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Title: Art Talks & Curatorial Perspectives: Northwest
Personal Creator: Paul Stout; Ken Little; Frances Colpitt; Terri Hopkins; Beth Sellars; Sandy Harthorn; Chris Bruce
Description: Designed to enlighten and entertain, Art Talks provide the audience a great opportunity to meet and talk with the artists, curators, educators, and fellow art enthusiasts while learning more about our exhibitions. Art Talks include: "Paul Stout: The New American Landscape," "Ken Little Little Changes," "Curatorial Perspectives" with Frances Colpitt, Terri Hopkins, Beth Sellars, Sandy Harthorn, and Chris Bruce.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Art exhibitions, Events, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0276

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 Identifiers: 14-0453

Title: Frontage Road
Personal Creator: David Baddley; Aden Ross; John Schaefer
Description: "Frontage Road" explores the timelessness of these issues and their relationship to the conditions of contemporary society. These artists, referencing personal experience, reveal the tensions of displacement, the realities of friendship, the clarity of isolation, and the disparity of dreams. The perspectives of each artist, David, Aden, and John, are significant. They as us to become involved in their investigation. We must examine our lives. We must make conscious our personal assessment. And we must acknowledge our individual responsibilities to a more enlighten and compassionate community. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, Literature, photography, prints, Poetry
Local Identifiers: 14-0441

Title: Stephanie Leitch: Untitled Apogee - Installation Views
Personal Creator: Stephanie Leitch
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: Steeples, Salt Lake Art Center, video art, installations
Local Identifiers: 14-0127

Title: Mario Reis: Nature Water Colors
Personal Creator: Mario Reis
Description: The exhibit "Nature Water Colors" is created by soaking the canvas's in various rivers to capture the "color" of the river. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: water, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, color, paintings, rivers
Local Identifiers: 14-0322

Title: Analogital
Personal Creator: Cory Arcangel; Juliette Bonneviot; Spartacus Chetwynd; Vuk Cosic; Chris Coy; Harm van den Dorpel; Constant Dullaart; Lauren Elder; Daniel Everett; Mark Flood; Christian Jankowski; Oliver Laric; Mark Leckey; Joep van Liefland; Eva and Franco Mattes; Ciprian Muresan; Rob Pruitt; Borna Sammak; John Sparagana; Ignacio Uriarte; Utah Teapot; Jennifer West; Jordan Wolfson;
Description: Analogital is an exhibition of international artists who engage with concepts generated from the transitional space between analogue and digital. Specifically the notion analyzes the forms that emerge from our culture’s conversion from film grain to computer pixel. However, more broadly the term identifies a perceptual evolution in the human experience and its mediation. In the mid-seventies at the University of Utah, innovators made breakthrough developments in early computer graphics and virtual designs like the “Utah Teapot”, experiments that would lead to the founding of Pixar and early pursuits of digital reality. Eventual media such as ASCII, ProTools, Nintendo Entertainment System, CAD, gifs, jpegs and above all the Internet opened a multiverse of possible ways to render, perceive and copy the world around us. Social networking interfaces, video game systems and reality television additionally provide new avenues through which communication, behavioral learning and interaction occur virtually or with mediated remove. Analogital is about artists analyzing this science-fictional relationship existing between technology and the human condition.
Subjects: Digital photographs, Digital prints, Digital video, computer image-making processes and techniques, cultural artifacts, cultural movements and attitudes
Local Identifiers: 14-0121

Title: The Utah Millennium Project
Personal Creator: Scott Fraser; Grant Gardner; Ruth Gier; Cynthia Heath; Judy Kiel; Alex Kravtsov; Ann Luker; Rodger Newbold; Louise Pollard; Christine Probasco; Nick Stergiopoulos;
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: Salt Lake Art Center, photography, History
Local Identifiers: 14-0311

Title: Contact: Christians and Moors, Image and Ritual in Mexico
Personal Creator: George O. Jackson
Description: George O. Jackson, born in Houston, Texas, of Mexican descent has beautifully documented the celebrations and syncretic rituals as practiced in contemporary rural Mexico. Over the past ten years the photographer has created an important archive of Mexico's "ethnographic present", addressing issues of visual importance and cultural meaning. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Mexican, Christianity, Ethnographic photographs, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, photography
Local Identifiers: 14-0323

Title: Not Just Another Pretty Face (2009)
Personal Creator: Jean Arnold; John Bell; Leia Bell; Tom Bettin; Laura Boardman; Sandy Brunvand; Traci O'Very Covey; Meri DeCaria; Robert DeGroff; Mark England; Anne Morgan Jespersen; Hyunmee Lee; Galina Perova; Hadley Rampton; Jon Rappleye; Jennifer Singleton; Brad Slaugh; Angela Van Wagoner; Margaret Willis;
Description: Modeled after a dynamic program developed by the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Not Just Another Pretty Face encourages a new, diverse group of people to envision themselves as patrons of contemporary art, while cultivating lasting relationships between artists and patrons. As part of the NJPAF program, patrons can meet artists, visit their studios, follow their careers and garner inspiration from their creative insights, ideas and art-making processes. It is through this personal relationship that Not Just Another Pretty Face encourages active and enthusiastic patronage. Artists who received commissions worked collaboratively with patrons. While the program title, Not Just Another Pretty Face, implies portraiture as the primary subject, artists and patrons were encouraged to consider traditional representation as well as artworks that push past conventional forms. And in this project, participants created new relationships that required both artists and patrons to consider how art could become a personal and shared vision. Exhibition held in the Street Gallery space.
Subjects: Printing blocks, Salt Lake Art Center, galas, patronage, Fund raising, prints, painting, Artists' studios, Artists
Local Identifiers: 14-0153

Title: Legends of Entelechy
Personal Creator: Gary Barton; Brian Christensen; Joseph Ostraff
Description: Personal experiences serve as the point of inception for this collaborative body of work by these Utah artists, through the use of paintings, mixed media prints, and mixed media sculpture each artist relates to his story of the viewers. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Fraternization, paintings, sculpture, prints, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0483

Title: Ana Prvacki: Neutralize Negative Feelings - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: Ana Prvacki
Description: Using social codes and cultural structures as a raw material, Serbian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Ana Prvacki (pronounced Pri-vatch-key) turns the rituals of hospitality into a theater of performance. In her exhibition Neutralize Negative Feelings at UMOCA, Prvacki morphs her PSA work into a new artistic direction, historicizing the codes of imposed etiquette with the motivational sloganeering of past generations. Embroidered adages like “Happy Wife, Happy Life” are given new and more relevant meaning by updating it with current, universal situations of human folly and faux pas. Exhibition held in the New Genres Gallery space.
Subjects: Etiquette, Conformity, Salt Lake Art Center, dialogues, dialectic
Local Identifiers: 14-0135

Title: Girl Ascending: Melissa Ann Pinney
Personal Creator: Melissa Ann Pinney
Description: Girl Ascending began with a photograph of a girl seemingly suspended in mid-air, holding onto a chain-link fence with one hand, her dress lifted by the breeze. The setting is commonplace: a baseball game, nondescript buildings, and a dirt field seen though the fence. Nevertheless, the improbable levitation and serene demeanor of the girl suggested the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the artist, raised, as she was, on the symbolic imagery of Catholicism. Grounded in attentive observation of the world, Chicago-based photographer, Melissa Ann Pinney reveals how dreams and expectations of girlhood are constructed and communicated between mothers and daughters, society and friends. She intimately portrays her daughter, Emma, growing up and becoming an adolescent, providing fresh insights into her day to day life with family, friends and neighbors. One of eight children from a large, Catholic family, the artist has always been drawn to scenes of family that also express her interest in ritual, mystery and memory. While her photographs capture seemingly insignificant moments from a girl’s daily world, they signify mythic and heroic themes of the vital transformation that takes place when a girl enters into womanhood. Exhibition held in the Street Gallery space.
Subjects: Religious articles, Mothers & children, Salt Lake Art Center, iconography, identity, religion, Symbols, photography
Local Identifiers: 14-0161

