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Show i I The Salt Lake ART Center Offers a Reason to Rejoice BY jt this til :tic Brazilian martisl srtl Sf PHANIt GttSltNGS and resolution. S redemption I made no drunken new year resolves, but to follow suit in the January motif, I did manage to find a favorite art gallery of 2003. The Salt Lake ART Center has come through in multiple ways throughout the year. It has a lovely staff, a beautiful building, exceptional artists and a breadth of art shows, a cool bookstore, a stocked reading room and a coat check. The AST Center was founded in 1931 as a private, nonprofit organization explicitly for local artists of all media, poets and musicians. It has since invited artists outside of Utah boundaries like glass guru Dale Chihuly. Exhibiting artists usually present a lecture at the center that definitely improves the gallery participant's involvement with the art The ACT Center also offers the community art classes that can even be taken for college credit for Salt Lake Community College or the University of Utah. The current exhibit is "Crossroads," presenting photographs shot by Salt Lake City teenagers. The photographs are good for capturing the infatuation of the amateur artists with the camera. This is photography before it gets to the n of strict technical form Maybe these new artists will be adept in both. The next exhibit "Fast Forward; Growing up in the Shadows Hollywood," starts Jan. 31. The show will display photographs by Ms. Greenfield, whose subject matter emphasizes young adults dealing with the glib and grime of Southern California. For those of you interested in Los Angeles, Sundance is showing a fantastic documentary called, "LA Flays Itself," made from an LA lover rl i" km - v n c r C'::::3 fcr Kii. Tt:m' could be midnight at the oasis the Salt Lake AXT Center, the best art locale in Utah if only it didn't close so early. Yowl This book lounge. In this space, exhibiting artists are asked to bring in their own work along with their favorite artists and writers' books for the public's perusaL You even get to touch these beauties. It definitely adds to the potential understanding of artists' work when you know they have read too much Hemingway. The Salt Lake AST center is located itya 20 S. West Temple. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday 10 am. through 5 pm, Friday 10 am. through g p m and Sunday 1 p.m. fhrough 5p m The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is locatedatio Campus Center Dr. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10 am to Sp m and Saturday and Sunday u p m to $ p.m. com Stephanie , , ..." -- ' 1 Adufts I -4 M new to reccta TWO WEKS FRE maiJ.ccn utahcapocirahc red-ma- g beat-dow- perspective. Although the ACT Center beats out all of Salt Lake City's museums as best art oasis, the best of the available offerings is the Utah Museum of Fine Art (UMFA) It may be the only one. The UMFA has a staff of intelligent docents. curators and program coordinators. The museum's ambiance has the typical classist tones. It primarily exists and reserves itself for art history and theory. The UMFA gift shop is expensive and the art books remain closed, bound with melted plastic The food is expensive. The museum, however, is a special experience and should not be disregarded. They will let you bring your children and will provide the crayons. UMFA has brought some fantastic artists within a social economical context For example, "Edward Hopper and Urban Realism" was a great exhibit as was that of photographer Sebastiao Salgado, which generated a massive turnout Trie UMFA has also acquired some impressive pieces this year, such as Deborah Butterf.eld s two-tobrome horse. The ACT Center's buJiLrg has a great layout The space itself keeps your interest and may keep you awake running up and down the stairs There is also a house for video art and commentary films. There is a level of professionalism in the art center and it attracts working artists Still, it caters to local artists as part of its mission statement The exhibits are varied but timely The reason this gallery is rry favorite for 2003 is net the fantastic bookstore housing art bocks that you'd usually have to order online, but the innovative rruru-rr.ov.- e '.', '' ' i II-,- I """""" " " " tit 1 1 1 f t .' 1 uii"-i"i- -- M?I a;i I ! 13 CO 1 1 en 1 ... to "I- 4 - !? IV, . v J vMt r.v.Mf ; IMO j OR HALF j I R riuvnn; COMPANY STUDENT TICKETS $5 N K j FREE, FillCE! RED Magazine I januasv 15, 2004 R$ |