{"id":26077,"date":"2014-07-08T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=26077"},"modified":"2020-03-17T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:55:35","slug":"artists-of-utahs-collaborart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/artists-of-utahs-collaborart\/","title":{"rendered":"ColLABorART 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You don\u2019t necessarily go into art because you play nice with others: artists are generally solitary creatures, the studio a temple for personal expression. So when we asked seven pairs of artists to come into The Leonardo\u2019s Art Lab to create large-scale collaborative projects during the Utah Arts Festival, we knew it would get exciting. We just hoped it wouldn\u2019t get bloody.<\/p>\n

Most of the artists hadn\u2019t worked together before and they had to work out their ideas and methods on the spot, while people watched and the clock of the four-day event ticked away.<\/p>\n

Sign-painter Austin Namba and landscape artist Jann Marie met at the recent\u00a0Dreamathon<\/a>\u00a0at the former Granite High School, where their two pieces were created side by side. For ColLABorART they had to work on melding his meticulous sign-painting skills with her heavily textured landscapes \u2014 a process that wasn\u2019t always easy but whose results are eye-catching.<\/p>\n

The other artist pairs had to similarly figure out how to work together to achieve their ends: Brad Slaugh and Sri Whipple covered a 16-foot gessoed piece of paper with a dark ground and began wiping away, creating a menagerie of human, animal and floral forms; Stefanie Dykes and Lewis J. Crawford individually screen-printed pillowcases with faces of famous figures then brought them together to create \u201cStrange Bedfellows;\u201d Kent Christensen and Levi Jackson created a space-age food pyramid full of Tang, Oreos, Coca-cola and freeze dried ice cream; Josh Luther lay in a pile of dirt and played on his phone while collaborator Bret Hanson built up a ramshackle structure around him; Jann Haworth and Daisy Blake riffed on a personal favorite, Alice in Wonderland; and David Habben and Shawn Rossiter reunited from last year\u2019s ColLABorART to create a large pastel drawing that mixes the biomorphic and the robotic.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people from the Arts Festival stopped in to watch the artists as they worked. They and the larger public will have a chance to see the finished works as they will be exhibited at\u00a0The Leonardo\u2019s Art Lab<\/a>\u00a0through the month of July. A reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, July 18, 6-9 pm.<\/p>\n