CUAC is opening a new, temporary space in Salt Lake City with the group exhibition “After the End” featuring ten artists whose works aestheticize apocalypse.

Exhibition dates: December 22, 2012-January 14, 2013

Exhibition opening reception: Saturday, December 22, 2012 8pm-10pm.

CUAC hours: w-f 12-7pm, sat 12-4pm.

CUAC

175 East 200 South

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

“After the End,” is a celebration of the opening of a new space and the beginning of a new era for CUAC after eviction from our long time home in Ephraim.  This exhibition marks the continuation of world-class programming CUAC has come to be known for and includes the work of artists Rebecca Campbell, Daniel Everett, Cara Despain, Lenka Konopasek, Bruce Case, Venessa Gromek, Matthew Choberka, Annie Kennedy, Jason Metcalf, and Richard Burde.

There is something essentially sublime about the apocalypse.  The possibility of global catastrophe, like the Grand Canyon, and like a good sunset, is as beautiful as it is terrifying. Fundamental to an experience with the sublime is a feeling of being in awe of something much larger and more powerful than one is.  On the other hand is the simultaneous feeling of importance of one’s own life in that moment of awe.  This is true in the case of a religious experience of the sublimity of God, or death, the sea, the desert, or catastrophe.

The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012.  There has been a lot of speculation about that signaling the end of the world—if a calendar ends, the world must also end, right?  So it is fitting that CUAC opens its new space, the beginning of a new era, after the apocalypse.  “After the End,” an art exhibition at CUAC, explores the work of 10 artists whose works aestheticize apocalypse.  Each, in his or her way, engages with the possibility of apocalypse and the sublimity of the experience of overpowering forces of nature.  Some explore human experience as it relates to it, and some to the willingness to face catastrophe and survive it.

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Links to articles about the eviction:

Salt Lake City Weekly

Salt Lake Tribune

KPCW

KUER

Salt Lake Magazine

SL Trib editorial

Slug Magazine

Art Fag City–one of NYC’s top art blogs

Huffington Post

Salt Lake City Weekly

Pyramid

Grantmakers in Arts

ArtInfo

AD Projects

Art Forum

Sanpete Messenger

We are on our way out of Ephraim.  We have been pioneers for contemporary art in Utah.  We are looking for a new venue so we can continue to do what we do.  If you want to help us out, we are working on a couple things 1) we’re looking for a new venue; 2) we need to make up the money we’re short from Ephraim City (make a donation); 3) we’ll have an online petition (Check back soon).  For more details, check out the press release below:

Ephraim City Evicts Central Utah Art Center
CUAC Board views eviction as censorship

After 20 years in Ephraim’s Pioneer Square, the Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) received a surprise eviction from the Mayor and Council of Ephraim City on June 20, 2012. Without warning, the government of Ephraim has given notice for CUAC to vacate the building that the CUAC saved from impending demolition and converted into a leading venue for contemporary art in the State of Utah. Although the eviction letter claims lack of support for local arts education and artists, the CUAC Board of Directors views the eviction as a response to the artwork that CUAC exhibited and an attempt to censor the material in a way that violates First Amendment rights.

In conversations with their constituents, the Mayor, City Manager, and several Council members of Ephraim have commented that they feel CUAC exhibitions aren’t “Sanpete appropriate.” Contemporary art of the caliber that CUAC has exhibited is not always intended for viewing by minors, but the CUAC Board maintains that the residents of Sanpete County and the state of Utah deserve exposure to art that challenges, compels, and elevates a viewer who has reached maturity. “That the surprise eviction comes at a time when CUAC is exhibiting three photographs which depict women’s breasts in an exhibition that explores racially-based civil injustices is no coincidence,” said CUAC Director Adam Bateman. “Ephraim City has moved to censor the artwork available to the people of Sanpete County.”

In 1992, Ephraim City planned to raze the ZCMI Granary and co-op building at Ephraim Pioneer Square. A group of citizens raised money and oversaw renovations to save the buildings and start the Central Utah Art Center. At that time, CUAC was a co-operative gallery that showed Sanpete County artists, received approximately 450 visitors annually, and received free rent from Ephraim City. In 2005, CUAC’s focus turned from exclusively showing local artists to exhibiting the best of local, national, and international contemporary artists, a move which brought international recognition, a tenfold increase in financial support, and a twenty-fold increase in visitors (9,000 annually). Ephraim City increased their support of CUAC at that time to include $30,000 annually. CUAC operates under a $130,000 annual budget, the majority of funds coming from private donors and foundation support which includes the prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation.

