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\"\"<\/a>Salt Lake City
\nSept. 11 – Jan. 2, 2027<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2020, artist Madeline Rupard bought an 18-year-old blue Subaru so she could leave her Queens apartment during the height of New York\u2019s pandemic lockdowns. What began as a practical purchase to serve particular needs became a steady and reliable companion for repeated cross-country journeys\u2014packed to the brim with all her belongings, fears, and dreams\u2014as she followed various opportunities and instincts.<\/p>\n

2002 Subaru Forester<\/em>\u00a0finds Rupard four years later, on her final road trip. Living far from New York City, she is reckoning with the looming sale of her beloved car\u2014\u201da scrappy, pragmatic sanctuary\u201d and a personification of what Rupard calls \u201cstubborn, dumb hope.\u201d In many ways, the Subaru has served as a sole witness to Rupard\u2019s life as she shifted and changed. The resulting paintings and texts in this exhibition, narrated in stream-of-consciousness, draw from that last drive taken while Rupard was grieving the death of a friend.<\/p>\n

James Joyce famously said, \u201cin the particular is contained the universal,\u201d meaning that deep human truths surface in the specific, ordinary details of everyday life. At heart, the exhibition is a meditation on painting itself: its ancient aspiration to hold time still and preserve what would otherwise pass into memory. In an age marked by quick consumption and perpetual movement, Rupard\u2019s effort to transform a well-loved car and a fleeting final drive into slow, hand-painted images feels like a defiant act to hold on and to remember.<\/p>\n

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>
\n20 S. West Temple
\nSalt Lake City UT 84101
\n801.328.4201<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salt Lake City
\nSept. 11 – Jan. 2, 2027<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2020, artist Madeline Rupard bought an 18-year-old blue Subaru so she could leave her Queens apartment during the height of New York\u2019s pandemic lockdowns. What began as a practical purchase to serve particular needs became a steady and reliable companion for repeated cross-country journeys\u2014packed to the brim with all her belongings, fears, and dreams\u2014as she followed various opportunities and instincts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":105866,"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":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-salt_lake_area"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-01 02:55:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/madeline_rupard_subaro_hero2-1920x1440-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105865","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=105865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105867,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105865\/revisions\/105867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}