Prepared by 15 Bytes staff. Unless otherwise indicated UP listings will open on Friday, October 16, 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.

CUAC UP: Chris Wiley: Black and White. Chris Wiley photographs “found” subject matter to create “technical abstractions” that exist as unique objects with sculptural frames that are as much a part of the work as the photograph itself. These works exist in a liminal place between sculpture and photography and tend to emphasize object-ness of a photograph over the image-ness. This engagement with photo as sculpture is something that has become a sort of movement among New York City based artists of late. Through November 13. AND: In Winners and Losers, Sean Moyer presents an installation that is intended to feel like a retail space where he presents carefully crafted modernist sculptures made of Mylar and metallic window tinting. The works are grouped together on shelves to reference the grid and wall-oriented language of painting. The works themselves reference abstract Modern sculpture, but the over-the-top “beauty” of them fits more in the world of the faux sculpture of Las Vegas. They are made of cheap materials and adhered with scotch tape. The translucence, metallic colors, and gem-like shapes end up being a tongue-in-cheek critique of consumer culture. Through November 13.

ART BARN/FINCH LANE GALLERY UP: Veteran artists Kristina Lenzi and Darryl Erdmann exhibit their works together in the exhibition Counter Points. Both are abstract artists, but each finds a different source of inspiration for his or her work. Lenzi is inspired by her Muppet muses Kermit the Frog and Yoda. In Lenzi’s imagination both Kermit and Yoda are influenced by the work of abstract artist and color theorist Wassily Kandinsky and also the mesmerizing beauty of Miss Piggy. The results are happy, colorful paintings. In contrast, Darryl Erdmann’s work explores the deep passion he has for space, color, line, and their relationship to life. His paintings explore the meaning of openness, closure, and how people react subjectively to them. He creates an open space that helps remind viewers of peace, communication of who we are, and lend understanding to our existence. He believes his paintings also give definition to our everyday lives. Through November 20. AND: Artist Chad Farnes takes a non-traditional approach to his art, using only duct and masking tape to create his images. This painstakingly slow process involves layering strip upon seemingly insignificant strip of tape, which produces stunning images of the national parks. His goal in Tape•ography is to explore the intersection between humanity and federal land preservation. Through November 20.

UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART UP: Grandma's Cupboard. Between 1985 and 1995, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most profound conceptual art projects of the late 20th century. Ranging from socially engaged works and site-specific installations to drawings and mixed media sculptures, Ericson and Ziegler redefined public art in a way that was welcoming to a diverse set of communities through their use of serial form, wit, and poetic language (see our review in the September 2015 edition). Through December 19. AND: Exploring themes of confinement, fragility, and pain, Amalia Ulman’s Stock Images of War blends divergent senses of pleasure and discomfort. Delicate wire sculptures augmented into familiar shapes—such as bicycles, wheelchairs, and tanks— eerily rest against a sensory backdrop of rock music and the scent of baked apple pie (see our review page 9). Through October 31. AND: Lizze Määttälä’s Uphill/Both Ways is about fragments that have been left behind; memories that once sat heavily on her shoulders and shaken off somewhere in between here and the Mojave Desert (see our review in the September 2015 edition). Through November 7. AND: 2015 Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, Firelei Báez. Tracing the history of social movements in the United States and the Caribbean, Patterns of Resistance presents a series of new works by Báez that are inspired by lineages of black resistance. Best known for her intricate, large-scale works on paper, Báez makes connections that further our understandings of the African diaspora, the global communities, identities, and experiences that have developed from the movement of peoples from Africa to other parts of the world. Here, Báez interweaves the lives of 18th-century black women in Louisiana and the Cuban roots of the Latin Americanazabache with symbols used in the U.S. during the tumultuous 1960s, such as the panther or the raised fist. Through January 16, 2016. AND: Into the Ether. Shawn Porter's installations are three-dimensional sketches developed through a focus on play, material sensibility, and fabrication. The ebb and flow of working with a variety of materials allows a sketch to gradually present itself, generating works that feel natural, effortless, and enjoyable for both maker and viewer. October 9 through November 7.

