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David Wolske: Artist Profile

by Shawn Rossiter on Jan 14, 2015 • No Comments

At a time when “new media” is all the rage, Salt Lake City artist David Wolske uses a centuries-old printing technique that has disappeared from its once-ubiquitous place in the commercial world but which lives on in small studios like Wolske’s and at book art centers like the University of...

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15 Bytes / Exhibition Reviews / Visual Arts

Remembering Topaz: A New Museum and a New Exhibition

by 15 Bytes on Jan 14, 2015 • No Comments

The Topaz Museum in Delta opens this month with an exhibition of works on paper by artists interned at the camp during World War II.

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An Improvised Beat: Jesse Quebbeman Turley Drums His Way to Composition

by 15 Bytes on Jan 14, 2015 • 1 Comment

You could say Jesse Quebbeman-Turley prefers the improvised life, but likes to play with structure. Like a true jazz musician, he goes with the flow and acts on impulse. He lives his life “as an indie band would.” He’s not interested in being the genius; he takes pleasure in collaborative...

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Don’t Read This at the SLC Main Library

by 15 Bytes on Jan 14, 2015 • No Comments

In Don’t Read This, eight artists attempt to explore incorporating the verbal content of a message into the way it’s presented without allowing text to hijack the image.

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Keeping It Together: Andrew Ballstaedt

by 15 Bytes on Jan 14, 2015 • No Comments

Ehren Clark puts together the pieces of Andrew Ballstaedt's art, from Klee-inspired houses to friendly monsters and family flags.

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Drawing From the Lake: Hikmet Sidney Loe at Chapman Library

by 15 Bytes on Jan 14, 2015 • No Comments

. . . In her work as an academic, Loe has taken numerous individuals and groups, both by land and by air, to visit the lake and its world-famous landmark Spiral Jetty. Her trips to the lake in helicopters provide for the most striking images in her portfolio, three of...

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15 Bytes / Hints 'n' Tips

That Certain Something: Finding a Suitable Subject and Deciding How to Paint It

by 15 Bytes on Jan 14, 2015 • No Comments

Scene selection can be a huge advantage or a stumbling block to the advancement of a plein air painter’s work. Often, the problem with a painting is not that an artist can’t paint well enough, but that the choice of subject matter lacks that certain something that will lend itself...

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What’s New: Maureen O’Hara Ure

by Ann Poore on Jan 30, 2015 • 1 Comment

The delightful and always intriguing work of Maureen O’Hara Ure, where small and mysterious creatures abound, was recently seen in the Faculty Show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah where she lectures and can also be seen nicely displayed on the second floor of Phillips Gallery, where she long...

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What’s New: Pat Bagley

by Ann Poore on Jan 29, 2015 • No Comments

Author and illustrator of numerous books, unanimously awarded the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning by a panel made up of Garry Trudeau, Jules Feiffer and John Sherffius and long-time journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune, Pat Bagley tells us: “Cartooning was suddenly in the spotlight with the tragic murder of my Charlie Hebdo colleagues and...

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Golden Dance: University of Utah Press Celebrates 50 Years of Ballet West

by 15 Bytes on Jan 28, 2015 • No Comments

With all the golden anniversaries going on in Utah’s art community, one could only imagine with dread the cultural wasteland Salt Lake City must have been in 1960. There was no Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Utah Symphony or Ballet West, all of which recently celebrated their 50th anniversaries; nor a Phillips Gallery or Repertory Dance Company,...

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What’s New: Cordell Taylor

by Ann Poore on Jan 28, 2015 • 1 Comment

Sculptor Cordell Taylor is working towards a show he has in May at Agora Gallery in Chelsea, N. Y. “I’ve been showing there for the last couple of years with the “Geo-Met Series” I’ve been working on over the past 10 or so years,” he says. In an artist statement he explains that sculpture has taken...

