Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
If you aren’t familiar with the brilliant colors and dazzling contrasts in Royden Card’s art, you are missing a very unique artistic expression of southern Utah landscapes. Card, a native of Canada, earned a BFA in painting (1976) and an MFA in painting and sculpture with a minor […]
In “Criticism in the Moment” (January edition), Geoff Wichert provides one critical perspective on the state of today’s art criticism. The essay is thought-provoking, and I rather enjoy Wichert’s prose. However, though his focus is LACMA’s exhibition Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images (through March 4, […]
After a four month hiatus, the much missed Kayo gallery is returning to Broadway—just a block and a half from its former location (now Nobrow coffee). At 177 East Broadway, a few doors down from Michael Berry Gallery, the new Kayo will share the ground floor with Frosty […]
[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=”500″ album=”698″] Last month, I introduced you to A.B. Wright, the first of many “Block” artists, that is, a number of early Utah artists who gravitated to each other in the areas of the Avenues of Salt Lake, as well as locales close to the University […]
[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 […]
Christine Baczek started photographing when she was thirteen and living in South America. After her family moved back to Salt Lake City, she studied photography at the University of Utah. She is now education coordinator at the Kimball Art Center and collections photographer for the Utah Museum of […]
[portfolio_slideshow] Alder’s Accounts Around the Block: A.B. Wright by Tom Alder Why this insatiable interest in the work and lives of early Utah artists? Perhaps because my office is now located on the 10th floor of the Zions Bank Tower I am receiving some sort of vibe from […]
by Jim Frazer Tres Flores, Salt Lake’s newest studio spaces for artists, held their first open studio on the Gallery Stroll of December 15th. When Poor Yorick Studios was squeezed out of its downtown location in the summer of 2006 and relocated to its new South Salt Lake […]
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 […]
[portfolio_slideshow] reviewed by Shawn Rossiter In the March 2003 edition of Art in America, Raphael Rubinstein, a senior editor of the magazine as well as poet and art critic, lamented the state of contemporary art criticism in an article entitled “A Quiet Crisis.” In the 15 Bytes edition […]
