{"id":74565,"date":"2024-04-03T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=74565"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:39:37","slug":"statue-of-responsibility-gary-lee-price-andrew-alba-new-airport-tunnel-reckoning-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/statue-of-responsibility-gary-lee-price-andrew-alba-new-airport-tunnel-reckoning-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Responsibility, Gary Lee Price, Andrew Alba, New Airport Tunnel, Reckoning in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>4\/3 KUER: Yes, the new Salt Lake City airport tunnel will be a shorter walk. It\u2019s also artsy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where in Utah can you be 26 feet underground and 12 feet above water at the same time?<\/p>\n

The answer is a new tunnel at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Starting in October it will shorten the walk to Concourse B. It will also feature an art installation known as \u201cThe River Tunnel\u201d to make the journey more enjoyable.<\/p>\n

Those who have traveled through the airport aren\u2019t afraid to share their complaints about the long walk from the security checkpoint to Concourse B. Right now, you need to trek halfway through the west side of Concourse A, then hop on an escalator down to the \u201cMid Concourse Tunnel,\u201d where you walk the length of nearly two Salt Lake City blocks before arriving at the entrance of Concourse B. Altogether, the stroll is\u00a0a little over half a mile.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/29 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: How Commemorations to the Disenfranchised Have Forced a Reckoning with Utah\u2019s History and Present<\/strong><\/p>\n

The weeks after Christopher Nolan\u2019s Oppenheimer<\/em>\u00a0swept the 96th Academy Awards,<\/span>\u00a0nabbing the coveted Best Picture award, the direct legacy of the subject\u2019s work, among other calamities the West has endured this century, continues to reverberate throughout the Southwest.<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s west desert has a notable connection to the Oppenheimer fable\u2014on the border of Nevada, the small gambling town of Wendover is an unlikely harbinger of an American tragedy. It\u2019s here that one can still see abandoned military barracks and other structures from the Second World War. Most notably, Wendover houses a museum to the Enola Gay hangar, the aircraft that carried Oppenheimer\u2019s atomic bomb that detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 6 to August 9, 1945, killing between 129,000-226,000 souls.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/21 THE UTAH REVIEW: The vibrant gifts of Inheritance in Andrew Alba\u2019s works at Material art gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Alba\u00a0remembers the prints of paintings such as Emiliano Zapata, the leading figure of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, and works by Mexican artist Diego Rivera that occupied a place of honor in his grandparents\u2019 home. The grandson of Mexican migrant workers who came to the U.S., Alba says, in an interview with The Utah Review, the memories of growing up in their home \u2014 sitting at the kitchen table, watching his grandmother tend to her plants and absorbing the pride of their Mexican cultural heritage \u2014 set the foundation for curating his identity as an artist.<\/p>\n

Viewing the repetitive undulating rhythms and counterpoints of movement on the canvases of Alba\u2019s works, one can feel clearly the subtly expressed organic complex of emotions which carries this Salt Lake City artist, who is now in his late thirties. When one learns about the diverse assortment of muses this self-taught artist has interacted with and curated since his childhood, it becomes even clearer for the viewer to find their own emotional parallels to the ideals, beliefs, ethics and cultural touchstones which propel Alba\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/20 SLTRIB: Meet the sculptor behind the Statue of Responsibility: Gary Lee Price was inspired by his previous work and the writings of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl
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\nThe Utah artist behind a proposed 300-foot statue that depicts the idea of responsibility said his design is about \u201ccoming together\u201d \u2014 a concept and an image that, as he puts it, a kindergartner could look at and understand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about being there for each other, just on the simplest terms. That\u2019s what I hope people would see in it and remember that it is about,\u201d sculptor Gary Lee Price said.<\/p>\n

A nonprofit foundation has proposed erecting the 300-foot Statue of Responsibility at the massive development at the Point of the Mountain, to overlook the Draper location and the commuters traveling between Salt Lake and Utah counties.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/17 SLTRIB: Why supporters want to build a 300-foot statue at Point of the Mountain, while others are skeptical<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine a colossal pillar of two hands, each gripping the other\u2019s arm, rising 300 feet above\u00a0new development at Point of the Mountain\u00a0and towering over drivers commuting between Salt Lake and Utah counties.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Statue of Responsibility, long envisioned as a West Coast companion to the Statue of Liberty, would be nearly the same height as Lady Liberty atop her pedestal in New York Harbor. The monument has been pitched, without success, to coastal cities in Washington state and California over the years since it was first proposed by late Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor\u00a0Viktor E. Frankl.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0its supporters\u00a0want Utah to donate 5 publicly owned acres to locate the proposed statue in Draper.<\/p>\n

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