{"id":39056,"date":"2009-07-02T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=39056"},"modified":"2018-10-07T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T01:54:32","slug":"fantasy-and-fiction-justin-wheatley-and-monika-del-bosque-at-palmers-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/fantasy-and-fiction-justin-wheatley-and-monika-del-bosque-at-palmers-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy and Fiction: Justin Wheatley and Monika Del Bosque at Palmers Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Are dreams so distinct from memories and are memories so distinct from dreams? Do we not ask ourselves, \u201cWas that a dream?\u201d or conversely, \u201cWas I awake?\u201d This month, Palmers Gallery explores the fantasy of dreams and what may or might not be fiction in memory with an exhibition of works by Monika Del Bosque and Justin Wheatley.Del Bosque depicts dream-states while Wheatley explores memory, but both artists bear traits that are fundamentally similar, and uncanny in their approach to what might be relegated to the realms of dream and the uncertain objectivity of memory.Del Bosque\u2019s colors are fundamentally quixotic, her iconographic form loosely applied, and her canvases are entirely \u201cdream-like.\u201d There is nothing in her work that bears any trace of waking reality. Like a dream, one thought blends into an idea, which blends into a form. Like dreams these pieces are collages. The elements are connected by line and shape.<\/p>\n

Wheatley\u2019s striking and intense canvases are more structured, more classically ordered. They are darker and more recognizable as physical entities \u2014 such as the store front in \u201cEben-Ezer\u201d \u2014 but like Del Bosque\u2019s works they are layered in collage, symbol and pattern. They evoke memories, but also question what exactly a memory is. All sense of a \u201csimple memory\u201d is eradicated as Wheatley\u2019s canvases are less about the central icon than that which convolutes it, betrays it.<\/p>\n

Both of these artists\u2019 bodies of works evoke a sense of what goes on behind the closed eyelid, the fantasy and fiction of memory and dream; ultimatley they leave one with an uncomfortable sensation and questioning of past, present and future.<\/p>\n

New Mixed Media Works by: Monika Del Bosque and\u00a0Justin Wheatley<\/a>\u00a0is at Palmers Gallery (378 W. 300 South, 801.359.4632.) through July 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are dreams so distinct from memories and are memories so distinct from dreams? Do we not ask ourselves, \u201cWas that a dream?\u201d or conversely, \u201cWas I awake?\u201d This month, Palmers Gallery explores the fantasy of dreams and what may or might not be fiction in memory with an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":39057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/justin_wheatley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 06:30:27","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\/39056","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\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39058,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39056\/revisions\/39058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}