Fluid Picasso-esque metal figures, Mad Max steam-punk vehicles, astronauts basking in the Utah air, and insects the size of your children (Honey, I shrunk the kids!). Take a walk down Broadway to view these identified “Flying Objects”—the works of established and emerging Utah sculpture artists. The ongoing project is […]
Discover the artistic side of Salt Lake City. Over the years, we have reported on and captured the publicly viewable artwork that crops up all over SLC, from the official public art installations to street art and even the strange things that pop up in people’s yards and […]
Because of the new apartment complex it faces and in whose windows its vibrant colors are reflected, this long mural at the 300 East Station of the S-Line is likely to become known as the Zellerbach Mural. Its host, though, is actually the warehouse for Kimball Electronics. The […]
Other parts of the Jordan River Parkway are festooned with official public art like sculptures and installations, but the artwork here at 300 South is a little more DIY. On the side of the Wernli Inc. Refrigeration building, murals depicting life and wildlife along the river have gone […]
You can get a cup of joe and adopt a Fritz, Mittens or Socks at this little cafe in Salt Lake City’s Central City neighborhood. This side of the building has been decorated with an appropriately feline mural.
This colorful mural, featuring work by Trent Call (left wall) Gailon Justus aka Sweet Needles (central), and Mike Murdock (right), along with a community garden, has transformed a boarded-up building and helped to revitalize this nook of the Granary District near the Central Ninth Market. In 2015, ground was broken […]
This mural on the northeast corner of the Big-D Construction Corporation in Downtown Salt Lake City features a construction worker. The building itself (established in 1922) is a historic landmark, the first cast-in-place concrete warehouse West of the Mississippi. It was very important to Big-D president Jack Livingood […]
James Kirkland, a local muralist who spent years as an artist in both New York City and San Francisco, painted these large illusion murals on the backside of the Positively Fourth Street music practice space. These murals are an easy cross-walk distance from Pioneer Park. Head over to see […]
Street mural by Daniel Overstreet, created in May 2018 as part of Mural Fest.
Graphic designer, photographer, painter, street artist, Josh Scheuerman enjoys expressing his ideas on canvases large or small – including this large brick “canvas” provided by Signed and Numbered, a custom frame and art shop in South Salt Lake. The mural was completed as part of the first annual […]
When I arrived at Sugar Space Arts Warehouse in the early evening, it was sweltering. Inside, the AC was blowing to its max while a very small crowd milled about. Comprised almost entirely of other dancers from around Salt Lake City, and presumably some close friends and family […]
“Convergence,” a 20-foot-tall work of cast aluminum forming a partial male head that peers skyward, adds a sense of intrigue and mystery to the nondescript government building it flanks, just off I-215 in Taylorsville. Installed in October of 2017, Douwe Blumberg’s sculpture is meant to give a visual representation of […]
Our colleague and friend Tom Alder died on July 3, 2018. Tom was a collector of art and stories. His passion for Utah art drove him to give up a successful career in banking to become a gallerist, and his love of the stories (verifiable or not) behind that art drove him to pursue an art history degree and, for several years, to write a regular column for our pages about the colorful lives of Utah artists - from the painter who slept in a piano to the university professor who faked his car registration decals.
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