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Jim Starrett: Drawings, Brian Mains, Patrick E. White
Jim Starrett: Drawings, Brian Mains, Patrick E. White
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This exhibition and catalog have had the close cooperation of the artist, Jim Starrett, to whom must go the first thanks. His professional experience and dedication as an artist and teacher has helped shape this exhibition. Brian Mains' design of the catalog and his essay contribute valuable perspectives for our audience. Starting with "Impersonations: Scott Greiger" in 2007, then "Bobby Ross: Drawings" in 2010, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art began a tradition of presenting ideas and objects that stimulate discussion, challenge the audience, encourage open-mindedness and expand perspectives.
John Sonsini: Portraits From Los Angeles, Michael Duncan
John Sonsini: Portraits From Los Angeles, Michael Duncan
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Los Angeles portrait painter John Sonsini's gorgeous bakgrounds are lyrical, atmospheric abstrations that add a surprising tenderness to the portraits of Hispanic men whose half-formed shadows correspond to their near invisibility to most LA passersby.
Impersonations: Works By Scott Grieger, Dave Hickey, Scott Grieger
Impersonations: Works By Scott Grieger, Dave Hickey, Scott Grieger
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With the publication of this book and the exhibition, "Impersonations: Work by Scott Grieger," the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art begins a series of scholarly examinations of a select group of artists whose work is represented in the Museum's important collection of innovative art produced in the western United States, from 1930 to the present. The work of these artists reflects unique contributions to the rich and complex history of American 20th century art. With this exhibition--a follow-up to the "Alternative Realities" of 1999 and the recent "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle" of 2006, curated by Michael …
Post Surrealism, Michael Duncan
Beauty, Truth, And Fact : Photography In 1930s America, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Beauty, Truth, And Fact : Photography In 1930s America, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Contemporary theory and criticism of photography has generally taken the form of a face-off between formalism and contextualism. The first postion contends that what is required to understand a photograph is prmarily a close examination of its formal structure, the ability to connect it to other art forms, and perhpas some knowledge of the artist's biography and intentions. The second position holds that photographs have no meaning outside of the scoial and political context of their making. For the most part, these positions have been hardened and adversarial.
Utah State University Department Of Art: Faculty Exhibition 2001, Department Art Faculty
Utah State University Department Of Art: Faculty Exhibition 2001, Department Art Faculty
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This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the Utah State University Faculty Exhibition 2001, which was organized by the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and the USU Faculty.
New Acquisitions, Jim Edwards
New Acquisitions, Jim Edwards
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The Exhibition New Acquisitions features works acquired for the permanent collection of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in the years 2000-2001. It also stretches the definition of 'new" by including earlier accessioned works that have previously remained out of public view. All 35 of these works are being exhibited here for the first time.
Ray Jonas: Sam Erenberg, Ray Jonas, Sam Erenberg, Frank Mcentire
Ray Jonas: Sam Erenberg, Ray Jonas, Sam Erenberg, Frank Mcentire
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Catalog of works by Ray Jonas and Sam Erenberg from the exhibition shown at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Essay by curator of exhibition, Frank McEntire.
Ray Jonas And Sam Erenberg, Frank Mcentire
Ray Jonas And Sam Erenberg, Frank Mcentire
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Brief biographies of scupltor Ray Jones and painter Sam Erenberg written by curator Frank McEntire.
Frontage Road, Ric Collier
Frontage Road, Ric Collier
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Frontage Road is a profound collaborative exhibition initiated by a simple conversation with Anne Ewers, General Director of the Utah Opera.
Behind The Lines: Drawings And Objects, Michael David Hall
Behind The Lines: Drawings And Objects, Michael David Hall
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Behind the Lines is an apt description for the Salt Lake Art Center's exhibition of Hall's drawings and sculptures.
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen A. Mehring, Greater Lafayette Museum Of Art
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen A. Mehring, Greater Lafayette Museum Of Art
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These tea bowls, with their intimate scale and individual personalities, simultaneeously offer an apprectiation of the past and the contemporary. The subtle beauty of traditional-style bowls contrasts with the more exuberant contemporary idiom, raising an awareness of the role that art has, and can play, in everyday life.
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Steve Rosen
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Steve Rosen
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A look at the works of sculptor Von Allen-McGowan and an interview with the artist conducted by Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Steve Rosen.
