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Laura Hurtado

Laura Allred Hurtado is the Global Art Acquisitions Specialist for the LDS Church. She has worked at SFMOMA, BYUMOA and UMOCA. She received her master's degree in Art History from the University of Utah.

Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

If You Build It . . . Amy Jorgensen

By Laura Hurtado on January 3, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“In Sanpete County, as in other rural towns, you have to build the community you want to be a part of,” says artist Amy Jorgensen. Build she has.

Since 2005, Jorgensen has worked as an associate professor of visual arts, and photography area head, at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, transforming the department from one with a strong focus in process to one informed by conceptual art practices. During her tenure there, she has founded the Art Talks series, established two permanent student galleries, and developed the now thriving photography and media program from the ground up.

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Entropic Memory in the West Desert: Will Lamson’s Mineralogy at CLUI

By Laura Hurtado on October 18, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

In Paul Harding’s novel Tinkers, a man, a clock repairman by profession, lies on his bed, dying. As his body fails him, he begins to hallucinate, picturing his carefully built world—the plaster on the wall, the paint in the rooms, the basement foundation he poured—crashing down. He sees it […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Among the Shadows: Jorge Rojas’ Painted Veil at Rio Gallery

By Laura Hurtado on June 8, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

“Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would believe With colours idly spread…” Percy Bysshe Shelley In part, Shelley’s sonnet “Lift not the painted veil” is about casting fake appearance, putting up […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Don’t Leave: Maxfield Hegedus and Suhnee Venice’s True Love Waits at CUAC

By Laura Hurtado on February 11, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

I’ll drown my belief, to have your babies…and wash your swollen feet. Just don’t leave. Don’t leave. “True Love Waits”, Radiohead Such desperate subjugation of self, in an effort to pair with another, to mirror love, to feel heard, feels strained and achingly heartbroken when […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Levi Jackson’s Bushwacker

By Laura Hurtado on May 7, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

The work in Levi Jackson’s Bushwacker exhibition now on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has a conflicted and ambivalent view of the West. This is in part due to two distinct and pervasive notions that permeate such depictions. The first is the West as an idealized and […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Ties That Bind: Discussing CUAC’s Utah Ties Exhibit

By Laura Hurtado on April 6, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

As with all juried shows, this year’s annual Utah Ties exhibition is an inconsistent mixed bag —some works evoke the grotesque and the abject, while others are quietly beautiful and even majestic. As a collective, the show includes a select number of truly remarkable pieces here and there […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

As American as Apple Pie: Amy Jorgensen’s Far From the Tree

By Laura Hurtado on November 3, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

When you stop by the visitor’s desk at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, you’ll see a large glass bowl, placed there by curator Becca Maksym, topped full with apples. Red. Shiny. Delicious. The kind that greet you in hotel lobbies. As a fruit, it’s a sentinel of welcome, […]

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Residencies at UMOCA

By Laura Hurtado on July 17, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

The deadline for UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program is Saturday, July 20th at 11:59 PM. UMOCA’s Artist-in-Residence Program is designed specifically to meet the various needs of artists living in Utah today. As such, only Utah artists may apply and applicants will be selected primarily based on demonstrated artistic […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Work to Do @ BYU: Jann Haworth, Trent Alvey, Amy Jorgensen, Pam Bowman

By Laura Hurtado on June 6, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

In 1975, British feminist artist Mary Kelly, along with Margaret Harrison and Kay Hunt, completed a comprehensive conceptual art project called Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry. Part sociological study, part conceptual art, the book and documentation indexed the lives and daily schedules […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Going to the Movies at the CUAC

By Laura Hurtado on April 4, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

The word cinematic most commonly makes reference to a relationship with, a suggestion of or being suitable for motion pictures. Yet, the diversity of media in CUAC’s most recent exhibition Cinematic makes evident that filmic culture has far reaching effects that spill well beyond its original parameters: it informs and […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Handwritten in Analogue: Analogital at UMOCA

By Laura Hurtado on February 6, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

These days many people seem to have nostalgic feelings towards technologies of the 1980s — when the personal computer was still emerging with its DOS program and huge floppy discs captured and shaped our lived experience. Because our lives were once recorded on clunky video cassettes and […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Supermen and Monsters Invade BYU’s MOA

By Laura Hurtado on January 7, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Laura Hurtado reviews curator Jeff Lambson’s new exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art.

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Apocalypse, Now: CUAC Begins with the End

By Laura Hurtado on January 7, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Laura Hurtado takes a look at After the End, CUAC Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition.

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After The End is Coming

By Laura Hurtado on December 19, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

If the world ends this Friday in apocalypse and devastation, as predicted by the Mayan calendar, we’ll all miss out on the much-anticipated arrival of CUAC Contemporary. Opening Saturday December 22, 2012, from 8-10 PM from 6-10 PM and located on the corner of 2nd and 2nd, CUAC’s […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Warhol, Murakami and the Cult of Cool

By Laura Hurtado on October 4, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Laura Hurtado visits BYU’s new Think Flat exhibit, featuring works by Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami.

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Author Archives

Laura Hurtado

If You Build It . . . Amy Jorgensen

Entropic Memory in the West Desert: Will Lamson’s Mineralogy at CLUI

Among the Shadows: Jorge Rojas’ Painted Veil at Rio Gallery

Don’t Leave: Maxfield Hegedus and Suhnee Venice’s True Love Waits at CUAC

Levi Jackson’s Bushwacker

Ties That Bind: Discussing CUAC’s Utah Ties Exhibit

As American as Apple Pie: Amy Jorgensen’s Far From the Tree

Residencies at UMOCA

Work to Do @ BYU: Jann Haworth, Trent Alvey, Amy Jorgensen, Pam Bowman

Going to the Movies at the CUAC

Handwritten in Analogue: Analogital at UMOCA

Supermen and Monsters Invade BYU’s MOA

Apocalypse, Now: CUAC Begins with the End

After The End is Coming

Warhol, Murakami and the Cult of Cool

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