{"id":86807,"date":"2024-09-10T06:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=86807"},"modified":"2024-10-08T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:44:59","slug":"aauw-exhibit-celebrates-women-and-their-evolving-art-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/aauw-exhibit-celebrates-women-and-their-evolving-art-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"AAUW Exhibit Celebrates Women and Their Evolving Art Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Installation view of Celebrating Women Bold and Beautiful at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. Image by Geoff Wichert.<\/p><\/div>\n

For much of the 20th century, painting and photography felt like mortal enemies. Any history of Modernism will explain how the camera forced artists into the varieties of Abstraction, among other things. That the schism has now healed is shown by Maggie Davis in her \u201cWindowpane Poppies,\u201d a view that could only have come about after the absorption of the photograph\u2019s capacity to select focal lengths. Before that lesson, the eye swept through the scene, refocusing each object to give the mind a sharp image of its entirety, while painting followed suit.<\/h4>\n

The Pilar Pobil Celebration Gallery at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center can be divided into many flexible spaces that curator Michael Christensen generates anew with each exhibition, giving individual works and small ensembles their own visual spaces. Works effectively face each other within those spaces, providing opportunities to scan the diversity that characterizes art today. It helps to keep in mind that, like the photo and the canvas, the academy and all things \u201cacademic\u201d were treated as the enemy during the century of Modernism, from about 1875 to 1975, that celebrated replacing the past by putting old subjects into new media. Celebrating Women Bold and Beautiful<\/i> would be remiss if it didn\u2019t somehow bring that history into view.<\/h4>\n