{"id":35688,"date":"2018-05-29T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=35688"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:03:27","slug":"dimebox-gallery-opens-in-salt-lake-city-with-an-exhibition-by-matthew-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/dimebox-gallery-opens-in-salt-lake-city-with-an-exhibition-by-matthew-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimebox Gallery Opens in Salt Lake City with an Exhibition by Matthew Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jenni Reed, of Dimebox Gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When Jenni Reed moved to Salt Lake City from Houston with her fianc\u00e9 Matthew Sketch, she didn\u2019t know that they would decide to stay here permanently, or that she would decide to open an art gallery, or that he would be the first artist to show there.<\/h4>\n

But the mountains cast their spell; there was an old pasta factory for lease that was the ideal space for art; and Sketch, a trained draftsman who draws designs for oil and gas companies as a day job, had some good stuff, much of it abstract, for a solo exhibit.<\/h4>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a huge space, 700 square feet,\u201d says Reed from New Orleans where the pair are looking at art in galleries and antique shops, chatting up street artists \u201cinstead of just seeing the finished product, and, of course, we are listening to a lot of good jazz,\u201d she said by telephone Wednesday morning. They didn\u2019t have to do much renovation, \u201cthe universe was on our side with that,\u201d but they did add track lighting to the old warehouse, which has original wood floors and industrial sliding doors as well as good natural light. She dubbed the place Dimebox Gallery, the name of the tiny town her grandparents came from in Texas. \u201cThey are very, very touched by that,\u201d says Reed.<\/h4>\n

A couple of years ago, she decided she wanted to have their lives centered around art \u2013 \u201creally a big passion of mine\u201d \u2013 and have everything else flow around it, says Reed. \u201cWe felt this was a good way to have a focus, a platform where we could take the politics out of art and let the work speak for itself whether the artist was really well known or emerging.\u201d<\/h4>\n

Reed was 9 the first time she saw art \u2013 that was at MoMA during a trip to New York. \u201cMy brain exploded and since then I\u2019ve had a hunger for art. Whenever I go on vacation, that\u2019s how I plan my trips. So being a gallery owner seemed the best way to have my life centered on art; to show art that we loved, and not have the same challenges that we did with the politics of art. Not going to school doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t love art, that I can\u2019t have a gallery. Maybe an artist can\u2019t write a good proposal; that doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t make good art.\u201d<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dimebox Gallery will have a couple of jurors for group shows, which will be the majority of the exhibitions there, and will release the first call for entries in July. That will be a group show so that Reed can meet and interact with as many artists as possible. The gallery\u2019s focus is modern, contemporary art.<\/h4>\n

For the inaugural exhibit, Matthew Sketch will show abstracts created with acrylic and watercolor influenced by the Fibonacci sequence. Many of his paintings have abstract backgrounds with surreal portraiture added. \u201cThere are really direct links to the equation in physical structures, in people\u2019s faces,\u201d he says. \u201cI am framing most of the paintings according to the spiral. And I mixed colors according to the sequence. That wouldn\u2019t be distinguishable by anybody but me because they\u2019re all blue, but that wasn\u2019t the point. It was my focus. Now that people are paying more attention to my art, I\u2019m trying to have a more thought-out approach. I\u2019m getting commissioned pieces, too, so . . .\u201d The artist \u201covercame a troubled youth to become a pipe designer in the oil industry,\u201d according to a press release. Both of his parents are deceased; his father was homeless before he died. Sketch will donate proceeds from the collection to a local homeless shelter, possibly the one near the gallery (The Road Home) but he has heard they are moving. \u201cI have an understanding of what they go through,\u201d says Sketch. \u201cMy dad was diabetic and wearing the same socks every day was what led to him losing his foot.\u201d The artist describes his paintings the same way he describes himself: \u201csimply complicated.\u201d<\/h4>\n

Reed says she is very excited to have the Dimebox Gallery \u201cjoin the thriving art community of Salt Lake. We hope to be a hub for local and worldwide artists. [This] will be a space where creativity has the spotlight.\u201d<\/h4>\n

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\u201cObligatory Consent,\u201d work by Matthew Sketch, Dimebox Gallery, 244 S. 500 West, Suite 108, Salt Lake City, 801-876-0954, June 2-July 2, opening reception June 2, 6-8 p.m. www.dimeboxgallery.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jenni Reed, of Dimebox Gallery. When Jenni Reed moved to Salt Lake City from Houston with her fianc\u00e9 Matthew Sketch, she didn\u2019t know that they would decide to stay here permanently, or that she would decide to open an art gallery, or that he would be the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery_spotlights","category-visual_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 00:54:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35688","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36405,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35688\/revisions\/36405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}