CUAC has a history of supporting local artists and local arts education. Over the last seven years, 32% of artists exhibiting at CUAC have been from Sanpete County. CUAC has offered classes that target elementary students, occurring an average of more than twice a month for approximately 15 students each. CUAC has also developed a curriculum and been in conversation with Ephraim Elementary School and Snow College to implement an arts education program in the school that would benefit 300 elementary students at least eight times per semester, scheduled to begin this school year. CUAC has also provided art scholarships and internships for Snow College students, and organized and funded travel and accommodations for four or five visiting lecturers per semester for Snow College’s Visiting Lecture Series.

CUAC’s contemporary art format not only brought more people to Ephraim, who, together with CUAC, spend approximately $200,000 a year in Ephraim, but also artwork from internationally-acclaimed artists like Julian Opie, Kerry James Marshall, Jack Smith, Bek Stupak, Rashawn Griffin, Xaviera Simmons, Mariah Robertson, Angela Ellsworth, and Andrea Galvani. This list includes artists who have exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim, MoMA, UMFA, Getty Center, and the Saatchi Gallery, artists who have been featured on the seminal televised art series Art 21, and artists who have received many residencies and awards, including prestigious Guggenheim fellowships. While exhibiting internationally-acclaimed artists, 32% of CUAC’s exhibiting artists were from Sanpete County, providing an unparalleled opportunity for Utah’s best local artists to be associated with the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

The CUAC Board intends to follow the instructions of the eviction letter while continuing to examine legal options available. The CUAC is evaluating alternative locations for the Art Center’s permanent home and plans to sponsor a series of pop-up exhibitions in Utah in the interim.

A private “Farewell, Ephraim” event has been scheduled at the current CUAC location at 8pm on Saturday, August 18, which will include dancing, a live DJ, and a screening of Footloose. Free tickets to the event are available by emailing art@cuartcenter.org; please include your name and number of guests. CUAC’s pARTy Bus will be available to transport CUAC supporters to and from the event. PARTy Bus tickets are $15 and include transportation, video art, and free drinks; tickets available at cuartcenter.org. The Bus will depart Salt Lake City’s 1300 South TRAX station parking lot at 5:30pm, and depart Ephraim at 11:30pm.

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Press contact:
Andrew Shaw, 801-502-3128
andrewreaseshaw@gmail.com

To coincide with the exhibition superHUMAN, Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) is pleased to welcome LA based artists Edgar Arceneaux and Kurt Forman for the premier screening of their collaborative filmic mash-up project Hulk Alter You!

WHO: Free and open to the public

WHAT: Screening of Edgar Arceneaux and Kurt Forman’s collaborative filmic mash-up project Hulk Alter You! Q&A with the artists will follow the screening.

WHEN: Thursday 26 July, 2012, 7 – 8:30pm

WHERE: Main Library Auditorium

210 East 400 South

Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

Hulk Alter You! is a mash-up of three Science Fiction films—Altered States, The Incredible Hulk, and Youth Without Youth—that visualize scientists/professors mutated by chemicals, radiation, and/or genetic engineering in an attempt to recreate themselves into super men with hyper-awareness, or hyper-physical powers. As LA based artists, both Forman and Arceneaux are interested in the ways Hollywood renders evolution into an entertainment vehicle for mass consumption, and how cinematic exaggeration and distortion influence the way in which people perceive themselves.  Hulk Alter You! is a structural composite that overlaps frames of each film thematically to produce a fourth film that contains the original iterations, but also transcends them.  The film attempts to scramble the codes of Hollywood cinema that render the hysterical human body through the lens of hyperbolic special effects—all while producing a subtle and sophisticated critique of the metamorphosis of science into mass entertainment.

