F E A T U R E D C O V E R A R T
Dark on That Whiteness (1988)
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, from the exhibition Grandma's Cupboard Main Gallery: AUG 28 - DEC 19
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler were influential collaborators in social interventionist art. Here, the artists filled 173 jars with paint, each color matching the exterior walls of a federal building or monument surrounding the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The jars are then installed on the wall such that each aligns with the corresponding building's actual location. The work fosters dual ways of observing and perceiving our nation's capital: the first presents a small part of each building (the paint) to signify the whole; the second presents each of the buildings together in order to create a map of the city.
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N O T E F R O M T H E E D I T O R
August is an exciting month for UMOCA. We've just bid adieu to Panopticon and Adjunct, and it's time to bring brand new exhibitions throughout the entire museum and think about how each work of art embodies a space. This round, we've put together exhibitions (or rather, experience-based spaces) that appeal to more senses than one, and that confront and re-imagine our perceptions of the world around us.
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INTERVENING IN THE PUBLIC REALM
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MAIN GALLERY: AUG 28 - DEC 19
Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler: Grandma's Cupboard
Ericson and Ziegler's prolific collaboration devised interventions that subtly altered sites to illuminate American contexts and individual community issues. Grandma's Cupboard traces the social, political, and aesthetic threads of Ericson and Ziegler's commitment to the public realm as their work continually provides a platform for conceptual art and social practice outside of the mainstream art world.
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Opening Reception: AUG 28 | 7-9 PM, Artist Walk-Through: 7:30 PM
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TIME TO TAKE A SHOPPING TRIP
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STREET GALLERY: AUG 14 - SEP 12
Mall no. 2
If the two-dimensional space of the Internet has become the center of design and consumer culture, has the sensory experience of interacting with a tangible product been lost? How can designers and their audience connect in tangible ways?
Mall no. 2 suggests that as the Internet replaces the physical, both patrons and designers need a gathering place where the material and digital converge: a place to simultaneously consume and learn, where brilliant design can be nurtured, explored, tested, questioned, and enjoyed.
Opening Reception: AUG 28 | 7-9 PM Art Talk: AUG 15 | 1-4 PM |
WHIFFS OF CINNAMON AND SUGAR
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CODEC GALLERY | AUG 14 - OCT 31
Amalia Ulman: Stock Images of War
Exploring themes of confinement, fragility, and pain, Ulman complicates divergent senses of pleasure and discomfort to cleverly deconstruct connotations of war in western pop culture.
Delicate wire sculptures augmented into familiar shapes--such as bicycles, wheelchairs, and tanks--eerily rest against a sensory backdrop of rock music (think Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine) and the overwhelming scent of baked apple pie.
Opening Reception: AUG 28 | 7-9 PM |
MATERIAL AND MEMORY,
TANGIBLE AND TOGETHER
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PROJECTS GALLERY | AUG 28 - NOV 7
Lizze M��tt�l�: Uphill/Both Ways
M��tt�l�'s Uphill/Both Ways is about fragments that have been left behind; memories that once sat heavily on her shoulders and were shaken off somewhere between here and the Mojave Desert. It is about rejection; the affinity she feels towards a broken piece of marble, scratched and thrown to the side. The attachment she feels towards the gravity of materials, left to rest or waver.
Opening Reception: AUG 28 | 7-9 PM |
A-I-R SPACE | AUG 28 - OCT 3
Aundrea Frahm: We Revolve Ceaseless
We Revolve Ceaseless is a multimedia work that recreates, on a larger and more immersive scale, the transcendent, multisensory experience of entering a kaleidoscope. Frahm will transform the A-I-R Space into a place of continual cycle, morphing imagery and kinetic movement. Like a kaleidoscope, this exhibition will obscure and manipulate a viewed object to transform it into something new.
Opening Reception: AUG 28 | 7-9 PM |
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Plant, Grow, and
Eat Art Together
UMOCA's lush garden installation is bringing new life to the museum and generating an environment of communal exchange and collaboration. As part of this effort, UMOCA is thrilled to announce this E.A.T. season's free programming!
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National Arts Marketing Project Conference 2015
For 15+ years, the NAMP has assembled arts marketers and experts to challenge and learn from one another. On Nov. 6-9, the #NAMPC is heading to SLC. Register for this engaging and dynamic conference today to boost your organization (and your career).
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Church & State is a self-sustaining, community-managed nonprofit that offers resources for co-working, startups, entrepreneurs, and more, without asking for anything back. Take a look at what these economic evangelists have to offer SLC.
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DONOR SPOTLIGHT
National Endowment for the Arts
Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler's
Grandma's Cupboard is made possible through a generous Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The independent federal agency funds and supports opportunities for Americans to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. The NEA also supports multiple local organizations, including Ballet West, Sundance Institute, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and Utah Arts Festival.
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ART SHOP
Curated Collections
These works embody spaces, and allow us to embody spaces, in new and elegant ways that appeal to us visually, tangibly, and kinetically:
- Matthew Linwood Hill, Untitled, $125
- Eleanor Sholz, Mounted Wood Print, $50
- Annika Quinn, Title IX Cuff, $120
- Ernest Gentry, Small Bowl, $25
- Danielle Leatham, Couch Print, $15
> Browse UMOCA's Art Shop
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AUG 1 | 10 AM
UMOCA E.A.T. Garden Tour > View the Event
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AUG 3-13 | All Day
Museum Closed for Install
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AUG 15 | 10 AM
UMOCA E.A.T. Garden Tour
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AUG 15 | 1-4 PM
Art Talk: Mall no. 2
More information TBA.
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AUG 28 | 7-9 PM
Opening Reception
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SEP 12 | 9 AM
E.A.T. Bike Tour
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OCT 23 | 6-10 PM Fluid Art
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NOV 6 | All Day
National Arts Marketing Project
Conference
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The Community
Foundation of Utah
Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee
Charitable Foundation
Neils & Char Valentiner
Salt Lake City Arts Council
Val Antczak & Barbara Polich
XMission | Deluxe Corporation Foundation
Margaret Willis
Nordstrom, Inc.
Sam & Diane Stewart Foundation
Wells Fargo
Zeke Dumke, IV & Analecia Dumke
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Marriner S. Eccles Foundation
Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation
The Tucker Family
Willard L. Eccles Charitable Foundation |
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Mon-Thurs + Sat 11 AM - 6 PM, Fri 11 AM - 9 PM | Admission is a suggested $5 donation.
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