We are pleased to announce the opening of an exciting new exhibition titled Imagining UMOCA, which will be on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art from January 24 - April 15, 2017.

Led by our own Anne Mooney in the Senior Design Studio course at the University of Utah's School of Architecture, students imagined possibilities for expanding the museum to serve its diverse and growing audience. They began by researching contemporary artists, and then developed their analyses into 3-dimensional designs for one of three downtown sites, attempting to capture the essence of the artist they selected in their proposals. These final concepts by six students will be exhibited in the museum's Ed Space Gallery. The concepts meet UMOCA's programmatic and functional requirements, while also creating a spatial experience that unfolds gradually for the visitor and engages both body and mind.

SMAJanuary 23, 2017Exhibitions, Utah Architecture, Utah Design, Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Museum Design, Salt Lake City Architects, Salt Lake City Arts + Culture, Architects Utah, Architects Salt Lake, Contemporary Architecture, Contemporary Design, Museum of Contempoary Art, University of Utah, University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning, Sparano + Mooney Architecture team, Teaching

Electric Earth: The Modern Narrative of Doug Aitken at MOCA

Sound and image bleed and fuse. The viewer sees, experiences and questions. Modern hyper-mobility and the relentlessness of human existence are served up in the guise of moving pictures. Such is the entropic landscape of the art works by Doug Aitken, which will be exhibited in a mid-career retrospective at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). The show will be the first North American museum survey of Aitken’s work and will include seven large-scale video installations, a recent live sound piece and several cross-disciplinary, multimedia artworks that, in typical Aitken fashion, defy acute categorization.

SMASeptember 14, 2016Los Angeles, Los Angeles art, Contemporary Art, Film, Multimedia, Photography, Video, Art Installations, Museum of Contempoary Art

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