90th annual Spring Salon showcases Utah artists

90th annual Spring Salon showcases Utah artists

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SPRINGVILLE — The Springville Museum of Art has hosted the annual Spring Salon for 90 years. Created to showcase student art in 1922, the exhibition has returned year after year to give local artists a place to shine.

This year’s Salon features a wide range of artistic expression that indicates the vast differences in Utah’s top artists.

“One of the qualities I enjoy the most about the Spring Salon is the variety of both artworks and artistic backgrounds,” juror Courtney Davis said. “The 2014 Salon will showcase not only internationally renowned artists with many decades of experience, but also up-and-coming artists, ready to make their mark. Seeing such a range of approaches, techniques, styles and subjects is creatively uplifting, to say the least. It reminds me of what the famed nineteenth century Paris Salon must have been like: a crossing point of ideas, innovations, and inspirations.”

Red Vine Polyspore
Red Vine Polyspore (Photo: Elizabeth Crowe)

Davis is an assistant art history professor at Utah Valley University. She said it was a privilege to be a juror of this year’s show, which featured rich and innovative work by her colleagues and her present and former students.

“I was extremely impressed with the quality of the work submitted and the variety styles and mediums that will be showcased, from traditional painting to experimental abstraction, from three-dimensional works to photography,” Davis said.

Artist Elizabeth Crowe has a piece in the show for the second year. Called “Red Vine Polyspore,” the piece has two different parts that offer an interesting visual contrast.

“Both the porcelain and the stoneware parts have similar undulating and free flowing lines that tie them together visually,” Crowe said. “My inspiration for the piece comes from my hikes up the canyon where you can see very different looking objects synchronized together. I like the fact that though objects have strong contrasting textures, colors and shapes, you can find similarities if you look closely enough. Both the contrasts and the similarities are important to the two working together.”

Crowe’s piece is one of many on display at the museum through July 6 at the Springville Museum of Art.

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