Literary readings are curious animals. They’re the writers’ primary public event to see and be seen, hear and be heard. But what are they really? Theater? A discussion? Celebrity sighting? Two readings in April, one following the other, became a study in contrasts for me. The first, the annual release of sine cera, a DiverseCity...
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A Night with the Family
For many, Christmas comes with a concentrated dose of dysfunctional family “fun.” Anyone who didn’t get theirs this year can find it at A Night with the Family, Matthew Ivan Bennett’s new play being staged by Pygmalion Productions. The comedy takes us back to the holiday with an energetic performance that audiences will either find a hilarious...
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Phil Barlow: Artist Profile
Philip Barlow doesn’t want to be pigeonholed, boxed in as this kind of painter or that kind. The 80-years-young artist says he keeps “one foot in the box and the other outside – exploring the unexplored.” That’s why, in his exhibit this month at Phillips Gallery, you’ll see a few moody landscapes, some narrative still...
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Sam Wilson: At play among the masterworks
A new Sam Wilson isn’t just the most recent example of the same thing, like a comedian’s latest joke or a hack writer’s newest story. While the qualities that bring his fans coming back are still here—the wit, the gentle teasing of art’s academic side, the superb drawing, the dynamic balance between realistic and...
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Traci O’Very Covey & Denis Phillips in Ogden
You probably know Traci O’Very Covey’s work from the year’s she did design work for the Utah Opera; and Denis Phillips is one of the better known artists in the state. In this new exhibit, at Ogden’s Gallery at the Station, both artists exhibit new bodies of works that may come as surprises to their fans....
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Getting Religion at Kayo Gallery
If the two devoutly-to-be-wished consummations are magnificent visuals and the ability to render visible wonders that would otherwise be invisible, the holy grail (so to speak) of religious art combines the two in works that bestride the realms of realism and imagination. This month, two very different ways to this goal face each other across...
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David Kranes: Dramaturgy of Space
David Kranes will tell you he’s driven. Since his arrival in Utah from his home in New England in 1967, he has taught students at the University of Utah Creative Writing Program, directed the Sundance Playwright’s Lab, written 7 novels and now, with his recently released The Legend’s Daughter (Torrey House Press) three volumes of short stories...
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Janell James’ Studio Space
Salt Lake artist Janell James has been busy this spring. In April she started showing with Coda Gallery in Park City and 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake (where she’s currently part of a group exhibit), and this month she’s headed to Santa Fe with a 10-foot trailer full of art. She’ll be back in...
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Centennial Valley Arts Celebration
This fall Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes is partnering with the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Education Center for a Celebration of the Arts in remote Centennial Valley, Montana. Featuring a workshop with our Hints & Tips columnist John Hughes, the celebration is open to artists working in any artform. Read the article in...
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Tony Smith Rides Again
Legend has it . . . Tony Smith would arrive at class with a pan of white paint and a roller, ready to cover up all the portions of a student’s paintings he didn’t like. He would throw a student’s materials into the hallway, yelling “Get Out! I don’t want you in my class!” when...
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Death in the Present: Katharine Cole’s The Earth Is Not Flat
Katharine Coles couldn’t trust her senses. On a grant from the National Science Foundation, she boarded a ship to cross the infamous Drake Passage, the world’s roughest crossing, to live in Antarctica. For the celebrated writer, it was a hunt for poetry and instability, a dislocation from ordinary life. But she also found fear, the...
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Organizing Your Plein Air Gear
Summer’s coming so it’s time to get your plein air gear together. John Hughes gives you hints (and photographs to match) on how to organize your gear to make the best of your time in the field. Read the article in the May 2013 edition of 15 Bytes.
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Albert Fallick-Wang at the SLC Photo Collective
Albert Fallick-Wang’s photographic work will be on exhibit this month at the SLC Photo Collective. For this exhibit, though, he hasn’t touched a camera. Using screenshots of Google Earth and Google Street Views, Fallick-Wang explores the way we see and perceive the world. Read Ehren Clark’s review in the May 2013 edition of 15 Bytes....
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Listening to Stone: Catherine Fischer at work in the UMFA basement
Anyone who has attended the Utah Symphony over the past two years knows how Thierry Fischer has helped changed the artistic landscape of the state. What most don’t realize, however, is what his wife has done for that same landscape. The Fischers live in Geneva, Switzerland and spend 12 weeks of each season in Salt...
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Shawn Rossiter: Taking Action at The Leonardo
At the Leo, Rossiter refers to other nearby works as well as the cubical space and alternation of narrow walls and windows that characterize the modern building. Not content with referencing and reinterpreting the space around him, Rossiter plans his drawings as reinterpretations of themselves. He covers a fraction of his very large paper support...
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