“I have ink in my blood.” So says printmaker Paul Vincent Bernard in a recent interview that appeared in Gavin’s Underground — http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2008/07/21/3219356.aspx. Bernard’s work is currently on display at Tanner Frames, and his studio was featured in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes. To look at the […]
In 1986, when I flew to Ireland to begin a summer walking the extensive hiking trails of the British Isles, there weren’t too many choices for taking photographs along the way. I ended up at security in each airport I took off from—Portland, Oregon, and Atlanta, Georgia, […]
Utah is well known for its pilgrimage art, artworks whose context give the viewer what Michael Kimmelman has described as “the virtue of the pilgirmage.” These works are either remote or affected by temporal conditions (or both) meaning that only the lucky few, those willing to put in the […]
Reading Shawn Rossiter’s article “ Not Your Grandmother’s Stroll” in the January 2008 issue of 15 Bytes, put me in mind of the formative years of Gallery Stroll. My family and I had moved to Utah from Michigan in 1981 and by 1983 I was a volunteer on […]
A native of American Fork, Utah who grew up in southwestern Montana,Colleen Howe studied painting at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. Howe works in paint and pastel and is known equally for her skills as an instructor and her talent as an artist.Unexpected Harmony, an exhibit […]
The sleek font and strictly vocalic content of the marquee above one of Salt Lake’s newest galleries has more than one gallery goer scratching their head. The IAO Gallery(pronounced ahy-oh) opened in June 2007 at the corner of 200 South and 500 West in the Artspace Bridge Project’s space formerly occupied by […]
After Salt Lake and Park City, it’s time for some Utah County glass with an exhibit of the glasswork of David andJeanne Gomm at the Covey Center in Provo. The husband and wife team are featuring works of stained and sandblasted glass with Lynde Mott, who is […]
In our December 2007 edition of 15 bytes, our Artist Profile spotlighted Suzanne Larson, an assemblage sculpture who began experimenting with glass four years ago. When Larson got into glass, she found a large community of glass artists in the state. In addition to Larson’s glass now on […]
The December edition of 15 Bytes is due out this Wednesday, but as you might have noticed by now, we don’t usually get the thing out until the evening. So if Wednesday arrives and you feel yourself itching for your dose of art, you might visit the UMFA […]
In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, Ehren Clark reviewed Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art. Among the more than forty large works by Teichert in this exhibit are 5 seldom seen pieces that were recently donated to the museum by the Nelda C. […]
We’re in the thick of it now, getting the June edition ready for publication on Wednesday. You won’t need a novel to take with you to the beach or lake this summer; just print out a copy of the June edition and you’ll have plenty to read. In […]
We’re busy right now putting together the March edition of 15 Bytes (due out Wednesday the 7th, probably in the evening). This month’s edition is taking on the moniker of the V.I.P. edition for its emphasis on video, installation and performance. Here’s a quick peek at some of the […]
It’s hard to imagine how two bodies of work by two established artists, each making original and mature art and each working at the top of her form, could look more comfortable together than these two. When artists show together they sometimes divide the gallery between them […]
Christine Baczek started photographing when she was thirteen and living in South America. After her family moved back to Salt Lake City, she studied photography at the University of Utah. She is now education coordinator at the Kimball Art Center and collections photographer for the Utah Museum of […]
In December, Deseret News art editor Dave Gagon wrote on the Springville Museum of Art’s annual Spiritual and Religious Exhibition. In the piece, Gagon mentioned “Improper Use May Result in Injury or Death,” a work by sculptor Adam Bradshaw that was pulled from the juried exhibition and which […]
by Kim Burgess The Patrick Moore Gallery’s floor-to-ceiling windows look out at the blinking lights of Gateway Megaplex and a hip Mexican restaurant. Valets stand on the corner, waiting for the Jags and SUVs to pull up. Despite these corporate surroundings, Patrick Moore Gallery avoids consumerism, supporting emerging […]
In his elegantly written and accessible read, “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa,” Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for the New York Times, explores the creative process as it is revealed in the lives of artists and non-artists alike. Kimmelman brings a critic’s […]
