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Title: Jun Kaneko: "...the issue of scale is one thing you cannot avoid."
Description: This exhibit includes large-scale paintings and drawings, larges-scale ceramics, glass and bronze works, as well as site-specific installations of a tile wall and striped laminated glass spiral. This is a rare opportunity for viewers to draw visual connections among the five different media and to appreciate the range/magnitude of this remarkable artist's experience and skill. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: ceramic, scale, Salt Lake Art Center, Glassworking, bronze, installations, size, meditation
Local Identifier: 14-0246

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

Title: Rachel Berwick: A Vanishing
Description: Rachel Berwick deals with questions of temporality, extinction and the human drive to collect and recollect. "A Vanishing" casts an experience of the moment, at the end of a gradual decline but in the blink of an eye, when the passenger pigeon vanished. How can one express the irreversibility of extinction? In Berwick's installation, 550 cast amber passenger pigeons are arranged to form V-shapes on brass rods suspended from the ceiling. They decrease in concentration gradually as they near the center where there hangs a solitary bird. The stage light casts shadows of the birds - once free, then caged by bars, before the haunting reality of extinction occupies the dark recesses of memory. As if to simultaneously belie yet reinforce the ominous shadows, a vital glow in the cast amber diminishes toward the lone central bird.
Subjects: installations, Extinct birds, brass, pigeons, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0115

Title: Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah
Description: "Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah" is an unprecedented examination of those works that have, over the past century, caused public outcry, drew the threat of censorship or were censored in some way in Utah. The purpose of the exhibition is a three-fold. First, to examine the nature of community standards in our state, the ways they changed over time and the influence they have on expression in the arts. Second, to celebrate freedom of expression by exhibiting works that tested societal boundaries during the periods in which they were created or exhibited. Third, to encourage public dialogue about controversy, censorship and compromise. Works have been chosen based on three principal criteria: the extent to which they reflect the attitudes of the times in which they were created; the extent to which they reflect a range of controversial subject matter; and the aesthetic and artistic quality of the works themselves. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery Center.
Subjects: paintings, sculpture, censorship, expression, installations, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0445

Title: Kazuo Kadonaga: Wood Paper Bamboo Glass
Description: Exploring twenty years of the artist's work in wood, paper, bamboo and glass. Kadonaga eliminates all arbitrary elements from his art, seeking to demonstrate the inherent composition and the qualities of natural materials. His work is distinguished by a direct engagement with the physical properties of materials--wood, bamboo, paper or glass--and a system that makes visible the hidden activity of seemingly static matter. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, installations, bamboo, glass, wood, paper
Local Identifier: 14-0298

Title: The Vanishing: Re-Presenting the Chinese in the American West
Description: The discovery of gold in California int he mid 1800s brought thousands of people to the American West. Among those who came were many Chinese--mostly young men who believed a few years of mining would allow them to return home with a small fortune. That dream was realized for very few of these immigrants. Unable to afford passage home, most of these Chinese stayed in the West and became a significant labor force in a number of growing industries. Wool mills, garment manufacturers, mining operations and the railroads employed many of the Chinese. By 1882, the Chinese population in the United States was 110,000. Unfortunately, the post civil war depression fueled anti-immigrant sentiments and, in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which halted all immigration and prohibited those already in the country from becoming U.S. Citizens. The Exhibit features photographs of Chinese immigrants in Idaho, an installation containing bars of soap imprinted with the word REMEMBER; paintings of 19th century Chinese female "types," prostitutes, child street acrobats, war refugees, and women laborers. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: soap, installations, black-and-white photographs, paintings, immigration, Gold mining, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0260

Title: Putt-Modernism
Description: 18 hole miniature gold course and exhibition organized and circulated by the Artists Space, New York, New York. It is a successful merger of the ridiculous sublime. It is both art and popular culture. It combines social commentary with entertainment. It is "the strangest miniature golf course ever built" and "intriguing to look at, delightful to play." Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: miniature golf, installations, miniature golf courses, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0504

Title: Soy Un Testigo/ I Am Witness: Contemporary Latino Art
Description: "Soy Un Testigo" is an exhibit of twenty-four contemporary paintings, sculpture, and prints by ten individual artists and one installation group. It provides a rare opportunity for people in Utah to experience original visual works by some of this country's finest contemporary talent. It gives us the opportunity to "hear what the Latino artists are saying. To hear them with our eyes and with our imagination," as distinguished Mexican author Octavio Paz Said of another contemporary Latino art exhibit ten years ago ("Hispanic Art in the United States: 30 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors").
Subjects: booklets, Salt Lake Art Center, Hispanic American, Mexican, cultural heritage, installations, paintings
Local Identifier: 14-0499

