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Title: Reading Between The Lines: Image and Text by Contemporary African American Artists
Personal Creator: Beverly Buchanan; Howardena Pindell; Clarissa Sligh; Deborah Willis;
Description: "Reading Between The Lines: Image and Text by Contemporary African American Artists" brings the visual image and the written word together in art works of great directness and elegance by four of today's most progressive artists. For them, the incorporation of text and image is a natural result of deeply introspective and intellectual approaches to their lives and communities. Each artist utilizes these distinctive elements to fulfill her natural role as visual artist, story teller, educator, historian and cultural healer. Each artists has looked deep within herself and her community, and has turned a critical eye toward history, social norms, contemporary race relations, political events, figures and promises. The artists explore a wide range of issues including relationships, family, community, gender roles, AIDS and global politics. Interwoven throughout their work are also issues more clearly defined by American race relations including slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, past and present stereotypes, media representation, ethnic identity and contemporary race relations. These exceptional artists explore diver and vital issues with wisdom of a teacher, the craft of a story teller, the frankness of a journalist, the understanding of a sociologist and the anger of a protester. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: photography, prints, social issues, politics, gender issues, Civil rights, ethnicity, Salt Lake Art Center, African Americans
Local Identifier: 14-0313

Title: Battleground States
Personal Creator: Daniel Albrigo; Absalon; Bas Jan Ader; Matthew Barney; Tobias Bernstrup; Robin Black; Nayland Blake; AA Bronson; Heather Cassil; Nicole Eisenman; Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Jonathan Horowitz; Trishelle Jeffrey; Amy Jorgensen; Asma Kazmi; Terence Koh; Annie Leibowitz; David Levine; Matt Lipps; Georges Minne; Carlos Motta; Takashi Murakami; Shirin Neshat; Bertrand Planes; Genesis Breyer P-orridge; Dean Sameshima; Jack Smith; Trevor Southey; David Wojnarowicz; Patrick Tuttofuoco; Guido van der Werve;
Description: Battleground States brings together artists who critically engage with the discourse of visual culture and gender studies. Through video, sculpture, installation, and photography, these works explore ideas of how figuration and identity are connected. The exhibition begins with Utah artist Trevor Southey as his process of self-realization has made him an art historical pivot when discussing gender politics within the culture of Utah. The narrative continues by presenting generations of artists across the globe, leading the viewer along a path of self-realization in which concepts of coupling or completing the self are represented as spiritual quests. Battleground States analyzes the space between traditional gender duality by exploring alternative forms such as the third gender, a generally foreign concept in Western culture. In their non-Western roles, these alternative identities denote a space for possibility and transcendence. The exhibition moves towards notions of the “post-gender” as a way to better understand how our cultural diversities open up interpretations of a third space. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, gender issues, dualism, identity, narratives, viewers
Local Identifier: 14-0123

Title: Out of the Closet: Clothing as Imagery in Contemporary Art
Personal Creator: Rebecca Campbell; Colleen Coleman; Victoria Ellison; Angela Ellsworth; Lynn Foster; Matthew Freedman; Lynn Johnson; Marilyn Lanfear; Charles LeDray; Ken Little; Karey Rawitscher; Donna Rosenthal; John Runnels; Storm Tharp; Storm Tharp; The Art Guys; Daniet Wheeler;
Description: This exhibition includes the work of sixteen artists who use the visual language of clothing and dress as a vehicle to explore deeper layers of human behavior and relationships. That clothing is the chosen theme for this exhibition follows obvious connections between clothing and art. Clothing is often considered art, in and of itself. Like art, clothing communicates ideas on a visual level. Both clothing and art employ symbolism to infer abstract concepts. And trends in clothing and art are influenced by similar external factors. An examination of either one requires a consideration of the social, cultural and political climates in which they exist. In this exhibition clothing is employed as metaphor, articles of dress are used for inherent symbolic meaning, and garments are represented in unexpected context. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Sex, genders, gender issues, identity, sexuality, mixed media, Salt Lake Art Center, Body image
Local Identifier: 14-0453

Title: Inside Out: Identity, Gender and Society
Personal Creator: Salt Lake Art Center
Description: A free public symposium in conjunction with the exhibition "Out of The Closet: Clothing as Imagery in Contemporary Art."
Subjects: Sex, Clothing & dress, imagery, identity, gender issues, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0447

Title: SLCC Student Newspapers 2010-11-03
Description: The Globe, Aug. 25, 2010, Fall '10, issue 12
Subjects: Ethics, Alcoholic beverages, Clubs, Conservation of natural resources, bisexuality, gender issues
Local Identifier: GLOBE-20101103

Title: SLCC Student Newspapers 2011-04-27
Description: The Globe, April 27, 2011, Spring '11, issue 15
Subjects: gender issues, Exhibitions, Sex, sports
Local Identifier: GLOBE-20110427

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