Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
photos by Steve Coray On February 9, 2000, Pamela O’Mara had an epiphany. A vision, if you will. Two years later, the walls of her new gallery in downtown Salt Lake City can barely contain the excitement she feels for what she has created. Now that her original […]
by Jim Glenn, of the Utah Arts Council During the 2001 Legislative session, the Utah State Legislature eliminated funding for all public art projects for the fiscal year 2002, terminating a public program that has benefited the community for over fifteen years. This means that citizens of the […]
Utah’s inversion has turned everything along the Wasatch front a dull, depressing shade of gray. But don’t let a little haze and fog fool you about the color gray. In the right hands it can do marvels. The Eccles Community Art Center is practically reveling in grays, as […]
by Aaron Moffett If it were not for a failed business venture in the early Seventies, Salt Lake City would not have one of its premier galleries. It was after two-and-a-half years at the construction business and a business venture gone badly that Dave Ericson opened Gallery […]
The Utah Legislature will be in session during January and March of 2002, with a break for the Olympics. The following articles are designed to inform the public about issues that will be addressed during the 2002 Legislative session which affect the visual arts community. The opinions expressed […]
Everyone likes their PC. And anyone who has purchased, inherited, or illegally copied a piece of imaging software has enjoyed experimenting with distorting, morphing, hazing or otherwise manipulating their photographs. What’s better then being able to take a photograph of your older brother and make his nose swell […]
Anthony Siciliano’s evocative array of collage pieces now on display at the Atrium Gallery in Salt Lake City’s downtown library express the montage of images, both private and public, that float across the eyelids of our collective experience. The fascination of many of the works on display […]
Every year the Utah Arts Council sponsors a Statewide Competition/Exhibition. The themes of the exhibition rotate among Painting and Sculpture, Crafts and Photography, and Mixed Media and Works on Paper. This year, the Bountiful/Davis Art Center held the Mixed Media and Works on Paper exhibition. This particular […]
While brisk, autumn weather finally crept into Utah at the end of October, young Utah artist Jeff Hein allowed Artists of Utah to sneak into his Salt Lake City home and studio: The smell of linseed oil mixes with that of the Heins’ pet rabbit, which scurries […]
Daryll Erdmann’s CHROMA GALLERY provides the storefront for the Rockwood Art Studios in Sugarhouse. Located at 1064 East 2100 South, between the Bingham Gallery and the Maytag Store, the studios is home to over fifteen artists, Erdmann’s gallery, and Jill Davis’ frame shop. Almost all of the occupants have […]
viva Derrida! all hail Barthes! and please pass the Foucault. A recent collaborative exhibition at the Salt Lake City Library’s Atrium Gallery (In and Out of Habit, July 7 — August 18) provides me with the perfect opportunity to vent. To rant, really; to rant and rave, at least […]
Late summer heat was not enough to keep collectors and artists from meeting together in the Tuscany Restaurant garden for the third annual Art for Hope Silent Auction. About 200 charitable art lovers wandered through the Tuscany restaurant gardens August 26, 2001, admiring the work of close to […]
