ALOV Art at Salt Lake Art Show 2026 marks an important step in the gallery’s continued presence at contemporary art fairs across the United States.

ALOV Art is excited to announce its participation in the inaugural Salt Lake Art Show, taking place May 14–17, 2026 at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, Utah. The Salt Lake Art Show is a major new fine art fair bringing together national and international galleries, collectors, sculptors, bespoke designers, and artists from around the world under one roof, with a VIP preview on Thursday, May 14 followed by full exhibition days through Sunday, May 17.

ALOV Art brings a selection of works to the Salt Lake Art Show from Tal Placido’s solo exhibition “Meeting Place”, recently presented at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

Meeting Place explores the idea of encounter between people, materials, time, and inner states. At its core, the exhibition reflects on how moments of contact shape understanding, inviting viewers to engage with the subtle dynamics of attention, care, and presence.

Placido’s practice is guided by what poet David Whyte describes as “Beautiful questions” that do not seek fixed answers, but instead open space for reflection, exchange, and possibility. Within this framework, the works function less as statements and more as invitations, encouraging viewers to slow down and enter into a dialogue with the work.

Working primarily on antique and culturally embedded textiles, Placido layers, erases, and reworks surfaces that already carry histories of use, care, and time. These materials become sites of encounter themselves holding traces of past lives while engaging with present gestures. Different temporalities — Past, Present, and Future — coexist within each piece, allowing experiences to remain open, unresolved, and in conversation.

For the Salt Lake Art Show, ALOV Art presents an exclusive selection from this museum exhibition, extending its dialogue into a new context. By bringing these works from an institutional setting into the dynamic environment of the fair, the presentation invites new encounters between artworks and audiences.

Timothea Stewart presents works from her Saqqara series — a body of paintings shaped by her journeys through Egypt in the 1980s and inspired by the ancient temple complexes of Saqqara. Emerging years after those travels, the paintings became an intuitive reflection of memory, energy, and spiritual resonance.

Originally conceived as individual works, the three paintings together form the Saqqara Triptych, inspired by the healing traditions associated with the Saqqara Temple complex, where sound, frequency, and vibrational energy were believed to restore harmony between body and spirit. Stewart describes the works as revelations that unfolded through the act of painting itself: first came the fields of color and movement, and only later did the vertical columns of radiant light appear — almost as if the works themselves guided their own evolution.

Her compositions move between abstraction and spiritual architecture, where luminous pillars, layered pigments, and atmospheric color fields evoke both ancient structures and unseen energetic forces. Musical in sensibility, Stewart’s palette radiates with rhythm and vibration, transforming color into a meditative experience. Stewart’s Saqqara series offers a powerful reflection on healing, transcendence, and humanity’s enduring search for spiritual connection.

Philip Vaughan’s presentation brings together a selection of abstract wooden sculptures and expressive charcoal and pastel drawings that reflect the artist’s deeply intuitive and multidisciplinary practice.

Working between sculpture, drawing, and painting, Vaughan explores movement, rhythm, balance, and emotional resonance through material and gesture. His abstract expressionist sculptures carry a raw physical presence, constructed through intersecting wooden elements that create tension, structure, and dynamic spatial relationships. At once architectural and organic, the works evoke a sense of motion suspended in time, transforming simple materials into energetic compositions.

Alongside the sculptures, Vaughan’s charcoal and pastel drawings reveal a more atmospheric and meditative dimension of his practice. Inspired by landscape, memory, water, and natural rhythms, the drawings move fluidly between abstraction and suggestion, allowing emotion and sensation to emerge through mark-making and texture.

Based in Los Angeles, Vaughan’s multidisciplinary body of work reflects decades of experimentation across mediums. His practice is driven by instinct, physical engagement with materials, and an ongoing exploration of humanity’s relationship with nature, movement, and inner experience. Through this presentation, ALOV Art introduces a dialogue between structure and spontaneity, material and emotion, inviting viewers into Vaughan’s expressive visual world.

Salt Lake Art Show
Dates: May 14 – 17, 2026
Address: Mountain America Expo Center
9575 State St, Sandy, UT 84070

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