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Title: Tango
Description: A black tie or tango attire event benefiting the Salt Lake Art Center held on June 12, 2004. The event includes cocktails and hor d'oeuvres, live auction, silent auction, formal dinner in the main gallery space, dessert and dancing.
Subjects: Events, Art auctions, Parties, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0267

Title: Behind the Lines: Drawings and Objects by Michael David Hall
Description: "Behind the Lines" is an apt description for the Salt Lake Art Center's exhibition of Hall's drawings and sculptures. What happens behind, and indeed beyond, their physical presence yields the content of these works. Through his mixed-media drawings in particular, Hall endeavors to give form to his subjectivity, to literally draw it as he comes face to face with the objective world. The linear shapes, gestures, and contours of the drawings create complex infrastructures that embody personal states of innocence and discovery. They are insightful testaments to Hal's living int he moment. As transitory self-portraits, however, they ultimately defy containment of his expansive, ever-changing pursuit of knowledge. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: line drawings, portraits, Salt Lake Art Center, drawings, mixed media
Local Identifier: 14-0450

Title: The Utah Millennium Project
Description: The Utah Millennium Project exhibition is the culmination of years of collaborative work on the part of eleven photographers. The group elected to tackle the subject of creating a permanent visual and written record of Utah imagery at the turn of the millennium. As expected, the results are diverse and represent the individual interpretation and creativity of each artist in approaching a complex theme. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: imagery, Salt Lake Art Center, photography, History
Local Identifier: 14-0311

Title: Blindsight: A New Perspective on Painting
Description: People marvel over blind musicians such as Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, but then their music is so fine you forget they're blind. What, then, of artists nearing the end of their sight? "Blindsight: A New Perspective on Seeing" dispenses with any need of asking that question -- in theory. Instead, it presents works by four painters who started their careers with full vision, only to have it deteriorate almost completely. The result is an exhibit surrounded by questions of whether artistic ideas and visions are more grounded in the mind or the outside world. Salt Lake City native Vojko Rizvanovic adds his paintings to those of artists John Bramblitt of Denton, Texas, George Mendoza of Las Cruces, N.M., and Eric Peterson of Kemah, Texas. Exhibition held in the Street Gallery space.
Subjects: visual impact, visual perception, Visual Works, Vision disorders, perspective, paintings, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0150

Title: Jun Kaneko: "...the issue of scale is one thing you cannot avoid."
Description: This exhibit includes large-scale paintings and drawings, larges-scale ceramics, glass and bronze works, as well as site-specific installations of a tile wall and striped laminated glass spiral. This is a rare opportunity for viewers to draw visual connections among the five different media and to appreciate the range/magnitude of this remarkable artist's experience and skill. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: ceramic, scale, Salt Lake Art Center, Glassworking, bronze, installations, size, meditation
Local Identifier: 14-0246

Title: April at the Center 1997
Description: April newsletter created by the Salt Lake Art Center information about SLAC, hours, events, history, current exhibitions in the Main Gallery, "Trevor Southey: Reconciliation," and the Street Level Gallery, "Joseph Marotta: Without Memory," and upcoming exhibitions.
Subjects: Events, Art exhibitions, Salt Lake Art Center, Newsletters
Local Identifier: 14-0486

Title: WHITE
Description: A black tie or creative white attire event benefiting the Salt Lake Art Center held on June 14, 2003. The event includes a live auction, formal dinner, dancing, a raffle for a 2003 MINI Cooper, entertainment and other unexpected pleasures.
Subjects: Art auctions, Parties, Salt Lake Art Center, Events, invitations
Local Identifier: 14-0284

