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Title: Blindsight: A New Perspective on Painting
Description: People marvel over blind musicians such as Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, but then their music is so fine you forget they're blind. What, then, of artists nearing the end of their sight? "Blindsight: A New Perspective on Seeing" dispenses with any need of asking that question -- in theory. Instead, it presents works by four painters who started their careers with full vision, only to have it deteriorate almost completely. The result is an exhibit surrounded by questions of whether artistic ideas and visions are more grounded in the mind or the outside world. Salt Lake City native Vojko Rizvanovic adds his paintings to those of artists John Bramblitt of Denton, Texas, George Mendoza of Las Cruces, N.M., and Eric Peterson of Kemah, Texas. Exhibition held in the Street Gallery space.
Subjects: visual impact, visual perception, Visual Works, Vision disorders, perspective, paintings, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0150

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: 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: Friese Undine: Machiavelli and the Bottle
Description: Undine is fascinated with propaganda and more overt activities of persuasion: brainwashing, coercion, enticement and threat. In this exhibit, what might Undine's intention be? Proselytism? But for what? And certainly satire. This artist obviously wants us to think about the everyday uses of force, and especially the rhetoric we use to justify our actions to those less powerful than we are. Like every satire from the classical Greek "Satyricon" to Voltaire's "Candide" to "Saturday Night Live," Undine's work attacks society in order to improve it, ironically a hopeful act. Whether we are shocked or we laugh or both, we should not leave this gallery feeling neutral. If giving people easy answers is the function of propaganda, asking people hard questions is the function of art. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, propaganda, politics, philosophers, irony, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0317

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: Stephen Schultz: Paintings and Drawings
Description: In viewing this exhibition, what is immediately apparent is that Schultz's paintings are over the top in the best sense of dramatic presentation. The scale of the largest paintings seem bigger than life, setting for mythic narration, where no painted form or gesture is lacking in meaning. If we equate these paintings to that of the theatrical stage, then his props are those of the painter's studio of the dream, and the painted gestures are those of the evolution of the self and the yearning for human interconnectedness. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, drawings, dreams, life, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0280

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: Richard Van Wagoner
Description: Paintings by Richard Van Wagoner. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery Space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, paintings, Photorealist
Local Identifier: 14-0324

Title: Fay Jones
Description: Paintings by Fay Jones. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, painting
Local Identifier: 14-0444

Title: Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection
Description: This exhibition presents the country's foremost collection of paintings and drawings, 68 in all, from the New Leipzig School - a collection built by the Rubell Family in Miami. The seven prominent artists featured are from the esteemed Leipzig Art Academy in Germany and have been hailed as "the 21st century's first bona fide artistic phenomenon." Exhibition held in the Main, Projects and Street Level Galleries.
Subjects: paintings, drawings
Local Identifier: 14-0207

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: Edith Carlson: Paintings
Description: The movement of light and color is the subject of Edith Carlson's paintings. Her canvases almost breathe, their geometric forms imbued with a radiance that seems to emanate from the multiple paint layers infused with nearly imperceptible gradations of color. Color and light advance and recede, shift as one walks past or observes from a distance, gain fresh perspective as effects first unseen are newly discerned. Even at night, and with the passing of the seasons, the paintings assume a particular kind of color and glow that is often dramatically different from that of the day. in these nuances of movement are found the magic of Edith Carlson's work. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, color, layers, perspective, Geometric, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0325

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: Mario Reis: Nature Water Colors
Description: The exhibit "Nature Water Colors" is created by soaking the canvas's in various rivers to capture the "color" of the river. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Nature, water, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, color, paintings, rivers
Local Identifier: 14-0322

Title: Ted Wassmer's Ninetieth Year: An Exhibition of Recent Works
Description: In celebrating his ninetieth year with an exhibition of new work, Ted Wassmer has perhaps inadvertently made his life as an artist look easy. Of course, it has not been. The standard disappointments, tragedies and heartache have been there. Ted's art is as conspicuous for what it is not as for what it is: it does not record the angst of an angry, distant world; it collectively reflects upon itself as a decision to embrace the positive. It is evidence of his choice as much as his circumstance. Exhibition held in the street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, watercolor, paintings, Abstract, figures
Local Identifier: 14-0448

Title: Romey Stuckart: Paintings
Description: The panhandle of northern Idaho is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in North America. Sparsely populated, the small communities east of Sandpoint that border Lake Pend Oreille are backed by forests that stretch across the Cabinet and Selkirk mountains until they merge with the Canadian Rockies. To stand in these densely forested mountains, among the firs, pines, and birches, can be both moving and somewhat daunting. Here nature is wilderness. In 1987, when Romey Stuckart first moved to Hope, Idaho, her response as a painter was to adopt these woods as her subject matter. This exhibition of paintings from 1990 to 2002 acts as a record of her response to her chosen environment, as literal depiction of nature in paintings up to 1992 and then the shift to the organic, abstracted paintings that followed. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Nature, Abstract, organic, Abstract paintings, Salt Lake Art Center, Landscape paintings, paintings, mountains
Local Identifier: 14-0282

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: The Reality of Abstraction: Painting in Utah 1946-1996; In An Abstract Light: Bob Bauer, Time Gallagher, Bill Lee
Description: "The Reality of Abstraction: Painting in Utah 1946-1996," features paintings by three Utah artists. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space November 22, 1996 - January 21, 1997. "In An Abstract Light: Bob Bauer, Time Gallagher, Bill Lee," features abstract photographs by Bill Lee, Tim Gallagher and Bob Bauer. The photographs show inventive photographic renderings of stained metal, decaying woodwork, painted walls with graphic symbols and messages. Exhibition held in the Upper Gallery space November 15, 1996 - January 5, 1997.
Subjects: Mailers, photographs, Abstract, paintings, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0492

Title: Annual SLCC Student Art Show, Spring 1997
Description: Color photographs of the works on display for the Spring 1997 Annual SLCC Student Art Show which was held in the Science and Industry Building on Redwood Campus. This show is put on by the Fine Arts / Visual Arts and Design departments at the College.
Subjects: Student Art Show, black-and-white photographs, photographs, drawings, paintings, fine arts, Students, printmaking, Graphic design
Local Identifier: 46C9701

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