Utah Exhibition Reviews published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine, including reviews of local Utah artists, regional artists, group exhibitions and traveling exhibits of national and international artists.
Most months when editing this ezine, I begin to see patterns and connections in our arts community. Sometimes I think the confluences are simply constructs of my imagination; but other times — like with the number of video installations last month — the evidence is too strong and […]
by Emily Chaney It’s Saturday, March 18th. Leaving my sweats, television, and usual married-Saturday-night at home, I venture onto Park City’s Main Street. Starting at the top of the street and walking down, I end up in front of Chester’s Blacksmith clothing store. The large windows display images […]
Entering Art Access’s Access II Gallery, where Linnie Brown’s Landmarks: Recent Works is on display through April 13th, one might ask, “Has Picasso gone crazy?” No, Picasso has not gone mad, but Linnie Brown has lucidly painted — constructed (as cubists do) — a series of abstract works which are […]
Despite their apparently simple compositions, Lindsay Frei’s new series of paintings, Alterations, are anything but simple, and raise many pertinent questions — most poignantly, issues involving the nature of human identity and individuality. The Helper artist’s inspiration for these works stem from her discovery of an abandoned suitcase of old clothing. […]
[slideShowProSC width=”600″ height=”500″ album=”699″] Utah County may not immediately come to mind when looking for great art in this state, but I consistently find art in the area that satisfies. With two major educational institutions, a spattering of galleries, and three distinctly different Art Museums, a smorgasbord of […]
[slideShowProSC width=”600″ height=”700″ album=”697″] 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 […]
[slideShowProSC width=”600″ height=”500″ album=”696″] Aerial is a word that sometimes means airborne, in flight, or from above. This implies a transitive state; the period of time when an object is neither here nor there—suspended between the place or state it has left and the one in which it […]
[portfolio_slideshow] December 29th marked the end of Park City’s autumnal hibernation. Every fall, after a relatively busy summer season climaxing with the frenzy of the Park City Arts Festival, Summit County’s art scene settles, like the bears who used to roam their mountains, for a period of denning, […]
The LDS International Competition came down earlier this month but the entire exhibit, including the works cited in this article, is online here. Tom Alder’s recent 15 Bytes article on Henri Moser (June edition) included a comment by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ apostle L. Tom Perry to […]
It is ironic to call an exhibition that is installed every year on the same date “spontaneous.” That is the case, though, with Frank McEntire’s exhibit Spontaneous Memorial now on display at The Gallery at Library Square, level four of the downtown Salt Lake City Library. Spontaneous Memorial has already […]
Printmaker Stefanie Dykes, whose mostly black-and-white relief prints dating from 2002 till 2005 are on exhibit at the Central Utah Art Center until October 3, apparently finds the present (pun intended) easier to swallow when it’s dressed up to look deceptively like the past. One of the more […]
Kathleen “K” Stevenson, faculty member at Weber State University, and Jackie Brethen, who teaches at Utah Valley State College, are exhibiting mixed-media work at Finch Lane Gallery. The exhibits are connected in that they both seem to be about fragile states, about things about which we cannot be sure, about […]
