Two of art’s more technically challenging and aesthetically eloquent media are currently getting an unusual level of attention in local galleries. Under the influence of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, nearly every gallery in Utah is showing ceramic art sometime in March, a bounty […]
There’s a moment in Gandhi where an Englishman asks the film’s hero what a sympathetic member of the ruling class can do to help those who are struggling (for equity, diversity, access, inclusion, and respect), whereupon Gandhi tells him to go home and work on behalf of his […]
Whether one is drawn to the storytelling aspect of Joe Brubaker’s figures or the weightless elegance of Heather Zusman’s abstract sculptures, the works now at Julie Nester Gallery will undoubtedly spark conversation, both with others and within oneself. In the gallery’s beautifully lit space, enhanced by both natural […]
Deral Barton’s artistic journey spanned everything from Pop Art-inspired paintings to custom leather designs and hand-lettered signage. A fixture in Salt Lake City’s creative scene, Barton’s influence extended from the early days of Phillips Gallery to his counterculture leather shop that became a hub for artists and musicians. His versatile career blended fine art, fashion, and commercial design, leaving a lasting mark on Utah’s cultural landscape. As we remember Barton’s life and work, we reflect on his passion for creativity, craftsmanship, and community. Read more about Barton’s remarkable career and enduring influence.
In 2015, Logan, Utah’s Planning Commission granted conditional approval for a series of murals on a historic downtown building at 22 E. Center Street. The murals, mounted on a durable material designed to resemble paint, would change out periodically. While the project had strong support from the […]
Under the right circumstances, the entrance to an exhibition can be a portal to another reality. With good art, though, that strange land will soon reveal itself to be the one the audience sought briefly to escape, only transformed. Eugene Ofori Agyei, one of ten ceramic sculptors being […]
“Doomscroller invites viewers to reflect on whether our compulsion to engage with constant data streams is a survival strategy or a path to self-destruction.” These words, which conclude the introduction to Doomscroller, an exhibition currently at Ogden Contemporary Arts, posit an intriguing dilemma. The audience will likely identify […]
In The Second Sex, her indispensable survey of the status of women, Simone de Beauvoir dispenses with the romantic notion that once upon a time women ruled the world, pointing out that men were always larger and stronger, and a less civilized time in history than ours was […]
Pursuing quilting as a hobby outside of her traditional mediums of drawing and printmaking, Mary Toscano was in the middle of making a quilt when Andrew Rease Shaw, her husband and a professional musician, recognized the shapes she was working with as the waveforms of a Low Frequency […]
“Art is a human right,” says Sarina Villareal Ehrgott, Executive Director of the Bountiful Davis Art Center (BDAC). Coming up on her one-year anniversary at BDAC, Ehrgott reminisces on her past work and how it impacts the broad vision she has for the center in this year and […]
Showing at 15th Street Gallery until March 14, the works of Douglas Smith and John Collins contrast with each other, the former exploring the bounds of abstraction and title while the latter explores—literally—the forests and rockscapes of Utah in figurative displays of changing light. They offer viewers a […]
“It is better by far to remain silent and be thought a fool…than to speak and erase all doubt.” This popular paraphrase of Proverbs 17:28 has nothing to do with the art of Hunter Bailey, now showing at Bountiful Davis Art Center, but it does support an element […]
For Springville Museum of Art director Emily Larsen creating exhibitions is about forging connections between people and the larger human experience. It’s a philosophy rooted in a life-changing moment at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. As an LDS-missionary facing a mental health crisis, Larsen made the difficult decision […]
2/24 How Craft Lake City’s Scholarship Helped One Artist Reclaim Her Craft What if the biggest obstacle to becoming an artist wasn’t talent, but money? For Steph Alpizar, a local painter and crochet artist, financial limitations dictated everything from the materials she used to the way she shared […]
You never know where an exhibition might take you. For Jessica Kinsey, Executive Director of the Southern Utah Museum of Art, an exhibition experienced in Oklahoma ultimately brought her to Utah. Originally from Oklahoma and raised in Indiana, Kinsey returned to her birth state to study art history […]
When Kasey Lou Lindley visits an exhibition she looks at it through the eyes of both an artist and a curator. A multidisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Lindley approaches her work through the lens of intersectional ecofeminism, addressing place-based issues with a focus on nature, […]
“I heard him say, ‘The bigger the brush the bigger the rush.’ ” John Erickson presents the statement for his current show at Phillips Gallery as a conversation between his family cats, Emmaline and Cecily. Speaking of the artist’s creative struggles as they witnessed them from underfoot—endeavors that […]
Work and Wonder: 200 Years of Latter-day Saint Art—on display now at the Church History Museum and organized by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts—is touted as the “largest and most comprehensive attempt to show the variety of works by Latter-day Saint artists around the world from the […]
For Janalee Emmer, the transformative power of exhibitions remains at the heart of her curatorial philosophy. Whether engaging with medieval altarpieces, contemporary landscape photography, or Renaissance sculpture, she sees exhibitions as portals into other worlds, capable of reshaping how we see and experience art. Emmer, director of the […]
Krysta Dimick was born and raised in Sandwich Illinois, attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a B.S. in Architecture and received a Masters in Architecture from the University of Utah. She currently lives in South Salt Lake, where she works as an architect, is mother of three young children, and is a practicing artist. She also enjoys hiking, photography, travel, wakeboarding, construction, party planning, prepping from scratch, catching the full moon and gardening, all of which influence her work.
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