2002 Exhibit Archive

Woodbury Art Museum

School of the Arts

UVU >> Woodbury Art Museum >> Collections

Printer Friendly

2002 EXHIBITS ARCHIVE

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

Reunion 2002: 29 Artists 24 Years Later
November 22, 2002 - January 11, 2003

The UVU Woodbury Gallery announces “Reunion 2002: 29 Artists 24 Years Later”. An exhibition of work by 29 artists/friends who emerged from studies in Utah Valley during the mid seventies.

This exhibition reunites artists who began their careers as friends in Utah Valley over two decades ago. In the years since the original “Reunion Exhibit” in 1978 at the Springville Museum of Art, they have followed a myriad of paths.

For example, they now live throughout the United States–Utah, California, Texas, Connecticut, Some have become teachers, such as Andrew S. Watson who teaches art at Timpview High School in Orem. Others, like Raymond Morales in Slat Lake City and Tracy Sabin in California, have directed their talents toward commercial design. Some, such as Jenni Christensen of Pleasant Grove incises and paints tropical flowers on gourds, or Dianne Stevenett of Santa Barbara, Ca who paints on silk, have been innovators in their field.

This new exhibition is more inclusive than the original “Reunion” show and reflects the friendships and mutual respect of all the artists. The purpose of this exhibition is not to compare the artists’ former work to the new, but to state where they are now and the visual ideas and ideals they now embrace in creating their artwork.

The creative endeavors of this unique and diverse group cut a broad swath through today’s spectrum of contemporary art, from realism to conceptual. Over the years, some have explored different media and concepts. Others have pursued a steadier path, exploring nuances and ideas within a chosen medium or creative philosophy. The exhibition will include stained glass, fiber arts, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and installations by these 29 artists who have spent decades mastering their crafts.

Artist Linda Anderson, MFA, states, “One thing about life seems to be that it changes all the time. My art reflects the changes my life has gone through.” Reunion 2002 explores the lives and work of these 29 Utah artists, together again after 24 years.

Hyunmee Lee
Mountain Armatures
Acrylic on Canvas

Hyunmee Lee "Mountain Armatures: New Paintings 2001-2002"
September 21 - November 15, 2002

The UVU Woodbury Gallery announces “Mountain Armatures: New Paintings 2001-2002”, an exhibition of works by Korean-born artist Hyunmee Lee.

Mountain Armatures, an exhibition of new abstract paintings, is distinct from other shows the Gallery has offered to the public in the six months since it opened. “This is the show with a strong emphasis on abstraction,” said Gallery director Barbra L. Wardle. “Furthermore, it is the first show that will fill the Gallery space by itself.”

Taking her inspiration from the mountainous landscape of Utah, Lee has produced a series of large-scale compositions that combine her understanding of Eastern calligraphic traditions with a gesturalism influenced by Western modernist painting. In essence, Lee’s response to living among the mountains of Utah became the driving force behind her art in 2001 and 2002. These paintings express the meeting point of her Korean past and American present.

Lee trained in art at both Hong-Ik University in Seoul and the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney, Australia. She participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Japan, and Australia before settling in the United States in 1997. She currently teaches in the Department of Art and Visual Communications at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Mikhail Pereyaslavets
Marathon
Bronze

"Mikhail Pereyaslavets: National Artist of the Russian Federation"
September 13 - September 18, 2002

The Consul General of the Russian Federation and Utah Valley University present the works of Russian sculptor Mikhail Pereyaslavets.

Troy Nuttall
Watercolor

"Watercolor Portraits" by Troy Nuttall
August 1 - September 6, 2002

The exploration of watercolor became a significant pursuit for Utah artist Toy Nuttall when he was introduced to the medium in college. Working from his own photographic images, Nuttall focuses on the relationship between form, color, light, and shadow to create powerful figural depictions.

For Nuttall, the human face is unquestionably the most compelling artistic subject. The face affords a distinctive intricacy that allows the artist to explore subtle levels of expression through the interplay of shadow and contour.

Indeed, the portrait image may be deemed one of the oldest and most favored forms of artistic expression. It is seen in everything from stone statues of Egyptian pharaohs to Roman ancestral busts to modern family photographs. Yet, Nuttall’s images seek to do more than merely capture the subject’s physical likeness–they endeavor to capture the subject’s spirit.

By employing rich color washes and complex gradations of transparent paint, it may be that the interplay of light and shadow, rather than the face, is actually Nuttall’s primary subject matter. Nuttall’s large-format works make reference to the work of the famed Chuck Close, an artists who developed Superealism in the 1970s to bridge the gap between photography and painting.

Yet, rather than creating detached photorealistic images as Close did, Nuttall incorporates a high level of emotion into his works, particularly through subtle nuances of color and modeling. By infusing shadow with color and by creating monumental images, Troy Nuttall boldly expands the boundaries of watercolor.

Douglas Lee
In a Quiet Place
Acrylic

"The Art of Douglas Lee"
June 29 - September 6, 2002

The UVSC Woodbury Gallery announces a new exhibition of the works of Utah artist Douglas Lee.

The exhibition focuses on Lee’s landscapes and figural works. Though Lee painted landscapes and figures throughout his life, he developed each of these in remarkably different ways. His landscapes emphasize traditional natural scene from Utah and the West while his figures appear in more abstract settings focusing on color and shape, evoking an emotional response. Over forty works on exhibit enable the viewer to compare the various results of these two approaches.

Lee was born in Vernal in 1942. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Utah and taught art in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho before settling in Heber in 1972. He operated an art gallery, The House of Fine Art, in Heber for 27 years until his death in 2000 from cancer. Lee’s works are also on exhibit at Lee Music in Heber (55 West 100 South).

Beverly Mayeri
Baby Blues
Clay and Acrylic

17th Annual Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition
June 29 - September 6, 2002

The oldest surviving form of art, ceramic sculpture bridges the gap between the ancient and the modern. The clay sculptor draws from a rich art historical tradition that stretches from the Prehistoric clay fertility idols to Chinese terracotta warriors to blue and white Delft porcelain.

As a medium, clay gives the artist the freedom of being both a sculptor and a painter by combining three-dimensional form with decorative surface design.

The 30 Ceramic Sculptors exhibition, on loan from the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis, California, presents an exceptional collection of works produced by many of the most renowned American ceramic sculptors such as Robert Arneson, Marilyn Levine, Marc Lancet and David Gilhooly.

From the lustrous glazes of Linda Fitz Gibbon’s Alice to the rough texture of Marc Lancet’s Luminous, the exhibition reveals the tremendous diversity and possibility of ceramic sculpture. The individual pieces rely not only upon traditional elements, as seen in Vicky Chook’s Balancing Act, But also incorporate new forms of expression, such as Michael Lucero’s use of abstraction in the Hanging Figure.

Through its rich technical and aesthetic diversity, The 16th Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors Exhibition allows the viewer to experience a new understanding of the complexities of the ceramic arts.