Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
An art gallery which contains a courtyard with water and fish (as ‘A’ Gallery does) can run a show called You Animal and succeed in a way those without a “water feature” cannot. Consider the magic and necessary pull of water, whether in drought conditions, or not: settlements/towns/cities […]
On a paved path that brings you from 21st-century, highway-adjacent developments toward the classic 20th-century town center, three cut-out metal sculptures greet you: a miner, a dinosaur and a pictograph. Welcome to Price, Utah. First there were the dinosaurs — the nearby Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, on the […]
Not everyone takes an interest in the backstory of art. That said, Margaret Wilson Morris tells a story about her recent series of miniature quilts, how they came about and what they mean to her, that everyone who makes, cares about, or even thinks about art should be […]
Aside from “Please don’t touch,” it’s rare to see a warning posted in an art gallery. Perhaps, though, there should be more. For example, the exhibition of Oonju Chun this month as Phillips might fare better if there were a sign advising the viewer not to read the […]
Salt Lake City artist Kamille Corry is best-known for her figurative work — classical realism rooted in anatomical drawing and glistening with pearly flesh tones. The studio workshop she ran in Salt Lake City in the early aughts was one of our earliest articles. And she has just […]
“Sometime last year, Tracy [Strauss] and I learned that a book had been published about the extraordinary seven-plus year collaboration of the artists Susan Beck and Bonnie Sucec,” says Salt Lake City artist Brad Slaugh as he’s moving things around in his South Salt Lake studio. “At the […]
At the edge of a forest, amid lush foliage punctuated with small blue, yellow, and white flowers, a barefoot woman with red hair lies sleeping on the grass. She wears black leggings and a blue blouse adorned with curlicues, and a planter’s trowel lying nearby identifies her as […]
In the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary art, new mediums and materials constantly emerge, challenging conventional notions of what constitutes fine art. But sometimes we look to old materials and techniques and reimagine or recontextualize them. For centuries the result of practical necessity — and generally considered a folk […]
Twenty years ago, two recently graduated art students from the University of Utah were loath to give up the university experience. It was partly about the loss of facilities, which in the case of printmakers can be particularly burdensome and expensive to recreate in a home studio. But […]
There’s something familiar about this landscape, but it’s not quite right. Yes, the verdant, green foreground and the rounded, purple mountains in the distance speak of an abundance of water because, unlike the hard-edged verticals of the red rock, mesa country of southern Utah deserts, northern Utah took […]
“So many people have lost the proper way of living, but here it is.” The comment, delivered by someone contemplating two of the approximately 125 mostly woven works in The Threads That Bind Us, the annual exhibition by the Mary Meigs Atwater Weaver’s Guild at the Utah Cultural […]
Drive, walk or bike around downtown Salt Lake City and it won’t be long before you spot one of the many murals dotting the urban landscape. For this mural by Chuck Landvatter, however, you’ll have to go underground. Commissioned by the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in 2021, […]
We may be done here. From time to time, a new effort in a human enterprise so fully exceeds what has gone before that it becomes impossible to speak of the new in the language that was adequate to discuss what came before. Imagine trying to explain to […]
You will have your own thoughts, but for our take, at least this year, September is the best month to see art in Utah. In addition to the regular series of exhibitions at galleries, museums and other fixed, brick-and-mortar venues (see here for our listings from across the […]
There’s a device filmmakers use to show the passage of time. It starts with a closeup of a calendar—the type where each day is a single page that is torn off to mark the arrival of a new day. On film, the pages slip off as if being […]
Sue Martin spent nearly four weeks in Italy in July in a graduate course offered by the Institute of Christian Studies in Toronto. The course included a seminar on the intersection of philosophy, religion, and art, plus a visual art workshop. “My prior art history and philosophy education […]
Summer, when the days are long and the painting festivals numerous, is often the busiest time of the year for plein air painters and John Hughes often feels that he overbooks himself during these months. This summer, his painting travels took him from Utah to Southern California, back […]
