DECEMBER 08 – The artists selected to exhibit in the first annual Sego Art Center Juried Show are varied in their scope of media and concept, and represent a small but accurate sample of the ever more diverse contemporary art world. The artworks in the exhibit include media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, conceptual jewelry, video, html, textile, fashion, and mixed media among others. Conceptual investigations are no less diverse, with artists analyzing and or constructing / deconstructing issues as varied as as are the artists’ locales (Shanghai, New York, Santa Fe, Boston, and Salt Lake City are only several of the many locations from which the artists reside).

Although this juried show achieves what all such shows accomplish: an opportunity for emerging artists working in many veins to show in one institutional framework without the parameters of the standard curatorial process of the host institution, this show provides yet another unique opportunity: the ability for artists who normally engage with one another in a virtual community, to physically bring their work together into a tangible temporal environment, arguably the overriding goal of many artists who engage in Artbistro and other similar social networking communities

participating artists in this year’s juried show are: Hidemi Shimura, Daniel Deluna, Natalie N O’neal, Pooneh Maghazehe, Yusuke Nishimura, Chris Purdie, Chao-Ming Teng, Mireille Vautier, Mark Rumsey, Adam Taye, Alan Bigelow, Holly Veselka, Valerie Atkisson, Brian Christensen, Jonathan Vaughan, Ryan Browning