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JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST FRIDAY PARTY 

CORRECTED DATE: FRI, JAN 6, 2012, 8:00 - 10:00 PM 

 

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Join us for our First Friday event, a monthly celebration of the contemporary art world with five amazing exhibitions at UMOCA, music, food, and cash bar. This month First Friday features the opening of Joshua Luther's new exhibition, Meaning, and music by DJ TiDY! As a special bonus, this First Friday features the unveiling of Kim Schoenstadt's Paint by Numbers after two months of interventions by members of the community. 

Please note that there will be no First Friday in February due to our heavy event schedule during the Sundance Film Festival from Jan. 20-28.

CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF 2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEW FRONTIER AT UMOCA

CORRECTED DATE: TUE, JAN 24, 2012, 8:00 - 10:00 PM 

 

white-bar-spacerJoin us as we celebrate the opening of Sundance Film Festival New Frontier!  At the party, you will meet the artists of New Frontier, rock out with national DJ Mick Boogie, and party the night away with food and drink from the Blended Table.  Tickets are not available for purchase anywhere, but a block of tickets will be set aside at UMOCA's front desk for members to claim on a first come, first served basis beginning on Jan. 6 at 8 PM (maximum four tickets per member).  We look forward to seeing you at this fantastic event.

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2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEW FRONTIER: A DISCUSSION WITH THE ARTISTS OF QUESTION BRIDGE: BLACK MALES

SAT, JAN 21, 2012, 8:00 PM 

 

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Join us as we welcome Chris Johnson, Kamal Sinclair and Bayet� Ross Smith, collaborators on Question Bridge: Black Males, to discuss their project at UMOCA.    

 

Dissolving the distinction between subject, audience and author, this visionary transmedia project uses new media technology to create a uniquely vulnerable and intimate dialogue among black men nationwide, initiating a new kind of social network. In Question Bridge: Black Males, black men ask questions that are answered by other men who may live thousands of miles away. The footage of these questions and answers are evocatively presented in various ways, ranging from beautiful sculptural huddles that audiences can enter, to Web forums and geolocative hotspots across the country.

 

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2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
NEW FRONTIER: GINGGER SHANKAR PERFORMS
HIMALAYA SONG

WED, JAN 25, 2012, 10:00 PM 

 

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Part of New Frontier, Himalaya Song is a musically infused cinematic performance that explores the majestic mountain range and its interconnecting cultures as the region undergoes major environmental and ecological change. Featuring musical performances by musicians Gingger Shankar (vocals/double violin) and Dave Liang (piano/electronics) and live narration by filmmaker Mridu Chandra, this live multimedia presentation combines modern sounds and ancient instruments with a cinematic journey through the Himalayan past and present, exploring folktales, mythological narratives, contemporary ways of survival and tomorrow's inevitable changes in the great melting glaciers.

 

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THE COLOR OF YOUR SOCKS: A YEAR WITH PIPILOTTI RIST  

FRI, JAN 13, 2012, 7:00 PM 

 

white-bar-spacerFollow the Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist as she prepares for a major show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since winning the Duemila Prize at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Rist has established herself as a major presence in video art. For the first time, she lets a documentary filmmaker into her world, providing insight into her creative process, the development of projects and the collaboration with her team.  Directed by Michael Hegglin.

Presented in collaboration with Utah Film Center. 

 

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2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEW FRONTIER   

JAN 20 - MAY 19, 2012

 

white spaceHighlighting work that pushes the boundaries and the moving image, New Frontier at UMOCA celebrates the convergence of film, art, and new media technologies as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. As part of Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier at UMOCA presents ongoing media installations as well as multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, artist lectures, and more. 

 

Featured artists include: Paul Abacus/Early Morning Opera/Lars Jan; Jeremy Mendes & Leanne Allison; Marco Brambilla; Nonny de la Pe�a; Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org; Hank Willis Thomas & Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayet� Ross Smith & Kamal Sinclair; Molleindustria; and Gingger Shankar, Mridu Chandra & The Shanghai Restoration Project.

