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Artist Profile: Mark Hedengren

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • 1 Comment

Photographer Mark Hedengren has traveled the world on assignment, but he says his favorite place to shoot is here in Utah, his own backyard. So when he learned that two of Photography’s greats, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, came here in the 1950s to shoot “Three Mormon Towns” for Life...

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15 Bytes / Exhibition Reviews / Visual Arts

Chris Purdie at CUAC

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • 1 Comment

Ehren Clark compares Chris Purdie’s upcoming show at CUAC to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. You’ll see clocks inching themselves across a tightropes, a massive gear system attached to a sled, and more, all Purdie’s investigations of abstractions like time, growth and accumulation and the models we use to understand them....

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15 Bytes / Exhibition Reviews / Visual Arts

Marcee Blackerby at Ken Sanders Rare Books

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

It’s all about death, says Geoff Wichert in his review of Marcee Blackerby’s new exhibition at Ken Sanders Rare Books. To a humanist, art is here to help, even if that help entails some medicinal discomfort. It’s impossible to live life aware, at every moment, that I must one day...

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15 Bytes / Alternative Venues / Visual Arts

Salt Lake City’s Mod a-go-go

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • 1 Comment

Mod a-go-go mixes mid-century furniture with new pieces by local, contemporary furniture makers throughout their ground level showroom as well as upstairs. In fact, they recently hosted a modern chair competition which drew 22 artists and their best chair designs. But the beauty of this space is that you can’t...

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Suzanne Storer at The Gallery at Library Sqaure

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

“My art stems from my innate desire to make connection with my fellow human beings,” says ceramicist Suzanne Storer. Working out of her Ogden studio, the potter turned sculptor creates uniquely definitive and characteristic wall sculpture. The line drawings that had previously graced her platters and functional pottery have become...

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15 Bytes / Literary Arts

Saltfront: New Literary Journal Explores Human Habit(at)s

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

Saltfront, which debuted in September, is a venture that finds its sense of literary place “in-between” systems, ecological and otherwise. Its submission guidelines, termed “bearings and positions,” attempts nothing less than a sea-change of the lexicon, the approach and the meanings of environmental writing and activism. Michael McLane, one of...

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15 Bytes / Artists of Utah News

Introducing 15Grams

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

If you can’t quite buy in to the truism that these days we are a visual culture, just take a look at Instagram. Every day millions of people post images from their life, unadorned with words. It is, as our artist profile Mark Hedengren mentions in his video interview, a...

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Instantly Framed

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

Early last fall Shalee Cooper, who was then working as our Image Editor, told us she had found a full-time business opportunity and would have to step down from her responsibilities at 15 Bytes. She had spent two years transforming the look of our magazine, so we were sad to...

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Stephanie Leitch’s Untitled Apogee & Other Mixed Media

by 15 Bytes on Dec 10, 2013 • No Comments

In the recent issue of City Weekly, Brian Staker reviews Stephanie Leitch’s Untitled Apogee, which opened at UMOCA on Friday. Artworks tend to include the imprint of the personality and social development of the artist, on some level or another. For installation artist Stephanie Leitch’s new work “Untitled Apogee” at the Utah Museum of Contemporary...

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Book Reviews / Daily Bytes / Literary Arts

“True North Everywhere”: Michael Sowder’s “House Under the Moon,” finalist, 15 Bytes Book Award, Poetry

by David G. Pace on Dec 7, 2013 • No Comments

In his 2012 collection House Under the Moon, it’s clear that poet Michael Sowder has suffered for his art, as spiritual seekers do. The first section (“Homecoming”) starts with a kind of post mortem of the life previous—another marriage, a father whose marginalia in a book sends the mind reeling in memory and loss, perhaps...

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15 Bytes / Organization Spotlight / Visual Arts

Aerin Collett – Connecting Women Artists

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

Aerin Collett, 30-something and a recent graduate of the University of Utah, knows how important it is to have support and encouragement as a woman artist. “As women we have to fight harder to have careers and deal with issues men don’t have to worry about,” she says. That’s why she started the four-month-old Wasatch...

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Knowing When To Stop

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

It took two summers for John Singer Sargent to finish “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose,” working methodically for 15 to 20 minutes each session and then scraping down each evening’s effort before he felt that he had it right. At other times, however, artists can work a painting to death. In the December 2013 edition of...

