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Karen Horne: Night and Day

by 15 Bytes on Jul 9, 2014 • 1 Comment

In his 1863 essay “The Painter of Modern Life,” Charles Baudelaire stated that ‘modernity’ required, “above all a man of the world to fulfill. He has every-where sought after the fugitive, fleeting beauty of present-day life, the distinguishing character of that quality which, with the reader’s kind permission, we have...

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Bikuben at UMOCA

by 15 Bytes on Jul 9, 2014 • No Comments

For her inaugural project as associate curator at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Rebecca Maksym envisioned an exhibition that sheds light on a nationality of immigrants not commonly referenced in American migrational history. Rather than a strictly historical chronology, Maksym preferred to think about migration in conceptual and...

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Jared Lindsay Clark and Makia Sharp at CUAC

by 15 Bytes on Jul 9, 2014 • No Comments

The nature of perception, the artist’s vision and viewer responsiveness is a topic that concerns all of art, in every facet, from every place and time, from every artist, and from every viewer. From a visitor to a gallery or museum in Salt Lake City to a pedestrian standing in...

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Brenda Mallory at Julie Nester

by 15 Bytes on Jul 9, 2014 • No Comments

. . . Mallory’s preferred materials are handmade papers, cloth, wax, fiber, strings, and ink, with which she produces lines and surfaces for them to articulate. Her most characteristic objects are clusters of vessels that aggregate ambiguously on a wall—part natural populations, part fabricated clusters. In much of her earlier...

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ColLABorART 2014

by 15 Bytes on Jul 8, 2014 • No Comments

You don’t necessarily go into art because you play nice with others: artists are generally solitary creatures, the studio a temple for personal expression. So when we asked seven pairs of artists to come into The Leonardo’s Art Lab to create large-scale collaborative projects during the Utah Arts Festival, we...

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Light on the Reef: En Plein Watercolor Adventure in Capitol Reef

by 15 Bytes on Jul 8, 2014 • 1 Comment

“Hardy” is a good adjective to describe plants that grow in our desert environment. The same word describes artists who choose to paint outdoors, en plein air, in heat, wind, snow, cold, pretty much year round. Do I have “the right stuff” to paint along with the hardiest of the...

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Cedar City’s Gallery Gala

by 15 Bytes on Jul 8, 2014 • No Comments

In March of this year ground was broken for the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts on the campus of Southern Utah University. Adorned with a tree-lined walkway and sculpture gardens, the center will serve as home to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s new outdoor theatre as well as its...

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15 Bytes / Film

The Business Side of Films

by 15 Bytes on Jul 7, 2014 • No Comments

. . . If I wanted to accept all financial responsibility—and personal liability—I could simply act on my own in the creation of the film and take all of the risk, clearly establishing the roles of other participants and indemnifying them of any financial responsibility explicitly in their individual contracts....

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Domestic Interiors: Mary Sauer & The Pressure of Perfection, in the Gittins Gallery at the U of U

by 15 Bytes on Jul 17, 2014 • No Comments

‘If love is a story we tell ourselves then I had the story wrong. Or maybe passion is just, and always, a wrong-headed thing.’ — Anne Enright Either it’s becoming increasingly evident as we learn more about our species, or at least it’s become part of the myth of our time, that the things we...

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“Tinisima” by Tina Modotti: Too Hot to Handle

by David G. Pace on Jul 17, 2014 • No Comments

Artes de México en Utah promotes the appreciation of Mexican art through art exhibits, cultural activities, and educational programs. This summer the non-profit which earlier gave us the art exhibit of Frida Khalo is, again, partnering with the Salt Lake City Public Library through its Amigos y Libros (Friends and books) club to read and...

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15 Bytes / Book Reviews / Literary Arts / Visual Arts

2014 15 Bytes Book Awards

by David G. Pace on Jul 9, 2014 • No Comments

We are pleased to announce the 2014 15 Bytes Book Awards. The 15 Bytes Book Awards, currently in its second year, celebrates exceptional books of poetry, fiction and visual art published in the previous calendar year based on each book’s quality/craftsmanship of writing, level of engagement and how it uniquely represents the state of Utah...

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15 Bytes / Theatre

Shakespeare Festival’s Sense and Senibility

by Shawn Rossiter on Jul 7, 2014 • 1 Comment

The world premiere of a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is the triumph of this year’s Utah Shakespeare Festival. Under the capable hands of director Joseph Hanreddy, and based on a commissioned text by J.R. Sullivan, this Sense and Sensibility is a delight to watch, as it retains the crisp language and...

