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Title: The Next Supper: A Dinner Happening by Artist John Bell - Performance Views
Personal Creator: John Bell
Description: A Dinner Happening by Artist John Bell: Be a Guest, the Subject, The Artist, the Star. Nationally emerging artist John Bell hosted "The Next Supper" an uncommon dinner party in which guests are the subject, the art, and the artist. The dinner took place in the cavernous Main Gallery at UMOCA. During "The Next Supper", dining tables were covered with unfinished canvases the artist screen-prints with text and images that serve as both provocation and backdrop. Bell encouraged guests to use their food and other elements on the table including wine, candle wax, flowers, and utensils to react to and complete the canvases. The artist assumed the role of facilitator and documentarian, and the result was a participatory work of art created between the artist and the dinner guests. Performance and paintings on display held in the Main Gallery.
Subjects: Performance art, Dinner parties, happenings
Local Identifiers: 14-0181

Title: SLAC Membership Application 1996
Description: Membership application for the Salt Lake Art Center. The application gives information about membership benefits and information about the Art Center.
Subjects: membership cards
Local Identifiers: 14-0497

Title: Clay on the Wall; Ansel Adams: The Museum Set
Personal Creator: Ansel Adams
Description: Towards the end of his life, Adams created a set of 75 images representing what he believed to be his best work. His intention was to create 100 of these sets, but only six were printed at the time of his death. "Ansel Adams: The Museum Set" held in the Main Gallery space. "Clay on the Wall" explores the aesthetic side of the form/function dichotomy that has been a part of ceramic production for centuries. Thirty-two national and international ceramic artists have been invited to submit pieces that hang on the wall. While many of the pieces may reference vessels or platters, hanging them on the wall creates focus on their aesthetic qualities rather than their utilitarian purposes. Exhibition held in the Upper Gallery space.
Subjects: clay, Salt Lake Art Center, ceramics, Mailers, photographers
Local Identifiers: 14-0502

Title: Reawakened Beauty: Jordan River - Exhibition Art Work Views
Personal Creator: Tillman Crane
Description: Reawakened Beauty exhibits 30 platinum prints that document the Jordan River from its source at Utah Lake to its mouth at the Great Salt Lake. Once a natural boundary between civilization and the ‘Wild West,’ the river has both shaped the Salt Lake Valley and been altered by its urban expansion. In Crane’s photographs, we see that some parts of the river have been left seemingly natural, while others reveal evidence of civil engineering, re-routing and pollution. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: rivers, Urban growth, photography
Local Identifiers: 14-0155

Title: New Narrative: Warhol, Stella, Marden, Fitzpatrick
Personal Creator: Andy Warhol; Frank Stella; Brice Marden; Tony Fitzpatrick;
Description: The exhibition features printmaking by four American masters. The exhibition has been made possible through the generosity of Chicago based Art Enterprises Ltd., which previously toured the exhibit under the slightly different title, "A New Narrative: Marden, Fitszpatrick, Stella, Warhol." The work in this exhibit is the same, but the curatorial renaming is a matter of popular realignment. Tweaking the title notwithstanding, the real purpose of the exhibition is the focus up on the printmaking activity of these four major American artists. The printmaking medium itself offers artists the ability to produce a series of prints as an edition. Images closely related as to subject often suggest narrative-like sequences. These prints stand alone, outside of literature, and yet literature and its mate, narrative, do play a significant conceptual role. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Screen prints, Etchings, Lithography, Relief prints, Salt Lake Art Center, prints, portraits
Local Identifiers: 14-0221

Title: Ted Wassmer's Ninetieth Year: An Exhibition of Recent Works
Personal Creator: Ted Wassmer
Description: In celebrating his ninetieth year with an exhibition of new work, Ted Wassmer has perhaps inadvertently made his life as an artist look easy. Of course, it has not been. The standard disappointments, tragedies and heartache have been there. Ted's art is as conspicuous for what it is not as for what it is: it does not record the angst of an angry, distant world; it collectively reflects upon itself as a decision to embrace the positive. It is evidence of his choice as much as his circumstance. Exhibition held in the street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: watercolor, paintings, Abstract, figures
Local Identifiers: 14-0448

Title: Cris Bruch: Dreaming Doing Craving
Personal Creator: Cris Bruch
Description: The exhibition "Cris Bruch: Dreaming Doing Craving" acts as a seventeen year survey of work by this Seattle-based artists. The exhibition occupies the Salt Lake Art Center's entire exhibition space, with the earlier socially-conscious shopping cart sculptures exhibited in the smaller Street Level Galley and the more recent, exquisitely-crafted sculptures shown in the cavernous Main Gallery. What will be quickly realized upon entering this exhibition is that here is an artist who has a highly expressive social consciousness who also happens to make beautiful objects. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery and Main Level Gallery spaces.
Subjects: Dreaming, found objects, drawings, Salt Lake Art Center, sculpture
Local Identifiers: 14-0285

Title: Spring News 2003-2004
Description: Newsletter created by the Salt Lake Art Center with words from the Director, membership information, Art Talks, and information about exhibitions including: "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood," "Crossroads: A Teen Response to Life in Salt Lake City," "Crossroads: Mapping Salt Lake: A Teen Documentary," "Ken Little: Little Changes, a Retrospective," and "Paul Stout: The New American Landscape."
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Newsletters, Discussion
Local Identifiers: 14-0274

