Wendy Red Star, whose work has been featured in venues ranging from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, to the the Fondation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, is a participating artist in the Art Center's exhibition, Doublespeak (October 7, 2011 - January 7, 2012).

 

Red Star's work explores the intersection between life on the Crow Indian reservation and the world outside of that environment. She thinks of herself as a Crow Indian cultural archivist speaking sincerely about the experience of being a Crow Indian in contemporary society. Red Star left the Crow Indian reservation when she was eighteen to attend Montana State University in Bozeman where she studied sculpture. She then went on to earn her MFA in sculpture at UCLA, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she is an adjunct professor of art at Portland State University.

 

Red Star's lecture is presented by the General Services Administration's Good Neighbors program, encouraging cultural exchanges between states in the Rocky Mountain Region.

 

Wendy Red Star, from the series Thunder Up Above, 2011, C-Prints 

 

After the Wendy Red Star presentation, join us for our 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 Mr. Jesse Walker!    

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Directed by Megumi Sasaki.

He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.

 

Presented in partnership with Utah Film Center. 

 

 

German artist Mirko Martin's video, Noir, documents a night during the artist's half-year stay in Los Angeles in 2008. Monitoring gang activity, police helicopters circled the neighborhood on a regular basis. On a particularly noisy evening, Martin went out to capture some sound. Within minutes, he heard gunshots. Over a black screen, Noir captures these gunshots and conversations with several residents and passers-by who try to make sense of what they heard and didn't hear, saw and didn't see.

 

Martin is a Fulbright Scholar, and his video work  has been exhibited around the world from the United States and United Kingdom to Japan, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.

 

Noir is guest curated by Natasha Becker, Assistant Director in the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Says Becker: "Martin plays with our sense of language and imagination, sound and sight, presence and absence, locality and cultural representation, in a seriously thoughtful way. In Noir  'being in the dark' is simply not an option."

 

 Join us for a First Friday opening on December 2, 8:00 - 10:00 PM with DJ Mr. Jesse Walker, food, and a cash bar. 

  

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Mirko Martin, Noir, 2008, detail, HDV transferred to DVD, b/w, sound, TRT 8 minutes, 8 seconds.   

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."

Ms. Schoenstadt has exhibited at: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; as well as locations in New York, Paris, Munich and Istanbul. Her work has been reviewed in ArtForum, the Los Angeles Times, Artweek Magazine, and Art in America.

 

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.

Exhibiting artists include Guggenheim Fellow Jennifer Nelson, 2011 Venice Biennale artist Daniela Comani, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Rebecca Campbell, Julie Orser, Carlee Fernandez, Julie Lequin, Carlin Wing, Wendy Red Star, 2011 Rome Prize recipient Mary Reid Kelley, Barbara Kruger, and The Fourth Height + Urs Bigler.