Niki de Saint Phalle’s work has been recently featured at the Guggenheim Bilbao and Paris’ Le Grand Palais, and now, it’s coming to the Kimball! Come see work by one of the foremost women artists of the twentieth century.

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) passionately rebelled—against artistic trends or movements, against women’s traditional roles, against perceived limitations of what a woman artist could do. She forged her own path, one that was set in motion in 1961 by her shots heard around the world.

Saint Phalle’s provocative Shooting Paintings brought the artist international attention and set the stage for a multifaceted career imbued with the artist’s personal story as well as the socio-political issues of the era. In the ensuing years, her work took dramatic new form while engaging in lasting dichotomies: allure and aversion, naïveté and sophistication. She established her own visual language populated by voluptuous bodies and fantastical creatures, and her signature forms—appearing through decades of work across various mediums—became the site of complex meaning.

Today, Saint Phalle is most remembered for her joyful, brightly colored sculptures of women mid-frolic. Yet these celebratory figures are part of a larger dialogue. From early assemblages to monumental public art, this exhibition explores the artist’s radical redefinition of women’s roles and women’s bodies and unveils Saint Phalle’s continual quest for freedom.

Presented in collaboration with Christian Center of Park City, and accompanying the CCPC’s 3rd Annual Latino Arts Festival, this exhibition at the Kimball will present the work of nine Latino artists living in Utah. From painting and photography to sculpture and installation, Historias presents a diverse and dynamic collection of stories. It is a not-to-be-missed exhibition about community, culture, celebration, and conversation.

Historias de Ayer y Hoy includes the work of distinguished artists Oscar Amaya, Juan Pablo Gasca, Fannely Goderiss, David Maestas, V. Kim Martinez, Sarah May, Nancy Rivera, Laura Romero, and Antonio Silveira.

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Presentado en colaboración con el Centro Cristiano de Park City y acompañando al 3er Festival Anual de Artes Latinas del CCPC, esta exhibición en el Kimball Art Center presentará el trabajo de nueve artistas Latinos que viven en Utah. Desde pintura y fotografía, hasta escultura e instalaciónes, Historias presenta una colección diversa y dinámica de historias y cuentos. Es una exposición sobre la comunidad, cultura, y celebraciónes que no se debe perder. Noche de apertura, disfrutarás aperitivos and música en vivo.

Historias de Ayer y Hoy incluye obras de artistas distinguidos como, Oscar Amaya, Juan Pablo Gasca, Fannely Goderiss, David Maestas, V. Kim Martinez, Sarah May, Nancy Rivera, Laura Romero, and Antonio Silveira

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Mark Crenshaw’s verdant landscapes demonstrate a desire to connect on a deeper level with the natural world. Informed by his childhood, when he was surrounded by farms and orchards in Santaquin, Utah, his paintings explore our relationship with the natural resources we use and consume on a daily basis. While modern industrial society has created a divide between ourselves and where these resources come from, Crenshaw advocates for a closer connection.

With an abstracted approach to form, Crenshaw privileges his impression of his subjects above photographic realism. He furthers this visual tension in images that are cut off, extending beyond the edges of the canvas or panel. Without placing any figures in view, Crenshaw subtly draws attention to our relationship to and dependence on these natural resources, and encourages more consciousness of what we use and where it comes from.

Over the last four decades, Fred Montague’s activities in art, writing and teaching have centered on fostering environmental awareness and sustainable practices. Montague’s goal, in this quickly changing, more complicated world, is to offer a revitalizing link to our ecological context — Nature. In original pen and ink drawings, limited edition prints and books, he creates windows onto the natural world: highly-detailed stippling and hatching define the head of a bison or a river rock bed; a chat between ravens comes alive in the more abstracted and bold images that are characteristic of his woodcuts.

Montague’s work is derived from traditional methods and stand in contrast to today’s mass-production, fast-information processes. He prints his woodcuts and photolithographs on a 1913 Golding letterpress in his workshop, his books are often hand-bound and some of his drawings take hundreds of hours to complete. In each medium, capturing the simple beauty of the natural world, Montague offers countless reasons why we must act now to save the wildness that surrounds us.

Interested in our complex relationship with the natural world, contemporary printmaker Nicole Pietrantoni creates large-scale installations and works on paper that speak to the inevitability of competing stories and representations. Her innovative work combines digital and traditional printmaking techniques, most recently culminating in several series of accordion books that each expand to create panoramic landscapes covering entire walls and spilling out onto the floor. Within these vast pieces, she seeks to engage nature as an accumulation of processes, perceptions, and narratives – a dynamic and shifting site open for interpretation. Her installations weave, evoke, inspire and invite you to look closer, to delight in the details that in turn offer a complete image unlike any you thought you would experience.

Nicole will also be teaching two workshops here at the Kimball Art Center, Drumleaf Book Binding for adults on February 8 and Folded Books for kids and teens on February 10. Register online!

Park City’s Old Town Cellars invites you to vote on the artwork to be featured on one of their upcoming wine labels.

After a call for art released by the Kimball Art Center and Old Town Cellars, we selected the top ten entries, each representing the Soul of Park City in creative and unique ways.

Now it is your turn to vote for your favorite! Click to enlarge images.

You can vote through January 5 at the Kimball Art Center, Old Town Cellars, online and during a final event at Old Town Cellars on January 6, 2018.
Limit one vote per day.