Jun4th - June 30th, 2021 In celebration of Pride month, Writ & Vision is proud to announce Queer Expressions, a collection of work by local LGBTQ+ artists. Artist roster includes: Blaire Ostler Kathy Carlston Karly Jade Catto Joshua Jacobs Natalie King Foxglove Adams

July 16th - August 17th, 2021 Lisa DeLong’s new body of work, largely completed during lockdown, explores geometry as a language of creation. Each work is constructed using humanity’s ancient creative tools, the compass and square. Inspiration comes first and foremost from the Order of Nature, the proportions and harmonies governing cosmos from the hexagonal crystals of a snowflake, to the five-fold petals of a rose, to the musical planetary dance of our solar system. These fundamental geometric realities find profound expression in the arts and architecture of all traditional cultures, perhaps most notably in the Islamic world’s mastery of geometric patterning. Around the globe, geometry and its tools have long been associated with Divine order. In ancient China, the primordial couple Fu Shi and Nuwa hold square and compass as they preside over the heavens. Medieval European illuminations show the Divine Architect scribing the boundaries of the earth with his dividers. Ottoman court architects wielded richly engraved compasses as they designed the sacred spaces for public worship. These tools remain fundamentally unchanged through human history and are central to the creation of each work in this exhibition. The discipline of geometry not only generates beautiful designs, but in itself it can also become a meditative, prayerful, and devotional practice. Lisa’s geometry teachers, Professors Keith Critchlow and Paul Marchant, inspired their students to not only master the technical aspects of the craft but to explore a universal geometric order of nature and traditional art. For each work, a primary pattern source is listed, most often an architectural monument from the Islamic world. These masterpieces of cultural expression and religious devotion not only represent the skill of masters through the centuries and the culmination of dynamic periods of intellectual exchange, but they also continue to inspire artists and craftspeople around the world today. During the lockdown period, a community of geometers around the globe began sharing their knowledge. Lisa, as part of her work for the School of Traditional Arts in London, developed a rich offering of online geometry courses with teachers and students coming from over 100 different countries and widely varied traditions. Several of the pieces in this exhibition have emerged directly from engaging with this online community, as both teacher and as student. Lisa is Outreach Programme Manager for the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, designing and conducting educational workshops and training teachers for the School’s international programmes in Azerbaijan, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Malaysia, Philippines, China, and Pakistan. Both the patterns and the raw materials of these paintings are informed by Lisa’s travels and research for the School of Traditional Arts. Many of the paints and pigments are refined from earth, soil, and semiprecious stones gathered throughout the world.

August 20th - September 29th, 2021 This is Richards' second series of Book of Mormon paintings, each painted while looking through a stone--meditating on and coming to terms with Joseph Smith's revelatory process. Painting through a stone forced an abstraction upon these compositions, removing the text from most geographic or cultural specifics, and forcing the artist to trust the process, not fully knowing what the result would be. In response to why Richards' chose 1 Nephi 17-18 for this series, the artist writes: "it has been the most formative Book of Mormon passage in my own development. In these verses, Nephi returns to the mount oft in search of divine instruction. I have similarly turned to God in an effort to craft my own curious workmanship. And I have wrestled with the implications of attaining a promised land."

November 5th- November 30th, 2021 Since the rise of the pandemic, my daily energy and time are disproportionately focused on household management: meal planning, shopping, disinfecting, assisting kids in online school, conflict mediation, and treating my own neurological health problems. I am left with minutes for art a week so I make signs. I can’t go anywhere, and time to myself can only be grasped in spurts while my travel is mostly limited to the mountains above and the cemetery below. I begin to draw myself while at the kitchen table as my children do online schoolwork. Art is a matter of augenblicks while my family’s well-being as well as my own takes precedence above all other needs. Community both in large and small structures breaks, changes, and strengthens my heart in many forms because existing within the pandemic requires a constant state of perspective recalibration as well as a barrage of my own rebirths. COVID-19 is a test of resilience, trust, and acceptance of self and others. It is an investigation of spectrums of emotions and affiliations. It is a respite from musts and a reconfiguring of wants. Relationships alter with some strengthening, a handful weakening, and others ending. It is a time of mourning as well as a time for morning. All a gift. SIGNS of the TIMES is a culmination of my work during the pandemic. My traffic signs, banners, and Kaethe Kollwitz inspired self-portraits act as signifiers of my collective experience from 2020 to the present. - Susan Krueger-Barber

Please join us Friday, December 3rd, at 5:00 pm for the opening of "Midwinter at the Gates of Dawn," an exhibition of new works presented by the ARCH-HIVE, a local art collective. This show explores and celebrates the journey through dark night of the soul to the light of morning. Participating artists include: ​Tyler Alexander Brinnley Ashton Erik Bremer Maddison Colvin Caitlin Connolly Christian Degn Lisa DeLong David Habben Nate Hardyman Rachel Henrikson Kathryn Ivy Rees Emily Larsen LAZERos Hayley Labrum Morrison Janiece Murray Ryan Perkins James Rees J Kirk Richards Daenen Rolapp Rusden Scott Michael Sorensen Camilla Stark Julia Stark Amber Lee Weiss Malachi Wilson Taelor Worthington Taylor Wright