Title: Contemporary Masters: Artist-Designed Miniature Golf - Views of Artwork, Shredder, in Hole #10
Personal Creator: Madelin Coit
Description: In the context of mini golf, the verb “putt” is somewhere between “to put,” a deliberate act, and “to putter,” a state of playful inattention. Art exists in that same gray area—an intentional activity but not a utilitarian one. Life can become so routine and ordinary that it becomes like a trudge down a long hallway, and art can be a window or even a doorway into another direction, another way of seeing, thinking, feeling, or being. So art is not a thing the artist makes, something that we passively look at, it’s an intersection, a nexus created by the artist and calling out for our participation. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Art objects, Golf, Salt Lake Art Center, viewers, interactive art, Project 337
Local Identifiers: 14-0159

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 Identifiers: 14-0123

Title: Brian Bress: Creative Ideas For Every Season - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: Brian Bress
Description: Creative Ideas for Every Season explores the difficulties and absurdities confronting the pursuit of a creative practice. High definition video, color, sound. 19 min., 58 sec. Exhibition held in the New Genres Gallery.
Subjects: Aesthetics, Performance art, video art, Salt Lake Art Center, critiques
Local Identifiers: 14-0177

Title: SF Recycled
Personal Creator: Mark Faigenbaum; Mike Farruggia; James Gouldthorpe; Dee Hibbert-Jones; Andrew Junge; Bessie Kunath; Daphne Ruff; Nomi Talisman
Description: "SF Recycled" takes a colorful and imaginative look at the impact of post-consumer waste through an investigation of artwork made from discarded objects, materials, and packaging, which came out of the artist-in-residency program at SF Recycling and Disposal, Inc. in San Francisco. This exhibition will feature eight of the sixty-some artists who have participated in the program since it was launched in 1990. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, found objects, Recycling
Local Identifiers: 14-0201

Title: Jared Clark: BILD - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: Jared Clark
Description: Bild references both imagery and construction, as it is the German word for a painting as well as a homophone for “build”. The exhibit employs scavenged materials to create site-specific sculpture. Clark’s piece is a monumental installation composed of urban and domestic objects which takes as its springboard the tenets of minimalist primary sculptural forms; including a confrontation with the viewer in real space which demands consideration of its relationship to the scale of the human body. Exhibition on display in the Locals Only Gallery.
Subjects: Abstract sculpture, Salt Lake Art Center, site-specific works, commentaries
Local Identifiers: 14-0175

Title: Andy Warhol: The Readymade Persona - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: Andy Warhol
Description: A selection of screen tests by Andy Warhol. Exhibition held in the New Genres Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, video art, perception, portraits
Local Identifiers: 14-0122

Title: Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah - Exhibition Views
Description: Celebrating the diversity of Utah's cultural landscape. Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah is an anthropological look at the history past and present of contemporary art, folklore and culture in Utah. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Vignettes, Cultural relations, Salt Lake Art Center, artifacts, folklore, folk art, art history, outsider artists
Local Identifiers: 14-0122

Title: Behind the Lines: Drawings and Objects by Michael David Hall
Personal Creator: 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: portraits, Salt Lake Art Center, drawings, mixed media
Local Identifiers: 14-0450

Title: Romey Stuckart: Paintings
Personal Creator: Romey Stuckart
Description: The panhandle of northern Idaho is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in North America. Sparsely populated, the small communities east of Sandpoint that border Lake Pend Oreille are backed by forests that stretch across the Cabinet and Selkirk mountains until they merge with the Canadian Rockies. To stand in these densely forested mountains, among the firs, pines, and birches, can be both moving and somewhat daunting. Here nature is wilderness. In 1987, when Romey Stuckart first moved to Hope, Idaho, her response as a painter was to adopt these woods as her subject matter. This exhibition of paintings from 1990 to 2002 acts as a record of her response to her chosen environment, as literal depiction of nature in paintings up to 1992 and then the shift to the organic, abstracted paintings that followed. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Abstract, organic, Abstract paintings, Salt Lake Art Center, Landscape paintings, paintings, mountains
Local Identifiers: 14-0282

Title: Taboo
Description: A black tie or exotic attire event benefiting the Salt Lake Art Center held on June 11, 2005. The event includes cocktails and hor d'oeuvres, live auction, silent auction, formal dinner in the main gallery space, dessert and dancing.
Subjects: Art auctions, Parties, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0253

Title: Looped
Description: Ongoing video series exhibition in the Foyer.
Subjects: video art, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0177

Title: Stephen Schultz: Paintings and Drawings
Personal Creator: Stephen Schultz
Description: In viewing this exhibition, what is immediately apparent is that Schultz's paintings are over the top in the best sense of dramatic presentation. The scale of the largest paintings seem bigger than life, setting for mythic narration, where no painted form or gesture is lacking in meaning. If we equate these paintings to that of the theatrical stage, then his props are those of the painter's studio of the dream, and the painted gestures are those of the evolution of the self and the yearning for human interconnectedness. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: drawings, dreams, life, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0280

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