In our November 2011 edition of 15 Bytes Tom Alder took a look at the mystery of Florence Truelson, an eccentric Utah artist of the first half of the twentieth century. As Tom reported, the builder of a unique house on the west side of town – known as the House of the Seven Gables,...
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Kent Christensen: Artist Profile
You could call him the Candy Man. A fine artist who paints appealing confections with many layers of meaning, Kent Christensen sells his work at a gallery in London, at Williams Fine Art in Salt Lake City, and splits his time between a small apartment in New York City and a stunning, light-filled home he...
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Wayne Kimball’s Surrealist Dream
Wayne Kimball’s current exhibit at the Covey Center for the Arts, Things Put Together By Hand Without Instructions In A Basement, is a realm of broken and ruined antiquity, birds, timepieces, and fragmented body parts. The viewer, left equally without instruction, is invited to piece it altogether, a task that may require some work, but...
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Doublespeak
You stand in the center of four large screens. Angled to surround you, each screen offers a different perspective of a rocky desert landscape. From a single perspective of rock emerge, one by one, four women dressed in old-west, 19th century-costume: a spirited, blue-clad pioneer, a fierce cowgirl, a menacing female bandit and a sultry...
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Gerry Johnson’s Capturing Veterans’ Pride
A survivor of cancer and heart disease, photographer Gerry Johnson understands the value of time. In his current project, Capturing Veterans Pride, his giving some of that time to the service men and women who have served our country.
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100,000 Years of Red
Humans have been making paint for a long time. A very long time. As described in an article in a recent issue of the journal Science, a cave in South Africa has yielded paint “tool kits” that date back a hundred thousand years (pushing back the date for the earliest known artistic production forty thousand...
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Tyler Spurgeon: Deficient
“In Deficient, his current exhibit at Nox Contemporary, Tyler Spurgeon presents a series of semi-abstract paintings that probes the question of “who or what determines an individual’s value” in relation to a “societally imposed sense of inadequacy,” and does so in a frank and compelling way that challenges the viewer to find the answer. The...
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Artist Profile: Shilo Jackson
“What do Salvador Dali, Alice in Wonderland, the Mona Lisa, and fortunes from cookies have in common? For one thing, they are among the ephemera collected by Shilo Jackson to be used in various combinations someday in a painting. That day is here as Jackson finishes some 30 new works for her Autogenous Automatous exhibit...
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Andrew Kosorok: 99 Names of God
Andrew Kosorok is an extraordinarily gifted artist and teacher whose passion and talent with glass and design, and his zeal for authentic personal spiritual enlightenment and truth, are essentially linked and manifest in all of his artwork. Kosorok’s current display of work at West Valley’s Cultural Celebration Center, 99 Most Beautiful Names: A Sculptural Presentation...
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