Title: Utah X/I: Video Art from Utah
Description: Contemporary Trends in Video Art. The Salt Lake Art Center, in partnership with the SLC Film Center and the Utah Humanities Council, presents the recent videos of artists selected for UTAH X/I, an investigation of contemporary video art being created in Utah. UTAH X/I was originally curated by Anne Watson for SLC Film Center’s Sidewalk Cinema, the Art Center's presentation includes works by four video artists. Inspired by Documenta X, an international art exhibition that takes place every five years in Germany, UTAH X/I stretches beyond the conventional idea of exhibition space. Exhibition held in the Auditorium space.
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Salt Lake Art Center, video art, Project 337, art education
Local Identifier: 14-0156

Title: Koichi Yamamoto
Description: Prints by Koichi Yamamoto. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, Monochromatic works, prints, printmaking
Local Identifier: 14-0310

Title: Stephanie Leitch: Untitled Apogee - Installation Views
Description: Drawing on the architecture of church spires, this installation explores the space between construction and gravity as way to reconsider the heavenward thrust of the traditional steeple form. Installation held in the Projects and Locals Only Gallery spaces.
Subjects: Local history, Steeples, Salt Lake Art Center, video art, installations
Local Identifier: 14-0127

Title: Black & Orange Bash
Description: A fundraiser for the Salt Lake Art Center held on October 24, 1998. The event included live music and madness, food and frivolity, spirits and surprises.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, Events, Parties, Fund raising
Local Identifier: 14-0469

Title: Utah Perspectives
Description: The exhibition is a small survey of images created by Utah artists over the past sixty years. Limited in scope, one may nonetheless discover something about local traditions and aesthetic values front the landscape, still-life, figurative and nonobjective work included. here. For example, Utah has not been completely isolated from the larger art world as both non-Utahns and its own citizens often claim. While this region was geographically remote from East Coast and European art centers, Utah artists made contact with New York and Paris beginning in the nineteenth century and established a pattern of such study for subsequent generations. The result was that new ideas and ways of working were regularly imported. Some ideas and techniques found read acceptance (Impressionism), while others encountered hard resistance (modernism). Historically, this very tension in Utah between an essentially conservative community and the ever-present forces of change has kept dialogue on the arts lively. Permanent Collection.
Subjects: booklets, mixed media, landscapes, paintings, still lifes, Nonobjective, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0452

Title: Kumi Yamashita
Description: When viewing Kumi Yamashit'a's ingenious art, we confront our simple notion that solid predicts shadow--that a picket pence will cast a series of parallel lines on the sidewalk; the little girl on the street will have a ghostly twin running beside her. The notion of the truthfulness of shadows is the basis of a story by the ancient Roman historian Pliny the Elder, who wrote of a young woman who traced on a wall the shadow cast by her departing lover's head. The tale, which became popularly known as the "invention of painting," was a common subject of eighteenth-century European art. The creation of silhouettes captivated Europe at the same time and became known in France as "ombremanie"--shadow mania. As in the Roman tale, the sitter's head was lit from the side. The shadow the profile cast onto paper was traced and cut out. Many believed the character of the sitter could be read from this image--that the appearance and personality of the sitter were truly reflected in the shadow silhouette. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Shadows, perspective, Salt Lake Art Center, sculpture, portraits
Local Identifier: 14-0443

Title: Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Description: This exhibit features 43 photographs by Lauren Greenfield, documenting the experience of young people growing up in Southern California in the mid 1990s. While the photographs themselves are specific to one unique geographic location, the issues and experiences that are examined could be part of the teen experience anywhere. The youths struggle with the influence of wealth, racial and economic prejudice, drugs, sex and an image-based culture that glorifies youth, beauty and celebrity. Greenfield's photographs of Beverly Hills teens working out with personal trainers are set next to images of East Los Angeles graffiti artists. In all cases, whether recording the rich or poor, the overall impression is that to grow up as a teenager in Los Angeles is to grow up quickly, as both the illusions of Hollywood and the neighborhood peer pressure of the youth culture itself dominate the lives and rituals of the young. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: photography, photographs, Youth, Teenagers, City & town life, culture, Racism, Prejudice, Salt Lake Art Center, Body image
Local Identifier: 14-0272

