{"id":38279,"date":"2017-03-10T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=38279"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:07:11","slug":"all-women-at-adobe-a-new-installation-of-pieces-at-the-lehi-complex-is-all-by-female-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/all-women-at-adobe-a-new-installation-of-pieces-at-the-lehi-complex-is-all-by-female-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"All Women at Adobe: A new installation of pieces at the Lehi complex is all by female artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38279 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/all-women-at-adobe-a-new-installation-of-pieces-at-the-lehi-complex-is-all-by-female-artists\/bluelake\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/all-women-at-adobe-a-new-installation-of-pieces-at-the-lehi-complex-is-all-by-female-artists\/wildflowers\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wildflowers-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wildflowers-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wildflowers-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wildflowers-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/all-women-at-adobe-a-new-installation-of-pieces-at-the-lehi-complex-is-all-by-female-artists\/wrenross\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wrenross-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wrenross-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wrenross-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wrenross-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t usually think much of exclusionary shows, unless it\u2019s by medium or genre, but it was just International Women\u2019s Day and I trust that the curators at and for Adobe took that into account when they organized this exhibition of strictly female Utah artists.\u00a0(Did you, Andrew Ehninger?)<\/p>\n<p>Except that in this instance there were 136 judges \u2013 all women working at Adobe \u2013 who voted on the initial selections that, as always, were based first on the dimensions of the entries. (I know.)<\/p>\n<p>But most of the paintings, mixed-media works, and photographs are hung in a stairwell at Adobe \u2014 a very nice space, actually; and given the 30,000 or so visitors that pass through the building each year and the fact that the corporation takes no commission on sales, it\u2019s a pretty good gig. They likely will cut these usually open-to-all-Utah-artists shows from several to just two each year, our tour guide said.<\/p>\n<p>It was a remarkably large turnout Thursday night by artists, the public and employees alike for the opening reception, hosted by Adobe, with food and drink and a dozen paintings on display in a superb setting. The room, aptly called The Hangar, was entirely too large for the small grouping of easels but the magnificent backdrop of mountains and sunset easily compensated. The Adobe complex was only constructed, said building manager Jeremy Macdonald, after a tour of the Utah Museum of Natural History and the influence is evident.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question these 12 women deserve inclusion. There is noted filmmaker and abstract painter Claudia Sisemore, whose deep, thought-provoking, untitled 32\u201d x 32\u201d Color Field work (acrylic on untreated canvas) is the only not-for-sale piece in the show; the ever-surprising Trent Alvey, one of our\u00a0<em>Utah\u2019s 15<\/em>\u00a0and the subject of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/trent-alveys-atomic-sublime\/\">one of our podcasts\u00a0<\/a>last fall, who entered a 48\u201d x 48\u201d latex with concrete work titled \u201cPrimal Body #2\u201d that portrays human bodies in\/as pods \u2013 one of a series of three, she said; and Susan Makov, owner of Green Cat Press and recently retired from 38 years teaching art at Weber State University whose show at A Gallery we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/i-would-change-it-susan-makovs-prints-and-paintings-at-a-gallery\">reviewed in 2016<\/a>, is showing \u201cMountain Sunlight,\u201d an oil on canvas, 24\u2033 x 30,\u201d of the entwined branches of a tree with an almost stained-glass effect to the colors in the branches and background.<\/p>\n<p>It was a first show for photographers Julie van der Wekken and Brandi Dawson. The effective 30\u201d x 36\u201d black-and-white photo \u201cGarden Portrait\u201d by van der Wekken shows shadows of two children superimposed over wire-covered hoops protecting garden plants. Dawson\u2019s colorful 24\u201d x 36\u201d \u201cFire Top Mountains\u201d was shot up a canyon and left quite an impression.<\/p>\n<p>Jenedy Paige, wife of an Adobe employee, was quite a find. Her hyper-realistic 18 x 24\u201d oil on wood panel titled \u201cOur Time\u201d of a blonde-locked young girl with a clock halo holding a book with a partially visible title \u201cAmericans\u201d is simply lovely and wonderfully executed.<\/p>\n<p>Two viewer favorites were \u201cThe Living Room,\u201d 48\u201d x 48\u201d oil on canvas by Megan Gibbons, depicting a relaxed woman resting her weight on a hip and one arm. It\u2019s the richly abstracted background that makes this painting pop. Amy DiMare\u2019s layered ink jet print \u201cTrees &amp; Stones are Only What They Are; All the Rest is Silent &amp; Interchangeable,\u201d 24\u201d x 30\u201d, was perhaps the most intriguing work in the show \u2013 one I kept going back to. Trees, a courting couple on a bridge, an old Main Street-type standing clock; a banner; a psychedelically painted VW hippie bus; an old iron-sided ship and \u2014 wait for it \u2014 a funky old metal liquor store sign. It\u2019s the stuff that dreams are made on. Mine, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Jensen entered a nice 40\u201d x 60\u201d abstract drip painting (latex enamel on muslin) of wildflowers; Jamie Webb\u2019s 24 x 24\u201d acrylic on canvas \u201cHearth\u201d was reminiscent of a mandala; Jennifer Handel submitted \u201cBlue Lake,\u201d a 30 x 48\u201d acrylic on canvas of a mountain ridge reflected in water; and Wren Ross\u2019s pleasing 22 x 30\u201d \u201cHammering Vessels\u201d was a mixed-media work on paper of teepees, birds in trees, a moon and so forth, primitive, childlike and very interesting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"saboxplugin-wrap\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"content-comments\">\n<div id=\"respond\" class=\"comment-respond\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t usually think much of exclusionary shows, unless it\u2019s by medium or genre, but it was just International Women\u2019s Day and I trust that the curators at and for Adobe took that into account when they organized this exhibition of strictly female Utah artists.\u00a0(Did you, Andrew Ehninger?) 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