past exhibitions
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Andrew Alba: Lifted Labor
form & concept gallery
September 29th - December 2nd, 2023
Santa Fe, New MexicoArt is labor, and nowhere is this more apparent than Andrew Alba’s body of work Lifted Labor, which features roughly-hewn and boldly-colored paintings created with construction materials instead of traditional artistic media. Alba’s work is raw, anti-academic, and frank in its depiction of contemporary politics and society.
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Colour Maisch & Emily Plewe: EARTH / ETHER
cityhomeUNDERGROUND
February 17th - April 17th, 2023
Salt Lake City, UtahRooted in the earth element with Colour Maisch’s porcelain and ink sculptures and expanded by Emily Plewe’s abstract paintings inspired by cosmology and the vastness of the universe, this striking, yet meditative show allows us to consider the connections between this world and the next, and our place within it all.
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Holly Wong: Emergence
Ogden Contemporary Arts Center
August 4th - October 16th, 2023
Ogden, UtahThis exhibition presents fiber-based installations by San Francisco-based artist Holly Wong, whose work aims to reclaim the female body and reveal beauty in brokenness. “…I have created my alter ego; the same one that all women contain. The bigger, stronger, more-powerful self that we can’t see, but it’s there. It’s loving, and protecting. And it takes up space. It claims space. It says, ‘I am here.’ It is expansive. It has no limitations.”
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Stephanie Leitch: Spell Field
Ogden Contemporary Arts Center
August 4th - October 16th, 2023
Ogden, UtahStephanie Leitch is a Salt Lake City artist whose work consists of large-scale installations and small-scale “spells,” which utilize handwritten-media and repetitive processes to imbue a specific intention. Spell Field is a 3D iteration of the artist’s previous hand-written spellworks as it expands and layers subtle text in space.
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Collaboration // Mixed Reviews: Utah Art at Mid-Century
Springville Art Museum
August 24th, 2022 - May 13th, 2023
Springville, UtahFor Mixed Reviews, the Springville Museum recreated the world of mid-century Utah art, showing artworks by both traditional and modern artists working in Utah c1946-1960. In addition to almost 70 artworks, the exhibition includes two galleries of mid-century interior design and decorative arts curated and designed by Cody Derrick and Kelly Carper.
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Elizabeth Alexander & Kasey Lou Lindley: Ideal Home
Ogden Contemporary Arts Center
August 12th - October 16th, 2022
Ogden, UtahIdeal Home features distinct bodies of work by two female artists hailing from different sides of the country: Elizabeth Alexander from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Kasey Lou Lindley from Salt Lake City, Utah. Together, the artists’ work represents unique processes in paper, collage and installation art, with connecting concepts that reflect on the idealism of home in past and present-day America.
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LAND BODY
Ogden Contemporary Arts Center
December 10, 2021 - March 13, 2022
Ogden, Utah
Al Denyer, Also Sisters: Sonia & Miriam Albert-Sobrino, Cara Romero, Chelsea Call, Jaclyn Wright, Jill O’Bryan, Josie Bell, Nikesha Breeze, Sama Alshaibi, Wendy WischerLAND BODY is a contemporary exploration of the connections between the human body and the landscape from the perspectives of eleven female artists.
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Oonju Chun: Can We All Get Along?
Pop Up Series: Argo House
May 15 - July 24, 2021
Ogden, UtahAbstract paintings by Oonju Chun allow for a release from societal tension with free flowing movement, color, and form devoid of underlying narratives or statements.
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Matthew Choberka: I Know Some Nice People
Pop Up Series: Argo House
February 5 - April 30, 2021
Ogden, UtahFor “I Know Some Nice People,” Matthew Choberka blends figurative elements with his turbulent abstraction. “…these pictures embody a grotesquery that I perceive just about everywhere in our contemporary lives…in our politics, in our culture.”
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PAPER PROJECTS
Pop Up Series: Argo House
August 7 - October 31, 2020
Ogden, UtahAmanda Lee, Anna Laurie Mackay, Elise Wehle, Lydia Gravis, Ya’el Pedroza
Paper Projects is a group exhibition featuring women artists who use the intimate material of paper as their primary medium.
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Havoc & Laura Hendricks: Less Up, Bless Up
Pop Up Series: Argo House
March 6 - May 31, 2020
Ogden, UtahProvo artists Havoc and Laura Hendricks present a new body of work for LESS UP, BLESS UP, an exhibition that references the artists’ collective decision to simplify their lives – from imposed religious obligations to frivolous materialism - and the ultimate creative freedom they experienced from doing so.
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Lydia Gravis: Touching the Void
Pop Up Series: Argo House
Dec 6, 2019 - Feb 29, 2020
Ogden, UtahAn exhibition of abstract drawings and paintings by Lydia Gravis, who uses physical mark-making as an empathic response to the intangible human experiences of everyday life.
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Lenka Konopasek: Remnants
Pop Up Series: Argo House
Oct. 4 - Dec. 31, 2019
Ogden, UtahRemnants is an exhibition of Lenka Konopasek’s powerful three dimensional paper sculptures that defy the fragility of their medium with a dark and dangerous presence.