Come join us on Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at The GARAGE on Beck St.   http://www.garageonbeck.com/

CUACtails are bimonthly informal parties in Salt Lake City sponsored by the Central Utah Art Center. CUACtails is in advance of exhibition openings @ the CUAC and an opportunity to meet & visit with local and resident artists from all over the world. Come and enjoy great company, good food & drinks and live music. The evening will be DJ’d by Shane Smith with a live musical performance by Futr Kids at 10:00pm

when: Thursday, April 12, 8:00pm-1am
where: The Garage, 1199 N. Beck St. Salt Lake City
what: dancing, drinks, live music, discounted pARTy bus tickets
who: 21+

Exhibition Dates: February 10 – April 6
Opening Reception: February 10, 7-10pm
CUAC Annex-The Pizza Gallery

Participating artists:
Clarissa Lewis Anderson
Maura German
Alex Jameson

Clarissa Lewis Anderson:

My work explores what is important to me as a woman and wife. Living in Provo, Utah, I feel surrounded by an image of the ideal wife; but also pressured to be what society says a woman must be. I’m searching to reconcile these contrasting values as I discover who I am.

Maura German:

My work has developed from images I imagined at two separate times. The first image was a dark tunnel that expanded into a light opening. The second image contained a huge wooden frame that had countless black threads strung vertically and tied at both ends; I knew I had tied each thread as I watched myself cutting them as I walked by. I have been drawn back to these images over and over, trying to understand what they mean. My work is informed by that search. It is about reaching again and again, drawing meaning from what I have seen.

Alex Jameson:

I can’t help but be aware of our relationship to the universe. I find myself caught up in its beauty, largeness, and mystery. So much of my time is devoted to wondering about its vastness and wishing to be a part of it outside the limits of our earth. This leads me to think a proper self-portrait of myself would be my face covered in stars. I’m also playing with the idea that we are literally made from the remnants of stars and that in our universe everything is interconnected. I’m interested in the repetition and re-imaging of the universe. I like to imagine and be playful with interpretation of what it might look like to view a nebula from a close proximity. There is so much we don’t know about the universe; so much of it, though governed by laws, is theory. This unknown gives me a subject matter to explore and create my own ideas of what it could look like.

Please join us for an opening reception for the 2012 Utah Ties Juried Art Exhibit this Friday, February 10 from 7-10pm. Max Presneill, Head Curator for the Torrance Art Museum, has made his selections and will be attending the reception. He will be announcing the award winners for the show at 8:00pm.

CUAC Mission Statement:

The purpose of the CUAC is to educate Utahns about Contemporary Art through exhibitions of artists from three categories:
1. Sanpete artists who demonstrate a high level of professionalism in their art;
2. Utah artists who make art in a Contemporary genre who are emerging or well established;
3. and artists who are exemplary of important trends in Contemporary Art worldwide.

The CUAC maintains that good education about art starts with strong exhibitions of Contemporary Art that have relevance in content or image to our community.

Education also includes outreach to the community in the form of classes for adults and children, lectures and critical dialogue about art, and an inviting, friendly environment that welcomes visitors and encourages questions and strives to provide answers.

Thank you to everyone who applied to the show this year. There were a record number of applicants, making the selection process very exciting and very difficult for the Juror.

Congratulations to the following artists:

Trent Alvey

Daniel Barney

John Bell

Trent Call

Bruce Case

Matthew Choberka

Brian Christensen

Noah Coleman

Taren Devereux

Julie Dunker

Tom Dunn

Daniel Everett

Peter Everett

Carey Ann Francis

Mckenzie Garey

Jonathan Gibson

Holly Jarvis

Brooklyn Johnson

Steven Larson

Holly Lyons

Jason Moffat

Jenny Morgan

Jeremias Paul

Anna Peterson

Andrew Rice

Michael Richards

Mary Toscano

Laura Sharp Wilson

For Immediate Release:

CONTACT: Morgan Edwards

Central Utah Art Center

86 North Main

Ephraim, UT 84627

435-283-5110

www.cuartcenter.org

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2012 Utah Ties Juried Exhibit 
The Central Utah Art Center is pleased to announce it’s 8th Annual Utah Ties Juried Art Exhibition. Artists with ties to Utah, as well as all Utah residents, are welcome to submit work.

The Utah Ties Exhibition, which has become a yearly tradition at the Central Utah Art Center, began as a way to showcase the work of exceptional artists in and around the state. The Art Center has been very careful to select jurors with world-class qualifications, and the Utah Ties exhibit becomes a valuable way to connect them with local artists at a critical level.

This year’s juror is Max Presneill, Head Curator for the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, as well as Director of ARTRA Curatorial(www.artrala.org).

The Utah Ties exhibit is always a strong show full of interesting and innovative work from artists working in Utah and artists that are tied to the state. Last year’s winners were Vanessa Gromek, Morgan Wakefield and Chris Coy.

Artsts are encouraged to apply online.  All media will be accepted.

Important Dates: 
Submission Deadline: January 26, 2012
Artist Notification February 4, 2012

Opening Reception: February 10th at 7 p.m

Delivery of accepted work: February 6, 2012

Pick up of exhibited work: April 7, 2012

Other Information 
Entry Fee: $20 for 3 images and $5 per each additional image

Prizes: 1st $500/$200/$100

Juror’s Bio

Max Presneill is a Los Angeles based artist and curator, originally from London, UK.

As an artist he has shown throughout the world including New York, London, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Sydney and Tokyo and is represented by Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, as well as the Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

Currently he is the Head Curator for the Torrance Art Museum as well as Director of ARTRA Curatorial, an independent curatorial projects management team, who organized the CO/LAB art fair, 2011. He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having organized exhibitions for museums, institutes and galleries in the US and UK, the Netherlands, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Australia, and more.

He was the Founder and former Director of Raid Projects (1998 – 2009 – an artists initiative space with global reach – www.raidprojects) and Director of the Mark Moore Gallery (2005-8). He was the co-founder of BLOC Studios in the UK in 1996 and the founder of the Ntopia Group (an artists international collective).

Besides giving regular lectures on professional practices at universities and other venues he has also sat on the panels for the American Association of Museums Annual Conference 2010 for ‘On the Road: Ephemeral Exhibits and The Visitor Experience’, the Contemporary Art Roundtable, organized by CERA, at Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2010 and the City of Los Angeles Public Art Selection Panel for the Metro system, for the same year. He has worked briefly as an art critic, still writes essays occasionally for artist’s catalogs as well as for each TAM exhibition catalog and was previously Professor of Fine Art at several universities in the UK and the US – he holds 4 degrees, 3 of which are advanced degrees – teaching on various Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts courses. He has also sat on the Selection Committee’s for NOVA Young Art Fair (Chicago), PULSE Art Fair (New York/Miami/London), the PILOT program and publication (London), and for the McColl Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program, North Carolina amongst others.  He has lived in Los Angeles since 2001.

Website: www.maxpresneill.com