Featuring the work of 12 local artists, Dreamscapes features diverse approaches to the natural world re-imagined. As in our dreams, these landscapes are often heightened or reduced, altered or abstracted. With both a small amount of whimsy and great sincerity, these artists capture the fleeting moments and sublime beauty of nature, as well as what we see in our dreams.

Participating artists include: AD Allegretti, Ginny Coombs, Karen Kendall, Mark Maziarz, Linda McCausland, Cynthia McLoughlin, Kylie Millward, Kristen Mitchell, Anna Leigh Moore, Elizabeth Peterkort, Annastasia Copeland-Rynders, and Jennifer Worsley.

Back by popular demand, Park City Collects makes a notable return to the Kimball Art Center’s Main Gallery. Featuring diverse pieces from local collectors, Park City Collects III showcases a wide range of time periods, media, and styles by internationally acclaimed artists.

Visitors will find themselves delighted by each collector’s personal story, and engrossed in the emotional reaction that shifts one from admirer to collector. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to enjoy pieces unavailable for public viewing and better understand the persuasive power of art.

The Stitching Years represents a body of work created by mixed-media artist Downy Doxey-Marshall between 2004-08. Armed with a palette of thread and the power of nostalgia, her work speaks to the impact of clothing and furniture in our daily lives. She creates tactile portraits featuring these treasured objects, which often become synonymous with the people who wear and use them.

Doxey-Marshall writes, “I decided to show myself during these years. By creating self-portraits with the focus diverted to my attire, I could be present and hidden in the same piece. Jackets and robes became the stars. The patterns were created by the thread, like a trail left from a memory. Time passes while we live out our lives in the spaces filled with the things we collect and the people we love.”

In today’s social media-driven landscape, we are surrounded by portraits — from candid snapshots to highly-staged selfies. Body and Soul features 24 Utah-based artists and explores the lasting power of this classical genre across contemporary painting, photography, text-based installations, and more. Established tropes are both embraced and reinvented, presenting diverse approaches to portraiture as a means of commemoration, reflection, and social critique. From faithful likeness to fantasy and fracture, the power of portraits is that they are about more than what we look like; they reveal who we are.

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Internationally acclaimed artist Zhi Lin confronts the lost history of the Chinese workers who built our nation’s transcontinental railroads. This exhibition is presented during the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike, the ceremonial final spike to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad.

Exhibition Programming:

Writing the Names, Remembering the Legacy | April 13 | 10am – 4pm | Free
Community Exhibition Opening | April 19 | 6pm – 8pm | Free
Group Critique Session with Zhi Lin – Painting and Drawing | April 20 | 10am – 12pm | $20 for those registering for a critique; free for other attendees
Evening for Educators | April 25 | 6pm – 9pm | Free
Zhi Lin Artful Afternoon for Kids | April 26 | 1pm – 3:30pm | $30
Golden Spike Artful Afternoon for Kids | May 10 | 1pm – 3:30pm | $30
150th Anniversary of the Golden Spike | May 10
Art and Social Activism: A Panel Discussion | May 11 | 4pm |Free
Read and Re(View) – Kimball’s Book Club – “The Fortunes” | May 16 | 7pm – 8:30pm | Free
“West: A Translation” with Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s Poet Laureate | May 23 | 7pm – 8:30pm | Free

Known for her highly representational oil paintings of everyday objects, Erin Westenskow Berrett has recently begun a new trajectory in her work. In the midst of experimenting with bolder strokes, larger palettes, and new subject matter, she also began experimenting with a new medium — paper.

Berrett begins her new compositions with hundreds of cut paper pieces from reclaimed magazines. As with her oil paintings, she works from dark to light and from big shapes to small. Combining “already made” textures and colors, she represents the familiar in unexpected ways, embracing just enough dissonance so that it becomes new again.