{"id":61452,"date":"2021-09-25T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=61452"},"modified":"2022-01-19T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:10:01","slug":"the-year-was-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-year-was-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year Was 2002 …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe year was 2002, and Utah was host to the Winter Olympics …<\/p>\n

When the Springville Museum of Art was selected as the official venue for an exhibition of Utah art, a group of artists decided to go rogue and stage an exhibit closer to the action and\u00a0UtahArt2002<\/a>\u00a0opened in the Norman Building in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

The spirit of promise was in the air that year and Salt Lake City was to home to a flurry of gallery initiatives in 2002:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the heart of the city, Pam O’Mara opened\u00a0Utah Artist Hands<\/a>, a gallery dedicated to Utah artists, including Native American artists and artists from the southwest of the state, rarely seen in Salt Lake City galleries.<\/p>\n

Stephen Teuscher opened Fables Fine Art at Exchange Place (Shawn Stradley reviewed their\u00a0Celebrating the Human Form exhibit<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>in July).<\/p>\n

Jim \u201cMeats\u201d Meier,<\/a>\u00a0a local painter and digital artist, transformed the Gladstone Furnishings building on 17th South into an art gallery.<\/p>\n

Artspace Forum<\/a>\u00a0gallery opened up kitty-corner from the construction site of The Gateway project, and was home to some great exhibits that year, including\u00a0Layne Mecham<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Artists of Utah’s inaugural 35×35 exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

T<\/a>RASA, the Urban Arts collective,<\/a>\u00a0found a home in the Pickle Factory, on the west side of downtown.<\/p>\n

Nearby, Brad Slaugh finished his first iteration of\u00a0Poor Yorick Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David Ericson<\/a>\u00a0moved into a new home, a 19th-century brick house located next to a liquor store. It’s now his old home \u2014 he recently sold that building and this month opened a show for Brian Kershisnik in his new space.<\/p>\n

Of course, Salt Lake City wasn’t the only place where stuff was happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Bountiful,\u00a0Lamplight Gallery<\/a>\u00a0celebrated its one-year anniversary.<\/p>\n

Michael Bingham began\u00a0Paint Utah<\/a>\u00a0in Logan.<\/p>\n

Rosy optimism wasn’t the only emotion on offer, and we followed a variety of controversies that year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A huge piece of granite that for years had served as\u00a0<\/a>an informal public art project<\/a>\u00a0for the community at the bottom of Little Cottonwood Canyon was buried by a developer.<\/p>\n

Art enthusiasts and art professionals were urging the state legislature to\u00a0reinvest in the state’s public art program<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>after the percent-for-art was furloughed in 2001.<\/p>\n

Jamie Clyde’s “Christ figures<\/a>”\u00a0stirred controversy when they were shown at Angles Gallery.<\/p>\n

Our Artist Profiles celebrated artists from across the state:<\/strong>
\nPilar Pobil<\/a>
\nRuby Chacon<\/a>
\nMark England<\/a>
\nDavid Delthony<\/a>
\nJoe Venus<\/a>
\nBevan Chipman<\/a><\/p>\n

And we reviewed exhibits big (Bob Olpin reviewed the\u00a0Spring Salon<\/a>\u00a0for us) small ( the\u00a0Coaster Project<\/a>\u00a0at the The Gallery at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center ) and everything in between. Check out:
\nBrian Hoover<\/a>
\nThe Nature of Abstraction<\/a>
\nThe Eccles Black & White Exhibit<\/a>
\nZION at St. George Art Museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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