Showing Up in SLC Community Events: March and April 2017

One of the works that will be on show at Altered: Artists Advocating for Survivors of Domestic Violence. Opening March 3 at 6:30 p.m. in Ogden. Courtesy of the artist, Amanda Michelle Smith // amandamichellesmith.com

If you follow SLUG’s Daily Calendar, then you already know that there’s always something happening in Salt Lake—whether it be music, art or the community rallying behind a cause. As spring approaches, there are are many events organized for those who wish to use their voice and become more involved with their community. … read more

Movie Review: The Red Turtle

The Red Turtle| Sony Pictures Classics

The Red Turtle is the latest outing from Japan’s geek-revered animation wonderland Studio Ghibli, and it will no doubt be something that fans of Ghibli’s other films will enjoy. Its truly gorgeous animation palette transports the viewer directly into the quiet nuances of the film’s story, and its dialogue-free narrative structure lets the audience drink freely from that deep well of visual beauty. … read more

Line of Best Abstraction: Jared Steffensen & Christopher Kelly, Scott Malbaurn at CUAC

Photo courtesy of CUAC.

CUAC’s current exhibitions feature works that use stark lines and color in a minimalist way. This approach highlights the dynamics and textures that arise from things as simple as lines and shapes, making the viewer question their own perception of what they first think they see, and then they should interact with or try to understand it. … read more

Bodies in Space: Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch at UMOCA

Rona Pondick, The Metamorphosis of an Object, 2009 | Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris/Salzburg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, and the artist.

Painter Robert Feintuch and sculptor Rona Pondick each embrace the long lineage of humankind’s fascination with the body and the figure. Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying is the first extensive museum exhibition of both Pondick and Feintuch’s work. The exhibition will be on show at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) through July 15. … read more

Localized: Wicked Bears

(L–R) Casey Keele, Nick Fleming and Ken Vallejos.

Wicked Bears have mustered up a sound all their own, drawing inspiration from new-school pop punk greats like Direct Hit! and The Menzingers as well as ’90s classics like Green Day and Blink-182. With one EP locked in the catalog, Wicked Bears will continue on with new material well into 2017. Check out their music Mar. 16 at Urban Lounge for SLUG Localized. … read more

Art on Violence: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be

Rosa Naday Garmendia, Rituals of Commemoration, as shown at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art for The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be (2017). Courtesy of UMOCA.

In The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be, a group exhibition curated by South Florida–based Susan Caraballo, 10 artists confront us with “manmade atrocities,” not through explicit spectacle or slaughter, but through rumination and social practice. View the exhibition at UMOCA through May 13. … read more