SPECIAL EVENTS
Highlights of the Collection Tour
First Wednesday of every month | 6:30 pm
Saturdays and Sundays | 1:30 pm
FREE with general Museum admission
Experience the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour with a docent. No pre-registration necessary.
Third Saturday for Families: Art with Everyday Objects
January 17 | 1-4 pm | FREE
American sculptor Tony Feher’s new installation in the UMFA’s Great Hall uses everyday objects to create art. Try your hand at creating beautiful art with painter’s tape and transparency paper.
Spring Film Series: Creativity in Focus
Wednesday, January 21 | 7 pm | FREE
Co-presented with the Utah Film Center. Additional support provided by CUAC and Modern West Fine Art.
Sol Lewitt
87 min. | 2012 | Netherlands, Italy, USA | Not rated
Directed by Chris Teerink
Despite his success and being one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Sol LeWitt didn’t want to become an art personality; he refused prices, didn’t want his picture to be taken and hardly ever gave interviews. The film Sol LeWitt, directed by Chris Teerink, is not a biography; the work itself is the point of departure. The beauty of his work raises the question of where conceptual principles end and where the quest for beauty begins.
EXHIBITIONS
umfa.utah.edu/exhibitions_current
New Narratives: Recent Work by U of U Art Faculty
CLOSING January 11, 2015
This triennial exhibition showcases the newest work by the University of Utah’s Department of Art and Art History faculty and celebrates the working artists who inspire the community through their creative output and their teaching.
[con]text
On view through July 26, 2015
The presence of text in art has greatly increased in the modern era, but the relationship of language and visual art have a much longer history. [con]text examines this history as represented in the UMFA’s permanent collection. From an ancient Egyptian wall relief to medieval illuminated manuscripts to the contemporary practices of John Cage, Bruce Nauman, and Willie Cole, this exhibition looks at the way visual artists have harnessed the power of language to communicate, relate, entice, advocate and illuminate. [con]text also explores how language itself constantly evolves, leading to both the loss and creation of meaning.
salt 10: Conrad Bakker
On view through February 8, 2015
Conrad Bakker makes imprecise, to-scale replicas of objects like books, photographs, chairs and motorcycles out of wood and paint to investigate the creation of value and economic systems. Often inserting his handmade facsimiles into the commercial realms of their real commodity counterparts, Bakker circumvents the art market, challenges postmodern perceptions of authorship and authenticity, and questions the distinction between originality and appropriation.
Tony Feher
On view through December 31, 2015
American sculptor Tony Feher has been changing the way we see the world for the past three decades. With a hyper-awareness of the formal qualities of everyday objects—bottles, tape, plastic bags—Feher turns unconsidered, often-discarded materials into poetic sculptures and elegant installations. For this exhibition, the UMFA has invited Feher to help us re-imagine the architecture of our Great Hall with a brand new site-determined installation.
**Exhibition dates are subject to change.
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