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The line between painting and performance gets blurred significantly in the newest gallery exhibit by Salt Lake City artist Jimmi Toro.
Toro's new show, "Sound and Vision," debuts Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City — in The Gateway shopping center.
The show features 60 works of art, six musical pieces and six video works created by Toro, a prolific painter and self-taught musician. The pieces are inspired by each other, with a song leading to a visual image, a painting coming to life in a video, and a video becoming a work of art. The exhibit is immersive, as gallery visitors can listen to the music on earphones while watching the videos or viewing the paintings.
"I believe every piece of art, each video viewed, and every song listened to can give off a portion of its original emotion to the listener and viewer," Toro said in a statement. "This emotion becomes even more forceful by combining fine art, music and video in a way that influences and creates a relationship from one creative offering to the other."
Toro's aim, he said, is "to inspire people to not just understand and appreciate the creative process more, but cause them to think a little deeper about humanity and our relationship to each other, hopefully resulting in a little more respect and a little less anger."
The exhibit runs through Nov. 27. An artist's reception is set for Friday, Nov. 4,, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Urban Arts Gallery's hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 8 p.m., and Sundays, noon to 6 p.m. (Closed Mondays.)