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June 16 through July 14, 2006
Artists' Reception: Friday, June 16th, 2006 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Printmaker Sandra Brunvand, Also a Talented Painter |
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 Sandra Brunvand, co-founder of Saltgrass Printmakers Studio & Gallery, received an MFA in both painting and printmaking from the University of Utah in 2003. For her exhibition at Art Access, Brunvand explains that she is drawn to the delicate plant forms of the Salt Lake foothills where she explores themes dealing with the cast off detritus of man¹s intrusion into nature and how man-made objects decay to become part of the natural environment.
The artist says, " I am adding a dimension of travel and of the differences and similarities of man¹s intrusion into both rural urban spaces to a cohesive body of work connected to these themes. I have collected small bits of detritus (mostly rusted metal bits) from the foothills of Salt Lake City, from the city streets of Washington, D.C., and from suburban upstate Michigan along with characteristic plant forms and terrain textures. The abstract patterns of deteriorating crosswalk paint on asphalt in Washington, D.C. when viewed close up, for example, is surprisingly similar in some was to the texture of a trail in the Salt Lake foothills."
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Access II Gallery
Blanche Wilson Southwick Shows Woodcuts at Art Access II |
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Wilson Southwick was born in Salt Lake City in 1922. She received a BS from Weber State University and an MA from BYU and taught at the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind for 21 years.
The printmaker was selected as one of Utah¹s "Hundred Most Honored Artists" in 2002, by the Springville Museum of Art. She also participated in the Art Access Gallery's "eightysomething" Exhibition in 2004.
Blanche Wilson Southwick first experienced woodcuts when she was a high school student. The artist explains her love of the medium, "The process is painstaking and there are no short cuts. After making detailed color sketches, selecting block size, planning the sequence of color printing and preparing the first block, the real work begins. It is carving, printing, carving, printing, correcting, etc. The whole process is stimulating, time consuming and difficult. After the first good print is pulled from the blocks, however, it is very much worth the effort."
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