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.
Many people suffer from cultural and ethnic prejudices and stereotyping to some degree. This is a recognized fact of life, and one that we have to deal with – often on a daily basis. When I first became aware of this social condition many years ago, I […]
Exhibition Review: Salt Lake City Nostalgia for Art & Artists Past by Shawn Rossiter and Kasey Boone Remember the Olympics? Everyone thought we’d all get rich. Instead, turned out that all our international visitors stayed within a four block radius downtown to drink beer and go to parties. […]
In this “Grab, Gulp and Go, Life in the Fast Lane” society we live in, it is often difficult to find something of substance and value. The Etsuko Ogura Freeman exhibit, RITUAL-CEREMONY-IMMORTALITY, at the University of Utah’s Alvin Gittins Gallery, has real substance, plus much more. The work […]
by William C. Seifrit Rich. Varied. Often exciting. Well presented. These descriptors come quickly to mind with an initial walk-through of the 2005 Springville Salon. Many familiar names are represented; some old favorites are not. Newer, less well-known artists are also shown, and I find their inclusion encouraging […]
by Shawn Rossiter and Kasey Boone You have about ten days left before shows around Salt Lake City change for the May Gallery Stroll. We jotted a few things down on shows you should check out before they come down and those you should eagerly anticipate at the […]
by Kent Rigby Hey, all you avant-garde’ art fans, check out the new photography exhibit featuring some really wild looking work by Scott Alger and Derek Dyer at Utah Arts Alliance, 2191 South 300 West, upstairs. Call 651-3937 for gallery hours. Scott Alger is a native Utahan now […]
Exhibition Spotlight: Salt Lake City From a Printmaker’s Perspective by Stefanie Dykes I love being a printmaker and being surrounded by other printmakers for two reasons. First, printers are fine art craftsmen who for several hundred years have taken advantage of (glommed onto) every new technical dohinky from […]
by Brian Christensen What do you expect to see during a visit to Sanpete County in central Utah; sheep wandering across a small town main street, beau colic landscape, turkey farms? In general, you would be right, but if you are talking about Ephraim, Utah you might also […]
by Jean Arnold Sometimes life is stranger than fiction; something happens in our lives that we never could have imagined beforehand. In 2000, when I first met my cousin, Lee Worden, at a mutual cousin’s wedding, I knew little about his father, Adam, nor Adam’s partner Bhavani, or […]
Exhibition Review: Logan When Gesture Finds Its Power: Yona & JinMan Jo in Logan by Frank McEntire Two artists, natives of Korea and now Assistant Professors at institutions in Utah are featured in this exhibition at the Nora Harrison Eccles Museum of Art through April 30. chunji-changjo (heaven […]
by Chris Brooks Now that 15 bytes is back, I have been wondering if Artists of Utah will also be getting back to exhibitions — like their 35 x 35 in December of 2002, which I enjoyed very much. Editor Shawn Rossiter has assured me that AoU is […]
Exhibition Preview: St. George Kolene Granger’s Garden of Gourds The St. George Art Museum in St. George, Utah, will present Kolene Granger’s Garden of Gourds from April 8, 2005 through June 30, 2005. The exhibit features a variety of her creations in the Legacy Gallery. Kolene Granger’s interest […]
Three statewide exhibitions are hanging along the Wasatch Front this month: the Utah Arts Council’s Statewide Annual (Painting and Sculpture), the UVSC Woodbury Gallery’s Statewide Open and the Bountiful Davis’ Statewide Competition. Step into any of your neighborhood statewides and you will see, in some respects, the same […]
Exhibition Preview: St. George Women Artists of Santa Fe The St. George Art Museum will present “Women Artists of Santa Fe” from April 8, 2005 through June 30, 2005. The pioneering exhibit features eighteen women artists who made major contributions from 1914 until 1964. This pioneering exhibition will […]
Exhibition Profile: Provo Thoroughly Modern: Henri’s Women by Christopher Wilson At the dawn of the 20th century, a revolutionary American art teacher inspired a group of women artists to break from tradition and create art that reflected their lives. Nearly a century later, a new exhibition at the Brigham […]
