The founder of Artists of Utah and editor of its online magazine, 15 Bytes, Shawn Rossiter has undergraduate degrees in English, French and Italian Literature and studied Comparative Literature in graduate school before pursuing a career in art.
Park City, September 2, 1963. Labor Day. The mines are quiet—most of them permanently so. The brand-new chairlifts at the Treasure Mountain Resort are also still, the engineers testing them enjoying the holiday off. The midday air remains pleasantly cool as hundreds of locals gather at the “blue […]
When Nuha Moretz moved to Salt Lake City, she found herself drawn to two paths: in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, she launched an art career that had been simmering for years; and, to build a social circle in a new city, she and her husband joined […]
Ehren Clark would have loved this show at the Sweet Branch Library—The Domains of the Mystical. The loose, swirling, sometimes turbulent brushwork; the small figures caught up in backgrounds that dissolve into clouds of abstract color fields—all this would have appealed to our late colleague. He might have […]
Is skateboarding an entry drug? To art? In our article last week on Alma Allen—the Utah-born sculptor now working out of Mexico who will represent the United States at the Venice Biennale—we sketched out his teenage years, which began with skateboarding (and hardcore music) and led, eventually, to […]
With a name like Alma, you knew he had to be Mormon. Not necessarily a Utahn, not necessarily LDS, but definitely Mormon. Anyone who grew up around the culture knows the name is a giveaway—for a man, at least. Alma is the name of two major prophets, father […]
“It just wasn’t a good fit anymore,” says Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, who after a decade and a half as a professor at the University of Utah has resigned her position—to open a bookstore.
On a quiet stretch of Salt Lake City’s historic Film Row, inside a former film-reel vault that once housed Cosmic Aeroplane, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis is hoping to build a new kind of creative space—Books & Supply, an art and design bookstore that doubles as a studio, gallery, classroom, and community hub.
From more than 30 years of launching exhibitions, Kevin O’Keefe has learned one thing above all: face-to-face connections matter. “It became clear that getting in front of the right person shortens the time to a decision and dramatically increases business,” he says.
The metal air filters should be your first clue that Carson Cahoon is interested in materials. Six of them, in a row, without comment or adornment, frame one end of his exhibit Dead or Alive, on the basement floor of the SLC Main Library, where Cahoon, a Salt […]
Shalee Cooper had already begun to pack. A few paintings were boxed, ready to be shipped back to the Mandelman/Ribak Foundation, which the gallery had been working with since 2018. After six years at the Bogue Foundry, Modern West’s lease would be up in December. In a changed […]
Working off the grid in a cabin outside of Park City—the home and studio she fashioned from a repurposed shipping container—Bridgette Meinhold is putting the final touches on a new collection of encaustic and cold-wax paintings at Gallery MAR beginning November 7. How the Light Gets In continues […]
At the entrance to Saltgrass Printmakers’ Salt Lake City studio, a sinuous form winds across the wall. The dozens of two-foot-square woodcuts, each carved by a different artist and fitted edge to edge, form the Year of the Snake Exquisite Corpse, a sprawling, collaborative print project conceived by […]
In her newest body of work, Meri DeCaria turns inward, translating grief and renewal into color, rhythm, and form. Created in the wake of her husband Mark’s passing in 2021, the series represents an introspective exploration of what she calls “a reflection of my new reality.” “These pieces […]
Not all photos should be paintings: landscape details that captivate in a photograph can look tedious in paint, and it’s really hard to make a toothy, smiling person look good in a painting (not everyone can be Franz Hals). Which is why there are so many bad paintings […]
The Sears Art Museum’s current pairing of the work of Bruce Beasley and Albert Dicruttalo invites viewers to consider two accomplished contemporary sculptors and the dynamic relationship between mentor and protégé. Beasley, born in Los Angeles in 1939, has been a central figure in West Coast abstraction for […]
< Meagan Evans, manager and curator of the newly renamed St. George Museum of Art, inside the museum’s upper gallery.[/caption] The first thing Meagan Evans did when she took the reins at the former St. George Art Museum this summer was change its name. “St. George Museum of […]
For most artists at Poor Yorick Studios, the semi-annual open studio event (see here) may be the only time they put their space in order—some tidying, sweeping, patching, maybe a coat of paint. But just days after welcoming the September crowds, Andrew Rice is once again cleaning up. […]
Fidalis Buehler’s paintings often appear deceptively simple: flat figures, awkward hands, distorted proportions and faces obscured by hoods or masks. He seems to be working in code, charging ordinary objects like couches, sneakers, or an inflatable swimming pool with a private mythology of stories half-remembered and half-inherited. Born […]
So well-ensconced is he in the corner of the D-wing, you might think Paul Vincent Bernard has always been there, that he was already resident when the cinder blocks were first stacked around him and the steel girders laid above him to form this warehouse on a dead-end […]
