Here are a few of the shows our staff is checking out tonight (expect more on these in our blog and the June edition):<\/p>\n
Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, 631 W. North Temple Suite 700, presents the work of emerging Dine\u2019 (Navajo) artist and Westminster College student Denae Sahnidiin. The solo exhibition H\u00f3zh\u00f3ogo Naash\u00e1a Doo (I Will Walk in Beauty) is a combination of\u00a0 photography, sacred objects and mixed-media sculptures used to explore the artist\u2019s identity as a Dine\u2019 woman and the relationship that exists between her family, art and culture and allows the viewer to explore a Dine\u2019 way of living.<\/p>\n Born on the Navajo Reservation in 1992, Shanidiin\u2019s work is rooted in the importance for present-day Native Americans to be able to participate in and express their religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as living in accordance to various Dine\u2019 philosophies of life, through their own personal manner.<\/p>\n Mestizo shares space with a terrific coffeehouse, with fair trade coffees, specialty drinks and culturally diverse foods also available on the corner of 600 West and North Temple. www.mestizoarts.org<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0 Phillips Gallery features \u201cPoured\u201d by Dave Malone. With a slight nod toward midcentury modern design, Malone\u2019s work has taken a shift toward the minimal. Singular amorphic forms are a spectacle to the pure visual pleasure that results of poured paint, while impressions within the once wet surface reveal strangely familiar industrial characters. The surrounding negative space creates a formal setting reminiscent to that of ancient relics presented in a museum. Similarly, Malone\u2019s paint flow has extended to wall sculptures in which thick color melts over and merges with a diversity of unexpected objects. This clearly is a reaction to the process with an exciting outcome that is at once raw and refined.<\/p>\n In other works, spontaneous abstract paintings involve scenes of micro-environments interwoven with organic forms.\u00a0 His sixties-like palette coupled with the occasional graphite under-drawing builds a web of contrasts. Suggestions of bulbous figurative forms are enhanced by quivering paint edges, generating distinct contrast with Malone’s industrial line.\u00a0 Flow and repetition create balance, harnessing disorder and allowing for structure that has an effect that is at once energetic and deliberate. 444 East 200 South. phillips-gallery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n And from Geoff Wichert on the shows at Finch Lane:<\/p>\n Every time art renews itself, there is the impression that something entirely new is taking place: something coming into being that has never been seen before. More likely, taking in the whole picture, the artists are actually narrowing the field, selecting a small part of what went before, and by isolating a kernel, foregrounding a seed that may grow into the next big thing. This month, the indispensable Finch Lane Gallery exhibits three artists who each offer a cross section of this progress. On first viewing, Morgan Donovan\u2019s photographic portraits appear conventional, while Nancy Vorm offers seemingly endless variations on ornamental design. John Mack focuses on materials and techniques, suggestively slotting him into last century\u2019s breakout of art rooted in crafts. With time, such initial impressions come to seem premature and short sighted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 54 Finch Lane, in Reservoir Park. http:\/\/www.slcgov.com\/arts<\/a><\/p>\n![\"DenaeShanidiin300dpi\"](\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DenaeShanidiin300dpi1-1024x1024.jpg\")
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