Our current featured artist, Amy Jorgensen, will be speaking tomorrow night at Weber State University. This is a great opportunity to hear about Jorgensen’s unique photography process, philosophy and inspiration.
Location: Lindquist Lecture Hall, KA 120, Kimball Visual Arts Building
Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 7:00- 8:00pm
Sponsored and hosted by the Weber State Department of Visual Arts
Utah contemporary artist Amy Jorgensen explains her Body Archive series:
“Body Archive began as an inquiry into the practices and aesthetics of historical criminal photography and associated assumptions of the photograph as a document of the moment, or a representation of truth – what Walter Benjamin describes as evidence of an occurrence. Technological innovation in contemporary forensic methodologies position the body as the central locale for the collection of residual trace evidence. As a culture we are spellbound by the potential implications found in skin cells, DNA strands, and microscopic fibers, as evidenced by the multitude of television series dedicated solely to the reporting and dramatization of criminal investigations.
This work examines our artistic and scientific expectations of photography and the body in challenging and transformative ways. Traditional notions of the body in art – the figure as object on view – are set aside to consider the body as an active participant in artistic process. I incorporate performance and photography with a willingness to use my own body as both test subject and subject matter in an investigation of personal and cultural assumptions linked to violence, media, the body, and photographic practice.
I explore the body as a site of experience, and the body as both repository and author of information. In an attempt to develop a document without bias and point of view, I place photographic emulsion, sans camera, on the surface of my body to record my actions. The images are created over time: minutes, hours. The resulting photographs are the striking visual residue of my experience: traces of
body fluid, clothing, skin prints, and the fine edges of body hair are evidence of my occurrence. I live in a body. And my body is an archive, my skin the surface through which I experience the world.”
Amy Jorgensen was born in Milan, Italy. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 1997, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. She currently lives and works remotely in Utah.
To see more of Amy Jorgensen’s available works through Mondo Fine Art, click HERE
If you’ve been wondering why we haven’t been doing as many shows this fall, like we usually do, it is because we have been updating our business model, and by extension, our website, and are pleased to announce that the new beta site is live!
One of the major changes you will notice on our website and with our business in general is more of a focus on consulting. Since the beginning, Mondo has been more than an online gallery with pop-up exhibitions, it has also been a source for people looking for specific art pieces for their collections and projects. We have enjoyed guiding our clients through this process and finding works that are suited to their collecting goals.
With our growing number of collectors and designers, with their unique collecting goals or vision, we have expanded our network of artists and galleries that we work with, to provide even more options, and better serve our clientele. We still work regularly with our original group of Mondo artists, and have access to their artwork, and also commission works with them on projects. Our featured artwork page is now dedicated to a more revolving set of featured artwork, showcasing spotlight artists or works of art that are currently on view.
We at Mondo want to understand you better, so we have developed a new online tool, my mondo, which allows you to create your own private profile where you can list your art preferences. Once you’ve set up your preferences, we will then create a private viewing gallery of artwork that we think you will enjoy. You can provide instant feedback on the works, letting us know what you like or don’t like. This is especially beneficial for our designers, as we will be able to organize your artwork by project, with each having their own gallery.
Since our website is still in beta, we want your feedback! If there is anything we can do to make the site even more user friendly, please let us know by emailing us at info@mondofineart.com, with subject “beta site”.
Thank you for your continued support over the past two years and helping make all this possible!
Mondo Fine Art invites you to celebrate the arrival of Spring with a special show, featuring new works by Aaron Bushnell, Angie Renfro, Carlisle, John Bell, Lane Bennion, Olivia Pendergast, Pilar Pobil, Roland Thompson, and Zachary Proctor.
Thursday, April 28th 7-9pm
Light Spot Modern Design
2927 South Highland Drive
Salt Lake City, UT
Join us for the evening, see the new work, meet the artists, enjoy delicious appetizers provided by Fleur de Sel and music provided by award winning DJ, Mr. Jesse Walker.
Special thanks to Light Spot Modern Design for hosting us in their beautiful modern space. For more information on Light Spot, or to recieve notifications of other special events, please join their contact list.
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Mondo Fine Art painter Lane Bennion is featured in this month’s issue of Southwest Art Magazine for his artistic interpretation of interior spaces.
“I am often drawn to busy or chaotic scenes in my still lifes and interiors. Perhaps when there is so much going in a scene, I find that by painting it, I can slow it down and exercise some control over the chaos—or at least hear what it has to say.”
Check out the article HERE.
Click here to see available works by Lane Bennion.
Mondo has been hibernating on the show front this Winter (as is tradition for us), but it’s now Spring and time to celebrate with a Spring Group Show! We’ve asked our artists to bring their freshest, boldest, most inspired work (no pressure, right?) for this special event.
This show will feature works by all our Mondo represented artists: Aaron Bushnell, Angie Renfro, Carlisle, John Bell, Lane Bennion, Olivia Pendergast, Pilar Pobil, Roland Thompson, and Zachary Proctor.
So thaw out from Winter with us Thursday, April 28th, from 7-9pm with food and drink, music, and the freshest works from our fabulous artists!
Location: Light Spot 2927 Highland Dr. Salt Lake City, UT
Thanks to Glen Warchol of the Salt Lake Tribune for the excellent article on Mondo out today. See full article HERE.
We’d also like to thank Gavin Sheehan of City Weekly and Gavin’s Underground for the great interview posted yesterday. See blog post HERE.
We greatly appreciate the amazing support from the arts community in Utah. If it weren’t for our artists, our clients, our colleagues, institutions, art community, and press - Mondo wouldn’t exist. So thank you for taking interest in Mondo and sharing!
photo by Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday March 30, 2011.
Hello friends of Mondo – we apologize for the noticeable lag on blogging recently. We’ve been very busy, and have much to update you on. Check back for new posts soon! Thanks for your patience. – the Mondo team
As we pass from Fall to Winter, and watch the close of 2010 with anticipation of a new year, we want to celebrate these shifts with a very special event to kick off the holiday season.
Saturday, November 20th, Mondo Fine Art invites you to Transitions. For one afternoon, you will get a chance to step into the studios of 6 of our artists: Lane Bennion, Zachary Proctor, Carlisle, Roland Thompson, Angie Renfro and Olivia Pendergast for a very rare opportunity.
You’ve seen the works that we’ve shown of these artists on our website and at shows, but whatever happens to the works not shown – the academic works and the transitional works between series? These are beautiful and technical pieces, but many times never seen by the public. These works include paintings, drawings, and artist sketches.
Now you will have a chance to purchase these pieces for a special event price – some pieces up to 50% off retail. Perfect if you are starting a collection or thinking of giving the gift of art to a loved one for the holidays.
We will be setting up the temporary artist studios at the Westgate Lofts in their luxury penthouse suites. We’d like to thank Westgate Lofts for hosting us in their space. To learn more about Westgate Lofts, visit their website: www.wgluxurylofts.com
Date: Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Time: 12-4pm *
Location: Westgate Lofts 328 West 200 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
*Be sure to arrive early as these works at this price are sure to move fast.
ALSO, we are so excited to have some fantastic Utah bands, Emily Allen, Red Bennies, Joshua Payne Orchestra and Theta Naught, performing during the event. Check out their music and get a sound sample on their websites:
www.joshuapayneorchestra.com
www.thetanaught.org
AND – enjoy some tasty seasonal treats by Fleur de Sel: www.fleurdeselslc.com
(for a map, click HERE)
Happy Holidays from Mondo Fine Art!
What a great night! The Miss Utah USA Gala benefiting the Mondo Art Project, in partnership with Youthlinc, was a great success! Thanks to all the Miss Utah contestants and their families for helping raise the money needed to support our efforts with the Hser Ner Moo Refugee Center in Salt Lake City, and for all the art supplies donated for our international trips in 2011.
The goal is was to raise funds to be employed locally to enrich afterschool programs at Hser Ner Moo Center in South Salt Lake, adding an additional afternoon each week of art instruction and expression for teen refugees through the Youthlinc Real Life in SLC mentoring program. We are so thrilled that we will be able to see this happen, thanks to the supporters of this event.
Also, with all the art supplies donated at last night’s event, we will be able to facilitate art projects and exchanges with our MAP trips through Youthlinc to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, Peru, and Kenya next year.
Special thanks to the organizers of the event – Laura Chukanov, Jessica Whitehead, and the current Miss Utah, Katya Feinstein, as well as all the others that made this event possible (donors, sponsors, volunteers). You are amazing – thank you!!
Stay tuned for an announcement of when we will be officially kicking off the new programming at the Hser Ner Moo Refugee Center, scheduled for this December.
Best of luck to all the contestants this weekend with the competition!
MONDO ART PROJECT (MAP) MISSION STATEMENT
The Mondo Art Project was created to connect children all over the world through the universal language of art. Our goal is to give children from all countries, cultures, and backgrounds a voice – a chance to tell their story and communicate with other children through a medium that transcends language barriers.
By partnering with schools, humanitarian groups and other non-profit organizations, we are able to reach out to children, organize art projects, and exchange experiences through artwork created - connecting children all over the world.