1. What hangs above your mantel? “1928 International Truck ” 24×30 by Utah Painter, Ron Russon 2. What was the most memorable exhibit you’ve seen recently? Harvey Dunn, “The Original Donation” at the South Dakota Art Museum; a powerful exhibit of prarie and homesteader paintings painted by an […]
Shawn Porter works for the University of Utah art department. He is included in the faculty show at the UMFA this month. 1) What are you reading lately? Lately I have been reading, (or rather looking at) a book by Rainer Zerbst about the architect Antoni Gaudi. I find his fusion […]
Sylvia Ramachandran teaches ceramics at the University of Utah. She is included in the faculty show at the UMFA this month as well as Terra Nova’s Great Things/Small Packages exhibit in Provo. 1) What are you reading lately? Right now I’m reading James Trilling’s Ornament: A Modern Perspective While I was in art school, I […]
Shawn Rossiter’s new monumental drawing, Tiamat, is now on display at the Salt Lake Arts Council’s Finch Lane Gallery. 1) What are you reading lately? I”ve found myself rereading a couple of books I read while in college — Paul Ricoeur’s The Symbolism of Evil, and Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death. Also […]
Brandon Cook is featured in a one-person show this month at Salt Lake City’s A Gallery. Pictured here on a recent trip to Seattle. 1) What are you reading lately? Well, huh, let’s see I am reading a couple of books right now. “The American Religion (The Emergence of […]
Cedar City artist and professor Brian Hoover on the spot. 1) What are you reading lately? Nothing too heady. I am currently re-reading one of my favorite books, “Little Big,” by John Crowley. For me, it’s a magical book full of strange, wonderful, often disturbing and inspiring imagery. It’s a […]
Salt Lake City artist Jeremy Herridge on the spot. 1) What are you reading lately? I have never been much of a reader, I have always preferred picture books, but lately I have got into audiobooks on my ipod. Recently the books I have been listening to have […]
1) What are you reading lately? I usually read several books at once. Does that make me easily distracted or not? One of the books current in my pile is Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone. It is a science book that […]
1)What are you reading lately? I have been reading the biography of “Siquieros” by Phillip Stein. I read only a few pages of it a night so you can do the math and figure out that I am only half way through but have been carrying it around […]
Husband and wife artists Clay and Rebecca Wagstaff from Tropic, Utah, showing this month at Finch Lane Gallery. Rebecca: 1)What hangs above your mantel? We don’t have a mantel, but there is a very nice, large, graphite drawing by Clay Wagstaff in the living room. 2) If you […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’m enjoying a stack of new poems given to me by Utah’s Poet Laureate, Ken Brewer. Some of the by-the-bed books I’m chewing on, listed here as lifted from the stack, include: -Craig Childs’ The Secret Knowledge of Water (just a few pages […]
Salt Lake City artist Brad Slaugh On the Spot . . . 1) What are you reading lately? The New Yorker faithfully and four separate half-read books promiscuously: Everything and More: a History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace (bogged down in the math) A Heartbreaking Work of […]
On the Spot: Salt Lake City artist Dana Costello WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? There’s quite a pile of books by my bed right now, but I have been focusing on a biography of Remedios Varo called “Unexpected Journeys.”WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? I don’t have a […]
Ogden Artist Suzanne Kanatsiz on the spot: WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? “The Secret Life of Bees” and “Animals in Translation.” WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? We don’t really have a mantel, but we do have a big red dot painted on our wall. A power spot. […]
Karen Horne on the spot: WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’m currently reading Byron Katie’s “I need your Love – Is it True?”. This book explores the universal quest for approval and I’m fascinated by how this search can affect or even interfere with our true paths as […]
Darryl Erdmann on the spot: WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? Robert Frost poetry. I don’t read as many books as I used to. With poetry, you can let it sit for two or three days and then read it again and get something different from it. WHAT IS […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? espn.com WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? My favorite baseball player from Oklahoma is Mickey Mantle. IF YOU COULD CHOOSE ANY ARTST, LIVING OR DEAD, TO PAINT OR SCULPT YOUR PORTRAIT WHO WOULD IT BE? Yeah right, I’d like to see a dead […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? As much as I can — “A Girl Named Zippy” by Haven Kimmel, “Another Beauty” by Adam Zagajewski, The New Testament, the 1956 Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book, a 1774 Anicent Songs and Ballads collection, and, of course, Lance Larsen’s latest poems and […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? Bills and financial statements. Ah, reality . . . WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? A dried up, dusty wreath on the verge of spontaneous combustion. No, really. WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO PAINT OR SCULPT YOUR PORTRAIT? Peter Paul Reubens. Not because […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’ve been reading a lot of theory right now, like Daniel Bell. I need to for the art classes I teach. I also just read the “Da Vinci Code * I’m a teacher so I have to keep up with the trends too.. […]
