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	Maryann Webster - AquaGenesis Presented October 25, 2005 - June 29, 2006 Ms. Webster sculpts living things that come from the sea to make strong statements about nature and the environment. Casting real objects in porcelain and assembling them in twisted, distorted, and xaggerated forms to suggest the environmental damage and chemical pollution she feels is "irrevocably altering nature." Webster's sculptural forms are reminiscent of Bernard Palissy, a French ceramicist from the 1600s. see more
	Recent Aquisitions Presented October - April, 2006 Recent Aquisitions to the Permanent Collection of the Museum.
	Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle Presented January 10, 2006 – March15, 2006 Organized by writers and independent curators Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna and the Santa Monica Museum of Art this exhibition offers an extraordinary snapshot of the post-war arts underground in Southern California, a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of the individuals and communities Berman gathered around him as they worked, lived, created, played, and above all, collaborated. see more
	The Singing Posters by Allen Ruppersberg Presented January – March, 2006 Allen Ruppersberg's latest installation, The Singing Posters, is an homage to Allen Ginsberg and his famous poem, Howl (1955-1956). When Ruppersberg, who teaches at UCLA, discovered that his students had never heard of Howl, he conceived The Singing Posters as a way to introduce that important wsork to a new generation. For the installation Ruppersberg translated the poem into phonetic spellings and reintegrated them into the original text. The "new" text is printed on approximately 200 vibrantly colored commercial advertising posters installed floor to ceiling on the gallery walls.
	Eileen Doktorski - Domestic Arsenal Presented April 5 - June 29, 2006 Doktorski’s sculptural installation, “Domestic Arsenal,” is a room filled with hundreds of transformed objects. A bed is mounded with a mass of household objects: shoes, an iron, a baseball bat, pots, hairbrushes and furniture.
	Mary Peck - Away Out Over Everything: The Olympic Peninsula and The Elwha River Presented April 5 - June 30, 2006 The exhibition, organized by the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, is selected from Peck’s most recent body of work inspired by the landscape and wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. It features 30 wide format photographs that capture the mystery of the land and touches on ever poignant issues of land management and conservation of nature.
	Richard Buswell - Silent Frontier: Icons of Montana's Early Settlement Presented, March 22 - August, 2006 “Silent Frontier: Icons of Montana's Early Settlement” is an exhibition of black and white photographs of Montana’s back country frontier. The exhibition will contain new photographs of hidden Montana ghost towns and isolated sites of early settlements. Through photographs of personal possessions and eroding structures, Buswell tells tales of nature’s reclamation of frontier sites.
	Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues Recent Work of Alice Leora Briggs Presented September 20 - December 9, 2006 Briggs' work is part of the contemporary revival of figurative realism in American art. Combining art historical references, medical illustrations, candid photographs and drawings, Briggs uses a method of incising a material called clayboard with India ink to create richly detailed drawings and mixed media installations.Among the exhibited works are scraffito drawings, a series of mixed-media tableaux of the seven deadly sins, and “Purgatorio.” A room-size installation, “Purgatorio” uses aluminum recovered from soda cans and offset printing plates that are obsessively attached with thousands of tacks to create a machine-like environment. The interior of the installation is papered with stock exchange tallies. It contains a chamber and an elevated reservoir — filled with trompe l’oeil turquoise water — and the Altar of the (L)apse, featuring a decapitated version of Andrea Mantegna’s “Dead Christ” undergoing open heart surgery. more info Listen to an audio interview with Briggs on this link: Utah Public Radio KUSU: Access Utah Friday 9/15: Open Forum, Alice Leora Briggs This project is supported by the Utah Arts Council, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Larry E. Elsner Art Foundation, the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the Quinney Nebeker Law Firm, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Department of Art, and the Caine School of the Arts in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.