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We are Salt Lake Exhibition - Art Access Gallery
I very excited to announce my first solo art show at Art Access Gallery. This a new body of work featuring Gestalt portraits of Salt Lake residents. This exhibition is a continuation of the themes from my City Weekly Box.
We are Salt Lake: Gestalt Portraits by Margaret Tarampi
April 20 - May 8, 2012Art Access Gallery
230 South 500 West, #125
Salt Lake CityGallery Stroll Reception
Friday, April 20, 2012
6 - 9 PM
Regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 AM - 6 PM.More information can be found here is this press release: http://ow.ly/ajJqc
I would be remiss if I didn't thank the countless individuals for whom this show would not have been possible. First and foremost, I would like to thank my husband Eric. He has sacrificed beyond measure and demonstrated a great deal of patience to help me reach this day. I would also like to thank Dwight Yee, who took many of the portrait photographs that I based this work on and who helped with framing the pieces. I am also grateful to all of the people who agreed to be part of this exhibition - SuAn, Jen, Alex, the Hall family, Molly, Davida, Dut, Kim, Marilyn, Peter, the Klekas family, Moe, and Melodia. Their presence and good work in our community make Salt Lake a wonderful place. Finally my gratitude to: Lace Bassett, Jennifer Leahy, Shawn and Brad at Plastik Banana, RD Screendesign, Elegant Tailoring, Zach Gildersleeve, and Art Access Gallery.
We are Salt Lake - Out of the Box Art Project
I did one of the newspaper box's for City Weekly's Out of the Box project. Ten local artists who were chosen and the finished boxes were on display during the Utah Arts Festival in the Urban Gallery of the Salt Lake City Library from 23-26 June 2011. My newspaper box now resides at the Salt Palace Convention Center (200 S. and West Temple).
The concept for my piece was We are Salt Lake. I believe my style is well suited for this concept. We are Salt Lake is about our collective humanity as a community of diverse individuals in Salt Lake. While we are all united by our Salt Lake identities, we each hold a unique personal story and history. Discover those stories.
This project would not have been possible without Dwight Yee who took the portraits that I based this work on. I am also very thankful to the amazing people who are the subject of my piece - Melodia, Dut, Davida, and Molly. Each of their stories are inspiring and I think they are great representatives of our Salt Lake community. Finally I want to thank Benjamin Gawle for cutting the vinyl.
Open to View - Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out
"Open to View" is a rear projection video installation in the front windows of a house by Eric Egenolf, Zach Gildersleeve, and Margaret Tarampi.
During the day, Open to View is about surveillance where passersby on the street are unknowingly filmed from within the house. At night, clips from the daytime films are played on the windows through which they were initial shot. This simple act of projecting the film clips transforms the piece into a commentary about voyeurism, welcoming passersby to actively engage private space - both through the observer's physical proximity to the projections and through the revealing of what is normally a private view.
We are very excited to have won the $2000 prize for Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out. We are proud of our site-specific piece and thoroughly enjoyed the collaborative process.
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