Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
“Contemplating Weird Stages,” 1982. Stepping into the BDAC this past week was like stepping back in time. The work of Charles Keeling Lassiter feels like a transplant from nearly a half-century earlier when artists were experimenting with ideas of primitivism, tortured human forms, and crowded compositions. His works […]
When he was in his early 20s, (an age when the main accomplishment of many of us is drinking a lot of beer) Patrick Moore Hoagland was awarded the Thousand Points of Light Award for exceptional service to this community, by then President George H. W. Bush. Presidents […]
Jenni Reed, of Dimebox Gallery. When Jenni Reed moved to Salt Lake City from Houston with her fiancé Matthew Sketch, she didn’t know that they would decide to stay here permanently, or that she would decide to open an art gallery, or that he would be the first […]
A Sad Plight, October 8, 1942, ink over graphite on paper, 11 x 15 3/4 in., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, gift of the Graphic Arts Council, 2001.28.3 “In any circumstance, anywhere and anytime, take up your brush and express what you face and what […]
Dana Gluckstein, “Tribal Man in Transition.” Kenya, 1985. Sometimes numbers provide the best grasp of world history, of its sporadic progress and its frequent failures to move ahead. For example, World War II caused an estimated 60 million deaths, which is thought to be the greatest loss of […]
Billy Hensler at work on his mural on the east side of Mr. Muffler, at the corner of State Street and West Temple. Community arts organizers and developers, DJs, folk bands, food trucks, artists and crafters, community members, and even visitors from as far as Florida gathered on […]
“Head in Snow,” mixed media on wood, 36” x 48” 2018 When Clement Greenberg wrote his essay “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” in 1939, he declared art as standing opposite kitsch, as a remedy to the dumbing down of taste in a consumer culture. In the decades since, however, many […]
When Madison Donnelly showed her sculpture, “User Centered Design,” at the 2017 Statewide Annual Exhibition, it was outstanding in a field of more conventional works. As a photo that ran in 15 Bytes at the time reveals, even the staff at Rio Gallery seemed to think so: in […]
Photo by Simon Blundell “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend she should just go ahead and be one.” Attributed to the American frontierswoman known as Calamity Jane, the quote hangs prominently in Janell James’ studio. It says plenty about the talented and determined Utah […]
It sometimes seems as though Lenka Konopasek can do anything. Using only plain paper as her medium, she meticulously models a 21st-century American suburb, spread across a tabletop like an architect’s dream. Stripped of distraction and camouflage and reduced to a bleached-white, monochromatic array, the poverty and redundancy […]
“Pretzel Meteor” Toilet paper hats, seatbelt selfies, and a performance by the Bee Gees normally don’t strike one as elements of an art exhibit, yet these are among the materials that make up the work of Nina Katchadourian in the BYU Museum of Art’s exhibition Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser. This […]
People tend to see something one way until someone shows them another. —Frank McEntire Anyone who knows the art of Frank McEntire, whether sculpture, mixed media, or assemblage, will have witnessed his technique of bringing together found objects, often in the presence of natural materials like stone […]
