Nestled in a corner of the Main Gallery is UMOCA’s A-I-R Space, an area specially devoted to showcasing UMOCA’s artists-in-residence. Entering the gallery almost feels like entering a secret world, partitioned off and hidden behind encompassing walls. Yet while physically contained in a small space, the A-I-R Space’s current exhibition, Scott Horsley’s I Learned It […]
Justin Chouinard’s These Ribbons Are Substratum is a nostalgic installation created with hand-manipulated 35mm film slides and 16mm film loops. Chouinard has stripped the emulsion, leaving the skin of the image folded, layered, torn, and peeled away to reveal the bones of cinema. The installation invites you to examine wrinkled sheets of memory from analogue […]
F E A T U R E D A R T W O R K DONNA CONLON AND JONATHAN HARKER Under the Rug STREET GALLERY: JAN 27 – MAY 13 Under the Rug addresses how important issues are swept under the rug, allowing nations to rise and build upon the blanket of silence and obscurity that society […]
Mike Lee, UMOCA’s most recent A-I-R Space artist, spent his childhood in both rural Japan and Utah, splitting his national identity into a cultural and spiritual dichotomy. This split led Lee to attempt to reconcile this dichotomy, drawing inspiration from amassing information, both visual and non-visual, through obsessive internet searches. In 2015, he graduated with […]
Sehnsuct: “the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what”; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one’s home. Cara Krebs is our current A-I-R Space Artist from our Artist in Residence Program. Sehnsuct is an exhibit of installations, sculptures, and materials that toy with displacement, perception, […]
Andrew Rice has evoked emotions of protection and isolation through paintings that remind one of shell-like environments. Rice conveys a feeling of protection—while also asking that we recognize how easily protection can be a barrier from accessing new experiences in our surrounding world. Mixing his talents of printmaking, drawing and painting, Rice invites his […]
Sketches are often mindless beginnings of a thought or idea. It is the first step in creation. Shawn Porter’s Into the Ether, currently on display in UMOCA’s A-I-R Space, is a three-dimensional sketch using a variety of organic materials to create an effortless, playful piece that is open to interpretation. This openness leaves the materials, textures, […]
On Aug. 26, 2015, we were thrilled and honored to host artist Mel Ziegler for an exclusive preview and walkthrough of our Main Gallery exhibition, Grandma’s Cupboard, which presents Ziegler’s work created during his partnership with Kate Ericson, as well as a survey of works from his solo career. Here, Ziegler discuss his and Ericson’s large […]
A-I-R Space: MAR 13 – APR 4 UMOCA’s latest artist-in-residence featured in the A-I-R Space is Tatiana Svrckova Larsen and her art4ONE4all project. For Larsen, this series meant a step away from personal art toward works that would make a change—not for a general audience, but for one specific individual at a time. The inspiration […]
UMOCA and Artist-In-Residence Tatiana Svrckova Larsen Presents Art Installations and Performances on the Night of Gallery Stroll SEP 19 | 6-9 PM In conjunction with UMOCA and under the guidance of UMOCA’s artist-in-residence Tatiana Svrckova Larsen, six local artists will create site specific performance and installation pieces throughout the downtown area of Salt Lake City […]