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Title: The Utah Millennium Project
Description: The Utah Millennium Project exhibition is the culmination of years of collaborative work on the part of eleven photographers. The group elected to tackle the subject of creating a permanent visual and written record of Utah imagery at the turn of the millennium. As expected, the results are diverse and represent the individual interpretation and creativity of each artist in approaching a complex theme. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: imagery, Salt Lake Art Center, photography, History
Local Identifier: 14-0311

Title: Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Description: This exhibit features 43 photographs by Lauren Greenfield, documenting the experience of young people growing up in Southern California in the mid 1990s. While the photographs themselves are specific to one unique geographic location, the issues and experiences that are examined could be part of the teen experience anywhere. The youths struggle with the influence of wealth, racial and economic prejudice, drugs, sex and an image-based culture that glorifies youth, beauty and celebrity. Greenfield's photographs of Beverly Hills teens working out with personal trainers are set next to images of East Los Angeles graffiti artists. In all cases, whether recording the rich or poor, the overall impression is that to grow up as a teenager in Los Angeles is to grow up quickly, as both the illusions of Hollywood and the neighborhood peer pressure of the youth culture itself dominate the lives and rituals of the young. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: photography, photographs, Youth, Teenagers, City & town life, culture, Racism, Prejudice, Salt Lake Art Center, Body image
Local Identifier: 14-0272

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: Crossroads: A Teen Response to Life in Salt Lake City
Description: A diverse group of high school students from throughout the Salt Lake Valley came together to create "Crossroads: A Teen Response Life in Salt Lake City," a two-part exhibit consisting of photographic works and a multimedia collaboration between the Salt Lake Art Center and Spy Hop Productions, a local non-profit Media Studio. "Crossroads: A Teen Response Life in Salt Lake City" was comprised of over 600 photographs that give give the viewers a "real-life" look into Salt Lake's youth culture. Exhibit held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: photographs, photography, Youth, multimedia works, Teenagers, City & town life, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0271

Title: Trevor Southey: Reconciliation; Joseph Marotta: Without Memory
Description: "Reconciliation" is Trevor Southey's unique vision--an heroic, idealized and utopian vision of spirituality, companionship and family, and humanity. The exhibit includes paintings, prints, and sculpture highlighting aspects of Southey's career over the last 30 years. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space April 18 - July 6, 1997. "Without Memory" uses a collage of technique, these large scale photographs are manipulated through the use of stain, paint, and text. Marotta invites his viewers to not only experience his memories, but the evidence of the process of making the photograph as well. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space April 4 0 May 11, 1997.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, photography, sculpture, Spiritualism, memory
Local Identifier: 14-0485

Title: Girl Ascending: Melissa Ann Pinney
Description: Girl Ascending began with a photograph of a girl seemingly suspended in mid-air, holding onto a chain-link fence with one hand, her dress lifted by the breeze. The setting is commonplace: a baseball game, nondescript buildings, and a dirt field seen though the fence. Nevertheless, the improbable levitation and serene demeanor of the girl suggested the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the artist, raised, as she was, on the symbolic imagery of Catholicism. Grounded in attentive observation of the world, Chicago-based photographer, Melissa Ann Pinney reveals how dreams and expectations of girlhood are constructed and communicated between mothers and daughters, society and friends. She intimately portrays her daughter, Emma, growing up and becoming an adolescent, providing fresh insights into her day to day life with family, friends and neighbors. One of eight children from a large, Catholic family, the artist has always been drawn to scenes of family that also express her interest in ritual, mystery and memory. While her photographs capture seemingly insignificant moments from a girl’s daily world, they signify mythic and heroic themes of the vital transformation that takes place when a girl enters into womanhood. Exhibition held in the Street Gallery space.
Subjects: Artists' devices, Religious articles, Mothers & children, Salt Lake Art Center, iconography, identity, religion, Symbols, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0161

Title: Instructor and students editing photograph, 1958-1959
Description: Black and white photograph of an instructor and two students editing a photograph. Photograph taken sometime around 1958-1959. Specific persons in photo not identified. Printing Program, Salt Lake Trade Technical Institute (Salt Lake Community College).
Subjects: Teachers, Vocational education, Printing, photography, Students, photographs
Local Identifier: 81C9002-091.jpg

Title: Exhausted PFC James F. Duro Lying In A Canal Dike
Description: Exhausted PFC (private first class) James F. Duro of Boston, an unlit cigarette dangling from his lips, lies by a canal dike in swampland of the Mekong Delta about 20 miles west of Saigon near Bao Trai Tuesday. An hour earlier Duro had been in the midst of an artillery bombardment fired by mistake by friendly forces on the U.S. position. After a day of battling Viet Cong forces he saw comrades killed and wounded by both the enemy and the misdirected artillery fire. Duro is with "C" Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade. GI in the background no identified. 1966.
Subjects: soldiers, war photography, photography, Airborne Brigade, swamps
Local Identifier: 16-3171

Title: Water
Description: This exhibition examines through the work of thirty individual artists, both historic and contemporary, a myriad of personal interpretations of this intriguing and basic element of our existence. Many of the images are sublime, still others are confusing or mysterious. All are intriguing and reflect the continual change characteristic of this non-static substance - WATER. The viewer should be challenged by the content of each individual work and how the artist has interpreted, appropriated or utilized water as and illusion, metaphor or subject. Simultaneously each person should be encouraged to reflect on their current appreciation and understanding of the theme of this exhibit. Awareness of this powerful, unique element is essential especially to those of us living in the arid west. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: paintings, water, photography, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifier: 14-0473

