Mirror Images: Great Salt Lake

I got to attend this art show opening last night...I really enjoyed it. Lots of different pieces about the Great Salt Lake, while I expected it to be a little more political it wasn't...mostly a lot of really nice imagery of the Lake. My good friend Tyler Jensen had a piece of his on display that Westminster purchased and will hang in their science building after the show is over.

Here's the info posted on their website and there is a link HERE to the flyer Tyler did for the show...the photo and art are his.



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Art Show – Mirror Images: Great Salt Lake
Tanner Atrium, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts Opening
Reception: May 1, 6-9 p.m.
Exhibit: Runs May 1-7, 2010

This group exhibition, curated by art historian Hikmet Sidney Loe, features the work of over 30 contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums as they explore the unique mirror of GSL. Artists include Nancy Holt, David Maisel, Matt Kruback, Diane Tuft, Rosalie Winard, and Westminster’s own David Baddley, Tyler Jensen and Kay Kuzminski, to name a few.

Each artist’s work is as varied in medium and purpose as is each experience with the lake; each work is a perfect and personal mirror of Great Salt Lake. Mediums include photography, sculpture, installation, printmaking and painting/drawing.

“This exhibition is an overview of contemporary responses to the lake,” explained Hikmet Loe, exhibit curator. “Contemporary artists are continually drawn to the lake to draw out its beauty and rely upon its special nature for inspiration. The land, water, and sky provide an endless array of moods and settings to capture as seasons and atmospheric changes come and go. Realistic representations of the natural world are included in this exhibition along with images that only exist in the world of art.”

“We invite the public to look at this lake through a diverse collection of lenses,” said Dr. Bonnie Baxter, director of GSLI. “Through viewing art, we may inform science. In doing science, we may inspire writing. In writing words, we may find stewardship. Mirror Images: Great Salt Lake is meant to inspire the interconnectedness of the many reflections on this lake.”