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| GALLERY HAPPENINGS - October 2025 |
Contemplating Changing Landscapes at Gallery Moab
by Thea Nordling |
 Gallery Moab, a cooperative gallery owned and operated by a group of local artists, celebrates the canyon country landscape, its natural and human inhabitants, and its many moods and seasons. Our members create original fine art and artisan crafts in a variety of mediums and styles. We also showcase the wide range of talent to be found throughout the Four Corners region by each month inviting a different non-member artist to bring new perspectives and a fresh look to the gallery as a special Guest Artist.
Emberly Modine is featured in October. A native of Utah, she grew up in Moab and later attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives in Los Angeles CA, but returns here often to connect with her home landscape and family. Her art raises timely questions about permanence and transience in natural landscapes in this chaotic time of rapid social and climatic change.
Modine describes her solo exhibition entitled “John’s Valley Road as “exploring the intersections of landscape, infrastructure, and memory.” Rooted in her upbringing in the desert canyons of Utah, the series presents paintings of fractured highways, shifting surfaces, and encroaching vegetation. The title comes from a trip she made to Garfield County, where she attended a council hearing on a proposed road renaming before driving the length of John’s Valley Road. That experience underscored how roads carry both personal and public histories—an idea reflected in the work.
Through a combination of stark realism and poetic abstraction, Modine offers a meditation on resilience and reclamation, asking viewers to reconsider how places are named, claimed, and ultimately re-shaped.” John’s Valley Road” continues Modine’s exploration of place-based histories and environmental vulnerability, positioning the road not only as a pathway but also as a contested ground between permanence and change.
The gallery will host a reception for Modine on Friday, October 3, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Join us to learn about her creative inspiration and her process of making and using egg tempera. It will be a lively and instructive evening of mingling with the local art community and enjoying refreshments. If you can’t make it that evening, Modine’s work will hang in the gallery throughout October.
Come in, browse and enjoy. You’ll find the gallery offers something to appeal to every taste and budget. One of the artists is always on hand to answer your questions and help you find that perfect gift or memento of your canyon country experience. We look forward to your visit!
Open Sunday & Monday 12:00–3:00 pm:
Tuesday through Saturday 12:00–6:00 pm.
Call 435-220-0891 and we will gladly open by appointment during other hours. We look forward to your visit!
Gallery Moab, 59 S. Main Street #1
435-355-0024 • gallerymoab.com
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Open Sunday & Monday 12:00 – 3:00 p.m
Tuesday through Saturday 12:00 – 6:00 p.m
Call 435-220-0891 and we will gladly open by appointment during other hours.
We look forward to your visit!
Gallery Moab LCA • 59 South Main Street #1, Moab, Utah 84532 • 435-355-0024
gallerymoab.com
Visit us on Facebook and Instagram
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...And The Winner Is!
By Bruce Hucko |
 Moab ArTTrails, the non-profit public arts organization, is pleased to reveal the annual sculpture chosen for purchase and donation to the public collection. “This year the votes were clear’, said Creative Director Christy Williams Dunton. The winning piece chosen for inclusion in Moab’s permanent sculpture collection is Arizona Artist Steve Grater’s “Matriarch”, a stately steel patinaed work which currently stands along the Center Street face of Wells Fargo bank. “The public input really informs so much about which sculptures connect with the Moab and Grand County residents, and it’s a such a pleasure to be able to add one more”. said Williams-Dunton.
The morning of October 11th, Moab ArTTrails volunteer installation crew will be helping artists de-install the outgoing works and install the new.
Art lovers can catch a first peek at the new exhibition at the Art Stroll- the artist led, musically accompanied walking tour through the exhibition. Participants in the Art Stroll are invited to vote for Best In Show, which brings a cash award to the winner.
Each year, non- profit Moab ArTTrails solicits submissions from artists nationwide to be part of the area sculpture exhibition. 10 to 16 sculptures featured in the yearlong exhibition are chosen by a rotating volunteer selection committee comprised of merchants, artists, civic leaders and other community members. This year, the volunteer selection committee chose 9 artists to display their works along the trail. The pieces will remain in Moab for a year, as residents consider which sculpture(s) are loved enough to keep in the permanent collection.
Since its founding in 2015, Moab ArTTrails has donated $120,000 worth of art to the areas’ growing collection of permanent works along Moab’s shared pathways and parks.\
More information can be found at www.moabarttrails.org.
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