{"id":59953,"date":"2021-09-23T05:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=59953"},"modified":"2021-09-24T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:52:29","slug":"discover-a-dreamland-at-brushworks-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/discover-a-dreamland-at-brushworks-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover a Dreamland at Brushworks Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"p1\">There&#8217;s one life-size, cast-bronze golfer in the middle of this gallery, and a mysterious cut-out of a doorway, which staff-only can enter, behind a counter. Which leads one to feel that a mysterious and dreamy, miniature game of golf is being played here, in\/at Salt Lake City&#8217;s Brushworks Gallery. Most of the paintings (with some exceptions: an enormous painting of the Grand Canyon, for example) tend to small, even miniature, as in born-in-Russia Olga Hegner&#8217;s flowers (&#8220;Sunflowers in Cut Glass Vase,&#8221; &#8220;Roses in Crystal&#8221;).<\/h4>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-59953 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/discover-a-dreamland-at-brushworks-gallery\/garylee-pricegolftersculpture\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GaryLee-Pricegolftersculpture-350x467.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-59957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GaryLee-Pricegolftersculpture-350x467.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GaryLee-Pricegolftersculpture-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GaryLee-Pricegolftersculpture.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-59957'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;At the Tee&#8221; by Gary Lee Price\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/discover-a-dreamland-at-brushworks-gallery\/buddhaphant\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Buddhaphant-350x467.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-59959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Buddhaphant-350x467.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Buddhaphant-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Buddhaphant.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-59959'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Buddhaphant&#8221; by Gary Lee Price\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4 class=\"p1\">One of the most charming pieces in the gallery is &#8220;Buddhaphant,&#8221; a small sculpture set in the lower part of an open metal display shelf, floor-level. Small, brooding, an homage to a faraway place, &#8220;Buddhaphant&#8221; is made by the same sculptor, Gary Lee Price, who made the giant standing metal golfer, leaning on his club (\u201cAt the Tee\u201d).<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Many paintings tend toward ricochets of blues, as they portray coastal crags, canyons, rocks: nature. As in Brian Blood&#8217;s seascapes, rich Californian crags jutting into water \u2014 &#8220;Afternoon at Perkins Point&#8221; and &#8220;Emerald Waters, Point Lobos,&#8221; with its sea-water of dark turquoise bouncing off of crags, but purer lighter blue water beyond.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_59960\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jason_situ_borrego_springs-e1632410975810.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59960\" class=\"wp-image-59960 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jason_situ_borrego_springs-e1632410975810.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jason_situ_borrego_springs-e1632410975810.jpeg 430w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jason_situ_borrego_springs-e1632410975810-350x265.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Situ, &#8220;Borrego Springs, California&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">When buildings appear in these paintings, they are usually distant buildings, with a sharply lonely\/utilitarian aspect, sheds that seem like weary but enduring mother figures, or beached ships in dry harbor. A California <i>plein air <\/i>painter, Jason Situ (born in China, once an art student at Guangzhou Fine Arts Institute, now American) has gathered a whole, small, painting around one deep-maroon-roofed utility building somewhere in Borrego Springs, California. Nearby, buoyant clouds of rabbit brush, or chamisa, bloom their yellowish-green bundles of puffs of incredibly sweet-smelling late summer flowers, casting shadows the same maroon as the roof. In between, the ground looks to be baked dry. Yet beyond (like a waiting patient giant blue animal, ready to be saddled) are mountains. Mountains which promise more mountains, but also coolness, rain.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Or, just land and clouds: in &#8220;San Gabriel Valley, California&#8221; Situ&#8217;s clouds as big as dragons, or just-passed-by gigantic airships, are painted as they move. How does a <i>plein air<\/i> painter paint fast-moving clouds? It might be a skill like being good, as a cowboy, with a lasso. Situ has it. Small, dark, fitful-looking trees are on this painting&#8217;s horizon; silhouettes, they seem to be gazing out at the broad sunset beyond them, dramatic as all of a ship&#8217;s signal flares rocketing up from somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_59963\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/michael_stack-e1632411258982.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59963\" class=\"wp-image-59963 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/michael_stack-e1632411258982-350x278.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/michael_stack-e1632411258982-350x278.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/michael_stack-e1632411258982-100x80.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/michael_stack-e1632411258982.jpeg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Stack, &#8220;Illuminated on High&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Michael Stack, a painter living in Taos, New Mexico, suggests, it seems, in his oil-on-board painting &#8220;Illuminated on High,&#8221; that his Southwestern American rock formations are studying to be cloud formations; that the clouds above are doing their best to sculpt themselves into a copy of the rocks below.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">In &#8220;One&#8221; manufactured-realist Wendy Chidester has painted one glossy, perfectly centered-on-canvas gumball machine. A one-penny, one-gumball variety. You waiting for exactly one gumball to drop is a faint, humorous reminder that our human fates are one by one; our timelines are one by one; yet, our fates and timelines, in some ways, are all the same. We\u2019re historic batch replacing historic batch: almost factory lots.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">But nature persists. And at this gallery, now, if you look around a corner and down a corridor, there are actually three golf-course paintings, all the same (small) size, all untitled. Painted by Gary Max Collins, they&#8217;re sweet as cowboy songs, primitive, almost childlike, in style. The greens are jewel-green. Paint smoothly applied, each brings you to the feeling of <i>island<\/i> or <i>new land<\/i> which golf courses, and golfers, surely have always sought.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_59956\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garycollinspainting.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59956\" class=\"wp-image-59956 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garycollinspainting-1200x902.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garycollinspainting-1200x902.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garycollinspainting-350x263.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garycollinspainting-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/garycollinspainting.jpeg 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golf course painting by Gary Max Collins<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">All around in this gallery are islands, continents, suddenly yours to explore, as far as your eyes can see. The dream of landing, arriving, in a new lush or rocky land, of adventure \u2014 this is Gatsby stuff.<\/h4>\n<p>Group show, featuring Brian Blood, Laurie Kersey and W. Jason Situ, <a href=\"https:\/\/brushworksgallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brushworks Gallery<\/a>, Salt Lake City, through Oct. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one life-size, cast-bronze golfer in the middle of this gallery, and a mysterious cut-out of a doorway, which staff-only can enter, behind a counter. 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