Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Newsletter
March 2013
   
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O P E N I N G E X H I B I T S
 
IGNACIO URIARTE: BINARIES  

MAR 1 - JUN 15

 

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Opening Reception
MAR 1, 8-10 PM
 

 

Q&A with the artist at 7 p.m.


Spanish-born, Berlin-based artist Ignacio Uriarte obtained a degree in business administration and, naturally, pursued a career in an office environment. Throughout the day, Uriarte found himself intersecting the behaviors, textures, and languages of organizational culture with the strategies and tactics of Minimalism and Conceptual art. This unconventional path led him to a bilingual artistic practice that can be understood by anyone who has either stood in an art museum or occupied a cubicle.

 

UMOCA's presentation of Binaries is an immersive survey into Ignacio Uriarte's research on the formal subjects of black and white, convex and concave, handmade and mass-produced as well as the fundamental issues found in routine office environments. The works and the title are a reflection on the artist's intersection of these two practices.

 

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ANA PRVACKI: NEUTRALIZE NEGATIVE FEELINGS 

MAR 1 - APR 27 

 

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Opening Reception
MAR 1, 8-10 PM


Using social codes and cultural structures as a raw material, Serbian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Ana Prvacki (pronounced Pri-vatch-key) turns the rituals of hospitality into a theater of performance. Until 2010 the artist was CEO of the brand Ananatural Productions, a conceptual factory of ideas ranging from the practical to the absurd, creating products which offered shortcuts to better living and designs for needs we never knew we had. Merging Martha Stewart with Marina Abramovic, the language of Prvacki's work seems as familiar as IKEA or Emily Post but awkwardly turned on its head.

 

In her exhibition Neutralize Negative Feelings, Prvacki morphs her PSA work into a new artistic direction, historicizing the codes of imposed etiquette with the motivational sloganeering of past generations. Embroidered adages like "Happy Wife, Happy Life" are given new and more relevant meaning by updating it with current, universal situations of human folly and faux pas.
 
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FILM SCREENING: MAKERS 
MAR 13 AT 7 PM

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MAKERS: Women Who Make America is a multi-platform PBS project that tells the story of women's advancement in America over the past 50 years. This is the first major media project to reveal the dramatic story of how women transformed America; it is told from the perspectives of courageous ground breakers who continue to shape the world today.  

 

Q&A and reception to follow | FREE

CURATORIAL WALKTHROUGH

MAR 8 AND MAR 22 AT 6 PM   

 

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Our curator tour series provides a behind-the-scenes opportunity to experience UMOCA and our presentations of groundbreaking artwork by local, national, and international artists. At the conclusion of the gallery walk, enjoy the opportunity to informally engage the curator with your questions and personal responses.

 

M AR 8, 6 PM and MAR 22, 6 PM | FREE   

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C U R R E N T  E X H I B I T I O N S   
ANALOGITAL

JAN 18 - APR 20

 

white spaceAnalogital is an exhibition of international artists who engage with concepts generated from the transitional space between analogue and digital forms that emerge from our culture's conversion from film grain to computer pixel. Taken more broadly, Analogital identifies a perceptual evolution in the human experience and its mediation.

 

In the mid-seventies at the University of Utah, innovators made breakthrough developments in early computer graphics and virtual designs like the "Utah Teapot", experiments that would lead to the founding of Pixar and early pursuits of digital reality. Eventual media such as ASCII, ProTools, Nintendo Entertainment System, jpegs and, most importantly, the Internet opened a multiverse of possible ways to render, perceive and copy the world around us.  

 

Analogital is about artists analyzing this science-fictional relationship existing between technology and the human condition.  

 

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VENESSA GROMEK: THE SUBLIME
IS LIGHT AND EASY-TO-ASSEMBLE

JAN 4 - APR 20  

 

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Stemming from her passion for the outdoor industry and her interest in how that industry intersects with notions of the sublime, artist Venessa Gromek creates tent-like sculptures that engage with concepts of abstract artwork, euphoric experience, and impossible functionality.

 

More than ever, outdoor recreation is about the experience of escaping into the wilderness in as easy and accessible ways as possible. Gromek complicates this process by creating structures that are not useful outdoor shelters, but rather function as contemplative forms related to the tradition of modernism. By using colorful lace, metal poles, and simple hardware, she recontextualizes how design for the outdoors can be reassembled to reflect on the malleability of contemporary sculpture.

 

Working between the constraints of functional outdoor equipment and attractive modernist aesthetics, Gromek's "Tents" series provides an innovative approach to understanding how inspiration can be captured not only in the awe and beauty of nature, but also in the ease and simplicity of outdoor recreational design.

 

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W E  N E E D  Y O U R  S U P P O R T    

Over the last several years, UMOCA has pursued the twin goals that are implicit in our new name: (1) to achieve national recognition as an important regional voice in the world of contemporary art; and (2) to build stronger and deeper ties to this place - Utah - that is our home. We are proud that these efforts are starting to bear fruit, and we hope you are too. 

 

Please help us to continue building a home for contemporary art here in Utah that is recognized nationally for the quality of its exhibitions and locally for its profound contributions to our citizens, our artists, and our sense of place.  

 

Whether you choose to give $50 for a new membership or $1,000 to make it possible for over 1,000 children to experience contemporary art through our Art Truck, please join us in making UMOCA the kind of civic and cultural institution that you will be excited and proud to share with your family and friends.

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LOVE GIVE UTAH 

 

March 22nd

 

Please show UMOCA your support!     


You can schedule your donation for March 22 or give on that Friday.

 

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UMOCA will also be hosting a reception, come by for refreshments.

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FAMILY ART SATURDAY

MAR 9, 2-4 PM   

 

Art From Your Teacher's Desk   

 

Ignacio Uriarte uses materials from the office to address the structure and constraint of working in the corporate world. What would you do if your teacher left the classroom and you could make art out of any school supply you saw? Create artwork using pencils, paper, paper clips, rubber bands, glue and other classroom supplies.


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POP! UMOCA 2013 GALA 

June 1, 2013  

 

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ART SHOP ARTIST OF THE MONTH

 
Patric Bates  

 

UMOCA's Art Shop features Patric Bates as Artist of the Month for March.Patric Bates prints tell stories that at a glance breath light-hearted adventure.Flowing drafted lines and soft hues create flat illustrations that overlap as the narrative unfolds.As the viewer reads into the picture the layering of morose characters brings the adventure into sorrowful depths of hardship and struggle.

 

Visit the Art Shop to find a Bates print that speaks to you!

 

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ART FITNESS TRAINING   

Stay tuned for our contemporary art education program, Art Fitness Training. With an emphasis on close observation and easy to grasp principles, this three-part, workshop is designed to give all audiences the ability to appreciate even the most difficult contemporary art.

 

Art Fitness Training will be offered again in the spring, check our website soon for updates and more info. 

 

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