The BYU Museum of Art in Provo, Utah is currently showing Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self.  The show features international contemporary artists who examine the way we view ourselves and the way we choose to represent ourselves to others.  The works use three different themes: rituals, facades/mirrors/masks, and the real self, to examine individual identities.  Several works also examine how new technologies, such as Facebook, explore new identities.  The show is free and open to the public but closes this weekend (May 8th), so check it out while you can.  For more visit the MoA website. The BYU MoA is also opening a new show tonight,  Thursday May 6, 2010.  As A Rose: Sculpture by Adam Bateman opens in the MoA Sculpture Garden with sculptures created from farm sprinkler components.  The sculptures explore the relationship between Utahans and the desert landscape from Pioneer times when they wanted to make the desert "blossom as a rose" to the present state of conservation and Modernist landscape.  Also opening tonight is Bill Owen's Suburbia, as well as BYU MoA's new Electronic Media Gallery featuring Bill Viola, Vito Acconci, and Seoungho Cho.  Learn more on the MoA website.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City presents Las Artes de Mexico: From the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum.  The focus is to celebrate the art, history and culture of Mexico featuring art from the ancient Mayans through contemporary art.  This show will run from May 6-September 26, 2010. For more about this show click here.

The UMFA also presents a new semiannual series titled SALT.  SALT 1 runs from May 6-September 26, 2010 and features 31-year-old Adriana Lara, a Mexico City resident who works in a range of formats and media, including videos or sculptures made of ephemeral or unusual materials.  This show represents the "cutting edge" of art being created in Mexico today.  For more visit the UMFA website.

The Springville Art Museum in Springville, Utah is hosting its 86th Annual Spring Salon.  The show displays over 200 works from Utah artists, including Mondo Fine Art's Aaron Bushnell who was awarded a Merit Award for his piece "I Dream of Strawberry Sulfur" (below).  "There are some artists, like Aaron Bushnell, Cory Dangerfield, Brad Aldridge, Bryan Larsen, who have exhibited with us before but have really breakthrough pieces this year, ones that make you stop and say, 'Wow!' ",  says Museum Director Vern Swanson  in this weeks Deseret News article. Other Mondo Fine Art artists in the show include Pilar Pobil and Michael Workman, both named among the Top 100 Most Honored Artists of Utah by the Springville Art Museum.   Head down to Springville to support our local artists  - the show runs through July 3, 2010.  Click here for more on the exhibit.