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November 21 through December 19, 2008
Artists' Reception: November 21, 2008 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Holiday Exhibit
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 Art Access Offers Its Annual Festive Holiday Exhibit With 28 Artists
Art Access Gallery is pleased to feature 28 Utah artists in its annual Holiday Exhibition. The exhibition will open with an Artists¹ Reception on Friday November 21, from 6 to 9 PM, during Salt Lake City¹s November Gallery Stroll and close on December 19.
A second Reception for this same exhibit will be held on Friday, December 5, from 6 to 9 pm during Salt Lake City¹s Annual Holiday Stroll.
Participating artists are: Vicki Acoba; Judy Summer, Kali Mellus, Joe Fairbanks; Sasha Gorham; Carma Hart Fuller; David Roholt; Heidi Moller Somsen; Berry Banks; Lindsay Oesterritter; David, Jean & Maya Montanaro; April Motley; Shami Kanekar; Jeronimo Lozano; Marcee Blackerby; Jared Nielsen; Danielle Lecher & Maime Graham; Sarinda Jones; Colleen Bryan Rogers; Erin W. Berrett; Heather Castillow and Abbas Mathlum.
Holiday Tree Artists for 2008 are: Lisa Sewell, Ellen Christensen and Sheryl Gillilan. These three women are knitters who have filled the tree with unique knit ornaments such as small sweaters, mittens, toy soldiers, teddy bears and delicious cupcakes.
Gallery visitors are asked to bring with them clean, gently used or new clothing, which will be donated the ARC of Utah.
Art Access Gallery is located at 230 South 500 West #125. Saturday Holiday Hours from 11 to 3 have been established between the dates of November 21-December 19.
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Art Access II Gallery
Carel P. Brest van Kempen |
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 Salt Lake Artist Offers Paintings and Drawings of the Natural World
Art Access II is pleased to present the work of artist and naturalist Carel P. Brest van Kempen. Brest van Kempen¹s exhibit will open on Friday, November 21 and hang through December 19.
Brest van Kempen grew up in Emigration Canyon, east of Salt Lake City, an ideal place to indulge his youthful fascination for the wild and its varied inhabitants. As a boy, he took up falconry and later studied biology. It wasn¹t until his 30th birthday that he decided to pursue a career in art.
Although Brest van Kempen had studied perspective in a high school drawing class and had gotten pointers from other artists, he is otherwise self-taught.
The things that make a particular species unique, such as behavioral traits, movements or appearance, are what first attracts the artist to it. Beginning with small compositional sketches, he goes on to complete a finished drawing. After referring to his slides to verify markings and anatomical details, he traces his drawing onto a board and then does an under-painting. Once he begins the actual painting, it takes him approximately one and a half hours to complete an area the size of one-square inch, most often using acrylics.
Brest van Kempen¹s paintings have received widespread acclaim, earning a number of prestigious awards in the United States, including the 1995 "Best of Show" Southeastern Wildlfe Art Expo, an Arts for the Parks Wildlife Award in 1992 and Awards in Excellence in 1994, 1996, 1997. 2004 and 2006 from the Society of Animal Artists.
The artist says, "As human impact on the natural world increases, our routine awareness of that world and our active participation in its processes diminish. But whether it¹s visible to us or not, our lives are irrevocably dovetailed into the vibrating matrix of nature. It¹s my hope that the little stories told in my paintings might awaken in the viewer a heightened sensitivity to the tiny ripples broadcast throughout that natural matrix by every one of its components."
Art Access II is located at 230 South 500 West #125 in Salt Lake City. Regular gallery hours are M F, 10 to 6. In addition, there will be Saturday hours of 11 to 3, between November 21 December 19.
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