{"id":36207,"date":"2017-01-23T20:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=36207"},"modified":"2018-09-08T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T02:27:06","slug":"the-sea-change-of-howard-brough-new-works-at-finch-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-sea-change-of-howard-brough-new-works-at-finch-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea-change of Howard Brough: New works at Finch Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nothing of him that doth fade,<\/em><\/p>\n

But doth suffer a\u00a0<\/em>sea-change<\/em>,<\/em><\/p>\n

into something rich and strange<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a now-legendary time, Howard Brough carried primary responsibility for the splendid, if spatially challenging gallery on the fourth floor of the City Library. During those years of service he must have dreamed, like so many creative industry adjuncts, from gallery directors to gallerists, from publishers to publisher\u2019s reps, of one day having his own show in the space that had accommodated everyone from eager tyros to living legends.<\/p>\n

And then, one day, he did it: left the gallery after, as parting gesture, he\u2019d filled it with the substantial product of an entire life\u2019s art making (see our article\u00a0here<\/a>). Or so it seemed at the time . . . but it wasn\u2019t true. Rather, Brough\u2019s gentle manner camouflaged a prolific painter: an incisive observer, ruthless poet, and merciless social critic. As evidence, a dozen brand-new, genre-blending icons appeared in Finch Lane this January, each boasting a crowd of satirical figures, ranging from Holofernes\u2014a chicken named after the vengeful, Old Testament marauder\u2014to Miss Judy\u2014a neck-wringing chef resembling the Biblical Judith, who seduced and beheaded that too-human scourge. Other mythic stories infused with local references include \u201cThe Miracle of the Gulz,\u201d \u201cThe Dee-lirium of Profut Bundy,\u201d \u201cO Susanna and the Elders,\u201d and the \u201cTemptation of Saint Tony.\u201d Each transforms its iconic subject, traditional or modern, into an amalgam of quilt pattern, comic illustration, and cubist portrait, accompanied by a vernacular \u201cCanticle.\u201d It\u2019s fortunate that Howard Brough\u2019s latest work will be up only until February 24, as anyone trying to see it all in one visit risks viewer fatigue from a riot of details and a plethora of jokes that together reinvent that weary phrase: an original vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a\u00a0sea-change, into something rich and strange In a now-legendary time, Howard Brough carried primary responsibility for the splendid, if spatially challenging gallery on the fourth floor of the City Library. During those years of service he must have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"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":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 12:42:16","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\/36207","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\/847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36208,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions\/36208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}