Meow and hello everyone. It’s Cosmo, Library Cat and art critic, here with wonderful news for all my fellow art connoisseurs out there. Grand County Public Library is currently hosting the All-State Utah High School Art Exhibition!
This traveling exhibit showcases award-winning student artwork submitted by Juniors and Seniors from high schools around the state in the Utah High School Art Show. I am in awe of the talent and creativity on display.
While these young artists hail from all over the state, our region of Utah is a source of inspiration to many! Andrik Essey’s archival pigment print titled “Over the Arch” is a stunner, featuring a starlit sky with an arch in the foreground. And Ellie Littlefield captures a number of Moab-area scenes in “The Small Significant Things.” Littlefield says she wanted to convey “the feeling of tranquility” and her acrylic on paper grid accomplishes exactly that.
I’m something of an expert in tranquility–not even the shrillest screeches emanating from the children’s room or the clicking and clacking of our adult patrons typing away at their computers can harsh my mellow! I nap through it all. So you can trust me when I tell you this painting evokes tranquility.
Pigeons are also a theme. And though I follow art trends closely, I admit I did not see this one coming. Mason Peery’s black and white painting invites the viewer to reconsider the beauty of these much-maligned birds. And in “Scopophobia”, Anna Tiemann uses mechanized pigeons to highlight the terrors of electronic surveillance. (Scopophobia is the fear of being looked at or seen; I would not want to be seen by these weaponized, mechanical birds, yikes! But you should come see this digital painting!)
Thanks to a partnership with the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, this exhibit will be displayed in the Moab library’s large meeting room and across from our circulation desk until October. It is well worth a trip to the library to see it. You might even be lucky enough to see yours truly if you do!
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