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April 17 through May 7, 2009
Artists' Reception: April 17, 2009 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Art Access Honors Nine Active Artists in eightysomething ! |
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 Art Access Gallery is pleased to show the recent work of nine Utah artists who are in their eighties and still actively pursuing their art careers. eightysomething will open on April 17 and hang through May 7. The Artists’ Reception will be held on Friday, April 17 from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll.
This year’s exhibit features the eclectic work of professional artists: Dorothy Bearnson (Salt Lake City); Ursula Brodauf (Salt Lake City); Anna Campbell Bliss (Salt Lake City); Edie Roberson (Salt Lake City); Bob Kleinschmidt (Salt Lake City); Woody Renzetti (Salt Lake City); Doug Snow (Teasdale); Colleen Parker (Bountiful) and Pilar Pobil (Salt Lake City). Through their continuing work, these nine Utah artists speak to the need that they have for art in their lives. All would say that engaging in art keeps them involved in their communities and interested in life. Most importantly, they stand as examples of the on-going contributions that senior citizens make to our society.
Eight of the nine participating artists are “ first–timers” in this 2009 exhibit which honors some of Utah’s most prolific artists. Dorothy Bearnson was also a participant in the last Art Access eightysomething exhibit in 2004. A Professor Emerita of the ceramics department, she taught at the University of Utah for over fifty years. In 1998-99, Bearnson received a Utah Governor’s Award in the Arts in the artist category.
Ursula Brodauf, was born in Gruenhainichen, a small German town near the Czech border. In 1948, she arrived in West Berlin to study at the Academy of Art where Marc Chagall, Henry Moore and Alexander Calder were visiting instructors. She currently has a studio in the old Artspace on Pierpont Avenue and continues her work as an expressionist sculptor.
Anna Campbell Bliss, who was born in Morristown, New Jersey, received her BA in art history from Wellesley College and her Masters of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She continued studies in color and light at MIT, printing and painting at the University of Minnesota and computer studies at the University of Utah. Although she is primarily known for her purist color work, her computer programs allow her to create large architectural works.
A graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Edie Roberson moved to Utah in 1960, where she immediately became active in local exhibitions. She is one of the state’s most important visionary artists, represented in many public and private collections. A super realist, her work has often been described as Magic Realism. Roberson is one of the cutting edge artists who participated in the 337 Project.
Bob Kleinschmidt taught at the University of Utah’s art department from 1969 through 1999, when he retired. He earned an MA and MFA at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Toward the end of his tenure at the U of U, he served as the head of the printmaking department. Kleinschmidt now works from his studio in Salt Lake City, where he continues to create, and shows his lithographs and monotypes in contemporary exhibits displaying his unique blend of humor and layers of meaning.
Woody Renzetti received her degree in art at the University of Utah and is a long-time member of the Utah Watercolor Society where she continues to win awards for her water-based works on paper. She was represented by Dolores Chase Gallery for many years. Remaining active, Renzetti continues to paint, travels extensively and tries to squeeze in a new art class each quarter at the University of Utah.
Born in Salt Lake City, Douglas V. Snow has been a central figure in Utah art for over fifty years. He received both his BFA and MFA degrees from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. In 1950, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Later, as a professor of art at the University of Utah, Snow championed abstract art. He was chairman of the art department from 1966 to 1971. He is best known in Utah for his murals. Retired, Snow lives in his studio home near Capital Reef where he continues to paint.
Colleen Parker began her art education while growing up in Springville, the “Art City” of Utah. Formal training was at Brigham Young University, Iowa State University and the Chicago Art Institute. She also worked with noted pastelists, Albert Handel and Daniel Greene. Parker now lives in Bountiful where she founded the Lamplight Art Gallery in 2001, as cooperative gallery. She continues to work in both miniature and large format and also volunteers at the Bountiful Art Center.
Pilar Pobil is essentially a self-taught artist who was born in Mallorca, Spain. Pobil and her family escaped from Spain after her father was killed in the Spanish Civil War. Her artistic pursuits took a backseat to raising a family and she was 43 before she began working with clay, oil and watercolors. Pobil lives in Salt Lake City where she continues to show her brilliantly colored paintings in venues all over the state.
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Art Access II Gallery
Emmanuel Makonga
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 Art Access Gallery is pleased to show the recent work of Emmanuel Makonga, an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The exhibition will open on April 17 and hang through May 7. The Artists' Reception will be held on Friday, April 17 from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll.
Makonga will show a series of new watercolors that focuses on life in Africa and, possibly, some scenes from his more recent life in the United States. The artist was born in the DRC, Central Africa, in 1962. He graduated from a high school that trained students to be teachers and then attended a college in Kinshasa, where he received a degree in fine arts. While a student, he created an image depicting the Fight Against AIDS, which became a postage
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After his schooling, he worked as a painter, sculptor and cartoonist. It was his cartoons that caused Makonga trouble. His political cartoons, containing strong opinions counter to the government, were run in newspapers in several countries in Africa, in addition to the DRC. He left Africa in 2003, in part to protect his family. His mother, a brother, and sisters still reside in the DRC and hope to live in the United States.
Emmanuel Makonga eventually arrived in Columbus, Ohio, with refugee status. In 2008, he moved to Salt Lake City where he is currently making a life for himself. In addition to preparing for the Art Access exhibit, he has created a comic book dealing with protection of the environment. Never one to sit still, Makonga is now looking for a publisher.
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