"Celestial Joy" by Carol Alleman, Bronze, 2011

By Carol Alleman

in an edition of 36
20.5″ h x 14″ w
cast bronze vessel

Please contact Gallery MAR for pricing inquiries

Celestial Joy invites us to witness and join the hummingbird’s dance of joyfully giving, receiving, perching [resting] and trusting. Coupled with the peaceful purity of the orange alpine lily, the vessel glows with a delicate, wide open invitation to live in complete celestial joy, peace, love and trust.

Celestial Joy was born with the union of the delightful, flame colored, wild alpine lily and the female, black-chinned hummingbird.  Commissioned by a couple living in the Lake Tahoe area, the orange alpine lily was a perfect choice for their classically shaped vessel. One of the most frequent and beloved visitors of these lordly lilies of the Tahoe area, is the black-chinned hummingbird.

From the artist, Carol Alleman, “I reflected on the natural beauty of the peaceful wild lily. So often I get distracted with what I shall wear – beyond a practical degree. The lily of the field reminds me that my most worthy garb – always – is the mystical spirit I allow to purely envelope me and radiate around me no matter what my physical garb. There is nothing wrong with wearing quite beautiful clothing, except to the level of distraction from our own inherent, mystical, natural beauty.”

Celestial Joy stands  20.5” tall (14” wide), with 12 stems of wild orange alpine lilies, and 3 female, black-chinned hummingbirds. The female hummingbird was chosen to represent the importance of the feminine energies currently being birthed in new ways in our world. The edition size is 36 (3 x 12). This symbolizes the divine trinity of 3 coupled with a highly tribal number (12) of humanity or the cosmos, while mirroring the 12 stems of lilies and the 3 hummingbirds on the vessel. The edition size is also intended to be symbolic of completion (the number 9 as with 3 +6). To some, the number 12 also represents a number of completion. The companion poetry of Celestial Joy is 9 stanzas, with 4 lines in each stanza equaling 36.  I, as well as, many teachers and leaders believe we are nearing the end (completing) of a huge phase of humanity while growing into (hopefully) a very new, higher and peaceful level of conscious living. The energetic joyful loving of the hummingbird is symbolic of the chosen divine attributes for this transition time on our journey – the attribute companions of joy, love, mutuality and trust. She invites all of us to choose, and to trust joyful loving and peaceful  living.

“Give a Farmer a Brush– The Rural Landscape According to Ron Russon” by Sue Martin

From reference photos and sketches, Russon may select a tractor, bison, bull, or horse. These are images of rural life that are authentic and appealing to Russon, who grew up on a dairy farm near Lehi. “With animals, what you see is what you get,” he says. “A cow can’t fake being a chicken. With people, sometimes they have shells they hide under. That’s why I’m drawn to animals.” Read Ron Russon’s feature in 15Bytes.

Join us for The Pin Project, Benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah

Friday, August 26th, during  the Park City Gallery Stroll.

Join Big Brothers big sisters of Utah at Gallery MAR on Park City’s Main Street for the Pin Project exhibit.  Professionally designed Pins of Art will be featured: bowling pins which have been transformed into creations of art. All of the pieces have been donated by professional artists and 100% of the proceeds from the sales of the Pins will help support the safe, trusting, one-to-one friendships that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah help facilitate. Contact Amberlee Bauman at 801-743-1673 for more information.

About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah provides children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change a child’s life for the better, forever. The agency provides direct services to over 170 children in Summit and Wasatch Counties and over 1,700 children statewide. The friendships they facilitate are proven to help children make better choices, have improved academics, and more self-confidence which translates into kids who are ready to take hold of their future. More information can be found online at www.bbbsu.org/summitwasatch

Kimball Art Center Win a Porsche

Park City Kimball Arts Festival

This event serves as the primary fundraiser for the Kimball Art Center each year. Proceeds from the Festival enable the Kimball Art Center to provide, free of charge, year around art exhibitions, gallery tours, monthly “Art Talks” and to offer art education outreach to teachers, students and our community. I will be renewing my own membership and crossing my fingers in August!

Gallery MAR will have a few wrist bands here for our favorite collectors. Stop by a few days before the festival to grab one!

ART FESTIVAL HOURS

Friday, August 5th  5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Saturday, August 6th 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 7th 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

TICKET PRICES

Friday
Summit County Residents  FREE
Adults: $10.00 each for a weekend pass
Children/Students 6-18: $5.00 each for a weekend pass
Children 5 and under: FREE

Saturday and Sunday
Adults: $10.00 each for a weekend
Children 6-18: $5.00 each for a weekend pass
Children 5 and under: FREE

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Our good friend Dave Berry with Aisling Art Installation just completed a new hanging of Amy Ringholz’s work “Brothers” at a gorgeous home here in Deer Valley, Utah. Berry used a laser beam on a tripod to find the perfectly correct symmetry for the installation. He has some incredible tricks up his sleeves, and his work is always guaranteed. Take a look at a few pictures from the art installation.

Aisling offers custom installation in homes or businesses, into those tricky spots like stone & tile, along stair ways, and for large or small groupings. He was also assist with pick up & deliveries as well as custom sized shipping crates.

If you visit the 2011 Utah Arts Festival, you will have the lucky opportunity to see a gorgeous collection of paintings by Aaron Memmott, Gallery MAR artist. The 2011 Utah Arts Festival’s Artist Marketplace features more than 155 local and national artists. Artists’ applications and portfolios are juried to be accepted into the Utah Arts Festival.

From their website: The Utah Arts Festival presents a wide variety of performing, visual, and literary arts, and seeks to present the best Utah artists and their contemporaries worldwide. The Festival presents several core events annually: an Artists Marketplace; a Culinary Arts program; and a Performing Arts program. The Festival augments these core events each year with new and creative programs, artists, performances, and site elements, thereby ensuring each event is an innovative and unique celebration of the arts.

Below, take a look at a few photos from the weekend-long event, as well as an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about Aaron Memmot and his work.

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“McPherson’s Barn,” 2011, Oil, 12″ x 16″

Gallery MAR artist Scott Lloyd Anderson is recognized as one of the top plein aire painters in the nation. He routinely wins at plein aire competitions and juried shows.  Mr. Anderson’s  painting, Valentines for Sale won the top prize at Salon International 2010. The piece was selected from 392 juried works out of 1300 submissions from 46 states and 18 countries. He was also featured in the March edition of American Art Collector Magazine.

I practice an approach to plein air painting that centers around the “prismatic palette,” a color theory with roots in fin de siecle France. I studied with Joseph Paquet in St. Paul, who had trained under John Phillip Osborne at the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey. Osborne’s philosophy came from his training with Arthur Maynard, who learned under Frank Vincent Dumond, a renowned artist/teacher at the Art Students League in New York. Dumond had studied in the classical tradition at the Academie Julian in France, and was influenced by the new Impressionist ideas regarding color and light. Upon returning to America, Dumond taught in Old Lyme, Connecticut, which became a magnet for American landscape painters.

“TV at Work,” 2011, Oil, 24″ x 18″

I recently traveled to Guangdong province in China with California painter Jason Situ and several other artists. Our hosts from the Kaiping Ministry of Culture were friendly, gracious, and attentive in the extreme. We painted in the city, countryside, and surrounding villages, often alongside Chinese art students. It’s amazing how much can be communicated with pointing, smiling, and giving thumbs up!

“Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence,” 2011, Oil, 16″ x 12″

My practice incorporates the use of the prismatic color palette, an emphasis on accurate draftsmanship, and ideas about composition learned during my years as an art director. My paintings are impressionistic in that they describe the unique character of a particular day’s weather and light, and realistic in their desire to show the world as it is. In addition, I use the language of landscape to express abstract notions about color, form, design—and simply for the pleasing texture of paint on canvas.

“Skiffs,” 2011, Oil, 18″ x 14″

This upcoming art talk looks intriguing, and one of Gallery MAR‘s artists, Bridgette Meinhold, will be speaking. I’m going to try to make it, and you should too.

Environmental Art: Visual Arts and Literature: “A discussion about the connections among the environment, art, and activism.”

Current Artists in Residence at Spiro Arts (writer-Nancy Lord) and (visual artist-David Sullivan) will discuss their work and ideas, relative to environmental concerns, moderated by Park City artist/eco blogger Bridgette Meinhold. Each resident will address specific concerns to their hometowns of Alaska and Louisiana, how these concerns may relate to Park City, and the role of art in wrestling with environmental issues.

Date and Time: Thursday, May 12th (6 – 7pm)

Location: Spiro Arts at Silver Star – Central Studio Building, 1825 Three Kings Drive, Park City UT 84060

Cost: Admission is free and open to the public. A $5.00 donation is recommended to help Spiro Arts sustain its mission

About Spiro Arts: Spiro Arts is an Artist in Residence community and workshop center, located in the beautiful Silver Star community in Park City, UT. Situated on a historic mine site adjacent to Park City Mountain Resort, the rustic architecture and newly restored mine buildings provide a unique setting for Spiro’s multidisciplinary programs, while also serving as headquarters for Park City’s Sundance Film Festival. Spiro Arts hosts a diverse community of visual and literary artists while offering residencies, open studio events, a public lecture series, conferences, life drawing sessions, art auction gala, and a summer workshop for adults and children.

For additional info visit: http://www.spiroarts.org/

Upcoming Events at Spiro Arts

Artists in Residence Open Studios

The Open Studio Events are free and open to the public, come share an evening with our Artists-in-Residence. All open studio events take place at Spiro Arts central studio building, located at Silver Star. A $5.00 donation is recommended to help Spiro Arts sustain its mission and programs.

Friday, May 20th (6 – 9pm) and Friday, July 22nd (6 – 9pm)

You can… and with one of Gallery MAR‘s top artists to boot. Shawna Moore is presenting her “Encuastic Plus” workshop at the Kimball Art Center this fall.

Here are the details

September 30-Oct 2, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT

Encaustic Plus!

Contact/Questions Jenny: 435-649-8882

Artwork Spotlight: Gallery Mar