Title: Examining Hospice Care in Utah
Personal Creator: Salt Lake Art Center
Description: A free public symposium. Eight internationally-recognized photographers and filmmakers were commissioned to create new work about the emotional and collaborative experience of working with hospices and hospice care. Each immersed themselves, over an extended period of time and in different cities, in the world of the people who know it best: patients, families and health care providers. "Hospice: a Photographic Inquiry" held March 31 - June 10, 2001.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, hospices, film, deaths, Aging, patients, photography
Local Identifiers: 14-0305

Title: Joshua Luther: Meaning - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: Joshua Luther
Description: A meditation on the relationship between meaning and language. Joshua Luther’s multi-media exhibition is an exciting invitation for visitors to take a step back from the language that we all too often take for granted, and instead contemplate why it is that we are prepared to argue, fight, and sometimes die over various combinations of letter and syllables. Exhibition held in the Locals Only Gallery space.
Subjects: Tree of knowledge, Philosophy, Language, Salt Lake Art Center, epistemology
Local Identifiers: 14-0128

Title: The Salt Lake City Ethics Project: A Photographic Investigation of Ethics
Personal Creator: Valerie Dow; Teresa Flowers; Jim Frankoski; Chad Johnson; Craig Law; Fred Wright;
Description: Character translates into how we behave. Throughout our lives we make decisions born of options. They may be as simple as which shirt to wear, or as complex as whether to marry. In each case they entail conflict and resolution. Becoming comfortable with conflict is a paradox, but it often defines behavior. In our society conflict is to be avoided at all costs. But by doing so we are robbing ourselves, and our children, of the "stuff" that helps us develop character and personal ethics. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Ethics, investigation, photography
Local Identifiers: 14-0463

Title: Once in a Blue Moon Bash
Personal Creator: Salt Lake Art Center
Description: An event at the Salt Lake Art Center held on July 21, 2000. The event includes an evening of contemporary art, live Latin/Salsa music, great food and drinks by La Salsa & The Desert Edge Brewery.
Subjects: Parties, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0319

Title: Love, Lust and Motorcycles
Description: An event benefiting the Salt Lake Art Center held on June 12, 2004. The event includes a raffle for a 1997 metallic red Harley-Davidson Sportster, live auction, silent auction, dinner, dancing and the unexpected.
Subjects: Art auctions, Parties, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0297

Title: Doublespeak
Personal Creator: Daniela Comani; Rebecca Campbell; Carlee Fernandez; Julie Lequin; Carlin Wing; Wendy Red Star; Mary Reid Kelly; Barbara Kruger; Julie Orser; Fourth Height; Urs Bigler; Jennifer Nelson;
Description: Doublespeak features artworks by an international roster of contemporary women artists who utilize strategies of layered or multiple meanings to address politically, sexually or socially difficult subject matter. This exhibition will examine feminine perspectives on politics, war and gender, including exploration of the role of women as authors, victims, bystanders, soldiers, commentators, and caretakers. Each of the artists in Doublespeak comes from a perspective of dual-identity in one way or another (in terms of culture, religion, sexual identity, etc.). The exhibition draws its initial inspiration from the work of female Vietnamese poet Hô Xuân Hu’o’ng, a pioneer more than 200 years ago in the use of literary double-entendres that engaged philosophical quandaries of life and death as well as daily conflicts between men and women. Writing in Vietnamese, Hô ultilized the tonal nature of the language to create poems that had one meaning when read with a given tonality, and an entirely different, discreet meaning when read with the alternate tonality or pronunciation. There is a long history of women using codes to get their message across – from the centuries-old language Nüshu, used by Chinese women in the Hunan province, to the secret quilt codes of the Underground Railroad during the American Civil War. This exhibition offers contemporary examples of such cultural codes. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery Space.
Subjects: Political issues, Sexism, identity, codes, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0169

Title: Summer News 2006
Personal Creator: Salt Lake Art Center
Description: Newsletter created by the Salt Lake Art Center with words from the Director, membership information, and information about exhibitions including: "Looking Back: 75 Years At The Salt Lake Art Center," "Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textile," and "Bold, Bad & Dangerous: The Salt Lake Art Center at 75."
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, Newsletters, Events, Journalism
Local Identifiers: 14-0237

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: Parties, Salt Lake Art Center, Events, invitations
Local Identifiers: 14-0284

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