New Art From Los Angeles
Exhibition Dates: February 10 – April 6
Opening Reception: February 10, 7-10pm
CCAspace
Participating artists:
Mclean Fahnestock
Roni Feldman
Kiel Johnson
William Kaminski
Billy Kheel
Owen Kydd
Claudia Parducci
Max Presneill
Nano Rubio
Aili Schmeltz
Chris Trueman
Grant Vetter
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.
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.
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.
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
What do you get when you add the CUAC with cocktails? You get CUACtails, an informal party sponsored by the Central Utah Art Center. This month CUACtails is at The Spot, a friendly neighborhood bar in downtown Salt Lake. There will be dancing, and art-ing, and oh yeah we will be announcing the artists selected to be in the 2012 Utah Ties Juried Exhibition. (Don’t worry if you entered the show and you can’t make it to the party, you will receive email notification.)
Please come and enjoy yourself with your fellow artists and also pick up some discounted tickets for the pARTy Bus! And FYI CUACtails is just a precursor to the opening reception which is on Feb 10 in Ephraim. So many art parties!
when: Saturday, Feb 4, 9:30pm-1am
where: The Spot, 870 South Main Street, Salt Lake City
what: dancing, drinks, Utah Ties Announcement, discounted party bus tickets
who: 21+
CONTACT: Morgan Edwards
Central Utah Art Center
86 North Main
Ephraim, UT 84627
435-283-5110
www.cuartcenter.org
*******Due to technical difficulties THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 26.*******
If you are having technical difficulties, or special requests, please email Mo at art@cuartcenter.org.
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
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
Mariah Robertson plays with the projections, parading a tabletop through the gallery space.
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A corner view of the downstairs gallery.
curated by Lindsey Winkel
Exhibition Dates: December 2-Februaury 3
CUAC Annex
Participating artists
Morgan Donovan
Anna Hansen
Greg Hebard
Etsuko Kato
Tyler Lynch
Michael Marcinek
Sarra Nordesen
Anikó Sáfrán
Guinnevere Shuster
Salt Photo Society is a group of artists supported by the University of Utah who work to connect academic and community art practices. Across Process is a collection of works by members of Salt Photo Society who have roots in analog photography. The processes they currently work with help record the possible digressions, or continuations, of meat-and-potatoes film practices during a time when the disposition of their foundational medium is uncertain.”
Visit their website here.
Exhibition Dates: December 2-February 3
Main Gallery and CCA Cabin
In keeping with the exhibition’s title, a playful revised acronym for CUAC, Brooklyn-based artist Mariah Robertson will present an experimental arrangement of video and large scale photography specifically considered to activate the CUAC’s main and CCA cabin spaces—including interactive video and film projections, and a photo installation of a 30″x100′ roll of hand processed, uncut photo paper. Using an assortment of analog photo techniques, her layered works combine images ranging from modernist and abstract to representational and figural into a single image that disrupts the format and standards for photography. Robertson has exhibited extensively at venues worldwide including PS1, Saatchi Gallery, and Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art. She was also featured in the PBS series Art21.
Exhibition Dates: December 2-February 3
Upstairs Gallery
Brooklyn-based Sculptor Courtney Puckett’s craft techniques function as a formal investigation related to the history of women challenging the rules of painting and sculpture by utilizing stereotypically feminine materials and subjects. By taking discarded domestic items and combining them through weaving, stitching, wrapping, and knotting, Puckett simultaneously reveals their disparate histories and masks the function implications of others. She has exhibited and studied worldwide, and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Buffalo National River in Arkansas, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY.
Over the past week, the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) had its safety-conscious eye on German artist Carsten Höller’s interactive exhibition at the New Museum, particularly because of the two-story metal slide installation that, since its erection, has attracted double the amount of daily visitors. The 102-foot-long work was considered a possible breach of safety codes, and the museum had yet to receive the go-ahead before the show officially opened just over a week ago.
After the necessary permit was obtained and the Department of Buildings inspected the slide, the DCA approved the installation—certainly a tremendous relief for the museum, as well as those who were prepared for a “Save the Slide” crusade—and the tube slide of the Carsten Höller: Experience exhibition is back in play until the show closes in January of next year.
For more information about Höller’s show, visit www.newmuseum.org.
http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/nov/01/new-museum/
http://gothamist.com/2011/11/03/new_museums_slide_is_safe_says_city.php
On October 21 Brigham Young University’s dean of the College of Fine Arts announced Mark Magleby as the Museum of Art’s new director. Dr Magleby will officially take over this position beginning January 1. Dr Magleby has been a faculty member in the Art History Department at BYU since 1997. His scholarship focuses on 18th century art and architecture, 20th century European art, and contemporary theory and criticism.
The addition of Dr Magleby is only one of the many changes BYU MOA has under went in the past year. Other changes occurred in the education, PR and design departments. Dr Magleby is a strong proponent of his staff remarking they “create concrete exhibitions from the most ephemeral ideas.” It will be interesting to see the imprint Dr Magleby will have on Utah’s art community. The CUAC extends our support to Dr. Magleby as he begins his position as the Director of BYU MOA.
curated by Cara Despain
Exhibition Dates: October 14 – November 15
The Central Utah Art Center presents graphic— two pocket exhibitions curated by former GARFO Art Center curator Cara Despain. The exhibitions are linked by a common visual language executed via different formal modes and materials, and situate the graphic within contemporary art; setting it apart from the illustrative and commercial and pushing it past the linear narrative.
exhibit a: Fionn McCabe and Sri Whipple—Los Angeles-based artist Fionn McCabe and Salt Lake City artist Sri Whipple share several common influences and formal sensibilities concerning the language of graphic novels, but also depart from it in content and execution. The exhibition will show collaborative mixed media works, in addition to pieces created individually, that intersect, combine, dissect and even subvert this language, and also mark the differences between the two artists.
exhibit b: Erin Riley—Culling images from sources such as Google and Facebook Philidelphia-based artist Erin Riley makes permanent a facet of contemporary culture, and points to a loose narrative as told by the Internet. The tapestries use an old medium to address very contemporary issues, and subdue the explicit by simplifying the images into more graphic forms.
Exhibition Dates: October 14 – November 25
“Are We Having Fun Yet?” takes current political and economic events as a point of entry to explore ideas of security, passivity and general anxiety for the future. Although these concepts are serious, the result is not without humor. Comprised of new works on paper, the works in this exhibition are a product of loosely associated images as mediations rather than projecting any one ideology or thesis.
Taiwanese-born American Fay Ku graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA and a Master’s of Science in Art History. The faux-naïve nature of her illustrative style is exemplified by her use of watercolour, ink, and graphite on paper. Her choice of subject matter has evolved over the years, yet she retains the elegant juxtaposition of seriousness and puerility of her earlier art. Conscious of the fact that her unconscious is largely at work when she creates, her recent illustrations demonstrate a somewhat playfully cynical view of society. Her Darger-esque drawings present relevant socioeconomic commentary via images of modern-day youth of the glitterati living a neo-Rococo lifestyle, provoking the viewer to contemplate economic stability of the future and the results of passing the torch to a generation that seems to be more concerned with role-playing as rather than becoming adults.
