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Italy: Then and Now
June 20th, 2022
Written by Eileen Treasure, Gallery Manager I recently returned from a trip to Italy. Besides the thrill of seeing work from some of my favorite artists and architects, I took some time to recreate photographs my father took while stationed in Italy in 1946. I was restricted by a 10-foot fence and gate […]
Father’s Day Mountain Biking Gift Guide
June 13th, 2022
This Father’s Day, we have teamed up with local Park City mountain bike company Switchback Sports to bring you the ultimate Father’s Day gift guide. Together, we’ve paired Gallery MAR artwork with the best Park City mountain bike trail experiences so that you can give the fathers in your life the gift of beauty both […]
Summer Time Art-Inspired Style
June 8th, 2022
At Gallery MAR, we love highlighting local boutiques, and teamed up with a local hot spot Flight Boutique to deliver a summer gift guide for the amazing ladies in your life, inspired by feeling and emotions found in the works of art. Which look are you? Flight Boutique is a local Park City, women-owned online […]
Picture This: Outdoor Sculpture
June 1st, 2022
In the heart of the pandemic, we started the blog series “Picture This” to help you better visualize fine art works in your home by placing them in beautiful context. Now that the gallery is open and people are out and about enjoying Main Street once again (yay!), we are excited to help you see […]
The Registry at Gallery MAR
May 25th, 2022
Do you already have your dishes and bath towels? Combining homes and need less stuff, but more beauty? Gallery MAR is here in downtown Park City, Utah to provide fine artwork for couples who are walking down the aisle… and walking home to bare walls. Here’s how it works: let your guests know that […]
Jamie Burnes: Putting the Art in Earth
May 23rd, 2022
Jamie Burnes answers the phone outside of his Santa Fe, New Mexico studio. As we chat, he sits in his truck, parked in the middle of his junkyard. For sculpture artist Jamie Burnes, his “junkyard” is more like a treasure trove. Strewn throughout the yard is a veritable cornucopia of steel and wood treasures collected […]
Winter Season Exhibition Recap
May 20th, 2022
Written by Victoria Slagel, Fine Art Consultant First and foremost we would like to extend a big thank you to all our clients, guests, art admirers, and of course the artists that make Gallery MAR possible. We started the 2021/2022 winter season off with Bridgette Meinhold’s dreamy ethereal encaustics gracing our walls if only […]
The Rape of Europa, Part 3: The Monuments Men in the Closing Chapters of WWII
May 15th, 2022
This is the final installment of my condensed version of Lynn Nicholas’ 1994 book The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and The Second World War. I have included facts and stories from the 2006 documentary, “The Rape of Europa,” which can be seen on Amazon. The story does […]
Plein Air Paint Out at Park City Gardens
May 13th, 2022
Saturday, June 11th, 2022: Plein Air Paint Out, 3:00-6:00 PM at Park City Gardens Join us for our 4th annual “Plein Air Paint Out,” where art and garden lovers gather! Mingle with artists and art & nature lovers, in the nursery at its summer best. Hear garden songs & guitar performed by Nicole Paradiso, watch […]
Ophelia: Movie Review
May 10th, 2022
If you think you know Ophelia and Hamlet’s story, think again… Review by Victoria Slagel, Fine Art Consultant (and die-hard romantic). I read the classic retelling of Lisa C. Klein’s first novel Ophelia in college. Many may know the original story of Hamlet written by Shakespeare, but this rendition by Klein puts our strong heroine […]