 MAIN GALLERY
June 18 - September 16, 2010
Contemporary Masters: Artist-Designed Miniature Golf
Contemporary Masters Blog
As part of its summer programming, the Salt Lake Art Center is exhibiting Contemporary Masters: Artist-Designed Miniature Golf, 18 fully-playable works of contemporary art like you’ve never seen before. Contemporary Masters features original creations by top artists from Utah and around the nation that explore diverse ideas (the current immigration debate, the fragility of personal identity, and the meditative value of Donkey Kong) in equally diverse media, including woven fabrics, video installations, and shredded paper. Deftly exploring the intersection between art and play, Contemporary Masters reminds us that art can and should be a part of our everyday lives.
Participating artists include: John Bell; Brian Butler & Christopher Wawrinofsky; Trent Call, Tessa Lindsey & Clint Call; Andrew Callis; Kisslan Chan; Craig Cleveland; Madelin Coit; Spencer Douglass; Peter Everett; Nathan Florence; Jennifer Joseph; Stephanie Leitch; Ryan Lewis; Jimmy Lucero; Material Exchange; Loggins Merrill; Davina Pallone; and Erin & Nick Potter.
STREET LEVEL GALLERY
 Street Level Gallery
Aug 6 - Oct 30, 2010
Girl Ascending: Photograping the Dreams and Expectations of Girlhood
by Melissa Ann Pinney
Grounded in attentive observation of the world, Chicago-based photographer, Melissa Ann Pinney reveals how dreams and expectations of girlhood are constructed and communicated between mothers and daughters, society and friends. She intimately portrays her daughter, Emma, growing up and becoming an adolescent, providing fresh insights into her day to day life with family, friends and neighbors. One of eight children from a large, Catholic family, the artist has always been drawn to scenes of family that also express her interest in ritual, mystery and memory. While her photographs capture seemingly insignificant moments from a girl's daily world, they signify mythic and heroic themes of the vital transformation that takes place when a girl enters into womanhood.
Working Artist Lecture Series:
Melissa Ann Pinney
Friday, September 24
7pm
Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium
FREE
Melissa Ann Pinney will be giving a lecture and showing a slideshow of selections from her first book Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls (2003) and her newly published book Girl Ascending. Together these two books represent over 20 years of Pinney's closely-observed study of the social lives and emerging identities of American women and girls. Please join us for Pinney's remarkable artist lecture on Sept. 24th. |
