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March 20 through April 11, 2009
Artists' Reception: March 20, 2009 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Fidalis Buehler and Joyce Marder |
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 Fidalis Buehler Explores His South Pacific Identity and Joyce Marder Shows Boulder Size Woven Sculptures
Art Access Gallery is pleased to show two very diverse artists whose work is strangely compatible in their primitive but cutting edge approaches to art. An exhibit featuring both Fidalis David Kanoanikie Buehler and Joyce Marder will open on March 20 and hang through April 10. The Artists' Reception will be held on Friday, March 20 from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll.
Fidalis David Kanoanikie Buelher , who is currently an Instructor of Art at BYU, was born in the Solomon Islands. He received his BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Hawaii and his MFA from BYU.
His large scale oil paintings are manifestations of his identity seen through the complexity of American culture and South Pacific traditions. Buehler says, "They represent my experience a hybrid of two cultural backgrounds; one being American, the other Micronesian."
He continues, "These ethnically charged narratives reinforce notions of the exotic through distortions of life experience fear, anxiety, heroes & villains, satire, dreams & revelations and notions of the good life."
 Joyce Marder, who has a B.S. in Mass Communication from the U of U and a B.S. in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, learned to weave willow baskets as a volunteer at Old Deseret Village in 1983. She also learned pine needle basketry at the Festival of the American West in Logan. Through practice and experimentation, she adapted these craft techniques to create her own original works of art.
Her woven sculptures are boulder size made of blending willow with dogwood, rabbit brush and tree prunings. Marder says, "The plants take me on a journey into nature and into myself. I envision the piece¹s general shape before I start. However, the outcome is determined by my participation with the plants as I weave."
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Art Access II Gallery
Judith Romney Wolbach
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 Salt Lake Artist Bases Her Drawings on Aztec Creatures.
Art Access Gallery is pleased to show the pen and ink drawings of Judith Romney Wolbach. Her exhibit will open on March 20 and hang through April 10. The Artist's Reception will be held on Friday, March 20 from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll.
Wolbach began her art career late in life after her retirement at age 65. Before that, she spent her years as a high school English teacher, a technical editor and a lawyer. She has earned a B.A. in English, an M.A. in anthropology and a J.D. In spite of all of her degrees, she is largely self-taught in art.
The artist says, "I first discovered clay, which continued to be my primary medium until 2007 when my work was interrupted, first by a construction project in my studio and, secondly, by a siege of arthritis. So, I tried my hand at drawing in ink, simultaneously relieving my anxiety and giving me a new outlet of expression."
Wolbach's primary subject matter for her art continues to be the real and imagined creatures which most likely stem from her love of scaled and feathered creatures and from her studies of pre-historic art, particularly that of the Aztec.
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