The superHUMAN exhibit is currently on display at CUAC in Ephraim, Utah through August 3^rd and will travel to Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey, where it will be on exhibit from September 6 through December 22.  The exhibition explores the work of more than a dozen contemporary artists who utilize speculative art forms—drawing from classic Greek myths, comic books and graphic novels, to sci-fi literature and film, to create new hybrid styles that provide the artists with an important means for exploring serious cultural issues. By incorporating elements of the mythical and fantastic, the artists in superHUMAN compel audiences to look beyond our contemporary notions regarding race, gender, cultural rituals, science, and even art itself.

Biographies

Kurt Forman was born in Coshocton Ohio in 1965 and currently resides in South Pasadena, California where he works as an artist and filmmaker.  He received a B.A. in Art Theory from the University of California at San Diego, a Master’s Degree in Art History at the University of California at Riverside, and an M.F.A. in painting from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.  He recently founded Green Cabin Films, an independent production company specializing in Experimental Horror and Science Fiction films, and his first live action short, Cannibal Cult Holocaust, was screened at the Reel Scary Horror Film Festival in Oklahoma.  He has just completed his second live-action short, Missing Island, set to debut this summer at Jaus Gallery in LA.  His reviews on Hollywood cinema have recently appeared in Artillery Magazine and he currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Pasadena City College where he teaches a course on Contemporary American Science Fiction and Horror Films.

Edgar Arceneaux was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California, where he continues to live and work. He received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. In addition, he’s participated as an artist in residence at Art Pace in San Antonio, TX, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, Project Row Houses in Houston and at the Fachhochschule Aachen in Germany. Previous solo exhibitions of his work have been featured at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Kitchen, NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York.  Current exhibits of Arceneaux’s work include solo shows at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland and in “Marking Time”, the inaugural re-opening exhibition of the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. His work has been included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and California Biannual 2008, and resides in public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Hammer Museum and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Arceneaux has received many prestigious awards including the United States Artists Award, William H. Johnson Award, Creative Capital, Joyce Foundation Award, American Center for the Arts, LEF Foundation Grant, the Pat Hearn Award, the California Community Foundation Individual Artists Award and the 2012 REDCAT Award.

Since 1999 Arceneaux has been the Director of the Watts House Project, an artist driven neighborhood redevelopment project centered on the historic Watts Towers.

Edgar cares about the relationship between art and the social space and has committed his professional life to its exploration.

Chitra Ganesh, Rabbithole, animation, dimensions variable, 2:54 minutes

Tyrone Davies, "WORD", video, 3 min, 2012

Exhibition Dates: June 8 – August 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, June 8, 2012 from 7-10:00pm

Participating Artists:

Fidalis Buehler

Tyrone Davies

Allan Ludwig

Fionn McCabe

Art Morrill

According to the Hungarian folklorist and ethnographer, Mihály Hoppál, among the many responsibilities accorded to the traditional mystic was keeper of the tribe’s story, the history of its creation, and the source of its strength. The painters, sculptors, and video artists featured in this new CUAC show, a number from or living in Utah, reinvent that role for themselves, calling attention to the ambiguities of both creativity and mysticism while also invoking the shaman’s important role as the community’s first artist.

 Fidalis Buehler, an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at BYU, creates seemingly simple portraits using complex styles, embroidering a childlike temperament with an awareness of ethnic identity and indigenous ritual. Fionn McCabe creates fabulously complex images that weave together elements of graphic novels, pop culture, and fine art to explore the source of creativity and the distinction between high and lowbrow. Allan Ludwig, also on the Fine Arts faculty at BYU, draws from science fiction and role playing games to fashion magical objects that permit the viewer entry into another world. Conceptual artist and filmmaker Tyrone Davies employs new media to question the role of technology in entertainment and examine the ways it shapes or alters our perception of creativity and creation narratives. And Art Morrill works with found objects, including old scraps of wood and discarded cardboard, to produce works reminiscent of graffiti art that probe the vulnerability of our heroes.

 In contrast to the hardened cynic or the hidebound authority, the word “mystic” emerges from the Greek μυστικός, which originally meant someone who is a beginner or initiate to the mysteries. These artists, each in their own unique way, point us back to that first sense of the word, directing us toward our own human frailties and vulnerabilities. Their work suggests that these supposed imperfections may, in fact, be genuine strengths—and for the artist especially, the very source of his or her greatest creativity.

