Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
a photo essay by Shalee Cooper Dennis Mecham is one of Utah’s most prominent photographers. His space on Pierpont functions as photography studio, work space, and fine art gallery. Mecham is one of the original occupants of the studios at Pierpont and remained there when many tenants, fearing […]
Artist Profile of Salt Lake artist Joey Behrens.
a photo essay by Van Chu A flash of purple or blue stands out against the beige paint, wood pannelling and ubiquitous clay in Cristin Zimmer’s studio space at the University of Utah. Zimmer, who is working towards an MFA, has a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art […]
“Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, 1874 The complexity and rich magnificence of Victorian art comes to the fore at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art’s exhibition of works from the collection of British entrepreneur Thomas Holloway. Amassed between 1881 and 1883 to […]
Gaell Lindstrom, well-known Utah artist and teacher, passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Born Gale William Lindstrom in Salt Lake in 1919, the artist studied under LeConte Stewart at the University of Utah and earned an M.F.A. degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts. […]
Ever since the Cubists first started gluing real-life materials, like newspapers, onto their two-dimensional representations of the same materials, collage has become an increasingly dominant art practice. Throughout the 20th century, in movements like Dada, Arte Povera, Fluxus, the post-painterly Abstractionsists and Pop art, collage played an important […]
Are dreams so distinct from memories and are memories so distinct from dreams? Do we not ask ourselves, “Was that a dream?” or conversely, “Was I awake?” This month, Palmers Gallery explores the fantasy of dreams and what may or might not be fiction in memory with an […]
Frank McEntire is one of Utah’s most prominent artists. Though he is also well known for his ancillary activities — directing the Utah Arts Council, curating a number of museum exhibitions and writing art criticism for the Salt Lake Tribune for a number of years — McEntire has […]
Pity the poor art photographer. No other medium has been so thoroughly victimized by its own success. Invented by visual artists in the early 1800s as a shortcut to getting an image on the page, photography and its offspring—motion pictures, video, infrared and X-rays among others—have become the […]
by Michelle Wimber With times as rough as they are few may be considering starting an art collection. Even when times are good one might think collecting art is only for the rich and well-connected. But there is hope for the average person. I love art, but being a […]
Ben Wiemeyer likes to work big. For many years “big” meant graffiti art thrown up on the sides of buildings, the aspect of his work that usually generates interest in local media outlets. But Wiemeyer, a University- trained artist, also likes to work big when exploring aesthetic issues in […]
A little extra salt in the landscape is the last thing the Caineville Wash area needs. The land there is already overly saline and erosion by off-wheelers in the area threatens to increase the runoff of salt into the streams and ground water. Recently, though, Levi Jackson, a […]
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