Tom Aaron: Pathways to the Land
Tom Aaron’s new works at Nox Contemporary explore the land from many angles.
Ehren Clark
Ehren Clark studied art history at both the University of Utah and the University of Reading in the UK. He is now a professional writer living in Salt Lake City.
Justin Wheatley: Through a Glass Brightly
“The painting shows the façade but the work speaks beneath the surface,” says Justin Wheatley about his multi-media paintings, a new batch of which are currently on exhibit at Salt Lake’s 15th Street gallery. Whether his subject is a Salt Lake bungalow or the Brooklyn Bridge, Wheatley’s mixed-media […]
Justin Wheatley at 15th Street Gallery
by Ehren Clark To everything there is a surface, a façade, an outward appearance. With most of life, the truth of the matter is distorted by the façade, by the physicality, limited by what the eye can see that is only an artificial layer to truth. Justin Wheatley’s […]
Wynter Jones: Her Best Foot Forward
As she prepares for a new solo exhibit at Salt Lake’s A Gallery, it is refreshing to hear her Wynter Jones say, ‘I’m not as pissed off as I used to be.’
Limits of Imagination: Gia Whitlock
How does one harness the imagination to the point where it traverses the divide between a free flow of excessive creativity and provocative fine art? Gia Whitlock’s canvases currently on exhibit at Salt Lake’s 15th Street Gallery suggest an answer. Read the review in the August 2012 edition […]
Sweetness Sells: Heather Barron at Phillips Gallery
Ehren Clark wonders what it is about Heather Barron’s paintings that makes her one of the best-selling artists in town.
Brian Christensen at Finch Lane
A review of Brian Christensen’s exhibit of sculptures and installations at Finch Lane Gallery.
Jeffrey Hale’s Portraits
Ehren Clark sits down with Jeffrey Hale to talk about his approach to portraiture.
Georges Rouault’s Circus Comes to Town
A review of Georges Rouault’s Cique de l’Etoile Filante suite of prints, now on exhibit at the UMFA.
Pam Bowman & Noah Coleman: For the Time Being
Installations by Pam Bowman and Noah Coleman cause Ehren Clark to ruminate on time.
Fahimeh Amiri & Loné Vilnius
Ehren Clark reviews the work of Fahimeh Amiri, whose hybrid style of Cubism and Persian miniature is used to critique the situation of women in present-day Iran, and Loné Vilnius, an artist who brings fine craftsmanship to her assembled boxes that range from the witty to the polemical. […]
Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff
Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery.