From Deseret News archives:
Spring toward this salon
The Springville art museum's annual show is one of its best
This year's statewide exhibition excels because the work by new and established artists excels; the majority of the art in the show is impressively conceived, soundly executed and professionally presented.
While I gave the last three Salons fair-to-good reviews, there was always something skeptical and cheerless lurking beneath the surface of my writing. Not so this year. The 82nd Annual Spring Salon has returned to its customary overall quality.
With 998 works of art submitted, 269 were selected for inclusion in the show. "And while we upped the entry fee from $10 to $12, we still had 12 more pieces entered than last year," said Vern Swanson, director of the Springville Museum of Art.
Unlike many other exhibitions, the Spring Salon juries from actual work, not photographs or slides. "They all lie," said Swanson. "Every photographic image lies, either to the benefit or detriment of the work of art, so we're committed to the idea of jurying off the work."
Ruth Allred, a graduate of Weber State University and the Otis Art Institute in painting and sculpture, as well as a member of the museum staff, juried out the 10 percent this year.
"The pre-jurying," said Swanson, "took out most of the stuff that never would have made it into the show anyway, even on the best day possible."
Even with the 10 percent pre-jury cut, the main jurists, Margaret Hunt, director of the Utah Arts Council, and Richard Oman, from the Museum of Church History and Art, had an arduous task.
"If you try to allow each work of art to have within itself its own jurying criteria, you need mental gymnastics, artistic ability and physical stamina to do that with each piece," Swanson said. "Margaret and Richard tried to do it, but afterward they were dead." (Hunt and Oman juried art from 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.)
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