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.
You stand in the center of four large screens. Angled to surround you, each screen offers a different perspective of a rocky desert landscape. From a single perspective of rock emerge, one by one, four women dressed in Old West, 19th-century costume: a spirited, blue-clad pioneer, a fierce […]
If these lingering autumns— where the clocks change before the leaves do, children solicit candy sans parka, and the first real snow tarries long enough to come as dressing on the turkey — if they are the West’s new reality, then Connie Borup is the painter to sing […]
A review of Troy Hunter’s light-enfused photography at uaf gallery.
A review of Joy Nunn’s Passers-by at Art at the Main.
David Linn, whose immaculately rendered monochrome images of figures in states of spiritual struggle and enlightenment are well-known in this state, says the creation of art “requires and elicits self discovery.” One of art’s greatest powers are the surprises and revelations that emerge from the artistic process, he […]
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
“Newton” In Deficient, his current exhibit at Nox Contemporary, Tyler Spurgeon presents a series of semi-abstract paintings that probes the question of “who or what determines an individual’s value” in relation to a “societally imposed sense of inadequacy,” and does so in a frank and compelling way that challenges […]
A review of new waterscapes by Robin Denevan at Julie Nester Gallery.
“Victorious 08 (Al-‘Aziz)” Andrew Kosorok is an extraordinarily gifted artist and teacher whose passion and talent with glass and design, and his zeal for authentic personal spiritual enlightenment and truth, are essentially linked and manifest in all of his artwork. Kosorok’s current display of work at West Valley’s […]
A review of Toni Youngblood’s Calligraffiti exhibition at Charley Hafen Gallery.
Galleries come and go. Others reinvent themselves. (A)perture has done something in between. In February of this year, Heidi Gress and Anne Cummings-Anderson decided to leave their brick-and-mortar space on 9th East, but they continue to operate with a similar mission. Focusing on their strength, which was always […]
A review of the exhibition of thirty works by world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky.
At the Springville Museum of Art last week Frank McEntire installed the tenth-anniversary version of Spontaneous Memorial, the project inspired by the lives lost on September 11th that he has exhibited every year for the past eight.
A review of the dual-exhibit retrospective of the late V. Douglas Snow.
Lee Cowan has a new approach to portraiture – the 24 Hour Portrait.
Ehren Clark takes an alternate look at LeConte Stewart’s Depression era paintings now on exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Art.
For its inaugural exhibit the Salt Lake Art Center’s Locals Only Gallery presents Jared Clark’s janus-faced installation of refuse, building materials, and used appliances. Clark calls these installations bilds and he has been creating them all across the U.S. The bilds might rise up on a vacant lot, […]
