KIM SCHOENSTADT: RECIPIENT OF THE CATHERINE DOCTOROW PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY PAINTING   

FRI, NOV 4, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM 

Salt Lake Art Center and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation are pleased to announce the inaugural recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting:  Kim Schoenstadt.

Schoenstadt's artwork embodies the spirit of the Doctorow Prize through her passionate dedication to a practice in contemporary painting.  Her painterly, site-specific projects, which frequently include elements of audience participation, incorporate complex urban views, themes of modernist and utopian architecture, and historically informed explorations of image and society.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, art critic Christopher Knight notes that Ms. Schoenstadt's creations are those of "a view painter. Her work records complex urban landscapes. Unlike her 18th century forebears, however, who lived in a world where visual perception was being elastically stretched by telescopes, microscopes, and other ground-glass lenses meant to aid the limited range of a human eye, the Los Angeles artist surveys very different terrain. Her knotty work charts the intersection between the bricks and mortar of actual city streets and the effervescent elements of virtual reality. That's where we live now."

LOOPED: LEAF FALL 

NOV 4, 2011 - JAN 7, 2012

Part of the Art Center's ongoing Looped series of short video works, Neha Choksi's Leaf Fall records a single day's work of stripping a rural peepul tree of all its leaves, save an autumnal sprig at the tip of a single high branch.  This lyrical sunrise to sunset look at a process of laying bare, of stripping away everything until the ordinary is made singular, is a picture of severe loss as a starting point for life's renewal.   

Neha Choksi received her MA in Classics from Columbia University in 2000, and her BAs in Greek and in Art from UCLA in 1997.  Her work has been shown in London, New York, Madrid, Amsterdam, Sydney, Istanbul, Delhi, Bombay, and as part of the 10th Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006. 

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Neha Chocksi, Leaf Fall, 2008, Still from digital HD video.

LECTURE: KIM SCHOENSTADT, RECIPIENT OF THE CATHERINE DOCTOROW PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY PAINTING 

THU, NOV 3, 2011, 7:00 PM 

Join us for a special lecture and preview with artist Kim Schoenstadt.  Following a special members preview and reception from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM on Nov. 3, Kim Schoenstadt will give a public lecture about the work in her solo exhibition, opening November 4, which includes four new site specific projects created specifically for the Art Center exhibition. 

 

This is a public event preceded by a members only preview and reception from 6:00 - 7:00 PM.

 

JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST FRIDAY CELEBRATION WITH DJ/DC!

FRI, NOV 4, 2011, 8:00 - 10:00 PM 

Join us for our new First Friday event, a monthly celebration of the contemporary art world with five amazing exhibitions at the Art Center.  First Fridays feature food, cash bar, and this month music by DJ/DC Jeffery Hacker!  More

CREATIVITY IN FOCUS FILM SERIES
BLANK CITY 

FRI, NOV 11, 2011, 7:00 PM 

 Directed by Celine Danhier.

Today, Manhattan is a byword for overpriced property, overexposed landmarks and overdressed fashionistas. In the late 70s, however, it was a rat-infested, crime-crippled, cheap and nasty environment that fueled the creative spirit of music, film, art and fashion.

 

Presented in partnership with Utah Film Center. 

 

DOUBLESPEAK

OCT 7, 2011 - JAN 7, 2012

Inspired by the 19^th century Vietnamese  poetess Hô Xuân Hu'o'ng, whose work explored the rich possibilities of aural and semantic double entendres, Doublespeak, features contemporary women artists who work in strategies of code and layered meaning.  For centuries women have found eloquent and inventive ways to articulate their ideas and experiences when social, political, or religious confines would otherwise prohibit them from speaking out.  The international artists in Doublespeak use material, language, and bodies to

present an idea, medium, or structure that has multiple reads depending on the perspective from which the viewer is perceiving and 'reading' the work.

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Daniela Comani, La Petite Princesse, Piezo print, Courtesy of the artist. 

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR EVERY SEASON: BRIAN BRESS

OCT 7 - NOV 19, 2011

Brian Bress's wry single channel video, Creative Ideas for Every Season is the inaugural exhibition in the newly-constructed New Genres Gallery. Creative Ideas for Every Season explores the difficulties and absurdities confronting the pursuit of a creative practice.

 

The New Genres Gallery will offer residents of Utah ongoing opportunities to experience visual art that incorporates, video, performance, installation, digital media, and mixed media. 

 

Bress's work has exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.  He received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from UCLA.  

 

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Brian Bress, Creative Ideas for Every Season, 2010, high definition video, color and sound, Courtesy of the artists and Cherry and Martin Gallery.  

BILD: JARED LINDSAY CLARK 

AUG 31 - DEC 17, 2011

Jared Clark is the inaugural artist for the Locals Only Gallery, the Art Center's newest initiative to promote local artists as they engage the contemporary art world.

A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, Salt Lake City artist Clark has installed a new work from his Bild series, which employs scavenged materials to create site-specific sculptures.

The title of this series, which is both the German word for a painting as well as a homophone for the English word "build," references ideas of imagery as well as ideas of construction. Clark's piece, a monumental installation composed of urban and domestic objects, takes as its springboard the tenets of Minimalist primary sculptural forms, including confrontation with the viewer in real space in ways that demand consideration of the relationship between sculpture and the scale of the human body.

Clark is the recipient of a Dedalus Fellowship from the Robert Motherwell Foundation, and has had his work exhibited in New York, Berlin, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Jared Clark, Colorado Bild, Courtesy of the artist.