Roots of Resistance
Oct
21
to Nov 21

Roots of Resistance

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On October 21 2023, MICA will be showing our 20th Anniversary Retrospective: Roots of Resistance to inaugurate our new art space.

Roots of Resistance is meant to not only feature where MICA started from but also where we're going. We intend to showcase artists' work of have worked with MICA in the past and to highlight the artists of the future.

You can buy tickets for early access to the works or RSVP for the FREE event at mestizo.givesmart.com or text MESTIZOROOTS to 76278. We hope to see you there!

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ISRAEL AVALOS, CRIOBRAVO, LAURA SHARP WILSON, ABI KAWI, SHIYA ZENG, ASHLEY ESCARATE, ISAAC VAZQUEZ AVILA, EMILY LARSEN, LUNARES, BEATRIZ KILLPACK, DIONNE GORDILLO, ANDREW ALBA, ALLI AROCHO, CHRISTOPHER LYNN, CASEY JEX SMITH, MARU QUEVEDO, ANTRA SINHA, JAZMIN MENDOZA, JUAN GASCA, ALEXIS V RAUSCH, PABLO CRUZ-AYALA, ALINE BUSTIOS-DONOSO, PETER HAY, BIANCA VELASQUEZ, JORGE ROJAS, HORACIO RODRIGUEZ, TOVE AAGARD, LIRICA CASTAÑEDA

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HEIDI MOLLER SOMSEN
Oct
20
to Nov 10

HEIDI MOLLER SOMSEN

Stop by and check out Heidi Moller Somsen’s exhibition at the Phillips Gallery!

The exhibition includes still life and figurative oils by Sandy Freckleton Gagon, ceramic and mixed media sculpture by Heidi Moller Somsen, and small town Utah oils by Elise Zoller in the Main Floor Gallery, as well as acrylic abstract expressionism by Darryl Erdmann in the (downstairs) Dibble Gallery.

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October 20th - November 10th

Opening Reception is: Friday, October 20th from 6-9 PM 

Hours: 12 - 5 PM, Tuesday - Friday, 12 - 4 PM Saturday
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Heidi Moller Somsen was born in Saskatchewan, Canada and raised on the rugged coast of British Columbia. She received a BFA from Brigham Young University (1995) and an MFA from the University of Utah (2011). Her art practice responds to the materiality of things and a struggle to understand the “big questions” of life. She taught as an adjunct at the University of Utah and spent many years as an integral part of the Visual Art Institute, a nonprofit art school in Salt Lake City. In 2020 she began teaching at The Waterford School, an independent liberal arts K-12 school in Sandy, Utah. Through mentoring young artists, Moller Somsen maintains hope that art and creativity can help move communities toward mutual understanding and the entire planet toward healing.

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LA MORTALIDAD: UNA CUESTIÓN DE VIDA O MUERTE (A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH)
Oct
12
to Nov 17

LA MORTALIDAD: UNA CUESTIÓN DE VIDA O MUERTE (A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH)

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12 de octubre – 17 de noviembre de 2023
Galería de Arte George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Salt Lake Community College
Campus South City 1575 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT, 84115

Por favor, únase a nosotros para la recepción de apertura el jueves, 12 de octubre, de 5:00 a 7:00 P.M. Utilice el código GALLERY en el quiosco de estacionamiento amarillo en el lote este para estacionamiento gratuito en los lugares marcados con líneas amarillas.

October 12 – November 17, 2023
George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery
Salt Lake Community College, South City Campus
1575 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT, 84115

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 12, from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. Use the code GALLERY at the yellow parking kiosk in the east lot for free event parking in stalls marked with yellow lines.

LA MORTALIDAD: Una cuestión de vida o muerte presenta obras de 25 artistas locales y regionales que reflejan la rica diversidad que se observa en muchas de las comunidades latinas e hispanas de Utah, con contribuciones de artistas de California y Arizona. Se reúne una riquísima variedad de obras de artistas de ascendencia argentina, boliviana, colombiana, costarricense, guatemalteca, mexicana, panameña, puertorriqueña, peruana, salvadoreña, española y venezolana. La amplia variedad de técnicas es realmente notable. Las ideas de que «la cultura latina es un monolito» se disipan al instante al contemplar las pinturas, videos, textiles, grabados, pirograbado, dibujos, fotografías, cerámicas y arte digital que se exhiben en esta multitudinaria exposición colectiva.

En LA MORTALIDAD, los artistas exploran varios temas e ideas que trascienden los límites de sus respectivas identidades culturales al pedirles que examinen la cuestión universalmente humana de su propia mortalidad.

«Una de las manifestaciones más antiguas y sencillas de la voluntad de vivir es el arte. Lo primero que hizo el hombre al descubrir que era mortal fue erigir una tumba. El arte comenzó con la conciencia de la muerte. El mausoleo, desde la antigüedad, ha sido tanto un homenaje a los muertos como un desafío a la muerte: el cuerpo se descompone, se convierte en polvo, pero el monumento permanece. La forma permanece. No solo nos amenaza la muerte, sino el propio tiempo, que nos hace y luego nos deshace. Cada escultura, cada pintura, cada poema, cada canción es una forma animada por la voluntad de sobrevivir al tiempo y a sus erosiones».
–Extracto de México: Esplendores de treinta siglos de Octavio Paz

Los artistas pueden tener relaciones extraordinarias con la mortalidad: sus creaciones pueden formar parte de un legado que trascienda las limitaciones de la vida y la muerte. Al igual que la idea de las «tres muertes» de la teología azteca y mexicana, y el concepto incaico de la muerte biológica frente a la muerte social, la muerte final solo se produce cuando la gente ya no se acuerda de ti. Pero con el arte, la «forma permanece». Abordando ideas como «el arte como tributo a nuestros antepasados», «el arte macabro como comentario social» o «la inmortalidad a través de la creación», estos artistas muestran las múltiples formas en que sus visiones se complementan y se solapan armoniosamente, al tiempo que celebran las diferencias que nos hacen únicos ofreciendo enfoques maravillosamente distintivos sobre temas comunes.