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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Susan Elizabeth Howe

by David G. Pace on Jul 6, 2014 • No Comments

SUNDAY BLOG READ is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Each first Sunday of the month, 15 Bytes offers works-in-progress and / or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction and memoir. Today, 15 Bytes features poet Susan...

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15 Bytes / Gallery Spotlights

Lil’ Gallery: The Littlest Arthouse in Utah

by 15 Bytes on Jul 5, 2014 • No Comments

Measuring just 8 x 8 feet, The Lil’ Gallery may be the smallest exhibition space in town. The brainchild of Marcela Torres, a student at the University of Utah with a double major in Sculpture and Art History, the shed-cum-gallery has been outdoors at the Art Building on the University of Utah campus since March...

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Theatre

Mining for Gold: Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Comedy of Errors

by Shawn Rossiter on Jun 30, 2014 • No Comments

This year, unsuspecting visitors to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Adams Theatre may be startled to find Vicki M. Smith’s playful stage set, which looks more appropriate for a theatrical production of Blazing Saddles than an Elizabethan comedy: because at the 2014 Festival, Brad Carroll’s staging of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors becomes a wild west...

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Book Reviews / Daily Bytes

Reflections on Contemporary Art: Two Book Reviews

by Geoff Wichert on Jun 29, 2014 • No Comments

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics From the World of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014. ISBN 978-1-137-27908-8, 288 pages. Ten Rather Eccentric Essays on Art: Reflections on Damien Hirst, postmodernism, the art market, food in art and more . . . by John Seed. Prepared...

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Daily Bytes / Dance

Daughters of Mudson 2014

by 15 Bytes on Jun 23, 2014 • No Comments

by Danell Hathaway Daughters of Mudson 2014 from loveDANCEmore on Vimeo. Having reviewed last season’s Daughters of Mudson, I came to the 2014 performance last weekend with much expectation. The 2013 show lingered with me long after I left the Studio Theater at the Rose Wagner. and this year’s iteration didn’t disappoint, leaving me...

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Literary Arts / Visual Arts

Lily Havey reads Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

by 15 Bytes on Jun 16, 2014 • No Comments

Local art fans likely will be familiar with local artist Lily Havey’s watercolors depicting the lives of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Over the past seven years she’s had a number of exhibits displaying these works, including one currently at the Salt Lake Main Library Urban Room — Social Justice: Personal Views...

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Dance

SB Dance’s The Pushers

by 15 Bytes on Jun 9, 2014 • No Comments

by Emma Wilson Sex, religion, gender, race, art, and drugs. All of these topics were confidently (sometimes cockily) juggled by SB Dance’s The Pushers, all the while gliding through the wine and beer that was served to audience members. The show is truly a modern day cabaret. Each attendee was given a velcro-backed seat marker...

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15 Bytes / Artist Profiles / Visual Arts

Edward Bateman: Artist Profile

by 15 Bytes on Jun 4, 2014 • 1 Comment

You suspect that he’s going to be a little quirky from looking at his work (especially those automatons, his preferred term for the robots), but what doesn’t come across is the puckish charm of the fellow: Ed Bateman is delightful. There apparently isn’t much that doesn’t please or interest him. He’s into chocolate and books...

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Karen Horne: Night and Day

Bikuben at UMOCA

Jared Lindsay Clark and Makia Sharp at CUAC

Brenda Mallory at Julie Nester

ColLABorART 2014

Light on the Reef: En Plein Watercolor Adventure in Capitol Reef

Cedar City’s Gallery Gala

The Business Side of Films

Domestic Interiors: Mary Sauer & The Pressure of Perfection, in the Gittins Gallery at the U of U

“Tinisima” by Tina Modotti: Too Hot to Handle

2014 15 Bytes Book Awards

Shakespeare Festival’s Sense and Senibility

SUNDAY BLOG READ: Susan Elizabeth Howe

Lil’ Gallery: The Littlest Arthouse in Utah

Mining for Gold: Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Comedy of Errors

Reflections on Contemporary Art: Two Book Reviews

Daughters of Mudson 2014

Lily Havey reads Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

SB Dance’s The Pushers

Edward Bateman: Artist Profile

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