Hannah Sandorf Davis graduated with a degree in art history with a minor in visual arts from Brigham Young University.
“Arcanum,” Adam Watkins, 2015. Adam Watkins’ photography is strangely hypnotic. Using ornate settings, theater-like props, and bright colors, his images are given a life of their own, creating scenes he describes as “paradoxes of hyper-reality and the empathic tissue of the photographic narrative.” Watkins even admits to sometimes […]
“Morning’s Table,” 28″ x 28″ oil Home-decor magazines, with their adoption of the fruit still life as a staple of “kitchen art,” may have dulled our appreciation for the dynamic, emotional, and thrilling aspects of produce-based subjects, but Springville artist Leslie Duke, with her intricate mark-making and lively […]
James and Mirabel Rees In the rush of the holiday season it can be easy to get caught up in the commercialization of the winter. However, the holidays are also the best part of the year to spend time with family, express gratitude, and look for ways to […]
Compiling faculty shows is a balancing act between honoring the artists’ personal styles and still telling a story with an exhibition. An artistic gem in this genre can be found in Sanpete County, in the form of the 2017 Snow College Visual Arts Faculty Biennial Exhibition. It’s a hodgepodge […]
Since the advent of the Internet, mailings have dropped dramatically, yet millions of letters are still sent every day. What happens to all those used envelopes? At least some of them find their way into the inventive collages of Jean Richardson. In her exhibition Destination Unknown, at the Granary Art […]
“Inversion” by Reid Elem Bringing a group of artists together can be like herding cats: with the natural desire for personal creativity, artists and their work are inclined to go their individual way rather than function as part of a group. So, when universities across the country curate […]
Ryan Trimble “Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it,” said Yeats. This is the motto photographer Ryan Trimble lives by and the thesis of the personal introduction on his website. Trimble is a photographer, writer, and father of three daughters, but he is first and foremost […]
In 2016, gallerist Brad Kramer decided to display a painting by J. Kirk Richards depicting the biblical Eve as African. The ensuing controversy came from an unexpected source. Not from the prudish, objecting to the depiction of her naked breasts (Kramer’s gallery is in Provo and his audience […]
Gregory Abbott’s “Remlock Too” Springville’s newest exhibition, Wit and Whimsy: Off the Deep End, is more whimsical than it is witty. The majority of the pieces are fun, lighthearted, and fantastic explorations of curiosity, but, for the most part, they fail to deliver on the exhibition’s promise to expose […]
“Metamorphosis” by Laura Erekson Atkinson, mixed media, 2017 In her latest work, Laura Erekson Atkinson explores a very intimate experience in her life – pregnancy. “It’s a beautiful process, but it can also be hard, painful and difficult,” she says. “I wanted to explore all parts of pregnancy […]
“Cows in Feedlot” by Mark Crenshaw Do we really know where our food comes from? How it grows? If it’s really nutritious? Unless we grow all of our own vegetables, spices, and raise our own livestock, we cannot know for sure. In his new exhibit the Edible Landscape – now […]
Backdrop for Utah Regional Ballet’s production of Snow White, by Cassandra Barney. Painter Cassandra Christensen Barney has plenty of experience coming up with costumes and set designs for the characters in her paintings — whimsical females in period dresses, often surrounded by a menagerie of flora and fauna. […]