Las costumbres varían de una región a otra, pero la filosofía prehispánica de que la muerte forma parte de la vida sirve como fuerza unificadora y, dado que la mortalidad y la pérdida de seres queridos es una experiencia humana universal, esta vivaz exposición fomenta un parentesco transcultural entre los artistas participantes y la comunidad en general.

Comisariado por James Walton.

ARTISTAS PARTICIPANTES:
Guillermo Avila Paz
Stephanie Blanco
Ruby Chacón
Pablo Cruz-Ayala
Jairo Dealba
Mia Escobar
FAJARDO
Juan Gasca
Beatriz Killpack
Alejandro Martinez
Allison Martinez-Orocho
Ivan Ortega
Alejandro Mendoza
Esther Merino
Jazmin Montero
Miguel Pabon
PAPAYON
Paula Christenson
Horacio Rodriguez
Hazel Rodriguez Coppola
Jorge Rojas
Luis Rosado
Kenneth Sanchez
Roberto Zavala

LA MORTALIDAD: A Matter of Life & Death features works from 25 local and regional artists who reflect the rich diversity seen in many of the Latinx and Hispanic communities in Utah with contributions from Californian and Arizonan artists. A rich variety of works are gathered from artists of Argentinian, Bolivian, Colombian, Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, San Salvadorian, Spanish, and Venezuelan descents. The wide range of media is truly remarkable. Notions that ‘Latinx culture is a monolith’ are instantly dispelled as you take in the paintings, video, textiles, print making, wood burning, drawings, photography, ceramics, and digital art on display in this multitudinous group exhibition.

Several themes are explored by the artists in LA MORTALIDAD, ideas that transcend the boundaries of their respective cultural identities by asking them to examine the universally human question of their own mortality.

"[O]ne of the most ancient and simple manifestations of the will for life is art. The first thing man did upon discovering that he was mortal was to erect a tomb. Art began with the consciousness of death. The mausoleum, since ancient times, has been both an homage to the dead and a defiance of death: the body decays, turns to dust, but the monument remains. Form remains. We are threatened not only by death but by time itself, which makes, then unmakes us. Every sculpture, every painting, every poem, every song is a form animated by the will to survive time and its erosions."
–Excerpt from Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries by Octavio Paz

Artists can have remarkable relationships with mortality - their creations can be part of a legacy that transcends the limitations of life and death. Like the idea of the “three deaths” from Aztec and Mexican theology and the Incan concept of the biological death verses the social death, the final death only occurs when people no longer remember you. But with art, the “form remains.” By grappling with ideas like “art as tribute to our ancestors,” “macabre art as social commentary,” and “immortality through creation,” these artist’s show the many ways in which their visions complement and overlap harmoniously, while celebrating the differences that make us unique by offering wonderfully distinctive takes on common themes.

Customs vary from region to region but the pre-Hispanic philosophy that death is part of life serves as a unifying force and, because mortality and the loss of loved ones is a universal human experience, this spirited exhibition encourages a cross-cultural kinship among the participating artists and the larger community.

Curated by James Walton.

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU: AIMEE ODUM
Sep
22
to Nov 4

GETTING TO KNOW YOU: AIMEE ODUM

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Getting To Know You is an interplay between the technological self and the creative subconscious. From her collaborative relationship with an AI art-generating app, Odum presents lively ceramic sculptures and immersive video projections, accompanied by the AI-generated images that shaped their inception. The collaborative journey sparks more curiosity than insight about the evolving technological landscape, the minds behind the AI app creation, and the depths of the human condition. 

Artist Biography: Aimee Odum is a visual artist, educator, and curator living and working in Salt Lake City, UT. Odum received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and a BS in Pre-Art Therapy from Indiana Wesleyan University. She has been invited to speak about her work at numerous institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Virginia Commonwealth University. Odum was awarded the Sturgis International Fellowship in 2015 to support five months of studio research in Iceland and invited to the DNA Residency in 2017 to develop new work in Provincetown, MA. She was recently awarded the Career Advancement Grant by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. Odum teaches ceramics at Cottonwood Clay Studio and was a 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence at Bountiful Davis Art Center

Odum has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Arts + Leisure Gallery (New York, NY) and Random Access Space, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY); as well as two-person exhibitions at GRIN, (Providence, RI); Elijah Wheat Showroom (Brooklyn, NY); Satellite Art Show (Miami, Florida); and Hectoliter, (Brussels, Belgium).

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Alyce Carrier: Cake Stand Altar
Aug
11
to Jan 6

Alyce Carrier: Cake Stand Altar

Alyce Carrier: Cake Stand Altar at UMOCA from August 11, 2023 to January 6, 2024

In 2018, my sister disappeared for a little less than a year. In that year, I was incessant in my attempt to make sense of her physical and mental absence, and upon her re-entry, I continued to struggle with it.

How do you come to terms with someone that does not want to be found?

How do you process trauma, when the events that caused it are implausible and amorphous?

I found the only way to get through this period of time was to access tangible memories to ground me in my own reality, and from those access points, I was able to move forward in healing.

This show is about my memories, foundational moments in the knowing of myself. It is about holding them with immense care and attention, in order to honor what is and what was.

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