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January 15 through February 12, 2010
Artists' Reception: Friday January 15, from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
John Hess and Rachel Van Wagoner
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 Art Access is honored to show the woven textile reliefs of innovative fiber artist, John Hess. Born in 1939, Hess earned a BS from the University of Utah, as well as a three-year color and design certificate from the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco. His public commissions include work at the Student Services Building at the College of Eastern Utah, St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Heber City and a large textile relief for the Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts. He is also is known for his Art in Public Spaces on the Pierpont Walkway – constructed of seven yellow painted steel modules, supporting overhead stabiles. Hess says that his woven textile reliefs are based upon his fascination with folded paper constructions. “I often make paper mockups of various sizes and then translate them to a double woven format.” Hess lives in Salt Lake City and works on two wooden looms, one of which fills an entire room.
 Complementing Hess’s woven wall textile reliefs in Art Access Gallery, Rachel Van Wagoner will show her colorful ceramics which she says are “a friendly reminder of Futro, a time that examines the retro past and the mysterious future.” Her ceramic bowls and vessels “harken back to the brilliant age of Technicolor dreams and cosmonautical adventures, harnessing emotions of playfulness, nostalgia and hilarity.” Van Wagoner recently graduated with a BFA in Ceramics from BYU and is currently working on an MFA in the same field. She initially was a math major, who took ceramics classes as a release from copious amounts of stressful Calculus homework.
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Art Access II Gallery
John Welch
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 As did John Hess, John Welch earned a three-year certificate from the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco. He will fill Art Access II Gallery with his unique “suspended cultural forms.” These hanging forms, made of pieces of painted screen and scraps of metal, are designed to draw viewers through “layers of the medium used.” Through his work, Welch desires to “discover the real subject - rending the veil, spotting the jewel in the lotus blossom or finding the prize in the Cracker Jack box.”
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