Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. . .They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating. Pearl Buck Artists are not truly […]
The LDS International Competition came down earlier this month but the entire exhibit, including the works cited in this article, is online here. Tom Alder’s recent 15 Bytes article on Henri Moser (June edition) included a comment by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ apostle L. Tom Perry to […]
It is ironic to call an exhibition that is installed every year on the same date “spontaneous.” That is the case, though, with Frank McEntire’s exhibit Spontaneous Memorial now on display at The Gallery at Library Square, level four of the downtown Salt Lake City Library. Spontaneous Memorial has already been […]
No one who has ever seen the movies “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” can deny that they have a fascination with Devil‘s Tower and Mount Rushmore, and I am no exception. I have owned an Infiniti with one of those gizmos that maps out […]
by Greg Thilmont From his studio near Cedar City, painter Brian Hoover is continuing his journey into the realm of symbology with his current works, the “Girl With Fantastic Hat” series. Hoover, a professor at Southern Utah University, has long played with and among the formal styles and motifs of Symbolist […]
Printmaker Stefanie Dykes, whose mostly black-and-white relief prints dating from 2002 till 2005 are on exhibit at the Central Utah Art Center until October 3, apparently finds the present (pun intended) easier to swallow when it’s dressed up to look deceptively like the past. One of the more […]
Kathleen “K” Stevenson, faculty member at Weber State University, and Jackie Brethen, who teaches at Utah Valley State College, are exhibiting mixed-media work at Finch Lane Gallery. The exhibits are connected in that they both seem to be about fragile states, about things about which we cannot be sure, about not […]
by Brian Christensen I have known Pam Bowman for a number of years now, and during that time I have seen an exciting transformation in her work. When I first met Pam, she was already very accomplished in the fine crafts as a weaver. As a sculpture teacher […]
by Ed Bateman Writing about art in a book without pictures might strike you as odd – something like singing about dancing. But since works of art also have meaning, who better to unpack that meaning than someone whose passion is ideas – a trained philosopher. Arthur C. Danto […]
Pilar’s Studio is as colorful as her life and home. She lives in the Avenues of Salt Lake, and her studio is inside the old garage, located at the back of her beautiful garden, beyond the wisteria trellis. The entrance is through a brick-paved back patio. The walls […]
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 […]
Having worked in the fashion industry for more than 30 years and keeping a fast-paced lifestyle in the Big Apple, Pam Crowe-Weisberg was ready for a change. Her husband was retiring and the couple desired a place where they could relax -Utah immediately came to mind. It would […]
“Why are the people in Brian Kershisnik’s paintings so ugly?” This question from a visitor to the Central Utah Art Center’s just-concluded exhibit of recent paintings by Kathleen Peterson and Brian Kershisnik sent the director, Adam Bateman, and me searching for an answer. It wouldn’t help to point out that beauty is […]
Glass is unique among the mediums of art for being identified not with a technique or a format but with a material. A glass artist may think of herself as a painter if she focuses on the decoration of two-dimensional surfaces, or a sculptor if she arranges three-dimensional […]
by Kindra Fehr One fascinating aspect of Contemporary art has been its interest in expanding the canon of materials used in its creation. Moving beyond traditional painting, drawing and sculpture, we are beginning to see a wide, essentially endless, array of sources. This opening of the material canon has […]
by Tom Alder One of the truly unique early Utah artists was Henri Moser, a classically-trained artist who settled in Logan, Utah and was credited with painting 1,197 works in his lifetime. After his formal training in Utah schools and studies in Paris, Moser returned to Utah to […]
Rome. Florence. Venice. These cities have been producing fabulous art for centuries. And for just as long they have been places of pilgrimage for artists, professional and amateurs alike. There may be more paintings and photographs of these three cities than of any other three in the world. […]
Last month, I attended the opening of Koichi Yamamoto’s exhibit at Saltgrass Printmakers. At one point, I was outside listening to the acoustic quartet that was playing in the printshop’s one-car parking lot. Sandy Brunvand, co-founder of Saltgrass, was standing to the side of the quartet (her husband Eric was […]
