| Show - - t Arts Zbe Sialt gala Ztibunt Sunda" Morning—September 30 1990 Section E Page 1 Entertainment & ware North PPed ocial ested Furniture exhibit interweaves art craft - Amyl - ' e By Ann Poore Tribune Staff Writer If art is supposed to evoke emotion and craft implies function what's a furniture show doing in an art museum? Steven Rosen director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in Logan said his institution is in a position to "redefine things like furniture to be a little adventuresome" He explained that items which turn up in craft shows in Utah often rank as art objects on the East Coast "A Dozen and One Utah Furniture Makers" which runs through Dec 16 at the Harrison features useful furniture that you sit on sleep on or put things in "We didn't want a lot of modern avant-gardcontemporary furniture The craft work is something we tried to concentrate on I don't think there is anything really standard about any of the pieces in the show" Rosen said About 20 works by 13 Utahns are included in the exhibition by Artspace director and sculptor Stephen Goldsmith who will give a free lecture at the Harrison on Oct 18 at 4:30 pm on "The Idea of Vernacular Furniture" In the exhibition catalog Goldsmith writes that the furniture-makin- g tradition of the area is based in its pioneer past: Pioneer furniture makers provided the community with goods second only in importance to food shelter and clothing Rosen said that from examples included in the show "we can see a continuation of a furniture-makin- g tradition in this state" To locate furniture designers Rosen announced the show in woodworking magazines and in newspapers across the state and contacted people working in the furniture business "I wanted to do it purposely that way just to see what would come up" Pieces in the show offer an extreme range in styles: from Goldsmith's contemporary "'Toolmaker's Bench for a Poet" to an inlaid table by Cedar City's Earl Sevy that Rosen calls "cowboy poetry" "If you drive south of Sevier County every home is going to have a table about this size inlaid with starbursts and everything else" Rosen said Another unique piece is a chair for observing a billiards game made by Ruth and John Sundberg of Oakley — furniture makers See 3 Column 1 - 11 ' tir 6 r rkit131 kw I :4::J"::: tr A Ilk - ' 'z a14-jI'' '' - ' 4 1 '' t' 'A ' ' i''''' i 4:S: -- ) - 4 '": 2D e I:- IL:fr'' Glass concrete maple steel and felt compose Stephen Goldsmith's "Toolmaker's Bench for a Poet" lent by the Salt Lake Art Center for Harrison exhibit re low —Tribune Stoff Photo by Jeff Allred 45005011 -- Director Steven Rosen closed down Logan's Harrison Museum to implement theme-base- d exhibition of collection "'44 11' 1::--11!1 4 r: 1 ' 7 :': Nora Eccles Harrison Museum reopens with spacious look thematic approach to exhibits By Ann Poore Tribune Staff Writer "People think it's 600 miles from Salt Lake to Logan But it's only a 90- minute drive" observed Steven Rosen director and chief curator of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Since his arrival a year ago Rosen has been contemplating changes at the facility on the Utah State University campus Late in August he shut the Harrison down for a month to implement them Rosen hopes Salt Lakers will Now that the museum has make the trek north to take a look Work by contemporary Utah furniture makers (see related story this page) and ceramics by John Neely are featured exhibitions the "We literally took the whole museum apart and interior walls in the Caine gallery where the permanent collection goes" Walls were moved to create a variety of spaces: big open areas for large pictures intimate spaces for sculpture graphics and smaller pictures "We just raped and pillaged through the ceramics section" said Rosen with a laugh The redesign process gained impetus when a group of 70 USU design students toured the Harrison "They gave not one positive comment" said Rosen "They saw the installation as unfriendly lacking color and said the labels were impossible to read" h A space was created "with surprises at every turn" The director said the ceramics arrangement follows chronological development as well as themes "We've got all of the Southwest American pottery leading to contemporary ceramics" The concept of displaying theme or "like" art objects is carried throughout the museum In working with half a dozen private and museum collections Rosen came up with an idea that "no one really has an encyclopedic collection like the Metropolitan or Brooklyn or Detroit or Cleveland" He said smaller institutions like the Harrison have "a nice core group of things for a specific period of time: late early y American art confined primarily to west of the Mississippi "But as good as our collection is we still can't do everything We don't have every artist represented we don't have every style represented we don't have every technique represented So I hatched a plan to deal with broad themes arranged chronologically" He planned a landscape theme starting with the museum's earlier works from 1896 or so and going right on through to current concerns with landscape "Instead of being confronted with painting A by Felden Gile over here painted in 1921 and a 1956 abstract picture entitled "Sanctuary" by Harrison Groutage over there you see them as one whole line Ansel Adams' "Moonrise Over Hernandez" is included in this thematic landscape grouping And if we buy another landscape from 1950 for instance all we do is sort of spread everything out and drop the picture in" See E-- 3 Column 1 walk-throug- i ii i:' Ai A rf9: I I i 4Ap i : !::: :" 'V''' ' j r:': !:- 'latnitOtat':Z7E - 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