{"id":67086,"date":"2023-03-04T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=67086"},"modified":"2023-03-13T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T20:00:31","slug":"picking-favorites-among-josanne-glass-abstract-works-at-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/picking-favorites-among-josanne-glass-abstract-works-at-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Favorites Among Josanne Glass’ Abstract Works at Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Josanne Glass, “Tierra y Cielo,” acrylic on paper,
22 1\/2 x 23 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you have ever been to an exhibit of (even slightly) heterogeneous works and found yourself wishing the artist had leaned more into one direction rather than another, you know the feeling. It\u2019s a presumptuous one, the desire to tell an artist what direction she should follow, but we all succumb to it from time to time.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

In Josanne Glass\u2019<\/a> current exhibit at Phillips Gallery I would have welcomed a half dozen or more works along the lines of \u201cTierra y Cielo.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s the visual resonance with cairns in the stacked forms. Or the way Glass takes the idea of contained expression, explored in other works, and pushes it just a bit further. The colors are nice as well.<\/h4>\n

Glass\u2019 exhibit, which is showing concurrently with Steve Dayton\u2019s works<\/a> on the gallery\u2019s main floor, comprises more than a dozen medium sized works on paper in addition to several smaller works. They are minimal in composition, largely oriented on a horizontal axis, the palette of each reduced to one or two dominate hues. Nothing ever gets too out of hand. The reference to the landscape is visually implied in most works, and made explicit in the titles \u2014 all in Spanish, to honor the artist\u2019s mother, \u201ca native Spanish speaker, who recently mostly stopped speaking.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span> Texture is important, enlivening the reduced compositions. In some of it, you may see the influence of weaving, the first art form the artist took up after leaving the corporate world for art.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Josanne Glass, “El Mar,” acrylic on paper, 22.5 x 23 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Her works have matured, both in and vision and execution, since we first profiled Glass back in 2014<\/a>. There’s a command of expression and delicacy of touch. Several of the paintings are broadly expressionistic works, all centralized brush work; others nod towards minimalism, with a reduction in composition, palette and form. But maybe I won\u2019t be alone in leaning towards works like \u201cLa Playa al Anochecer, una Variaci\u00f3n\u201d (an unframed work)<\/span> where variations in textural expression are contained in bands that play off one another.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Which leads us to \u201cTierra y Cielo\u201d (“Earth and Sky”), where the corners are cut, objects delineated and fore and ground become explicit. It\u2019s a simple shift, but one that changes everything. If I were a cigar-smoking music exec, this is the one I would pick for the hit single.<\/h4>\n
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Josanne Glass, “La Playa al Anochecer, una Variaci\u00f3n<\/span>,” 18.5 x 18.75 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Josanne Glass, Phillips Gallery<\/a>, Salt Lake City, through Mar. 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have ever been to an exhibit of (even slightly) heterogeneous works and found yourself wishing the artist had leaned more into one direction rather than another, you know the feeling. It\u2019s a presumptuous one, the desire to tell an artist what direction she should follow, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[1407,157],"class_list":["post-67086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts","tag-josanne-glass","tag-phillips-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JOGL275-Tierra-y-cielo-earth-and-sky-22.5x23-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 00:03:38","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\/67086","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67093,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67086\/revisions\/67093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}