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UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE
July 2016 Edition
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Artist Profile: David Brothers
David Brothers has worn many hats. He has produced, written and acted in radio dramas (most notably The Church of Jayne Mansfield and The New Atomic Age); written, illustrated and published comic books, pamphlets, religious tracts, trading cards and Tijuana bibles; created films and videos-some animated, some feature-length- three of which appeared at Sundance; he has had photos published in Rolling Stone, Maxim, Popsmear, Slug and other publications. And those are his side projects. By day, he creates sets for the film industry, using wood, paint and whatever else is at hand to fool the viewer. This line between the artificial and the authentic is something he explores in his own artwork -constructed sets for "places and propositions" that he builds in his studio and photographs. This spring, his set for Rolithica, an imaginary world inspired by the Godzilla movies, made a rare public appearance at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's Street Gallery.
Brothers is the recipient of a 2016 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums (UDAM). In this video profile, made in collaboration with UDAM, Brothers discusses his life and work and the manipulation of the authentic.
>watch the video profile
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Colour Maisch & Gary Vlasic
Albedo | Nigredo takes an attentive sculptural approach to exploring the mystical way that everyday materials are transformed by artists' creative processes and the unique environment of gallery space. The gallery creates a space that mimics an ancient alchemical laboratory, where the artists ask the audience to respond to physical experiments with no typical curatorial barriers, creating an impression that everyone is part of an ongoing process....
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Denise Milan
At first glance, the exhibition appears small, each image visually accessible upon entering the gallery space. This compact arrangement does not reflect the expansiveness of Milan's message, or the sheer beauty of her visual method. Our desert environment looks nothing like Milan's Paradise, but by considering ourselves within a global context, we come to understand that we ask the same questions regarding overdevelopment and the future: Brazil's Atlantic Forest is closer to the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin than we think....
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Intermezzo Chamber Music Series
The quality programming is definitely what the audiences come back for, but the surprises Intermezzo throws in also endear the audience to the organization. It isn't uncommon for the musicians to take the stage to play a romantic sonata, but first launch into a short, unexpected contemporary work, with no warning or explanation. Fortunately, their fans have come to expect a shenanigan or two. Whether it's having a pizza delivered onstage or organizing a stunt where the horn player falls on his horn and breaks it in the process, Intermezzo isn't afraid to have fun with their performances...
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The Heavy Reckoning of Henry V
If one felt the need to defend the relevance of Shakespeare in the 21st century, it would be difficult to manufacture better coincidences to do so: on the eve of Utah Shakespeare Festival's staging of Henry V, a play about public morals and individual responsibility, of the duties owed to the state and those demanded by the soul, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair comes under scathing censure for misleading his country into war, and English nationalism is stirred into a feverish pitch by the Brexit campaign....
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Jacqui & Lance Larsen's 3-Mile Radius
What do a rusty sewer grate, "Llama Crossing" street sign, rabbit, and a metal screen door have in common? On the surface, not much. Aside from the llama-crossing sign, these are all ordinary things anyone might see in a neighborhood or while out for a drive in the country. Perhaps even within a three-mile radius. Such is the inspiration behind Three-Mile Radius, an exhibit of words and paint currently on display at the Springville Art Museum. The exhibit features the talents of husband and wife duo Lance and Jacqui (Biggs) Larsen, highlighting the manifold local inspirations waiting for discovery on the next street corner . . .
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Carol Berrey & Simon Blundell
Carol Berrey scavenges for paper so she can return it to its source-trees. Metaphoric trees, that is, artistic representations created with cardboard and other reclaimed paper, as well as found objects and spray paint. With the same materials, Berrey creates abstracted sculptures of a modernist bent whose delicate nature is belied by their seeming durability. She shares the BDAC space with Simon Blundell, whose photographic aesthetic seems miles apart from Berrey's - in his seamlessly layered digital photographs, Blundell embraces the ubiquitous technological filter of perception that is the camera. But his images are a reclamation project of their own, attempting to explore the fragmented and fleeting nature of memory...
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