Selections

Permanent collection

Opened February 2, 2009 to present

Featured in this exhibit are selections from the permanent collection and works on long-term loan from the Dale and Teresa Neibaur collection of fantasy art. The Neibaur collection is comprised of over 90 paintings and drawings by Tim and Greg Hildebrandt. This exhibition contains works from the Lord of the Rings, Phantom of the Opera, and Fairy Tales series. Other works in the collection will be rotated into the exhibition periodically.

A second gallery has recent acquisitions to the museum collection. Included in this exhibit are works by Harvey Breverman, John O'Connell, Robert Marshall, Bruce Robertson, Hyunmee Lee, Catherine Downing, as well as prints attributed to Salvador Dali and Russian figurative bronze sculptures.

(image at left: A. St. Gaudens, Lincoln, on long term loan from the Springville Museum of Art. copyright, all rights reserved)

Jeanne Clarke

Nov. 6, 2009 - March 5, 2010

Revered as an consumate artist as well as an admired teacher, this exhibit presents works on loan to the museum from the artist's family. The works bear some influence of the domestic scenes of Pierre Bonnard, yet apply her own genius in color orchestration and personality. The painting at the right is one of two works wherein the artist poses famous female figures skimmed from throughout history as though gathered across time to a casual conversation around a luscious repast.

TAWNI SHULER: Ecotone

February 5 – March 12, 2010

ArtistTalk February 25,  6:00 p.m.

We are pleased to present the works of new visiting artist faculty member, Tawni Shuler, in this exhibition that exposes her works of the past few years along with works completed while at UVU. A graduate with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University, and a native of Wyoming, Shuler brings a concern for connection with earth-place in her works. Having been raised with the rigors and unique experiences of farm life in Wyoming, Shuler combines her sense of aesthetic responsiveness with the life and death, dirt and skin experiences of her upbringing.  She chooses to call this exhibit Ecotone and offers this definition: Ecotone: the place where forest meets meadow, desert touches river.  It’s the frontier where communities of humankind and wild animals touch each other.  It’s that shaky space between who we are and who we appear to be, the gap between reality and mystery, the certain and the imagined.     - Joanne Smith from What Wildness is This.  Shuler's work ranges in size from small to enormous and will occupy two of the galleries in the museum. Her work carries a curious luminosity. While virtually non-objective, she nonetheless acknowledges Caravagio and Turner as sources of inspiration. Visit her website here.

Image: Tawni Shuler, Tumbleweeds and Drifts, Acrylic, pastel, on canvas, 60"x35" 2007.

KELLY LARSEN after vermont

February 5 – March 12, 2010

ArtistTalk February 25,  6:00 p.m.

In the summer of 2009, Larsen received a part fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. He spent thirty days in a large studio participating with other Studio Center fellows in figure explorations, and, as he says, “an explosion of conversation with other residents that included artists and writers of all genre.” The award of such a prestigious fellowship is a landmark in an artist's career. 

Kelly Larsen, Ascending Soul, oil, acrylic, bone, stones, soil on canvas, 50"x60" 2008

The “paintings” of Larsen are long in development as layer after layer of paint juxtaposes thick pouring of paint along with the most ephemeral glazes, transparencies, and translucent passages. In others, he integrates contour drawings or partially modeled figures, as he deems necessary to achieve the desired state of being of the work.