"Feature" Robert Mellor

Exhibition Dates: April 27 – June 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 2012 from 7-10:00pm

Robert Mellor’s paintings can be viewed as new propositions for visual enactment by the viewer, each work providing cues for engaging with the composition, layer by layer, edge by edge, line by line, color by color.  While it can be said that any work of art comes alive as art by a viewer’s active engagement, Mellor foregrounds this relationship by composing works of arresting beauty that compel viewers to re-enact the process of composition with the artist.

In his work Mellor often combines references abstracted from landscape and organic forms, cityscapes and architecture, and cascading fabric from fashion design in totally new ways. His astonishing and original color harmonies command attention and continually reward viewers who take a contemplative pause and convert compositional space into time.  Mellor is also the edge master, sculpting visual space with his hard-edge lines and interplay of forms, working at the edge of figuration and abstraction, building paintings from multiple layers that push the works into three dimensions as substantial objects in their own right.

Mellor has been developing a new body of work with ever more complex planes of space and compositional layers that reference traditional landscape imagery and multiple approaches to abstraction in highly original combinations.  He composes multi-layered paintings in acrylic in which the space of the painting is fractured through visibly cut overlapping planes.

His new paintings expand on his use of multiple planes and layers of space in figurative abstraction works that combine ground layers of ink washes on which the multiple layers of acrylic are imposed in sharp relief. Mellor’s original paintings are a set of enticements and seductions for viewers that make a bold, affirmative statement for new directions in painting today.

Robert has exhibited work in California, Washington DC, and Japan. He is originally from Massachusetts, and was educated in New York and California.

"untitled edifice" Stephanie Leitch

Exhibition Dates: April 27

Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 2012 from 7-10:00pm

This installation is part of a series that seeks to uphold the aesthetic value of images in dominant culture while simultaneously subverting their purport of power. She is not interested in defacing or destroying, but rather extrapolating, isolating, inverting, and repurposing as a means of artistic edification. In this specific exhibit, Leitch has inserted one architecture onto another, interpolating ideas of place and purpose. In folding a document of space onto one that exists in real time, she is also exploring the hyper-real and notions of constructed realities. Ultimately, the aim is to emphasize form as the most prominent component, in order to universally welcome the viewer to be drawn into the layers of experience.

"To All the Sets I've Loved Before" Jared Steffensen

Exhibition Dates: April 27 – June 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 2012 from 7-10:00pm

Jared Steffensen uses actions, objects, and the residual marks created by the act of skateboarding, that are central to its practice, and translating them into a visual language that is specific to contemporary art. He also incorporates an important aspect of skateboarding, the ability see the potential of objects, that serve a specific function in ordinary day to day life, to exist beyond their intended function (i.e. handrails, transitioned embankments, curbs, etc.). He further adapts these actions, objects and marks to facilitate their existence in a gallery setting.

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+

when: Friday, March 30, 6-7:30 pm

where: CUAC, 86 N Main, Ephraim Ut

what: Pre-screening segments of Art21 Documentary Season 12

who: Everyone!! This event is free and open to the public!

The Central Utah Art Center, In partnership with Art21 as part of its Access ’12 initiative, presents a sneak preview in advance of the premiere of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art, on Friday, March 30, 6-7:30 at the CUAC. The event features 3 segments from the award winning series and will run around an hour. This event is free and open to the public.

Art21 Access ’12 is an international screening initiative created to increase knowledge of contemporary art, ignite dialogue, and inspire creative thinking through hundreds of public screenings and events that tailor the ideas presented in series to the interests and concerns of local audiences. The season premieres on PBS April 13th with a new episode each Friday during the April and May at 9 pm (check local listings). Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the four-part series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today’s most thought-provoking artists.

ABOUT ART21
Over the last decade, Art21 has established itself as the preeminent chronicler of contemporary art and artists through its Peabody Award-winning biennial television series Art in the Twenty-First Century. The organization has used the power of digital media to expose millions of people of all ages to contemporary art and artists and has created a new paradigm for teaching and learning about the creative process.

• 1st Place: Noah Coleman, Sisyphus
• 2nd Place: Bruce Case, Vessels
• 3rd Place: Daniel Barney, If the Odds Are Good, Take That Risk You’ve Been Considering

Daniel Barney

Bruce Case

Noah Coleman

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.

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.

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.

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

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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

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

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.

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

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.