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Mr. Fairbanks was a man of his time. His scrupulous attention to anatomical detail made him a super realist as he worked from the interior structure of the human figrue outward to an accurate presentaion of each turning of a mouth, drooping of an eyelid or flexing of a muscle. He saw the human figure, male or female, as an object to be venerated, a mirror of elevated spiritual and aesthetic vaules more than just simplistic replication. His works, whether religious, mythological, industrial or as versitic portraiture, carried the Fairbanks ideal that "The arts are created for contemplation and edification, …
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Interview taken place on January 28, 1997 between Von Allen-McGowan, a sculptor at Brigham young university and Steven Rosen, director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State Univerisity.
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen Mehring
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen Mehring
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Exhibition catalog for Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, a traveling exhibition. "These tea bowls, with their intimate scale and individual personalities, simultaneously offer an appreciation of the past and the contemporary. The subtle beauty of traditional-style bowls contrasts with the more exuberant contemporary idiom, raising an awareness of the role that art has, and can play, in everyday life. As we approach the millennium in an age of mass production, consumption, and get-it-to-go attitudes, the words of Kakuzo Okakura are still relevant, "Do we not need the tea room more than ever?"
Three-Dimensional Utah: 100 Years Of Sculpture, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Three-Dimensional Utah: 100 Years Of Sculpture, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Three-Dimensional Utah: 100 Years of Sculpture began as a series of conversations about sculptors and sculpture nearly six years ago. Specific development of the exhibition began three years ago during the process of creating a national inventory of outdoor sculpture for a program called Save Outdoor Sculpture (SOS)! Utah is home to more than 200 pieces of outdoor sculpture.
The Reality Of Abstraction: Painting In Utah 1946-1996, Steven W. Rosen, Ann Poore
The Reality Of Abstraction: Painting In Utah 1946-1996, Steven W. Rosen, Ann Poore
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The exhibition, The Reality of Abstraction: Painting in Utah, 1946-1996, has been carefully organized to show how Utah's painters responded to the clarion call and challenges of the exciting post World War II creativity.
The Reality Of Abstraction: Painting In Utah 1946-1996, Ann Poore
The Reality Of Abstraction: Painting In Utah 1946-1996, Ann Poore
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Exhibition catalog for The Reality of Abstraction: Painting in Utah 1946-1996, a traveling exhibition that focuses on Utah artists that work in the style of abstraction.
Peter Krasnow: Sculptor/ Draftsman, Tobey C. Moss, Steven W. Rosen
Peter Krasnow: Sculptor/ Draftsman, Tobey C. Moss, Steven W. Rosen
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Exhibition catalog from Peter Krasnow: Sculptur/Draftsman shown in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Essay by Tobey C. Moss.
The Allure Of Illusionism: Trompe L'Oeil In Contemporary American Painting, Steven W. Rosen, Rose M. Milovich
The Allure Of Illusionism: Trompe L'Oeil In Contemporary American Painting, Steven W. Rosen, Rose M. Milovich
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The creators of trompe l'oeil works, whether drawings, paintings, or three-dimensional objects are less concerned with replicating reality using pictorial devices such as perspective, and instead concentrate their efforts on precisely rendering the richness of the material world. The object then goes beyond a work of art and becomes a carefully defined artifact which frces the eyse to contront its absolute reality.
Recent Fires: Contemporary Amercian Ceramics, Philip Rawson
Recent Fires: Contemporary Amercian Ceramics, Philip Rawson
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This show illustrates something of the depth and range of American ceramics since World War II. It includes both very well-known and less well-known names. As most of the pieces are vessels of one kind or another (with a few oustanding exceptions) it expressly refers us to the roots of the ceramic art in handling clay by throw-potting. Many pieces in fact embody in their imagery the axially centered container. There are also some of those charmingly ironic and brightly glazed confections which have become very popular in recent years, partly for their hi-tech look. But this show is not …
4 X 4: Sixteen Printmakers From The Four Corner States, Norra Eccles Harrison
4 X 4: Sixteen Printmakers From The Four Corner States, Norra Eccles Harrison
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This exhibition encompasses artists from four states which area in the heart of the wester United States. Except for the subject matter of some of the prints, one would find it difficult to define this group of works as having some shared regional aesthetic. Indeed, quite the opposite is the case. The works demonstrate that the artists are part of a national, if not international, printmaking world which is characterized by individuality in the choices of style, media, and subject matter. Visual heterogeneity dominates the works. Their westernness is, simply, a factor of a geopolitical reality, not artistic criteria.
Ten Utah Painters, Andrew Whitlock
Ten Utah Painters, Andrew Whitlock
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Today the art world is rich and diverse with regional as well as national art centers. As in the past, art is alive and well in Utah. The show Ten Utah Painters invites us to see and experiece what some of Utah's best contemporary artists are doing. Their paintings invite us to look and to enjoy but also to learn and open up our visual senses to a broader vista.