Title: Natural Histories
Description: This installation features the work of visual artists Maureen O'Hara Ure and poet Katharine Coles. The commonality of imagery and subjects... "landscape, the city, family life, disaster, travel, sexuality, the interior life and the holy..." brings together two arts communities that are often isolated from one another. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: landscapes, sexuality, imagery, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, installations, Poetry
Local Identifier: 14-0477

Title: Perspectives of Conflict
Description: A conceptual exhibition centered on a life size, stylized courtroom installation, and an investigation of the perspective of each essential player in the courtroom--judge, jury, witness, perpetrator, victim, attorney--and the difference between these views. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, installations, Juries, Justice, Judges, Witnesses, perspective, perspective views by point of view
Local Identifier: 14-0294

Title: Allison Lacher: Think Pink
Description: Allison Lacher's work focuses on making objects and installations that are shamelessly flirtatious. Attached to four lustrous, pink fabric panels are over 1,000 hand-tied satin pink bows. The bows, dense and heavy at the bottom of the fabric, gradually thin out as they rise to the top. Somewhere between abstraction and figuration, their functional resemblance to domestic draperies is sublimated by a teasing prom gown reference. Congregating and dispersing, they allude to flowers, songbirds, and towering wedding cakes. The viewer is invited to question this blushing installation as it unabashedly invokes many romantic cliches. Exhibition held in the Projects Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, pink, pink colors, installations, Courtship
Local Identifier: 14-0111

Title: Love In Hell: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Orpheus and Eurydice
Description: The great archetype for poets, musicians, artists, and lovers in Orpheus, the ancient Greek shaman, singer, and lover. Orpheus sang the world's sorrow and the world's beauty with such singular intensity that forests and beasts followed. He sang the passionate extremity of devotion for his beloved spouse Eurydice and the grief he felt over her death with such art and feeling that the very power of death was defeated. The artists in the exhibition reflect on Orpheus and Eurydice. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Greek, installations, lovers, Salt Lake Art Center, mythology, mixed media
Local Identifier: 14-0328

Title: Perceptual Figuration: A Collaborative Installation by Sara Northerner & Janet Shapero; Invasive Art by Matuschka
Description: Public Reception at SLAC for "Perceptual Figuration: A Collaborative Installation by Sara Northerner & Janet Shapero" in the Corner Gallery space and "Invasive Art by Matuschka" in the Upstairs Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, receptions, installations
Local Identifier: 14-0508

Title: Victor Kastelic: Cloudburst
Description: A site-specific installation by Victor Kastelic. The unique relationship between the artist and Director Ric Collier is manifested in "Cloudburst," described by the artist as "...an enormous cumulus of imagery--free of filters, schemes, limits and rules that I normally apply to my paintings." This freedom is visible in the multicolored gallery walls; the 200-plus drawings taped to the wall; four large oil paintings and several drawings that were penciled directly on the wall. There sheer number of scenes, people and objects was overwhelming-- a feeling that was only enhanced by the unusual nature of the installation. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Clouds, Mental states, installations, drawings, Salt Lake Art Center, paintings
Local Identifier: 14-0293

Title: Megan Geckler: "No Chance To Move Backward And See" - Installation Views
Description: Megan Geckler creates site-specific installations using construction flagging tape, mathematical calculations, and color theory. Geckler’s installation at UMOCA, “No chance to move backwards and see”, transforms the gallery space, inviting the viewer to take an exploratory journey through chromatic examples of architecture, design, sculpture, and painting. Drawing from geometric illusionism and principles of design, “No chance to move backwards and see” presents woven wall murals, a custom sculptural extension of architectural elements, several modular sculptural works, and nine tape ‘paintings’ that offer a Josef Albers-esque color study of the colors of the installation. On Display in the Street Level Gallery.
Subjects: installations, theory, Op art, Color in architecture, painting, Geometry, sculpture
Local Identifier: 14-0180

Title: Installation of Electronic Wiring
Description: Individual at construction sight handles the installation of light and switch wiring. Digitization completed with funds from a 2017 USHRAB (Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board) Grant that was awarded to Salt Lake Community College, Library Services.
Subjects: construction sites, installations, electronics, electronic instruments, electricians, Construction
Local Identifier: 15-1921

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