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Carlos Rosales-Silva: Art Truck
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Carlos Rosales-Silva: Art Truck
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The Art Truck brings exciting and accessible contemporary art created by leading local and national artists directly to schools and community venues along the Wasatch Front. Engage in learning about our current Art Truck installation by Carlos Rosales-Silva, a contemporary artist from Austin, Texas whose paintings photos, sculptures and drawings investigate themes of borders, diversity and identity. Growing up in various parts of Texas, artist Carlos Rosales-Silva had to reconcile his own identity — half Mexican, half American Indian — with that of his larger-than-life state. "Texas history is all about mythmaking" said Rosales-Silva, 30, who's in Utah this month with an art exhibit on wheels in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's Art Truck. Rosales-Silva, who is now living in New York but will forever associate himself with Texas, aims to examine identity issues of race and class and "filter them through formal art movements." He lists as examples Op Art (think Bauhaus) and Abstract Expressionism (Mark Rothko and others), as well as popular culture iconography. Take, for example, his "Texas Comanches" banner. It's a large red-and-white banner like one you would see in any high-school gymnasium. But this one reads, "Texas Comanches, State Champions, 1747-1865" the dates indicating how long the Comanches roamed Texas before white settlers ultimately defeated the native population. "A lot of my things have a sense of humor" Rosales-Silva said. "It's laughing to keep from crying. If you can make people laugh, you can get their attention." The Art Truck will be easy to identify as it drives around Salt Lake City: It will be wrapped in a 7-foot-high vinyl version of Rosales-Silva's diptych "Bringing Sexy Back." Exhibition held in the Art Truck.
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Abstract works, Ethnic stereotypes, Boundaries, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Project 337, UMOCA Art Truck, identity, ethnicity, diversity, Idols, contemporary
Local Identifier
14-0178
Utah X/I: Video Art from Utah
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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.
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Art exhibitions, Salt Lake Art Center, video art, Project 337, art education
Local Identifier
14-0156
Contemporary Masters: Artist-Designed Miniature Golf - Views of Artwork, Shredder, in Hole #10
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Contemporary Masters: Artist-Designed Miniature Golf - Views of Artwork, Shredder, in Hole #10
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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.
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Art exhibitions, Art objects, Golf, Salt Lake Art Center, viewers, interactive art, Project 337
Local Identifier
14-0159