ON CAMPUS

Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition. 14th October-8th November 2013.
Gittins Gallery. Art &Art History Building.
This is a competitive exhibition that will showcase the diversity of regional contemporary printmaking, The juror will be Bud Shark Master Printer/Director Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink.
In 1976, Bud Shark opened Shark’s Lithography Ltd in Boulder, Colorado, and relocated the studio as Shark’s Ink, to Lyons, Colorado in 1998. Shark has printed and published an extensive and eclectic body of prints collaborating with over 150 distinguished and innovative contemporary American artists since opening in 1976.

Selections from the Book Arts Collection.
Marriott Library.
1. Book Arts Program Residents and Recent Student Work — Located in the Levels 1 and 2 Display Cases.
Graduate and undergraduate students, studio residents, and independent studio users produced this work at the Book Arts Program between 2011- 2013. Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library since 1995, the Book Arts Program champions wide-ranging explorations of the book. In our fully equipped studio, bookbinders, printers, and book artists utilize metal and wood type, letterpresses, photo engravings, and bookbinding equipment as they combine traditional techniques with modern aesthetics and technology.

2. The Vista Sans Wood Type Project — Located on Level 3
The Vista Sans Wood Type Project began with a desire to make wood type for letterpress printing from a favorite digital typeface. To do so, Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford, the project’s founders, built a computer numerically controlled, (CNC), router and began to experiment. They sent out sets of wood type to artists/designers/printmakers that they admired to see what they would do with it. Each participant received the word “touch” in 5-inch or 7-inch wood type, plus a stack of paper, and were asked to interpret the word and material however they pleased. The resulting set of prints show the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary letterpress printing.

3. Red Butte Press Retrospective — Located in the Level 1 Gallery
Established in 1984 when premiere Bay Area printers Lewis and Dorothy Allen offered an 1846 Columbian hand press to the J. Willard Marriott Library, the Red Butte Press has produced fourteen major publications. This exhibition includes books published since 1995 and framed production materials from the last two projects. These fine press books range from collaborations with other institutions, publishers, and binders to the most recent work produced entirely on site. The press honors and extends the traditions of fine press printing, producing finely crafted, limited editions. Committed to contemporary dialogue, the Press publishes essays focused on the western states as well as the best in modern fiction and poetry. By commissioning original artwork, using quality paper and binding materials, and printing letterpress, the Red Butte Press staff makes each book a reflection of its contents.
Sharing the same staff as the Book Arts Program, the Red Butte Press has become a teaching press that supports the MFA in Creative Writing/Book Arts as well as the Minor and Certificate in Book Arts. Most recently focused on publishing innovative writing from University of Utah faculty, the Press has published unique book objects, born and bred on campus. With the most recent project, Craig Dworkin’s CHAPTER XXV, staff members and students facilitated the project from editing and papermaking, through design and printing, and finally through binding the edition.

“Respectfully Silent Utterly Defenseless”.
Marriott Library. Level 2.
A public art project by Jeffrey Baykal-Rollins. An ironic take on recent NRA statements about gun-violence in America. This project is curated by Lanfranco Aceti, with the support of Goldsmiths College London, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and Sabanci University Kasa Gallery in Istanbul.

Work by current and recent Printmaking majors from the University of Utah.
Marriott Library. Level 1.
April Bolz, Tonii Humphries, Ryan Kowalchik, Kyle Luntz, Christopher Osborn, Michael Perez, Steven Thueson 

Kevin Haas: Inventory.
Marriott Library.  Level 5.
This exhibit of prints from Haas’s ongoing series titled Inventory document commonplace objects and detritus from the built environment. Presented in a manner akin to the prints produced by 19th Century naturalists, they are both triumphant and futile. Carefully rendered, they provide close examination of the overlooked materials and objects around us, perhaps revealing a newfound awareness and understanding of their purpose. But they also identify the unending quantity of these things, and that no mater how carefully he captures them they still exist beyond our control or ability to manufacture ourselves. His prints question the reach of art and the impact our mass produced world has on our lives.

OFF CAMPUS
Sugarhouse. (Area south of Downtown. Transport provided).

Wayne Kimball and Robert Kleinschmidt.
Saltgrass Printmakers. 2126 S 1000 E,  Salt Lake City.

Robert Kleinschmidt. “Necopolis”.
Lithograph.