Title: Alex Israel: AS IT LAYS - Exhibition Views
Description: AS IT LAYS, 2012 employs the television talk-show format as a platform to produce contemporary portraits. Using his own flat and backdrop works as set, Israel interviewed some of Hollywood’s most fascinating personalities in a manner that is uncomfortably blank and stoic. The work investigates the absurd behaviors and quotidian rituals that make up the waking hours of each subject’s life. Through an awkward hilarity, these interviews deflate the mystique of Hollywood, engaging each participant in a humbling performance of the self. Exhibition held in the New Genres Gallery space.
Subjects: Rites & ceremonies, Television broadcasting, Talk shows, Salt Lake Art Center, video art, criticism, satire
Local Identifier: 14-0132

Title: Rachel Berwick: A Vanishing
Description: Rachel Berwick deals with questions of temporality, extinction and the human drive to collect and recollect. "A Vanishing" casts an experience of the moment, at the end of a gradual decline but in the blink of an eye, when the passenger pigeon vanished. How can one express the irreversibility of extinction? In Berwick's installation, 550 cast amber passenger pigeons are arranged to form V-shapes on brass rods suspended from the ceiling. They decrease in concentration gradually as they near the center where there hangs a solitary bird. The stage light casts shadows of the birds - once free, then caged by bars, before the haunting reality of extinction occupies the dark recesses of memory. As if to simultaneously belie yet reinforce the ominous shadows, a vital glow in the cast amber diminishes toward the lone central bird.
Subjects: installations, Extinct birds, brass, pigeons, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0115

Title: Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah
Description: "Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah" is an unprecedented examination of those works that have, over the past century, caused public outcry, drew the threat of censorship or were censored in some way in Utah. The purpose of the exhibition is a three-fold. First, to examine the nature of community standards in our state, the ways they changed over time and the influence they have on expression in the arts. Second, to celebrate freedom of expression by exhibiting works that tested societal boundaries during the periods in which they were created or exhibited. Third, to encourage public dialogue about controversy, censorship and compromise. Works have been chosen based on three principal criteria: the extent to which they reflect the attitudes of the times in which they were created; the extent to which they reflect a range of controversial subject matter; and the aesthetic and artistic quality of the works themselves. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery Center.
Subjects: paintings, sculpture, censorship, expression, installations, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0445

Title: Kazuo Kadonaga: Wood Paper Bamboo Glass
Description: Exploring twenty years of the artist's work in wood, paper, bamboo and glass. Kadonaga eliminates all arbitrary elements from his art, seeking to demonstrate the inherent composition and the qualities of natural materials. His work is distinguished by a direct engagement with the physical properties of materials--wood, bamboo, paper or glass--and a system that makes visible the hidden activity of seemingly static matter. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, installations, bamboo, glass, wood, paper
Local Identifier: 14-0298

Title: Objects of Adoration and Mystery
Description: A black tie event and auction benefiting the exhibitions and programs of the Salt Lake Art Center held on June 23, 2001. The event includes live auction, cocktails and silent auction, seated dinner, dessert and dancing in the Sculpture Court.
Subjects: Events, Art auctions, Parties, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0301

Title: Friese Undine: Machiavelli and the Bottle
Description: Undine is fascinated with propaganda and more overt activities of persuasion: brainwashing, coercion, enticement and threat. In this exhibit, what might Undine's intention be? Proselytism? But for what? And certainly satire. This artist obviously wants us to think about the everyday uses of force, and especially the rhetoric we use to justify our actions to those less powerful than we are. Like every satire from the classical Greek "Satyricon" to Voltaire's "Candide" to "Saturday Night Live," Undine's work attacks society in order to improve it, ironically a hopeful act. Whether we are shocked or we laugh or both, we should not leave this gallery feeling neutral. If giving people easy answers is the function of propaganda, asking people hard questions is the function of art. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, propaganda, politics, philosophers, irony, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0317

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