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Title: David Kimball Anderson: To Morris Graves
Personal Creator: David Kimball Anderson
Description: California-based sculptor David Kimball Anderson pays homage to the late Abstract Expressionist painter Morris Graves through his installation of cast bronze and steel sculptures which are based on the vase forms in Graves' flower paintings.
Subjects: Salt Lake Art Center, painting, Abstract Expressionist, bronze, steel
Local Identifiers: 14-0142

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

Title: Fab Ab: New Acrylic Abstraction
Personal Creator: William Betts; Susie Rosmarin; Joseph Drapell; Jesse Simon; Prudencio Irazabal; Culin C. Smith; Graham Peacock
Description: The seven artists in the exhibition "Fab Ab: New Acrylic Abstraction" approach the use of acrylics differently and, as a result, achieve different modes of abstraction. From artworks rooted in the period following 1940s and 1950s Abstract Expressionism, including Post-Painterly Abstraction and Op Art of the 1960s and 1970s, to styles paying homage to automotive and surfboard design and fabrication, Fab Ab represents a range of national and international trends. Exhibition held in the Main Gallery space.
Subjects: acrylic paintings, Plastics, Digital Arts, Abstract Expressionist
Local Identifiers: 14-0212

Title: Deference to Deffebach
Personal Creator: Lee Deffebach
Description: The exhibition honors the legacy of Lee Deffebach (1928-2005), one of Utah's most talented artists. The exhibit features six paintings that provide ample evidence of Deffebach's originality, her unabashed love of color. As she expressed it, her abstract paintings were based on an intuitive and tactile experience that was only possible through an engagement with the painting process itself. In her view, the shapes and colors of nature seen and felt, do not emerge from a preconceived rendering of reality, but rather as a result of the integrity of the painting process, especially through spontaneous acts. Her depictions of nature are a metaphorical not literal. In this sense she adheres to Greenberg's insistence that Abstract Expressionism can only be a valid expression if it evolves "solely on its own terms." Exhibition held in the Projects Gallery space.
Subjects: Abstract, Abstract Expressionist, Nonobjective, Salt Lake Art Center
Local Identifiers: 14-0238

Title: Final Light: V. Douglas Snow in Retrospect - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator: V. Douglas Snow
Description: Salt Lake Art Center and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) are pleased to present Final Light: V. Douglas Snow in Retrospect, a joint exhibition celebrating the work of eminent Utah artist Doug Snow (1927-2009). A painter, printmaker, and professor, Doug Snow lived and worked in Utah’s red rock country for over half a century. Organized by guest curator Frank McEntire, Final Light: V. Douglas Snow in Retrospect presents defining works from Snow’s career, featuring 35 paintings from private and public collections across the West. The retrospective exhibition examines Snow’s early Abstract Expressionist-inspired period from the 1950s, as well as later works from the last three decades of his life, which meld abstraction with realism to express his passion for Utah’s southern desert. Exhibition held in the Street Gallery Space.
Subjects: Deserts, Salt Lake Art Center, realism, Abstract Expressionist, paintings, printmaking
Local Identifiers: 14-0170

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