Salt Lake Art Center presents
Go
West, an exhibition that brings together twenty contemporary
artists who are engaged in unearthing myths of the American West.
The exhibition is organized by Jill Dawsey, acting chief curator,
Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Working in a range of media (including painting, works on paper,
sculpture, photography, and video), the artists in Go West offer
reflections on the West as both destination and destiny. The
exhibition considers the varied reasons people came west over the
years: some, like the Cherokee Indians, were forcibly moved west,
while others, like the Mormons, sought exile here; some came in
search of fame and fortune, while others staked their claim to a
separatist space, away from mainstream society.
Exhibition features the works of Myranda Bair, David Berezin,
Jeremy Blake, Margarita Cabrera, Chris Coy, Zoe Crosher, Cara
Despain, Angela Ellsworth, Andrea Geyer &Simon J. Ortiz, Colter
Jacobsen, Olga Koumoundouros, Jessica Minckley, Shaun O'Dell,
Alison Pebworth, Mai-Thu Perret, Brion Nuda Rosch, Martha Rosler,
Jared Steffensen, and Mungo Thomson.
On the opening night of the
exhibition, Friday, Oct. 8, join us for square dancing from 7-9 pm
and a live original performance by artist Chris Coy with a bow and
arrow, at 8 pm.
Other
Events Accompanying This Exhibition
Artist Lecture
Zoe Crosher
Saturday,
October 9 at 2 PM
Zoe Crosher, whose work appears in Go
West, has been exhibited internationally in
Vancouver, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and New York City. In addition to
her exhibition practice, she has a monograph, Out the
Window (LAX), examining space and transience around
the Los Angeles airport, and an upcoming monograph on her newest
project The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle
duBois, to be published by Aperture Books. Crosher
recently served as visiting faculty at the University of
California, Los Angeles and Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena, CA as well as associate editor at the
journalAfterall.
Crosher will show and
discuss source clips and photographs from her
Trangressing the Pacific series, which
documents localities along the coastline of Southern California
where individuals both fictional and real found themselves going
too far west, vanishing into the Pacific ocean.
Artist Lecture
Shaun
O'Dell
Friday,
October 29 at 7 PM
Shaun O'Dell makes drawings, videos, music and
sometimes sculpture. His work explores the intertwining realities
of the human and natural orders. O'Dell has exhibited his work at
many venues, including the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and
Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Hammer
Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Whitebox in New York, and
the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. His work is held in the
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum and
the Berkeley Art Museum. He is the recipient of the 2006 Diebenkorn
Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2005
Artadia Award, 2004 SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art and a 2002 Fleishhacker Foundation Award. He is
currently teaching at University of California, Berkeley and
California College of the Arts, and is the co-organizer of
The New New Masses, a lecture series on
Art and Politics.
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