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Title: Behind the Lines: Drawings and Objects by 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: line drawings, portraits, Salt Lake Art Center, drawings, mixed media
Local Identifier: 14-0450

Title: Utah Perspectives
Description: The exhibition is a small survey of images created by Utah artists over the past sixty years. Limited in scope, one may nonetheless discover something about local traditions and aesthetic values front the landscape, still-life, figurative and nonobjective work included. here. For example, Utah has not been completely isolated from the larger art world as both non-Utahns and its own citizens often claim. While this region was geographically remote from East Coast and European art centers, Utah artists made contact with New York and Paris beginning in the nineteenth century and established a pattern of such study for subsequent generations. The result was that new ideas and ways of working were regularly imported. Some ideas and techniques found read acceptance (Impressionism), while others encountered hard resistance (modernism). Historically, this very tension in Utah between an essentially conservative community and the ever-present forces of change has kept dialogue on the arts lively. Permanent Collection.
Subjects: booklets, mixed media, landscapes, paintings, still lifes, Nonobjective, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0452

Title: Out of the Closet: Clothing as Imagery in Contemporary Art
Description: This exhibition includes the work of sixteen artists who use the visual language of clothing and dress as a vehicle to explore deeper layers of human behavior and relationships. That clothing is the chosen theme for this exhibition follows obvious connections between clothing and art. Clothing is often considered art, in and of itself. Like art, clothing communicates ideas on a visual level. Both clothing and art employ symbolism to infer abstract concepts. And trends in clothing and art are influenced by similar external factors. An examination of either one requires a consideration of the social, cultural and political climates in which they exist. In this exhibition clothing is employed as metaphor, articles of dress are used for inherent symbolic meaning, and garments are represented in unexpected context. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Clothing & dress, Sex, genders, gender issues, identity, sexuality, mixed media, Salt Lake Art Center, Body image
Local Identifier: 14-0453

Title: Reading Between The Lines: Image and Text by Contemporary African American Artists
Description: "Reading Between The Lines: Image and Text by Contemporary African American Artists" brings the visual image and the written word together in art works of great directness and elegance by four of today's most progressive artists. For them, the incorporation of text and image is a natural result of deeply introspective and intellectual approaches to their lives and communities. Each artist utilizes these distinctive elements to fulfill her natural role as visual artist, story teller, educator, historian and cultural healer. Each artists has looked deep within herself and her community, and has turned a critical eye toward history, social norms, contemporary race relations, political events, figures and promises. The artists explore a wide range of issues including relationships, family, community, gender roles, AIDS and global politics. Interwoven throughout their work are also issues more clearly defined by American race relations including slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, past and present stereotypes, media representation, ethnic identity and contemporary race relations. These exceptional artists explore diver and vital issues with wisdom of a teacher, the craft of a story teller, the frankness of a journalist, the understanding of a sociologist and the anger of a protester. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: mixed media, photography, prints, social issues, politics, gender issues, Civil rights, ethnicity, Salt Lake Art Center, African Americans
Local Identifier: 14-0313

Title: Looking Back: 75 Years At The Salt Lake Art Center
Description: This small exhibition is an imperfect reflection of the long and remarkable history of the Salt Lake Art Center. The artists chosen have been important and influential over much of its seventy-five year life, as well as in the broader arena of Utah's cultural community. Many taught at the Art Barn or at the art Center, some were students there, or speak warmly of having been influenced in their artistic growth by exhibitions or other events. Most have had solo exhibitions there, many more that once, and all of them, to some degree, have considered the Art Center their artistic "home." Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, Salt Lake Art Center, community art, sculpture, Reflections, mixed media, Anniversaries
Local Identifier: 14-0231

Title: Transcendence
Description: The premise for this exhibition began with the desire to feature contemporary Salt Lake City based artists working in diversity of media as well as forms of expression. The sense of renewal--by its alchemical and apocalyptic themes--weaves through and binds together the works that otherwise may be only marginally related. In spite of the diversity of media, expression and personal styles, the art tends to reflect states of transcendence, representations of experience beyond ordinary thought and belief. From Maryann Webster's tattooed ceramic dolls, to Lewis Francis' haunting photographs of salt encrusted pylons, to Anne Watson's moving "painted journal" chronicling the passing of her mother, to Lincoln Lysager and David Ruhlman's imaginatively cryptic, mixed media panels, the sense of other-world-liness is strongly implied throughout this exhibit. Exhibit held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: journals, diversity, apocalyptic art, Salt Lake Art Center, ceramics, dolls, mixed media, paintings
Local Identifier: 14-0265

Title: Robert Motherwell: Te Quiero
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: Salt Lake Art Center, Abstract Expressionist, mixed media, paintings, contemporary
Local Identifier: 14-0240

Title: Possessed by the Furies
Description: "Possessed by the Furies" features Stephanie Wilde's mixed-media works and newly published artist's book in a special installation designed by the artist. Wilde's beautiful and complex images reflect her personal journey exploring issues of humanity an decency, in the individual and our society as a whole. "Possessed by the Furies" is a look at such destructive aspects of social behavior as prejudice, arrogance, dishonesty, and self involvement. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: ink, mixed media, social ethics, Prejudice, Interpersonal relations, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0467

Title: Legends of Entelechy
Description: Personal experiences serve as the point of inception for this collaborative body of work by these Utah artists, through the use of paintings, mixed media prints, and mixed media sculpture each artist relates to his story of the viewers. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: mixed media, Fraternization, paintings, sculpture, prints, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0483

Title: Robert Fontenot: The Place This Is - Exhibition Views
Description: Robert Fontenot’s exhibition, The Place This Is, addresses notions of place, history and perception in this mixed media exhibition that includes bread dough renderings of over 100 iconic Utah landmarks and icons; watercolor portraits of Utah politicians and culturati; and text pieces from voices in American history. Exhibition held in Street Gallery Space.
Subjects: Regionalism, History, Salt Lake Art Center, mixed media, iconography, iconoclasm, criticism
Local Identifier: 14-0172

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

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