Join us Friday, August 21st, at 6 pm for a virtual opening of The Waters of Mormon, an exhibition of new paintings by J. Kirk Richards. Despite two decades of enormous success as an LDS artist, Kirk has largely avoided painting images from the Book of Mormon. Until now. The Waters of Mormon visually tells the story of King Noah, Abinadi's preaching, and Alma's establishment of a secret Christian Church in the wilderness. This show includes both very small and very large works. Small paintings (5" x 5" or 8" x 8") were generated through a process that replicates Joseph Smith's head-in-hat translation. In addition to the performance art dimension, this procedure allowed Kirk to meditate on Smith's own process for revealing the stories depicted. It also forced a degree of abstraction—bringing images and stories from darkness to light, through a glass darkly. From these small paintings generated in the bottom of a hat, Kirk produced a series of very large pieces—48" x 48". All the paintings, large and small, will exhibit at Writ & Vision through the end of September. Call Brad if you're interested in scheduling an appointment to view the works in person, including during Fridays virtual opening, or with any other questions about pricing and availability.

Please join us Friday, March 6th, at 6 pm for the opening of VIA CRUCIS, a group exhibition presented by The ARCH-HIVE, featuring original works by a set of exceptional artists, including: Casey Jex Smith Erik Bremer Daenen Rolapp Ryan Simmons LAZERos Annie Poon Emma Lyon Kirsten Anderson Alexander Woods Andi Pitcher Davis Camilla Stark Jeremiah Tuchyner Hayley Morrison Lisa DeLong The theme the artists have taken up for this show is "the Stations of the Cross." The exhibition will run through end of March, and Friday's opening reception is free and open to the public (and will correspond with Downtown Provo's Art Stroll).

Please join is Friday, February 7th, at 6 pm for the opening of THE WEIGHT WE CARRY, an exhibition of new works on paper by James Rees and Elizabeth Sanchez. We all have something that we’re dealing with that can seem heavy at times. Sometimes it’s just the day in and day out routines of life, other times we individually carry challenges as we move forward in our journey. These weighty items are challenges but also provide opportunities to learn, grow and become stronger. The challenge is not so much the load we have but how we choose to carry them. In these works on paper by artists James Rees and Elizabeth Sanchez we see a positive determination to see them as just part of life’s journey and an opportunity for personal reflection and growth. Friday's opening reception is free and open to the public and will coincide with Downtown Provo's February Art Stroll.

Please join us Friday, January 3rd, at 6 pm for the opening of A PLACE TO BELONG, a group exhibition of new works commemorating the release of A PLACE TO BELONG: REFLECTIONS FROM MODERN LATTER-DAY SAINT WOMEN. This new book, edited by Hollie Fluhmam and Camille Fronk Olson, includes contributions from dozens of LDS women. This month's show in the gallery features work inspired by this landmark publication from an impressive stable of artists, including: Brooke Newhart Megan Geilman Elizabeth Sanchez Laura Erekson Annie Poon Amber Stotts Rachel Crockett Smith Katrina Berg Emily McPhie Malynda Cooper Janelle Fritz Jacqui Larsen April Parker Laurie Lisonbee Paige Crosland Anderson Friday's opening reception is free and open to the public.

Please join us Friday, August 16th, at 6 pm for the opening of "Stranger Verses," an exhibition of recent works by J. Kirk Richards. "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Each painting in this show is inspired by a biblical scripture that prescribes the treatment of strangers. The show will run through September 14th, and Friday's reception is free and open to the public.

Please join us Friday, July 19th, at 6 pm for the opening of BIG WORK, an exhibition of paintings by Brian Kershisnik, Fidalis Buehler, and Mitch Mantle. Each of these artists works in a visual language that includes figures, buildings, animals, and relationships, paintings saturated with both narrative and autobiographical overtones. BIG WORK will feature extremely large paintings from these artists, almost too big for the space. Some smaller works, primarily on paper, will also be available for purchase. The exhibition will run through mid-august, and Friday's opening is free and open to the public.

Please join us this Friday, January 4th, from 6 to 9 pm for "The Kingman – Means of Escape", an exhibition of new works by Fidalis Buehler. Raised sometimes in the South Pacific, sometimes stateside, by a white American father and a Kiribati mother, Fidalis Buehler began his studies at the University of Hawaii not in fine art but in business. On the strength of drawings in the margins of his assignments, he was persuaded to switch majors, career trajectories, and identities. The split, divided—but also multiple—Identity is one of many themes played out in his work (drawing in the margins might also be). "The Kingman – Means of Escape" will include works in a variety of mediums and price points. The show will run through January 26th. Friday's opening coincides with Downtown Provo's January Art Stroll, and is free and open to the public.