{"id":104866,"date":"2026-08-13T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=104866"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:11:05","slug":"contemporary-portraiture-at-springville-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/contemporary-portraiture-at-springville-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Portraiture at Springville Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Justin-Hackworth-porch-couple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-104867\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Justin-Hackworth-porch-couple.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Justin-Hackworth-porch-couple.png 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Justin-Hackworth-porch-couple-120x120.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Springville<br \/>\nAugust 27, 2026\u2013July 23, 2027<\/p>\n<p>Featuring works by more than 20 contemporary master artists, Contemporary Portraiture examines the portrait as an act of interpretation rather than mere documentation. Through paintings, sculpture, and film, the exhibition explores how artists use medium, style, setting, and technique to reveal not only the likeness of a sitter, but the complex relationships between artist, subject, and audience. Organized around the tension between public and private portraiture, the exhibition considers how portraits construct identity\u2014whether projecting a carefully crafted public image or preserving an intimate, personal moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smofa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Springville Museum of Art<\/a><br \/>\n126 E. 400 South<br \/>\nSpringville, UT 84663<br \/>\n801-489-2727<\/p>\n<p>Hours: Monday, 6\u20138 p.m.; Tuesday\u2013Saturday, 10 a.m.\u20135 p.m.; Wednesday until 8 p.m.; closed Sundays and holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springville August 27, 2026\u2013July 23, 2027 Featuring works by more than 20 contemporary master artists, Contemporary Portraiture examines the portrait as an act of interpretation rather than mere documentation. Through paintings, sculpture, and film, the exhibition explores how artists use medium, style, setting, and technique to reveal not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":104867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-to_the_south"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2027-07-24 19:09:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Justin-Hackworth-porch-couple.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104868,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104866\/revisions\/104868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}