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What’s New: Steve Sheffield

by Ann Poore on Jan 27, 2015 • 1 Comment

Steven Sheffield tells us he’s hoping soon to get back to several larger paintings he began last fall. “They are currently packed away as Rockwood Artist Studios and Sugarhouse endures renovation. As a result, I’m working smaller this winter.” Still fascinated with the abstract, he is looking to combine more landscape forms/nature in his abstract paintings. “In...

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The Truthful Surreal: Corinne Geertsen at the Springville Museum of Art

by Ehren Clark on Jan 26, 2015 • No Comments

Narrative painting, in the form of history painting, was once the pinnacle of Western art, the zenith of Alberti’s 15th-century treatise on painting, and a prerequisite for anyone seeking access to prestigious academies in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the advent of modernism, narrative’s importance waned, while the notion of what narrative could be...

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What’s New: Fred Lyman

by Ann Poore on Jan 26, 2015 • No Comments

Known mostly for his fine paintings of horses (though he works in other genres) and his friendly presence on Facebook, talented Spanish Fork artist Fred Lyman is spending early 2015 working diligently to recover from a debilitating stroke he suffered in December. Brother of the late artist Kenvin Lyman (recently of Gibbs Smith cookbook fame...

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What’s New: Chris Terry

by Ann Poore on Jan 25, 2015 • 1 Comment

Just before New Year’s Day, Christopher Terry (artist, professor and associate dean at Caine College of the Arts) shipped out a multi-panel interior painting intended as a folding screen for a home and then began 2015 by completing two “very simple” tabletop still life images for the USU Art & Design Faculty Show that opens...

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What’s New: Al Denyer

by Ann Poore on Jan 24, 2015 • No Comments

Al Denyer’s studio is looking quite empty, as she has just taken some large drawings off the wall to go out to different exhibitions. The nationally known artist and U assistant professor, originally from Bath, England, tells us: “I am currently working on ‘The Green River Series’ of drawings and paintings, which address the river...

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What’s New: Josh Winegar

by Ann Poore on Jan 23, 2015 • No Comments

Photographer and WSU Professor Josh Winegar says he is currently at work finishing up a series titled Burst a Part / Burst Apart. “It’s a body of work that employs the act of photographing personally significant sites from my life/memory and then rupturing those images with the basic material of photographic work, light. What remains are images...

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What’s New: Dave Malone

by Ann Poore on Jan 22, 2015 • No Comments

Popular Phillips artist Dave Malone says he has been juggling art-making with his brand design business for some time now and acknowledges its challenges. On top of that, he says, “I’m a father of a 3-year-old and I have another little girl due in early April. Needless to say, time is coveted, indeed. “Those who...

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Visual Arts / What's New

What’s New: Sarinda Jones

by Ann Poore on Jan 21, 2015 • No Comments

Glass artist Sarinda Jones has just learned she will be doing a show at Art Access in April in conjunction with the Moran Eye Center. She is collaborating with Bryan Jones, Ph.D., of Moran to design and create fused glass sculptures inspired by the structure of eye cells and microscopic images of the iris. A...

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David Wolske: Artist Profile

Remembering Topaz: A New Museum and a New Exhibition

An Improvised Beat: Jesse Quebbeman Turley Drums His Way to Composition

Don’t Read This at the SLC Main Library

Keeping It Together: Andrew Ballstaedt

Drawing From the Lake: Hikmet Sidney Loe at Chapman Library

That Certain Something: Finding a Suitable Subject and Deciding How to Paint It

What’s New: Maureen O’Hara Ure

What’s New: Pat Bagley

Golden Dance: University of Utah Press Celebrates 50 Years of Ballet West

What’s New: Cordell Taylor

What’s New: Steve Sheffield

The Truthful Surreal: Corinne Geertsen at the Springville Museum of Art

What’s New: Fred Lyman

What’s New: Chris Terry

What’s New: Al Denyer

What’s New: Josh Winegar

What’s New: Dave Malone

What’s New: Sarinda Jones

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