Rio Gallery
Located in the grand lobby of the old Rio Grande Depot, the Rio Gallery was established as a service to Utah artists, providing a free venue for emerging as well as established artists to gather and educate the community through their artwork.
Currently at the Rio Gallery:
Tin
May 10 - June 14, 2013
Join us for an opening reception during Gallery Stroll on May 17, 6-9 p.m.
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Utah Arts & Museums presents "Tin," representing a cross-section of a decade at Brigham Young University's Art Department, from the early 90s into the early 21st century. The 40+ artists in this exhibit graduated about a decade ago, and since those crucial formative years, the students have become professionals.
"Every artist in this show shares in common sets of influences at an influential time in their development – the time and place that seems to be the location for artists to develop in this country at this time – college," said curator and artist Jared Clark. "During the years apart, each has accrued his and her own mixture of influences and decisions beyond the shared experience of art school."
Clark explained that committing to one genre or medium as an art student is a thing of the past. Art schools increasingly mirror this change with new department names such as "New Genres" and adjectives such as "Interdisciplinary." "However," said Clark, "it can be argued the artists in this show were on the threshold of this paradigm shift in their formative years and felt both the pressure to commit to a way of working (and, therefore, to an identity) and the contrasting new freedom blossoming to shed labels and expectations."
As the metaphoric metal representing ten-year anniversaries, "Tin" describes a reunion of these artists 10 to 20 years after their time at school. The artists share a general age group that spans both Generation X and Generation Y. Any time a group of work is shown, the acts of comparing and contrasting are inevitable. In this case those comparisons may lead to identifying similar influences from the artists' developmental stages, while the contrasts may reveal where artists have further honed or left those influences behind.
Location & Hours
Rio Grande Depot, 300 South Rio Grande Street
(455 West), Salt Lake City
8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday – Friday; Closed Saturday – Sunday
Coming up:
DesignArts 2013
June 21 - August 2
This Is the Place
August 16 - September 13
Utah '13: Mixed Media & Works on Paper
October 11 - November 8
Borderline
December 6 - January 10
Questions?Contact the Rio Gallery Manager |
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