A Collection of Urban Landscape Paintings

Greg Caldwell is an artist who uses acrylic paint, markers, and ceramic glazes to draw and paint intentionally simplified images of people, cars, houses, robots, and other objects and animals. He uses these simplified symbols to portray themes of friendship, music, humor, sadness, generosity, and love. These artworks can be autobiographical, experiential, whimsical, and/or based in fantasy.  The artworks allow the viewer to interpret what meanings they find, and/or decide to apply their own meanings. 

Greg was born and raised in Utah. He lives and works in Provo, Utah.

This much-anticipated debut solo exhibition by upstate New York–born artist Nick Bontorno reveals an evocative vision of America on the cusp of evening. Crimson twilights, old cars, farmhouses, dark countryside–his protagonists stare back at the viewer with quiet defiance, oft with a puff of cigarette smoke.

Bontorno’s touch is at once intentionally naïve and quietly masterful. He paints with the understanding that even the slightest movement of the brush can shift an expression within his simplified portraits. Though the work in form may appear casual and effortless, there is a precision in his hand that reveals a tender and feeling touch.

Questions of narrative linger around his pictures, which appear simultaneously atmospheric and cinematic. Who are these figures, why are they depicted in these uncanny moments between day and night, what is the quality of their lives? To know, with such confidence, where to withhold and where to let information linger is the mark of a painter with a keen eye for beauty and a deep love of painting itself.

We are pleased to announce our next show: Arriving Toward Arrival by Marissa Albrecht

Opening Reception: March 6th, 6–9pm
Artist Talk: March 20th, 6pm

Marissa’s art practice explores the discarded, the altered, and the abandoned, forging visual connections between initially unrelated locations and materials. She aims to elevate the ordinary, fostering a closer relationship between the observer and their everyday surroundings.

Mr. Palomar’s Blackbirds, new works by James Talbot.

His work deals with themes of place, memory, and objecthood. Usually searching for innocuous and discrete subject matter, Talbot works with lens-based and textual elements to mythologize places of personal significance, with recent work exploring the photograph’s metaphysical relationship to the physical objects it depicts. Through small visual details of colors, shadows, and other motifs, he hopes to capture a numinous spirit that contributes to a collective memory of those places.

The opening reception will take place February 6th, 6–9pm, and James will be giving an artist talk on February 20th.

The Long Walk Home is lined with familiar eyes glowing from the darkness. It’s where the spiraling years bring you around and around, meeting the same place over again in a body softened and weighed down by loves and pains. Along the way, the voices of your dead echo between your ears, and their ghostly reach aligns your feet with soft soil and moss. The Long Walk Home is where you meet your shadow. If you befriend it, it will unlatch the door. 

Opening Reception Sept 5th, 6-9pm

The title Unhistoric Acts is drawn from George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871). The novel’s main character, Dorothea Brooke, is described as having an “incalculably diffusive” effect on the people around her. Her actions are “unhistoric” and largely unnoticed by the world, but they are still full of meaning.

In my paintings, I invite viewers to reflect on daily moments that are integral to life but rarely celebrated in the historic sense. Through gestural marks, I translate lived experience, reaching toward the everyday — those small, intimate spaces where I encounter the world. My primary subjects include the textures of domestic life, the interactions between family and friends, and the shifting light and landscapes that surround these environments.

Upstairs at Alma Gallery, artist Nathaniel Williams will present several of his most recent paintings. Nathaniel is something of a nomadic artist, viewing Utah’s cultural landscape from the outside in. This perspective shapes his work in a distinctly Hopperesque fashion—but rather than people, he specializes in “brooding portraits of houses, parking lots, gas stations, and anything else people don’t fastidiously maintain.”

Opening reception on May 2nd from 6-9pm

Opening reception will be April 4th from 6-9pm

Refreshments will be provided by Beehive Catering

Alma Gallery is excited to announce our next show, Part Shade by Maddison Colvin.

"I am reading the anonymous, handwritten journals of a young girl for whom all flowers and sunsets are "glorious", who delights in seagulls and electric lights, but who never writes down her own name."

These distant, lost memories are translated through Maddison's masterful technique in drawing.

Opening reception will be held on February 7 from 6-9pm Do not miss out! We hope you can join us.

Alma Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming show, Rumination by Ryann Woods Ham. This emerging artist will debut her newest work at the gallery, with the opening reception scheduled for January 3 from 6 to 9 PM. We hope you can join us.