ALICE GALLERY UP: Reformation: A Rearranging of Elements, a solo exhibition by Rebecca Klundt. Klundt confronts the challenge of taking up what has been left behind and reforming it through a practice that includes mining, breaking down, and then building up. Everything we see and use in the world today is a product of the earth. Through mining and other technological advances, man’s ingenuity has allowed for the production of all our modern technology. Klundt is fascinated with this cycle and the evidence of the mining process left in "piles"-materials from Earth, transformed into usable form and then discarded to make room for the new. Through the process of “mining the piles”, her purpose is to create order from the chaos and appreciate the character of this material that has been created and then recreated. The result is a focus on line and subtle color shifts. Through November 13.

ART ACCESS GALLERIES UP: 3rd Annual Art2Go invitational group exhibit featuring twenty nine artists. Each artist is asked to create a variety of works that will be made available in pricing categories ranging from $50 to $500+. The best part, purchasers take their art home the same day. It's art – to go!

CHARLEY HAFEN GALLERY UP: David Estes: As I See It. His still life takes us back to a gracious era of rich wooden furnishings decorated with objects that are combined in ways to create a visual study of color and light (see our article page 10). Through October 10. UPCOMING: Jaun Pablo Gasca. Light, color and shape are the most important elements in his paintings. He reduces everyday objects to geometric shapes and arranges them to create an interesting composition. Monochromatic color schemes and shades of gray generate the light that defines and enhances the form and structure. October 16 through November 14.

HORNE FINE ART UP: Enjoy a feast of culture in paintings by Karen Horne from SLC and her recent trip to NYC, as described in the latest Fibonacci Digest article on her work. Also enjoy paintings of Zion by Ryan Cannon and magnificent fall scenes by Phyllis Horne. Other artists on view include Barbara Edwards, Glen Edwards, Nick Rees, Rick Graham, and David Maestas.

URBAN ARTS GALLERY UP: Surfaced, showcasing the work of six young artists on the rise in the local art scene. Featuring works by Tessa Rose Ryser, Troy Forbush, Sarah Steigers, John Cave, Jillian Lee and Alex D. Hall.

SLUSSER GALLERY UP: Trompe L'oeil and Still Life Group Exhibition, featuring paintings by Courtney Miles Derrick, Anastasia Dukhanina, Susan Gallacher, Pat Kelly, Ti Ku (aka Jason Wheatley), Randall Lake, Jeff Mauger, Joann Musser, Simone Simonian and Mark Slusser. Through October 9.

MESTIZO GALLERY UP: The Street Bible, an ongoing series of prints by artist Aaron Wallis, depicting rappers, drug-dealers, and gang leaders in the context of Christian iconography and the illuminated manuscript. Through a process of counterculture deification, these figures have become lionized in a manner similar to Christian saints. Their rags to riches struggle against the established class structure, and their subsequent persecution, mirror the struggles of early Christian martyrs (see our article page 9). Through October 24.

UTAH ARTS FESIVAL GALLERY UP: Face to Face, Modern Primitivism with an artists’ reception during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll. Artists include Tessa Ryser -mixed media, Nathan Pratt - mixed media, Grace Ryser - mixed media and David Sharp - sculpture.

NOSTALGIA CAFE UP: Current ink and watercolor paintings by Patric Bates. Bates’ pieces harken back to an age of innocence, while sometimes dealing with more complex subjects.

RIO GALLERY UP: DesignArts '15 celebrates the best of design in Utah. This annual exhibition featuring designs, prototypes, and produced samples by designers in Utah’s various design fields. This year, Juror Randy J. Hunt selected seventeen Utah designer’s projects ranging from snack containers to architecture for an Emigration Canyon home. “Design, in its many forms, is alive and well in Utah” said Hunt. “This is no more evident than in the submissions and selections for DesignArts Utah 2015. The ingenuity and creativity that come from a designer’s mind always impress, and this year’s selections are no exception” (see our review page 13). Through October 23.

UMFA UP: Drawn from the remarkable collection of Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales, The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales offers visitors a rare opportunity to follow, in a single span, the rise of landscape painting in Britain through works from such masters as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Claude Monet. The exhibition unfolds a story that runs from the Industrial Revolution, through the eras of romanticism, impressionism, and modernism, to the postmodern and post-industrial imagery of toda (see our review in the September 2015 edition of 15 Bytes). Through December 13. AND: Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends is the twelfth installment of the UMFA salt series. This exhibition, which brings together works on paper, sculptural costumes, and video portraits from the last ten years of Bress's career, is the most significant presentation of the artist's work to date and positions Bress as one of the most innovative, cross-disciplinary artists of our time. The Los Angeles-based artist is known for his fictional anthropomorphic characters, which he brings to life out of thrift-store finds and upholstery foam with casual doodles, cartoon animation, paint, and video cameras (see our review page 5). Through January 10, 2016.

PHILLIPS GALLERY UP: New abstract paintings by Joe Ostraff and new landscape and still life paintings by Simone Simonian.

GALLERY AT LIBRARY SQUARE UP: Disrupted Identities: Works by Zachary Franzoni: works by Layne Meacham. Through November 13.

MAIN LIBRARY, LOWER URBAN ROOM UP: The Spirit of High Places: Photography by Jonathan Duncan.From the high peaks of the Himalayas to the glacial expanse of Antarctica, through the Alaska Range to the Andes of Patagonia, and across the rugged and open geography of the American West, the exhibition aims to provide an intimate portrait of these remote and sacred landscapes, and humankind’s complex relationship with them. Through November 6.

ANDERSON -FOOTHILL LIBRARY UP: For the Fairpark: Paintings by Ann Pineda, features a number of landscapes from the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City. October 8 - November 13.

CHAPMAN BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Changing Visions: Womanscapes, Botanicals, and More Acrylic and Mixed Media paintings by Bill Reed. Reed uses multiple layers of acrylic paint on canvas to capture flowing images between semi-linear boundaries. His paintings are “emotional landscapes” in which the artist moves from calm to turbulence to calm again. Through October 29.

SWEET BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Movement in Film: a loveDANCEmore exhibit. Through October 17.

GOD HATES ROBOTS UP: The penmanship of Skyler Chubak.

SPRAGUE BRANCH LIBRARY UP: Stitchscapes: Painted Collages by Laura Somm. Through November 20.

ART 270 GALLERY UPCOMING: The Abstract Show, featuring works by Angela Broadbent, Abbas, Rose Gioielli, T.K. Stephens Curtis Linton.

MODERN WEST FINE ART UP: New Works by Dan, Arlo, & Michael Namingha. UPCOMING: Phil Epp.

ALPINE ART UP: Best in Show features art inspired by pets and animals. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Utah Humane Society.

15th STREET GALLERY UP: Featuring Aaron Memmott, Janell James, Courtney Derrick and John Collins (see our review page 11).

CONCEPT UP: New, deep and rich works in acrylic on canvas by Tyler Smith. Also presenting bright and enchanting oils on canvas by Evelyn Escobar.

A GALLERY UP: New sculptures from Ryoichi Suzuki and Anne Gregerson, and paintings from Andy Taylor.

DAVID ERICSON FINE ART UP: Balance, paintings and sculpture by Brian Kershisnik.

LOCAL COLORS GALLERY UP: New work by master metal-smith-jeweler, Debbie Valline and well-known painter, Catherine Darling Hostetter.

SOUTHAM GALLERY UP: Beautiful City and State, featuring: Ken Baxter, Joshua Clare, Richard Boyer, John Myrup, A.D. Shaw and Linda Southam.

ATELIER A.F.A. UP: Unframed, by Portia Snow.

ART AT THE MAIN UP: Just Paint, works by Sandy Williams. Through October 10.

ART 270 GALLERY UP: Focus Pocus, the Magic of Digital Photography with work from John Burkholz, Christoph Campbell, Zach Sampinos and Prajit.

ARTS OF THE WORLD GALLERY UP: Everywhere, new work by Gwyn Castleton.