ART GALLERY DIRECTORY
Friday May 17 (5 TO 8:30 PM), and Saturday May 18 (12 TO 8 PM)
FOYER (2D)
Emeline Harty, Blatantly Lost
Montage
For my work, the medium of collage is paramount. Using items from a variety of sources, I am able to capture the multilayered, multivariate forms of humanity that are all contained within one individual. We absorb and retain remnants of our environments, snapshots bleeding through into our everyday existence. Like seemingly useless scraps of paper can compose an art piece, so too can seemingly useless scraps of experience make us into who we are.
Nicole Melnicky, SEPHORA
Alcohol Ink on Yupo
Alex P., Elle
Screenprinting on paper
Pablo Francisco Cruz-Ayala, Spectrum of Offering
Wood panel, acrylic, mixed media, oil, embroidery
J(ackal), Rebirth
Oil on Canvas, Safety Pins, Embroidery Floss
If you’re interested in this work, contact the artist at 801-989-0541 or @squaretodoroki
Mors Smith, Home
Acrylic on Canvas
Olivia Dawson, Delilah Feeds the Birds
Acrylic ink on watercolor paper
Francis (Frank) Vales, Not Alone
Digital Painting
Featuring the Northern Lapwing of Ireland and the white dove of Palestine, "Not Alone" symbolizes the transformation of oppression into hope.
Keziah Kenning, Wash Your Skin Off; Calm in the Storm
Acrylic
These works are part of a series of surrealist paintings I have used to work through my most challenging trials. I love using art as a way to find meaning in-spite of life’s hardships. To Mae, to make art, is to make sense.
Ariana Babbitt, Velma Healon and Miss Lordelo
Pen-and-ink, embroidery
Antoinette Valdez, Liberation; Self-regulate with me
Acrylic on canvas
FOYER (3D)
Sophia Keo, Come around more often
Curated Marble
Cat Palmer, Eye of Re
Mixed media - photos, gold leaf, paper, metallic paint
This is a piece of healing for me & it symbolizes grounding
If you’re interested in this work, contact the artist at 801-510-0827, catplamer.com, cat@catpalmer.com
Jessie Hepp, Community Web
Yarn
Thank you to the SLC community who participated in this project and to Matthew Heckmann for creating the space for this piece to be made. Community Web is the product of an interactive piece Jessie installed at Liberty Park in 2023 where members of the community were invited to help build a web of yarn. Eleven pink-painted PVC pipes were placed in the ground and used as anchor points for the web. Participants were encouraged to allow their creativity to play a role in creating the piece. The web is now a hanging installation that represents folks coming together to collectively make something and play. Use the QR code to see images of Community Web being made.
Jaspen Jacobs, Alabaster Kiss (2018)
Alabaster
BLACK BOX THEATER (2D)
Steven Salabsky, Reluctant
Oil on canvas
If you’re interested in this work, contact the artist at 801-244-3032, steven.s1990@outlook.com, @salabsky_creative, Salabskycreative.com
Antoinette Valdez, Unmasking through acceptance of my layers of change
Acrylic on canvas
Maria Chopine, That Guy Is Peeing
Acrylic
Liz Blake, Uprooting Yourself
Acrylic paint and paint markers
River James Wood, What Kind of Queer
Color pencil and gouache
If you’re interested in this work, contact the artist at riverwoodspeaks@gmail.com