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Show Rick aanThe SaltLake Tribune 7 pooh ws an icon on Utah art scene. ile Salon ageen this ciaente Blegant and sophisticatéd, Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art presented the year’s most significant exhibits, the centerpiece being a majorret; rospective of works by the late | Utah artist Mahonri M. Young. “Song of Joys;” stunning in its breadth andscope, runs into the new year. The Utah Museumof Fine Arts | was more low-key, sticking close | to its own collection while gearing. | up to move into a new $17.2 million structure in spring 2001. TheSalt Lake Art Center held a ' numberofdynamicissue-oriented exhibits, the kind favored by diPhotographic Investigation of Ethics, ‘oices of Youth” and “Out of the Closet: Clothing as Imageryin ContemporaryArt.” Someof the most exciting art unveiled in Utah in 1999 was found in exhibits at smaller museums and galleries. Read on for more aboutthe yearin visual art. Best Annual Show: For 75 years; the Springville Museum of Art’s Utah Spring Salon has gathered the work of prominent Utah | artists. This year’s show was markedby an impressiverange of | media andsubject matter. cane Sensitivity: Susan | ’s “On Being Homeless”. rs featured at Salt Lake City’s Art Access Gallery, por| trayed the area's homeless without bias or sentiment. With oils, Gallacherlets the sun shine on | their shanties. Elegant Perspective on Architecture: The Salt Lake Public Library Atrium Gallery’s “Architecture in Perspective 13” exposed viewersto today’s finest architectural illustration, showing | architectural renderings as art. Openingthe American West: Attorney Dan Berman and his | wife, Susan, shared their collection of Western art at the Utah Museumof Fine Arts. A compel| ling and educationalexhibit. 1988 in a Snap; Among the best photo shows were Peter L. Goss at Ephraim’s Central Utah Art Gallery, featuring photographs of Sanpete County’s sheep trade, and Barbara Richards’ show at Salt Lake City’s Art Richards’ images, formed with discarded objects collected along the roadside, delighted and oe ulated a new respect for the beautyof ordinary things. Exhibits That Will Be have four exhibits a year, the gallery ownerdecided midyear it was time to slow down and smell the roses. Good for her, sad for us. Thankfully, she will continue to represent Edie Roberson, one of Utah’s finest friendly surrealists. Celebration of the Nude: jor andeteaes Art "$j “Mahon ¥ monies ofits landscape. Most Unusual Thematic Exhibit: Art Access’ exhibit “Migraine” included a brown paper mural with the invitation toJot down your own experience with migraines. Communicating’ pri- writtenand Cees vate andcollectivepain, it bridged the gap between the abstract and eae spent summers there in the 1840s. Always Good Cause for Celebration: Lee Deffebach’s show at the Phillips Gallary pregerves her spot as an icon on Utah’s art scene. This preeminent absiractionist has since the 1950s made a unique contribution to the national and international context. Best Show by a Near-90Year-Old Artist That Would Be Significant at Any Age: Theodore M. Wassmer’s solo show at the Salt Lake Art Center. The exhibit of more than 30 works featured the pensive, delicate-of-line figures for which he his best known,and 10 stunningabstracts, a style the artist had not pursued in some50 years. the real, From a Single Building: The group show ofartists from the Guthrie Building shown at the University of Utah’s Gittins Gallery was marked by diversity of ‘approach, su t matter and technique. Highlights included pen-portrait drawings rhythmically sketched by John Erickson, and lush colorful social commentary by Randall Lake. canvases interpreted the female New Artists Colony: The form as neverbefore. Moving for- Rockwood Art Studios in Sugar ward and back with broad and arching strokes of color, women become abstract forms. It well worth visiting the Salt LakeCity’s Arts of Utah Gallery during March. House houses more than 30 artist studios in a renovated commercial building. Owner Marian Rockwood Johnson chose to create somethingto serve artists and create a community-based, sup- aoay From it All; Brian ’s 108-by-138-inch can‘ot vas mer and women sprawled ‘on a grassyfield chatting and reTaxing in the sinshine demanded the suspensionofreality. Carefree: ofworriesor real-life issues, these figuies serve as useful metaphors for modern-daylife. Best Use of Standing Collection: The University of Utah's Utah Museum of Fine Arts showed “A Selection ofStill-Lifes” from its collection, with memorable pieces such as Bonnie Sucec’s “Interior of New Yorker” and still lifes like Paul Wonner’s “Study With Flowers, Notébock -Paper and Pencils.” Longest Running State Arts Council: The first state arts Unexpected Gallery: Morgan States, the Utah Arts Council at the Salt Lake Art Center of workby thefive finalists for the Accentuate the Sensual: Pa- Utah artists, Peacock showed in her work a greatlove ofrural Utah and an intuitive sense of the har- emtertaining sb geeportion, includ Monit Maynard Dixon, a& inifort American modérmiat painter. Rick Graham's large.andcolorful Fisher Hall's new Bosquejo Gallery on Main Street in Kamas provides exhibit space for new artists and artists working in tricia Forsberg’s show atthe Phil- ing. Mentor and teacherof other Missed: The monthly shows at Salt Lake City’s Dolores Chase Fine Art. While Chase will still council organized in the United nontraditional media. state’s art, locating her work ina Forsberg’s work slowsthat lesscanbe better. sponsored impressive shows this year, including “A View of Five” Utah Arts Council Fellowships. Catherine Downing and Villa Carrera were the twofellow: ship winners. portive atmosphere forthe arts. Ae is: Clothes Encounter: TheSalt“ Lake Art Center's show “Out of the Closet; Clothing ganaara Contemporary A : i ala Ve eeVa clothing as a tool pression. A swirl stiletto shoes, bras mounted on a, ened dress a illustrated the rich oorwa and ra tural meanings associated with A Peltat enter contemporary opbies? seagulls landing of the, § i with dichroi¢, and bronze orcopper X's marking the right place. Best New Art off the highway on 1 acres of river. bottom and meado' complex, the Alpine Art houses a small gallery, foundry and art classroom studio space. 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