Links to past editions of 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, including articles on Utah artists, exhibitions, galleries and more.
The Salt Lake Arts Center, located at 20 South West Temple is currently hosting two exhibits. PERSPECTIVES OF CONFLICT feature’s work by local artists. The featured artist, Kazuo Matsubayashi, is a professor of Architecture at the University of Utah who has added to the scenery of Utah […]
Just off the Fourth North exit in Bountiful is another great place to take in Utah art while enjoying a fine meal. Cafe Alicia, owned by Aaron and LeAnn Marquez, specializes in seafood, steaks, and Mexican food. Since this February its walls have been home to a wide […]
It’s an ideal morning inside the Artist Resource Center — the sounds of papers turning, printers printing and the tapping of computer keys fill the room and even spill out into the Rio Gallery that shares the same space inside the historic Rio Grande Depot. While one artist […]
Julie Newland wears a variety of hats. To the general public, she is the Programming Coor- dinator at VSA Arts of Utah (Art Access). A more select crowd knows her as a fine craftsman of hand-made papers who also instructs others in the the art. And to Sam […]
The Lamplight Art Gallery on Bountiful’s historic Main Street recently celebrated their first birthday. The gallery was the idea of Colleen Parker, a Bountiful artist, who for years maintained a studio above the retail space where the gallery is now located. She wanted to create a place where […]
Layne Meacham is a child of the fifties. Not the fifties of Ike, apple pie, poodle skirts and crew-cut conformity, but the abstract fifties – the fifties of de Kooning, Kline, Twombly and Dubuffet. Meacham’s artwork is a synthetic form of abstraction, incorporating much of the advances in […]
by Karen Kesler Early last spring I was on a search for artists on behalf of two new Torrey exhibition venues. A friend had mentioned that I needed to see the work of two artists in Escalante – so one beautiful day I cruised down Highway 12 (one […]
by Linda Peer TRASA, the Urban Arts collective, has found a home in a big, handsome, old, brick, factory-looking building on the west side of downtown SLC. The organization, which takes its name from a Sanskrit word describing a moving collective of living beings, is a charitable arts […]
by Jean Arnold For those pursuing creativity, the path of development is rarely straight. What can seem like a sudden, dramatic change may actually be years in the making, and the result of much trial and error. So it has been with my work. This summer, I had a […]
by John Erickson Jean Arnold has been “up to something.” Her transformation from competent observer to a mature personal voice spans ten years of hard work—as a friend, for years I have watched this evolution first hand. She has eschewed the expected use of perspective and chiaroscuro to […]
That big “whoosh” you heard back in May was the collective sigh of relief by Northern Utahns over the stay of execution that the Rio Grande Cafe had just received. The state had reconsidered its plan to use the space, located at the historic Rio Grande Train Station, […]
There are lots of educated, talented artists out there who are producing solid art, but who are failing. Failing to get into juried shows. Failing to obtain grants. Failing to get into galleries. Failing to sell their artwork. Now, I’m not an artist, but I am an arts […]
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