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Title: Carlos Rosales-Silva: Art Truck
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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

Title: Tobias Bernstrup Performance - Performance Views
Description: One-Night only performance. Performance by Tobias Bernstrup. Benstrup creates artwork with videos, interactive pieces, live performances, and electronic music. His music has been dubbed "the torch-bearer of nostalgic techno synth harking back to an era of retro-futurism that never was". Had David Cronenberg made a movie about Kraftwerk it would star Tobias Bernstrup.
Subjects: Events, Performance art, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA)
Local Identifier: 14-0182

Title: Christopher Kelly: God Complex
Description: Christopher Kelly's "God Complex" expands and encapsulates this particular creationist motif by referencing the language and aesthetics of science fiction. A genre often associated with futuristic pursuits of new worlds and extraterrestrial life, sci-fi is also an apt metaphor for the discovery of differences between self and other, human and alien. Although Kelly's practice is averse to explicit narrative, one cannot help but attempt to place each work into a greater story. His performative sculptures are poetic simulations that confront the perplexities of identity. By constructing allegorical depictions of personal dialogues, Kelly forms an internal autobiography. Exhibition held in the Projects Gallery space.
Subjects: performance artists, sculpture, identity, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), pamphlets, narrative, Science fiction
Local Identifier: 14-0330

Title: SLCC Student Newspapers 2013-02-27
Description: The Globe, February 27, 2013, Spring '13, issue 7
Subjects: Jordan Campus, public transit, diversity, physical therapists, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), feature films, Salt Lake Community College, Concerts
Local Identifier: 13-0209

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