 

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JOSHUA LUTHER: MEANING

JAN 6 - APR 21, 2012

 

JOHN LUTHER BIG BANG GENESIS white spaceJoshua Luther's multi-media exhibition is an exciting invitation for visitors to take a step back from the language that we all too often take for granted, and instead contemplate why it is that we are prepared to argue, fight, and sometimes die over various combinations of letter and syllables.  Luther received his BFA at Utah State University and his MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Luther's work is deeply influenced by his studies of epistemology and linguistics.

 
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Joshua Luther, Big Bang Genesis, Courtesy of the artist.

KARL HAENDEL: QUESTIONS FOR MY FATHER 

JAN 31 - MAY 19, 2012 

 

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Made in collaboration with New York-based filmmaker Petter Ringbom, Questions for My Father is a document of the inquiries, doubts and reservations of a generation of men who came of age in the late 20th century.

Arranged like a series of portraits on a black, studio backdrop, the subjects of the film face the camera and, with a direct, even delivery that belies the emotional topics, ask things they always wanted to know about their fathers but never voiced. Some of the men have already lost their fathers; others rarely, if ever, knew them; and for many, their questions were just too hard to ask. 

 

Writing in The New York Times, Roberta Smith called this important video "one of the genuine sleepers" of the Chelsea fall season.  Don't miss it.

  

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Karl Haendel, Questions for My Father, 2011, 11:17 minutes, Still from video.  Courtesy Harris Lieberman Gallery 

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

NOV 4, 2011- FEB 18, 2012  

 

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The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art 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.

 


Kim Schoenstadt, Lake Powell Series:Site plan 5 (Yellow,Green, Orange), 2011 Acrylic paint, ink and pen on wall, Courtesy of the artist.

MIRKO MARTIN: NOIR

LAST CHANCE: CLOSING JAN 21, 2012, AT 6:00 PM

 

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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."

 

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DOUBLESPEAK  

LAST CHANCE: CLOSING JAN 7, 2012, AT 6:00 PM 

 

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Inspired by the 19th century Vietnamese  poetess H� Xu�n 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.
    

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

NEHA CHOKSI: LEAF FALL 

LAST CHANCE: CLOSING JAN 6, 2012, AT 10 PM 

 

Leaf Fall white spacePart of the UMOCA'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 Choksi, Leaf Fall, 2008, Still from digital HD video.

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ART FITNESS TRAINING: 

JAN 28, FEB 4, &

FEB 11, 2012  

 

Do you feel like your contemporary art muscles are flabby and out of shape?  Do you want to be the envy of all your friends at the museum?  Then join us for our new contemporary art education program, Art Fitness Training, presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver! With an emphasis on close observation and easy to grasp principles, this three-part, participatory workshop is designed to give all audiences the ability to appreciate even the most difficult contemporary art! Learn the basics of Art Fitness Training, then flex your contemporary art muscles at museums and private collections throughout the city. Register here.

ARTISTS: FIND OUT HOW TO RECEIVE $87,000 IN SUPPORT FROM CREATIVE CAPITAL

JAN 25, 5 PM 

 

Ruby Lerner, President of Creative Capital, one of the nation's leading artist support organizations, will speak at UMOCA on Jan. 25 at 5 PM about how Utah artists can apply for cash and support services valued at $87,000. As Ms. Lerner notes, "Creative Capital has never had a Utah grantee before," and she would like that circumstance to change.  Creative Capital supports artists who create artistically omnivorous work that carries the potential to reshape the cultural landscape. In 2012, Creative Capital will be considering proposals in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts.

 

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FAMILY ART SATURDAY: LIVING OUT LOUD! 

CORRECTED DATE: JAN 14, 2 - 4 PM 

 

Make a collage pin-back badges with artful messages and affirmations for the New Year.

 

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ART CENTER SCHOOL: REGISTRATION  

OPEN NOW 

 

Registration for Spring Photography and Ceramics classes is open until January 21st.

  

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THE ART SHOP ARTIST OF THE MONTH

 

This month's feature, Marvin the Malcontent Monster is a new book by local Utah author Karen Timothy, illustrated by Nick and Erin Potter from Potter Press. This fun and colorful tale about a monster who wishes to be a tooth fairy instead of a monster makes a great present for any child trying to figure out what he or she wants to be. This marvelous book is one of the many great gift-ideas from local artists in our Art Shop.  

 

Also, don't miss our Winter Book Sale with selected items from $1-$5!

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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