{"id":21768,"date":"2013-06-17T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=21768"},"modified":"2023-11-13T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:51:26","slug":"your-references-please-judy-csotsits-and-rogelio-manzo-at-white-space-in-ogden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/your-references-please-judy-csotsits-and-rogelio-manzo-at-white-space-in-ogden\/","title":{"rendered":"Your references, please? Judy Csotsits and Rogelio Manzo at White Space in Ogden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Whitespace gallery<\/a>, across Wall Avenue from the Union Station in Ogden, opened with an impressive array of artworks emphasizing noteworthy materials rather than familiar names or genres. For instance, photographer Koh Sang Woo knows that documentary photographs are old news; his digitally manipulated color images, like “Farenheit,” generate neon dreams in which what remains black and white acquires powerful, three-dimensional texture and presence. Emil Alzamora\u2019s figures contrast expressive exteriors that seem to belong to materials\u2014like rusted iron\u2014that could scarcely do what his sculptures demand of them. The featured artist, Rogelio Manzo, fashions larger than life-sized heads by assembling layers of imagery, creating the illusion of depth by the clever method (as an old artists\u2019s joke says) of using actual depth. He covers slabs of transparent resin, both back and front, with congruent variations on the subject\u2019s visage, until a compound portrait, sometimes self-reinforcing and sometimes self-canceling, emerges. Whether the technique supports his claim that it \u201ccan reach inside and expose the secret stories and identity of its sitter\u201d remains a question each viewer will have to answer personally. Hyperbolic claims seem to be the necessary fuel of today\u2019s art.<\/p>\n