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<\/a>Print by Paul Vincent Bernard at Saltgrass Printmakers<\/p><\/div>\n
Sugarhouse is already home to a vibrant group of printmakers. Nestled beneath the Avon sign on 10th East,\u00a0Saltgrass Printmakers<\/a>\u00a0is celebrating six years in the community this month with their annual fundraiser. A unique series of prints, from local and international artists associated with the collective, are on sale with all proceeds to benefit the non-profit organization. If you stop by you might check out the house directly to the west of Saltgrass, which is up for rent ($500) and is owned by the same family that owns the Saltgrass building and Rockwood Studios — turn it into a studio and you’ll be joining the bourgeoning scene in Sugarhouse.<\/p>\n The southside is already home to a number of artist studio spaces. Rockwood Studios (1064 East 2100 South), which houses over twenty professional artists, is having their Holiday Open House this weekend, Saturday December 5, 10 am – 5 pm. The south side is also home to\u00a0Poor Yorick Studios<\/a>and\u00a0Spectrum Studios<\/a>, both in South Salt Lake. They always draw crowds for their semi-annual open houses. In between the two is a lesser known building, Wasatch Plaza ( 2200 South and 500 East), also home to a number of artists. During the past\u00a0Gallery Stroll<\/a>\u00a0Joshua Luther<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ike Bushman<\/a>turned a nearby warehouse into another exciting venue. Hard to find and not much to speak of from the outside, the inside turned out to be a spacious — if rough — contemporary art venue, complete with video projection rooms, a spiraling word drawing and live music: the cummulative effect made all that attended feel like they were “in the know.” Luther says he plans to hold more events in the space (keep an eye on our blog and we’ll let you be “in the know” as well).<\/p>\n Warehouse show by Joshua Luther and Ike Bushman<\/p><\/div>\n A block away from these you’ll find\u00a0Sugar Space\u00a0<\/a>(616 Wilmington Ave), a multi-disciplinary art space that opened in 2007. They recently announced that they have added added two gallery rooms to their now 2,500 square feet space. Sugar Space offers classes in theater, dance, aerial silks and trapeze, yoga, feldenkrais, hula hoop, contact improvisation, breakdancing, hip hop, thearapeutic dance, dancemeditation, kids creative movement, various art mediums and more. The gallery space now allows them to feature work by local artists. This month they are exhibiting work by Lisa Scopes Oliver and Terry Scopes, of OpenDoor Transformative Arts.|1-2|<\/strong>\u00a0On December 4, they will be open for art viewing from 6-9 pm, during gallery stroll. Another open house and artist reception will be held December 17, 5-10pm. Sugar Space is currently\u00a0seeking artists\u00a0interested in showing at the space.<\/p>\n Gallery space at Sugar Space<\/p><\/div>\n Gallery space at Sugar Space<\/p><\/div>\n This move outside of downtown is a phenomenon you see in many cities. Artists and galleries generally move out of a downtown area because the rents become too expensive. They look to find areas where spaces are cheaper and the location is still accessible to the art-loving public (the irony is that they move in and transform the neighborhoods, which pushes the rents up and once again forces the artists to look for new locations).<\/p>\n Artists Julie Dunker and qi peng may be anticipating rising rents in Sugarhouse because they have located their new art venture even further south — Holladay. On Friday, December 4, the two artists will launch\u00a0The Livingroom, a contemporary art salon in — yes you guessed it — a living room (there aren’t too many warehouses, vacant or otherwise, in Holladay). The space is located at 2105 Fardown Avenue and the inaugural exhibit features work by\u00a0Jon Coffelt<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew Choberka<\/a>. Coffelt is a New York conceptual artist who will show his duct-tape on Tyvek paintings from his “Circuitry” series as well as selected pieces of scaled-down clothing from his “Memory Clothing” series. Matthew Choberka is an experimental abstract painter who teaches at Weber State. In his paintings, the artist expresses a masterful confidence in depicting the dichotomy between organic and geometric painting that hearkens to the “conflict” between abstract expressionism and geometric minimalism during the 1960’s. The opening reception for the show is Friday, December 4th from 3 to 11 pm. The exhibit continues through December 19.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/037-1.jpg\")
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