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HOMO/evocative

Presented by Art Access/VSA Arts of Utah at Art Access Gallery

January 16-February 13, 2009

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Art Access Gallery is pleased to present HOMO/evocative, the mixed media work of Salt Lake City artist, Daren Young. The exhibition, made up of graduate work from his four semesters in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, features work that, rather than being provocative, is intended to be more evocative in nature generating greater understanding and awareness of what it means to be different. Art Access Gallery is pleased to host an additional reception for the Homo/evocative on Thursday, February 12 from 6 to 8 pm, due to the large amount of interest in the exhibit. The artist, Daren Young, will give a gallery talk at 7 pm. The show will hang through February 13. Young says, 'As the audience views my art, I want it to evoke their own individual memories or life experiences regardless of whether they are straight or gay. I hope to generate greater understanding and awareness if what it means to be different and outside the center, especially as it relates to life in our often very conservative community.' In light of the recent passage of Proposition 8 in California, it is the hope of Salt Lake artist Daren Young that HOMO/evocative may generate positive dialogue and healing in the community. Young's exhibit has been shown previously at the Vermont College of Fine Arts where he received his MFA, and at the Thompson Gallery of the Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts.