November 17, 2025 – December 26, 2025

Friday, November 21, 6-9pm: Opening Reception & Salt Lake Gallery Stroll

Friday, December 5, 6-9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll

Group Exhibition, Curated by Holly Rios & Carlissa Shaw: Perspectives of Women in Print

Perspectives of Women in Print is a group show featuring Utah-based, women printmakers working in different printmaking methods whose work represents experiences of our womanhood. Performing womanhood is a process, stepped instructions allowing us to fulfill the expectations of us at the end of the day. Printmaking, like womanhood, is process oriented. A series of steps with rules, to be meticulously followed, yielding a successful end-result. But what happens when a group of women choose to break those rules? This curation highlights our shared experiences of gender and gender performance, as well as the places we diverge.

Originally from Colorado, Holly Rios is a Utah-based printmaker. Working primarily in copperplate etching, screen printing, and collage, her work utilizes a limited color palette and merges text with image. Using appropriated imagery from books, films, and other media archives in her work, Rios is interested in media literacy - investigating how popular media both reinforces and reflects our social attitudes back to us. Rios received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Utah and her BFA in Printmaking and English from Western Colorado University. She currently teaches Drawing and Printmaking at Utah State University.

Carlissa Shaw is an Artist, a Printmaker and an Educator born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah. Her background in art focused on Drawing and Painting where she focused on the technical work of figure drawing and painting. She later received her bachelor’s in fine arts with an Emphasis in Printmaking from the University of Utah. In her printmaking work she focuses on creating visual difference by utilizing multiple methods of printmaking or multiple plates. Her work combines the use of the figure as the representation of woman, and the juxtaposition of natural elements as the symbolic representation of emotion. While the work is rooted in personal experience, her work is meant to highlight shared experience and emotion by others and as represented in the natural world.

Dan Evans: Peripheral Dependencies

I rarely lack social confidence. But when someone is speaking to me, I find that looking directly into their eyes is far too intimate and distracting. So, I look away with an unfocused gaze in order to listen better, always at the risk of appearing disinterested or dismissive. While traditional photo collage generally relies upon the viewer recognizing objective aspects of the repurposed material, I shift my eyes toward the peripheral, specifically eliminating the subjects or rendering them unrecognizable. These subsidiary, incidental moments which provided counterform, depth, and context in the original appropriated photographs, become my subjects of focus… concrete elements carefully balanced between recognition and abstraction. 

Dan Evans is multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose 35+ years of professional experience spans across 2D, 3D, and time-based media, environments, installations, and immersive/site-responsive theatre. He holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and a BFA in from Otis/Parsons. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah and has also taught at the Otis College of Art & Design and Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. His work has been published in American Theater magazine and honored by the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, Time Magazine, The Lester Horton Dance Awards, AIGA, and the James Beard Foundation.