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January 16 through February 13, 2009
Artists' Reception: January 16, 2009 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
HOMO/evocative
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 HOMO/evocative Invites Awareness of What It Means to Be Gay
Art Access Gallery is pleased to present HOMO/evocative, the mixed media work of Salt Lake City artist, Daren Young. The exhibition, made up of graduate work from his four semesters in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, features work that, rather than being provocative, is intended to be more evocative in nature generating greater understanding and awareness of what it means to be different.
The show will hang from January 16 through February 13, with the Artist's Reception being held on Friday, January 16 from 6 to 9 pm, during Salt Lake City's January Gallery Stroll.
The artist, who also holds a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Utah, says, "One of the myriad aspects of my identity is that I am a gay man. Being gay has always been an important element of the work I produce and is the focus of the art I created during my graduate work. While my experiences as a gay man are not unique, the way I express these experiences is what sets me apart as an artist."
"As the audience views my art, I want it to evoke their own individual memories or life experiences regardless of whether they are straight or gay. I hope to generate greater understanding and awareness if what it means to be different and outside the center, especially as it relates to life in our often very conservative community."
Some of the work included will be a section of "Snapshots from My Youth: Pivotal Moments from 1969 to 1978," which are drawings presented as a series of photographs from a scrapbook, and "Reflections of a Middle-Aged Gay Man."
In light of the recent passage of Proposition 8 in California, it is the hope of Daren Young that HOMO/evocative may generate positive dialogue and healing in the community. Young¹s exhibit has been shown previously at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and at the Thompson Gallery of the Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts.
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Art Access II Gallery
Never the Real, Never the Bad
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 Artist Engages In Introspection With the Help of a Camera.
Art Access II Gallery will feature the digital photographs of Julia Voye from January 16 through February 13. The Artist's Reception for Never the Real, Never the Bad will be held on Friday, January 16 from 6 to 9 pm, during Salt Lake City's January Gallery Stroll. This is Voye's first exhibit.
The artist, who is self taught, presents a series of photographs taken during a period when she was living at home, unable to work or go to school because of mental illness. Leaving the house became increasingly difficult.
Voye says, "As my world was getting smaller and smaller, I was able to examine the scenes of my immediate environment in ways I had never had the time or interest to before. Manipulating digital photography became a way to alter what something looked like on the outside to show the meaning it now had for me."
For Julia Voye, getting control of her illness was a long and hard process, but she credits the time of introspection that she was able to engage in, with a part of her healing. |
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