gravity as a way to reconsider the heavenward thrust of the traditional steeple form.Leitch employs fabric, string and video projections to create an inverted topography, marking the precise location of 617 steeples of LDS chapels and temples located in the Salt Lake Valley. She then extends and amplifies these points to negotiate the interaction of cultural environment and geography.|7| December 6 through February 22.

MESTIZO INSTITUTE OF CULTURE AND ARTS UP: Presenting On the Border: A Story of Forced Migration from Burma. Maung Maung Tinn, a painter living at the Thailand-Burma border, uses watercolors to make visible the struggles and strengths of thousands of Karen and others who live in refugee camps and border towns in Thailand. Funds from these sales will be invested in the people of Burma residing in Salt Lake City and at the Thailand/Burma border. Through December.

MICHAEL BERRY GALLERY UP: A group show including works by Paul Heath, Willamarie Huelskamp, Donna Pence, David Estes and Pilar Pobil. Through December.

STUDIO OF LIVING ART UP: Featuring an exhibition of Draw Something. Draw Something started as a Pictionary-like game and has become a social media app that connects artists around the world and offers a unique opportunity for viewers to watch the art being created. Through December.

A GALLERY UP: New works will be on display from John O'Connell, Marianne Cone, Emily Robison, Thomas Hoffman, Toni Doilney and others. Come see work with a holiday flair ranging from Utah landscapes to contemporary abstracts. Through December.

CHARLEY HAFEN GALLERY UP: Brad Slaugh |8|and Joy Nunn in concurring exhibits. Both painters compliment each other by their differences in this show titled Expressions (see our profile of Slaugh's Feast on page 4).Through January 11. AND: Annual Open House and Gift Gallery Group Show with numerous items of art perfect for giving provided by contributing artists. Through January 11.

HORNE FINE ART UP: Featuring a broad array of tempting artwork for giving, in sizes from petite to grand, including landscapes by Phyllis Horne, Ken Baxter, Barbara Edwards, Glen Edwards, swimmer gems by Jamie Wayman, and dancers and new Capitol Theater scenes by Karen Horne.|9|

ART AT THE MAIN UP: A Few of Our Favorite Things, a holiday group show, reflects the eclectic styles, subjects, and mediums employed by Art at the Main’s 15 member artists. Through January 11.

ART ACCESS GALLERIES UP: Holiday Group Exhibition. Through December 17.

CUAC UP: Dark Markets, an exhibition curated by Interstate Gallery featuring the work of Joe Brittain, |10| Ann Hirsch, and Cheon pyo Lee. Through January 11. UPCOMING: Chris Purdie. "The things I do explore concepts of communication, sensation, and existence. I am seeking to find gestures and tropes that contain universal meanings, ones that can bridge gaps and provide a sense of connection, as well as the possibility for individual introspection. I commonly begin a project with a word, image, object, or tradition that seems paradoxical or loaded. My desire is to expose discreet details, rupture conventions, and keep things in flux. Within my work, I create subtlety amplifiers to accent or highlight that which may otherwise go unnoticed. At first glance, my interventions may be invisible or silent. Given time and patience, the work can reveal itself to you." December 19 through March 15.

PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: Winter Group Show, featuring fine art by all gallery regulars as well as few new additions.

ALICE MERRILL HORNE GALLERY UP:There Must Be Black, new works by Catherine Downing, Nancy Steele-Makasci, and Tawni Shuler. The pieces in this exhibition are intended to reveal “black” in all of its variety, while serving as a metaphor for a certain kind of experience in the world, namely a place of solace and rest in a sometimes tumultuous and transitory world. Through January 3.

THE LEONARDO UP: Green Revolution was developed by the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and The Smithsonian. It’s a traveling exhibit with a twist: nothing actually “travels!” The displays withing the exhibit are composed entirely of existing materials. Components from past Leonardo exhibits are given new life, as reused, repurposed, recycled, and upcycled items are transformed into something new. AND: Dec 6th is St Nicolas Day in Holland!!! As part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition December is dubbed 'Ritual and Celebration' and we will be celebrating St. Nicolas day.

UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL GALLERY UP:The Holiday Show features 26 artists working in stoneware, photography, fabric, paper, mixed medium, ceramics and acrylic and offers fantastic and unique gift ideas, including handcrafted jewelry, photography, glass, books, cards, clothing and handbags made by area artists and artisans. Through December.

EVERGREEN FRAMING CO. & GALLERY, INC. UP: Featuring wonderful art and gifts for holiday giving. Through December.

CONCEPT UP: Featuring all in-house, select artists including oils, acrylics, giclees, encaustic, mixed media, clay, glass and steel sculpture. Through December.

SILVERSCHMIDT DESIGN STUDIO UP: Presenting a holiday group show featuring several local jewelry artists including Amanda Wharff, 2 dots over the ï, JLB Designs and Callie Capps, and painter, Sarina Villareal. Through December.

SLUSSER GALLERY UP: Holiday Group Exhibition, featuring recent oil paintings by Paul Davis, Randall Lake, Carolyn Hesse-Low, Jeff Mauger, Mark Slusser, Bryan Mark Taylor and others. Music and refreshments. Through December.

ALDERWOOD FINE ART UP: Presenting the Miniature Christmas Show. A collection of our artists will be producing work 5x7 and smaller as ornaments and small gifts for the holidays. Through December.

GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE UP: Contemporary Daguerreotype Portraits by Tyler Suppha-Atthasitt. Through January 3. AND: People, Ravens, and Crows by Suzanne Storer. Through January 3.

SPRAGUE BRANCH LIBRARY UP: The paintings of Leo Platero. Through December 20.

SWEET BRANCH LIBRARY UPCOMING: Light, Trees, Mountains, and a Mars Rover by Albert Wint. December 16 through January 25.

CHAPMAN BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Holiday Crafts by 15 artists of the City Library. Through December 27.

DAY-RIVERSIDE BRANCH LIBRARY UPCOMING: I Noticed my Friends by Andrew Fillmore. December 7 through January 25.

ALPINE ART UP: Alpine Art and Craft Lake City are partnering to provide unique, one-of-a-kind gift for holiday gift giving. The show will display a variety of small to medium works from some of Utah's artisans. Hand-made gifts from ceramics to jewelry will be displayed and available to purchase. Through December 20.

HOPE GALLERY AND MUSEUM OF FINE ART UP: Featuring a distinct collection of European masters from the 16th to 21st centuries, including the largest collection of original Danish works (outside the national museums) by notable artists such as Bloch, Kroyer, Henningsen, Wegmann and Molsted.

DAVID ERICSON FINE ART UP: Landscape paintings by Jeff Pugh.

15th STREET GALLERY UP: Presenting a group mix show featuring all of our talented artist from the past year.

LOCAL COLORS UP: Presenting Dreamscapes and Wonderlands. This is the time of the year when Local Colors features a group show as their artists explore the wonderlands and dreamscapes of their creative imagination.

SOUTHAM GALLERY UP: Presenting Miniature Works Exhibit, a Christmas window of small, reasonably priced works of art.

ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UP: 30th Annual Holiday Craft Exhibit & Sale featuring work by 67 local artists. Through December 22.

ATELIER AFA UP: Colores de la Vida, limited edition, canvas giclee prints by Pilar Pobil.

SUGAR SPACE @ SUGARHOUSE UP: Will Thompson: The Hard Land. Representing the austere harshness and the deep beauty of this land we call home. Through December 31.

ILLUME GALLERY OF FINE ART UP: Magnificent Miniatures holiday show continues. Featuring over 100 works of art by nationally-known painters and sculptors. Through December.

CAFFE NICHE UP: Local artist duo, Sarah and PJ Mannion. Sarah and PJ’s original acrylic and mixed medium paintings showcase a variety of subjects from portraits to abstracts. Through December.

URBAN ARTS GALLERY UP:Holiday Bazaar featuring over 40 local artists.