Interstitial spaces highlight three summer exhibitions at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; Rose Exposed! celebrates downtown arts hub’s 25th anniversary
The Utah Review, August 30, 2022 by Les Roka
UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: JOHN SPROUL, BERNARD MEYERS, TOBIAS FIKE
Three Intermountain West artists are among the latest to have exhibitions to round out the summer season at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). The connecting thread for this trio involves asking viewers to consider abstractions that reveal multiple layers going beyond typical binary representations in the work.
In the Projects Gallery, John Sproul’s Here Between There features five large paintings, which emphasize that what we imagine to be inaccessible in the metaphorical black hole of our storied existences is actually a breach that bridges to closing the gap between our present perspective and that of our memories.
Installation photograph, John Sproul: Here Between There, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Aug. 12–Oct 15. Photo Credit: Zachary Norman, UMOCA.