Title: Frontage Road
Description: "Frontage Road" explores the timelessness of these issues and their relationship to the conditions of contemporary society. These artists, referencing personal experience, reveal the tensions of displacement, the realities of friendship, the clarity of isolation, and the disparity of dreams. The perspectives of each artist, David, Aden, and John, are significant. They as us to become involved in their investigation. We must examine our lives. We must make conscious our personal assessment. And we must acknowledge our individual responsibilities to a more enlighten and compassionate community. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: narratives, Salt Lake Art Center, Literature, photography, prints, Poetry
Local Identifier: 14-0441

Title: David Baddley: Peace Garden
Description: Salt Lake City photographer David Baddley has recorded his city's international peace garden, located in Jordan Park, along the banks of the Jordan River on the west side of town. Baddley's photographs were taken on a cold, slowness winter day, at the time of year when he ponds have been drained and the vegetation is in a dormant state. Photographed in black and white, Badldley's pictures are unapologetically straight forward. Exhibition held in the Projects Gallery space.
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Salt Lake Art Center, documentaries, photography, gardens
Local Identifier: 14-0226

Title: The Radiant Object
Description: The self-taught artists represented use their passion and personal vision to transform common materials into highly charged objects. Because of their need to make things and to tell their story, they invest their drawings, paintings and constructions with a power which leaps out at the viewer. The images have a physical quality which thrusts them into the viewer's space in an attempt to connect with us.
Subjects: booklets, Salt Lake Art Center, paintings, drawings, self-taught artists, self-taught art, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0511

Title: Examining Hospice Care in Utah
Description: A free public symposium. Eight internationally-recognized photographers and filmmakers were commissioned to create new work about the emotional and collaborative experience of working with hospices and hospice care. Each immersed themselves, over an extended period of time and in different cities, in the world of the people who know it best: patients, families and health care providers. "Hospice: a Photographic Inquiry" held March 31 - June 10, 2001.
Subjects: Meetings, Salt Lake Art Center, hospices, film, deaths, Aging, patients, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0305

Title: Reawakened Beauty: Jordan River - Exhibition Art Work Views
Description: Reawakened Beauty exhibits 30 platinum prints that document the Jordan River from its source at Utah Lake to its mouth at the Great Salt Lake. Once a natural boundary between civilization and the ‘Wild West,’ the river has both shaped the Salt Lake Valley and been altered by its urban expansion. In Crane’s photographs, we see that some parts of the river have been left seemingly natural, while others reveal evidence of civil engineering, re-routing and pollution. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Waterfronts, rivers, Urban growth, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0155

Title: The Salt Lake City Ethics Project: A Photographic Investigation of Ethics
Description: Character translates into how we behave. Throughout our lives we make decisions born of options. They may be as simple as which shirt to wear, or as complex as whether to marry. In each case they entail conflict and resolution. Becoming comfortable with conflict is a paradox, but it often defines behavior. In our society conflict is to be avoided at all costs. But by doing so we are robbing ourselves, and our children, of the "stuff" that helps us develop character and personal ethics. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, Ethics, investigation, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0463

Title: Ron Jude: 45th Parallel
Description: A photographic project examining McCall, Idaho's transformation from a rural mountain community to a resort destination, and the impact these changes have had on the social identity of the arena. The 45th parallel signifies McCall's latitudinal location--halfway between the equator and North Pole--and also serves as a metaphor for a critical juncture in the town's history. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Landscape photographs, Country life, Resorts, Metamorphosis, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0304

Title: 1999 Utah Arts Council: A View of Five
Description: Five presentations are included in this exhibition and represent the professional pursuits of these exceptional Utah artists. These works include a diversity of disciplines, styles and media investigation. This exhibition stands as the final step in the selection of the Visual Arts Fellowship Awards in which two artists, as selected by the juror Fay Jones, receive $5,000 Fellowships.
Subjects: fellowships, paintings, sculpture, photography, Salt Lake Art Center, Artists
Local Identifier: 14-0462

Title: Contact: Christians and Moors, Image and Ritual in Mexico
Description: George O. Jackson, born in Houston, Texas, of Mexican descent has beautifully documented the celebrations and syncretic rituals as practiced in contemporary rural Mexico. Over the past ten years the photographer has created an important archive of Mexico's "ethnographic present", addressing issues of visual importance and cultural meaning. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: culture, Mexican, Christianity, Ethnographic photographs, Salt Lake Art Center, Mailers, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0323

Title: Resonance and Return: Social Documentary Photography 1935-Present
Description: This exhibition brings together Farm Security Administration photographs of the 1930s, including Walker Evans, Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott, with those of contemporary photographers such as Judy Bankhead, Robert Dawson and Brenda Ann Kenneally. The exhibition examines ways in which photographers, then and now, use their cameras as tools for documentation and social change stressing the subject of the work over their artistic style. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, photographers, farming, Social classes, Economic & social conditions, documentaries, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0216

Title: The Big Picture: Ultra Large Format Photography
Description: The Big Picture presents a broad spectrum of images from the six of today's hardest working and most technically skilled large format photographers. The photographers have eschewed the rabid technological changes of modern photography and have dedicated themselves to the single working method of large format photography. These artists come from diverse geographical, philosophical and aesthetic backgrounds, yet share a passion and a commitment not only to working in a large format but also to teaching others of its unique qualities. Exhibition held in the Street Level Gallery space.
Subjects: large, Salt Lake Art Center, photographs, photography
Local Identifier: 14-0320

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