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Title: Misha Gordin: New Crowd
Personal Creator: Misha Gordin
Description: Many contemporary photographers would duplicate images digitally through computer manipulation, which would result in precisely the same image repeated over and over. Instead, each of Misha's photographs is unique, exactly like a drawing or painting. What at first looks like merely repetitious imagery actually contains minuscule variations among similar images which Misha has repositioned. His work is aesthetically challenging because of this extraordinary subtlety and the time and attention required to appreciate it fully. In this sense, Misha's photographs are much like classical music, formally predicated on statement, variation, and repetition. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: photographs, duplicates, replication, contemporary, Salt Lake Art Center, illusion
Local Identifiers: 14-0269

Title: Post-Modern Utah
Personal Creator: Christian Arial; Mathew Choberka; Jann Haworth; Laurel Hunter; Rudolfo Juarez; Amanda Moore; Linda Peer; Edie Roberson
Description: This exhibition features the works of eight Utah based artists who work in a contemporary, post-modern manner inspired by Pop Art, Minimalism or idiosyncratic forms of figuration. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, contemporary
Local Identifiers: 14-0218

Title: Carlos Rosales-Silva: Art Truck
Personal Creator: Carlos Rosales-Silva
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: Ethnic stereotypes, Boundaries, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Project 337, UMOCA Art Truck, identity, ethnicity, diversity, Idols, contemporary
Local Identifiers: 14-0178

Title: Of the Siren and The Sky: Curated By Triple Candie - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: Siren Bliss
Description: Of the Siren and the Sky is the first proper museum exhibition on the career of Siren Bliss, a Salt Lake City native who, by his own account, has made more than 80,000 artworks. Curated by Triple Candie, the presentation includes recreations of the artist’s drawings and sculptures, posters containing statements by him, and photographs and objects related to his life story. Exhibition held in the New Genres Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, contemporary, sculpture, drawings, posters
Local Identifiers: 14-0138

Title: Expanded Field: ISC
Personal Creator: Steven “Chip” Addington; Allan Arp; Emily Beck; Crystal Carpenter; Brittany Dell’Aglio-Mitchell; John Dickinson; Jessica Dupuis; Ben Garthus; Jacqueline Gordon; David Hawkins; Keith Hoyt; Alexander Keyes; Marsha Kirk; Daniel Luchman; Olivia Moore; Tara Morton; Ralph Pugay; Bryan Schoneman; Sander Schoonbeek; Bart Vargas;
Description: Expanded Field: The International Sculpture Center exhibition of 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Competition Winners is a showcase of outstanding interdisciplinary sculptural works from 19 talented student artists. With captivating displays of skill as well as concept, the works in this exhibition range from performative video, carved crayons, a masking tape boat engine, and a massive graphite carving, showing the most cutting edge ideas in sculpture from around the country today. Each year the International Sculpture Center (ISC) presents this competition to its member colleges and universities. The award, founded in 1994, was created in order to support and recognize the work of young sculptors, and to encourage their continued commitment to the field of sculpture as well as to recognize the award winners’ faculty sponsors and their institutions. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Student works, Salt Lake Art Center, student projects, sculpture, Competition entries, Sculptors, contemporary
Local Identifiers: 14-0173

Title: Robert Motherwell: Te Quiero
Personal Creator: Robert Motherwell
Description: This exhibit presents a rare opportunity to view painting and drawing from the late 1950's through the 1980's by Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), the youngest and most prolific member of the famous group of artists who founded the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York in the 1940's. Motherwell is considered by many to be an essential figure for understanding art of the 20th century, and the direction of contemporary art. He was a painter, a printmaker, an author, an editor. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Abstract Expressionist, mixed media, paintings, contemporary
Local Identifiers: 14-0240

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