Utah Artist Profiles published in 15 Bytes, featuring magazine length profiles of Utah artists.
by Jim Edwards Confronting the paintings of Hyunmee Lee, what impresses is their celebration of gesture and depiction of a nearly unlimited sense of space. Abstract and intuitively painterly, her aesthetic is one of immediacy perpetually seeking its own nature. Her marks as gesture, either as broadly applied […]
by Melanie Steele On a typical weeknight in Helper, Jamie Kirkland can often be found surrounded by five or six of her artist cohorts and a sizable stack of poker chips. In the five short months that she’s lived in this small southeastern Utah town, she has become […]
Nathan Florence is a man open to options. Florence, whose work was on display at David Ericson Fine Art during the month of December, is a Utah native who studied art in Philadelphia and spent time traveling in Europe before returning to his home state to pursue his career […]
by Julie M. Zych In the early 1920’s when Beverly Wheeler Mastrim was six years old she glanced out the second floor window of her family’s farm house and saw something inspiring. She ran down the stairs and reached a stranger painting a white horse and a barn. […]
Nestled in a secluded corner of the Heber Valley is Gloria Montgomery’s home. Her studio is located in a large section of the house, an arrangement which she loves for its convenience and seclusion. Warm light filters in from several large windows, creating ideal working conditions. The walls […]
In her 1995 Masters thesis, Salt Lake City artist Diana Garff Gardiner quotes American watercolorist Charles Hawthorne: “Better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.” Gardiner takes this advice to heart as she finds […]
photos by Tami Baum Walking into Paul Stout’s studio at the University of Utah, where he works as an assistant professor, is almost like walking into a metal shop. His shelves consist of toolboxes full of screws, nuts, bolts and connectors. Colorful electrical wires sit on the ground […]
Dennis Mecham, an amazing local photographer, has lived down the street from me for seven years. Over the years, I would stroll into his studio and check out his most recent work or say hello as we picked up our morning coffee. As far as a in depth conversation […]
photos by Manju Varghese Dangerously conservative. That is a criticism Utah artist Madison Smith received in graduate school from a professor on his final review committee at the San Francisco Art Institute. Although he doesn’t seem phased by it, it is a comment he will never forget. Smith […]
by Adam Bateman One of the most significant movements in contemporary art world-wide is one where artists explore their identities. This exploration of identity is often done on a cultural level, sometimes in the context of gender or sexual orientation, and often about Art Historical identity. The best […]
All artists have different ways of mark-making. Whether with a brush, pen, charcoal, palette knife, or stick, the artist adds a personal touch, making the work their own. For some it is what distinguishes them – sometimes it is what defines them. Van Gogh is known for fluid […]
When you’re an artist pursuing a career, Utah is the type of place you leave for cities like New York, San Fransisco, or L.A. Dana Costello did just the opposite. In 1996, she left San Fransisco to pursue her art in Salt Lake City. Costello, a California native, […]
This Friday, May 7th, Park City’s Kimball Art Center will open a unique exhibition: an artist’s retrospective that is in reality a group show. David Chaplin’s Opus is a retrospective that displays the personal work of this long-time Utah artist as well as the work of students he […]
photos by Steve Coray Ever since she can remember, Lori Nelson has called herself an artist. Growing up in a small orchard town, her artistic influences were limited, but her first trip to Spain as a foreign exchange student opened her eyes to a world of art. She became […]
photos by Steve Coray When artists from other countries work in Utah (which, despite some protests to the contrary, is hardly a melting pot) they are often labeled as a pure product of their country. Viewers automatically look to see clear evidence of that in their work. Some […]
photos by Steve Coray Standing beneath the life-sized drawing of an Allosaur and her young displayed along one wall of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s Dinosaur Tales Exhibit, the viewer is not only awed by the complete realism and preciseness of this image, but also by the […]
In 1962, Brigham Young University recruited Robert Marshall as their football team’s quarterback. Forty-one years later, he’s still at B.Y.U.– only now, he teaches painting. Art was the furthest thing from Marshall’s mind when he came to Provo as a freshman. His plan was to graduate from college […]
