Center Gallery
The Center was given a one-year lease for an empty space by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located diagonally across the street from Lincoln Center in New York City, it was at street level of the Manhattan New York Temple. During the darkest months of Covid, the Center completed a gut renovation to turn the dilapidated deli space into a beautiful, 1,000 sq. ft. gallery. The Center Gallery opened June 18, 2021. For the next year, the gallery mounted five ambitious exhibitions, published related books, and held many lectures, presentations, concerts, and events. The gallery closed when the lease expired, May 31, 2022.
The exhibitions and events below fully archive the exhibitions and activities of the gallery.
Great Awakening: Vision & Synthesis in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art; Center Gallery | June 18 - August 7, 2021; curated by Chase Westfall
Photographs of Utah (1935-1948): Ansel Adams, Andreas Feininger, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon; August 13-October 10, 2021; curated by Glen Nelson
Siloed: Art for Uncertain Times; curated by Emily Larsen Doxford
The Sacred Feminine in LDS Art & Theology; January 14- March 6, 2022; curated by Margaret Olsen Hemming
John Held, Jr. (American, 1889-1958); March 16 - May 31, 2022; curated by Glen Nelson
Festival of New Musicals; May 19 - 21, 2022; organized by Ted Bushman
From January through May 2022, the Center Gallery produced events every Friday for the public: concerts, lectures, presentations, film screenings, classes, and community activities.
An extended slideshow of the construction, exhibitions, and events at the Center Gallery in celebration at the end of its run.
Acknowledgments
The Center Gallery wishes to thank deeply Roy and Carol Christensen; and Samuel S. and Diane P. Stewart for their generous sponsorship of the gallery.
Exhibitions were made possible by Dan and Allyson Chard and donors to the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts.
Center Gallery Committee:
Glen Nelson, gallery manager
Claudia Bushman
Richard Bushman
Allyson Chard
Emily Larsen Doxford
Marilee Moe
Deanna Pilling
Ashlee Whitaker
Warren Winegar
Volunteer gallery staff:
Claudia Bushman
Richard Bushman
Claire Forste
Ena Fowles
Marcia Nelson
Walter Rane
Leilani Rigby
Tyran Schouten
Additional staff:
Elizabeth Hunt, gallery associate
Cameron King, graphic designer
Deanna Pilling, construction project manager
Chase Westfall, preparator
For the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts:
Richard Bushman, co-executive director
Glen Nelson, co-executive director
Allyson Chard, managing director
Mykal Urbina, incoming executive director
Emily Larsen Doxford, director of marketing & communications
Ron Schneider, finances
