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Tonight! VIRTUAL IDENTITIES // REAL SPACE

Sego Art Center // ArtBistro.com International Juried Show – 2008

I’m pleased to announce the opening of our International Juried Show with Sego Art Center. Artists are traveling from thousands of miles away to be at the opening. I look forward to seeing you there and will give a full report to those that cannot make it this time. Below is the Press Release. – Valerie

On 7 November 2008, and in collaboration with ArtBistro.com, the Sego Art Center will open Virtual Identities // Real Space, a juried exhibition of artwork by an international group of artists associated with the artistic social networking site Artbistro. Jeff Lambson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the BYU Museum of Art, formerly associated with the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, will designate the awards for the exhibit and present them opening night.

An opening reception will be held for the artists from 6 – 9 pm that evening in association with the monthly Provo Gallery Stroll.

In conjunction with Virtual Identities // Real Space, On Thursday November 20, Sego will present its monthly Evening with the Artist lecture and discussion series. Valerie Atkisson, editor of ArtBistro will discuss the show, along with the shows jurors. The event is free and open to the public.

The artists selected to exhibit in the first annual Sego Art Center Juried Show are varied in their scope of media and concept, and represent a small but accurate sample of the ever more diverse contemporary art world. The artworks in the exhibit include media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, conceptual jewelry, video, html, textile, fashion, and mixed media among others. Conceptual investigations are no less diverse, with artists analyzing and or constructing / deconstructing issues as varied as as are the artists’ locales (Shanghai, New York, Santa Fe, Boston, and Salt Lake City are only several of the many locations from which the artists reside).

Although this juried show achieves what all such shows accomplish: an opportunity for emerging artists working in many veins to show in one institutional framework without the parameters of the standard curatorial process of the host institution, this show provides yet another unique opportunity: the ability for artists who normally engage with one another in a virtual community, to physically bring their work together into a tangible temporal environment, arguably the overriding goal of many artists who engage in Artbistro and other similar social networking communities.

The participating artists in this year’s juried show are: Hidemi Shimura, Daniel Deluna, Natalie N O’neal,

Pooneh Maghazehe, Yusuke Nishimura, Chris Purdie,

Chao-Ming Teng, Mireille Vautier, Mark Rumsey,

Adam Taye, Alan Bigelow, Holly Veselka, Valerie Atkisson,

Brian Christensen, Jonathan Vaughan, Ryan Browning

The show will remain open to the public through November 28th and will be viewable from 12-8pm Tuesday through Saturday, Mondays by appointment. Special appointments can be made by calling Jason Metcalf at 801.599.0680.

169 N. University Ave. Provo UT 801.599.0680 segoartcenter@gmail.com segoarts.org

Sego Art Center 169 N University Ave Provo UT 84601

Hours: Tues-Sat 12-8pm

Call for information and special appointments: 801.599.0680

segoartcenter@gmail.com segoarts.org

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