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15 Bytes / Dance

Wendy Perron’s Through the Eyes of a Dancer and 2013 in Review

by 15 Bytes on Dec 5, 2013 • No Comments

On December 2nd, The King’s English hosted Wendy Perron, editor of Dance Magazine, to read from her new book Through the Eyes of a Dancer. The reading encapsulated much dance history, fostering connections between those working in ballet, modern dance, and spaces between. The night connected the artists in the room on a national scale...

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15 Bytes / Literary Arts

Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye

by 15 Bytes on Dec 4, 2013 • No Comments

We are pleased to announced that Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, has been selected for the 2013 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by Red Hen Press, and House Under the Moon by Michael Sowder, published by...

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Daily Bytes / Literary Arts

SUNDAY BLOG READ: Lance Larsen

by David G. Pace on Dec 1, 2013 • No Comments

SUNDAY BLOG READ is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Today, 15 Bytes features Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen who provides three poems below. Sunday Blog Read continues to collect a distinguished group of established and emerging Utah writers for your review and enjoyment. Past writers have included former Utah...

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Daily Bytes / Mixed Media

Final Light review and other mixed media

by 15 Bytes on Nov 26, 2013 • No Comments

Last week The Tribune published Ellen Fagg Weist’s article on the Doug Snow “Final Light” book, published earlier this year. The article examines the group of friends and admirers that put the book together, the “healthy ego” of the artist that asked for it, and the vibrant art that inspired it. 11/16 New book explores...

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Daily Bytes / Dance

Aerial Arts of Utah’s Flight of Fancy

by 15 Bytes on Nov 25, 2013 • No Comments

reviewed by Brinley Froelich This weekend saw the second annual “Flight of Fancy: Soar into a Magical World,” presented by the Aerial Arts of Utah. Starting with “Above the Mist”—a piece introducing a taste of what was to come throughout the evening, with the dancers in a cocoon-like folding of the silk around their bodies—featured...

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Daily Bytes / Dance

RDT’s “Lively” Gift to Salt Lake City

by Sarah Thompson on Nov 24, 2013 • 1 Comment

“Lively”, Repertory Dance Theater’s (RDT) most recent performance, invited us to “usher in the holidays with toe-tapping music & dance to lift your spirits and make you smile. RDT offers this gift to the community featuring choreography “on the lighter side” for audiences of all ages.” And at $10 a ticket it WAS a gift!...

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November Stroll

by 15 Bytes on Nov 15, 2013 • No Comments

It’s the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll tonight, and since we’re heading into the holiday season, you can expect to find a lot of group shows with small work out there. But that’s not the case at all the galleries. At Sugar Space you can catch the closing reception for Bill Reed’s exhibit of large abstract...

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Daily Bytes / Literary Arts

Author Brian Doyle: Shivering Together in Story

by David G. Pace on Nov 13, 2013 • No Comments

Hard to say why author Brian Doyle is such a hit with Utah readers. He’s of Irish descent, confessional, audacious in his prose and unabashedly Catholic. But here he is again making an appearance in Utah County at both the Orem Public Library (Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7pm, the finale celebration of Orem Reads) and...

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Artist Profile: Mark Hedengren

Chris Purdie at CUAC

Marcee Blackerby at Ken Sanders Rare Books

Salt Lake City’s Mod a-go-go

Suzanne Storer at The Gallery at Library Sqaure

Saltfront: New Literary Journal Explores Human Habit(at)s

Introducing 15Grams

Instantly Framed

Stephanie Leitch’s Untitled Apogee & Other Mixed Media

“True North Everywhere”: Michael Sowder’s “House Under the Moon,” finalist, 15 Bytes Book Award, Poetry

Aerin Collett – Connecting Women Artists

Knowing When To Stop

Wendy Perron’s Through the Eyes of a Dancer and 2013 in Review

Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye

SUNDAY BLOG READ: Lance Larsen

Final Light review and other mixed media

Aerial Arts of Utah’s Flight of Fancy

RDT’s “Lively” Gift to Salt Lake City

November Stroll

Author Brian Doyle: Shivering Together in Story

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