{"id":68875,"date":"2023-08-23T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=68875"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:24:49","slug":"another-group-show-asked-the-editor-slccs-75th-anniversary-alumni-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/another-group-show-asked-the-editor-slccs-75th-anniversary-alumni-show\/","title":{"rendered":"“Another Group Show?” Asked the Editor: SLCC’s 75th Anniversary Alumni Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samantha Snyder, \u201cNo Longer Available\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s not much to say about the Salt Lake Community College\u2019s 75th Anniversary Alumni Show<\/i>, currently open at the art gallery of the main campus on State Street. Not that there isn\u2019t plenty to say about the 30 works it includes or the same number of artists who created them, but the overall premise of the show \u2014 that uncounted students have studied art at SLCC since 1948, under what must have been the variously skilled guidance of many different artist-professors \u2014 all but demands that the resulting collection will lack any sort of theme or single attitude. All these works have in common is the fact that their makers, at some time in their careers, spent some time in a studio classroom. Whatever traces their experiences may have left on them or their work may be too subtle to be detected here. Their very difference suggests, rather, that the system is working and they all emerged with their originality intact.<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s a high level of craft, and individual imagination to spare. Just inside the door, for example, Samantha Snyder\u2019s \u201cNo Longer Available\u201d presents a miniature vignette in a box, containing a \u201csmall\u201d commercial tragedy in an imaginary clothing outlet. Three party dresses on hangers, a shelf full of folded garments, and another full of identical, anonymous boxes, are arranged around a phone left dangling off the hook. In the next window, Kevin Wellman\u2019s stained glass panel, \u201cPanes,\u201d features a goateed man in an apron and a reversed baseball cap amidst scenes of people and pets that may be from his life or life in general: his \u201cpains\u201d or someone else\u2019s. Like everything else here, what these two works have in common is their differences. All the subjects in Synder\u2019s scene are folded from collagraphs: prints made by applying first a coat of shellac and, after that dries, ink to a three-dimensional collage that is then run through the printing press like any other matrix. Wellman\u2019s individual panes are ambrotypes: glass images, variations of the popular tintypes that were the first widely available photographs in the 19th century.<\/h4>\n
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Kevin Wellman, \u201cPanes”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kathleen Stone, \u201cBest Friends I,”<\/p><\/div>\n

Lynn Bright\u2019s \u201cWillard Farm,\u201d with its pastel mountains, utilitarian structures and hay field all rendered in straw-like impasto, is dated 2022, but could have been in style a century and a half earlier. It\u2019s blistered-looking frame is a splendid example of how the complete work of art may include the frame in the artist\u2019s vision. The virtues of not completing the ensemble are essential to Kathleen Stone\u2019s \u201cBest Friends I,\u201d a photo-realist goat on which \u2014 or on whom \u2014 a chicken perches to reveal the great secret: that animals not only have consciousness, but transcendent personal lives. The meticulous beasts on an incomplete, scrubbed-in ground causes them, the goat particularly, to pop out in what becomes an encounter with the real being.<\/h4>\n

One of the first choices an artist makes is whether to represent the exterior world or their own interior. Pablo Ayala\u2019s \u201cOfrenda Al Tierra,\u201d Rob Adamson\u2019s \u201cPoint,\u201d and Julie Strong\u2019s \u201cThe Crowned Anemone\u201d all find liminal points (to use this season\u2019s buzz word) on that border, but two works that come down decisively are Grant Fuhst\u2019s \u201cCreation Myth,\u201d on the side of the fabulous, and James McGee\u2019s collectable sneakers, \u201cStan Smiths,\u201d for the concrete.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Grant Fuhst, \u201cCreation Myth\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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James McGee, \u201cStan Smiths”<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of these artists began their careers before the rise of the Curator \u2014 the impresario who dedicates and constructs so many modern shows. Others came later, but SLCC\u2019s 75th Anniversary<\/i> suggests an attentive viewer need not be bored by the combination of self-selection and jurying that has worked for so long.<\/h4>\n

75th Anniversary Alumni Show<\/em>, The George S. & Dolores Dor\u00e9 Eccles Gallery: SLCC South Campus<\/a>, Salt Lake City, through Sep. 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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