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June 17, 2025 – July 25, 2025

Friday, June 20, 6-9pm: Opening Reception & Salt Lake Gallery Stroll

Friday, July 18, 6-9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll

 

Sandy Brunvand: Ecotone

 

Originally from Michigan, Sandy Brunvand moved to Salt Lake City at 19, for just a few years. Decades later she still calls it home. After receiving her MFA in 2003, she co-founded Saltgrass Printmakers, a non-profit printmaking studio located in Salt Lake City and began teaching at the University of Utah. Brunvand’s artwork incorporates painting, drawing, printmaking, and sometimes dog hair. After a rewarding 30-year arts teaching career, she retired to focus on her greatest passions: Artmaking and Dogs! An advocate for all animals, Brunvand splits her volunteer time between Best Friends SLC, and Color Country Animal Welfare, Torrey.

My art practice begins on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in the foothills of SLC. Hiking in the same area almost every weekday is inspiring for me. This has been my meditative ritual for 25 years. It inspires my color palette and has led to a conceptual and media exploration of my own form of Ecotone in recent years. The term Ecotone it is a transitional zone between two adjacent biomes.  Within my own interpretation of Ecotone, I create transitional zones between different artistic approaches and media - previous works layered with new images and explorations on paper.

 

Mitsu Salmon: Erosion and Becoming

 

This work delves into the intersection of geology and the body, blurring boundaries between natural and constructed experiences of motherhood. While pregnant, medical imaging evoked panoramic landscape photography, highlighting the body as a terrain shaped by the Earth's materials. She now experiments with casein paint made from breastmilk and formula, creating high-contrast images inspired by Asian landscape traditions and portraiture. These pieces, along with sonogram prints and other objects resembling mountains, will be displayed as an installation and live performance. The work explores how technology both reveals and mediates our bodily connection to the earth and ourselves. everyday structures. Playing between distinct methods of collage and assemblage the exhibition will explore poetic themes relevant to our own backgrounds while opening the opportunity for collaboration and crossover between our two studio practices.

Mitsu Salmon creates visual and performing works that fuse multiple disciplines. Her work draws from personal and/or family stories to discuss broader social-political issues such as diaspora, labor, feminism, and the environment. Salmon received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BFA from NYU. She has participated in artist residencies such as at Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), Incheon Art Platform (Korea), Guildhall (NY) and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She has presented work at places such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Chicago Cultural Center.

FINCH LANE GALLERY & ARTS COUNCIL OFFICE HOURS

Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday-Sunday: Closed

Hours subject to change.  Finch Lane Gallery also participates in the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll on the 3rd Friday each month from 6-9pm.  More Information

The Salt Lake City Arts Council is a division of Salt Lake City Corporation in the Department of Economic Development and also maintains a nonprofit corporation, the Salt Lake City Arts Council Foundation with 501(c)(3) status.

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