Demise and Beauty: Hilary Jacobsen Embraces Death Through Art
Hilary Jacobsen likes to paint skulls, but don’t call her fascination morbid.
Amy Tolk Richards: Artist Profile
“I control what I can control and then I try to manage what I can’t control,” says Utah County artist Amy Tolk Richards. Richards is speaking on both an artistic level and on a personal level: as a mother, spouse, and human being. Richards’ canvases are simple and […]
The Personal Mythic Vernacular of David Ruhlman
In the center of David Ruhlman’s UMOCA exhibition, standing like an altar, there is an ancient card table. The black material of the table is rubbed off around the edges, with the old plywood substructure showing through at the corners and in patches across the surface. Painted across […]
Colour Maisch: Artist Profile
Technically the MFA Maisch is finishing at the University of Utah is in ceramics, but clay makes up just a portion of her work. The objects in Maisch’s studio are a combination of organic and industrial materials, with a mixture of created and found elements. All share a […]
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, […]
Cornucopia: Josanne Glass at Phillips Gallery
Exciting, bold, adventurous and energetic color; rich, luscious, raw and sensuous texture; lucid, mannered and eclectic form; intricate exhaustive, varied and diminutive pattern — surely a cornucopia of formal painterly elements such as this is the result, at the nine o’clock hour, of an extensively attended Gallery Stroll. […]
Artist Profile: Jared Lindsay Clark
Jared Lindsay Clark is one of three artists chosen to inaugurate the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s (UMOCA) artists-in-residence program. Along with Brian Patterson and Mary Toscano, Clark will have access to national curators and critics, workshops in professional development, monthly critiques, special access to visiting artists and […]
Inez Harwood & The World’s Longest Tie Dye
Last month at Utah Valley University artist Inez Harwood broke the Guiness World Record for the longest tie-dye. That, she says, was the fun part. The work leading up to 3000 feet of vibrant color was full of its own set of complications — and also wonderful […]
Artist Profile: Karen and Paul Gladstone
After working in Manhattan, running a farm in Wisconsin, and owning a restaurant in Salt Lake (remember Brumbies?), Karen and Paul Gladstone have retired and discovered the joys of working in ceramics. Karen, President of Clay Arts Utah, and her husband Paul, both work in clay but their […]
An Image Enters In: Tom Kass is a painter and an image of inspiration
photos by Simon Blundell “Pound on the Star: invisible number signs are realized; the capacities of an atom are multiplying in space. The tone Shines. And what here is ear to its fulsome stream, is also somewhere eye: this dome Arches itself somewhere in designs.” Rainer Maria […]
Transitions in Art and Theatre
These broad questions are made digestible because they’re addressed through the experiences of a unique character, Eric. The audience is brought on a striking journey as they learn about Eric, who has recently left behind his life as Erica. His story is compelling not because he is transgender […]
Artist Profile: Shalee Cooper
When an entire roll of film taken at the Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands came out blurry, Shalee Cooper decided it was time to study photography. After returning from her study abroad, she enrolled in the foundation program at the University of Utah, and has made Salt Lake […]