{"id":199,"date":"2008-02-06T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2008\/02\/06\/ucaca-purchases-sri-whipple-drawing\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:17:34","slug":"ucaca-purchases-sri-whipple-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/ucaca-purchases-sri-whipple-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"UCACA purchases Sri Whipple drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clash of the Titans by Sri Whipple<\/p><\/div>\n

UCACA, the Utah Committee for the Advocacy of Contemporary Art, has purchased its first piece of art, a drawing by Sri Whipple. The group now seeks to place the drawing in a public collection somewhere in the state.<\/p>\n

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Founded in 2006, UCACA’ s mission is to increase the proportion of contemporary art on view in public collections in Utah. Traditionally, decisions about what artwork to acquire for\u00a0 collections have been made by non-artists. UCACA, whose\u00a0membership is open to both artists and non-artists,\u00a0 seeks to contribute an artist’s perspective to the process of deciding what artwork is displayed in public venues.<\/div>\n
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Each year, UCACA members contribute funds and select a contemporary work by a Utah artist to donate to a public collection in the state. The organization’s first meeting of 2008 is February 13th at 6 pm. Artists and representatives of public collections interested in participating in the process can view the drawing at www.ucaca.org or contact UCACA through its President,\u00a0Trent Thursby Alvey 801-550-1548 trentalvey@xmission.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Sri Whipple was born in 1973 in Los Angeles and raised in Utah’s Salt Lake valley since the age of three.\u00a0 From youth he had a keen interest in art history with a heavy lean towards the masters (Caravagio, Vermeer, Bosch, VanDyke, etc…). Whipple’s obsession with the masters has always been balanced with a love of pop culture, comic books and animation.\u00a0 After graduating from the University of Utah in 2000 with a BFA in fine art, with an emphasis in painting and drawing, he worked to marry the two traditions. Whipple says, “In my art I unite the masters’ craft and symbolic narratives with cartoon surrealism and subconscious mysticism to create esoteric metaphors for the modern Man”. He can be contacted at 801-808-5876, sriwhipple@gmail.com<\/span> or at the Captain Captain Studios on 825s. 500w. in SLC, Ut. .<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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