Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Since the advent of the Internet, mailings have dropped dramatically, yet millions of letters are still sent every day. What happens to all those used envelopes? At least some of them find their way into the inventive collages of Jean Richardson. In her exhibition Destination Unknown, at the Granary Art […]
Photo by Simon Blundell. Kristina Lenzi is finding middle age a pretty good place to be. “I’m a private person,” she says as we sit across a table in the Poor Yorick studio she moved into just a couple weeks prior. “I’m horrifically shy. On the other hand, […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Patricia G. Karamesines, novelist, poet, blogger and nonfiction writer who today offers two poems. Originally from Virginia, Karamesines now lives outside of Blanding. Her novel The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books) is a unique Utah murder mystery, set at the site of an archaeological dig […]
We’re celebrating sixteen years as Utah’s art magazine! Help make it sweet with a contribution to our Fall Fundraiser. RAISED SO FAR: $5,160 TO KEEP 15 BYTES GOING FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS WE NEED TO RAISE ANOTHER $2,340 For a donation of $150 we’ll send you one of […]
Though people travel from around the globe to visit Robert Smithson’s monumental Spiral Jetty, located on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake, to this day some Utahns have no idea that one of the 20th century’s most iconic artworks exists in their own backyard. One who does is […]
In 1966, Salt Lake City’s “Japan Town” was demolished to build the Salt Palace Convention Center, taking with it a deep cultural memory of institutionalized prejudice. Although many Japanese immigrants came to America between 1884 and 1907, Asian immigrants were prevented from becoming naturalized citizens until 1952. A […]
“Have you ever heard of mammal watching?” a professor once asked me. “Besides whale watching?” I admitted that I hadn’t. “Sure,” he continued, “we humans like to watch animals of all kinds, but have you ever heard of a self-described snaker? Met an insect-looker at a party? But no one […]
“The Wild Garden” by Susette Gertsch Some of Utah’s finest plein air painters converged on Brigham City for the Brigham City Museum’s Fourth Annual Plein Air Competition. Lydia Gravis, Gallery Director at the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State, juried the competition and selected Susette Gertsch’s […]
Lindsie Smith will be getting back down to earth in her new role as Executive Director of the Kimball Art Center (KAC). “It is an exciting time to be joining the Kimball Art Center,” she said, “as we plan for a new facility that will allow us to expand our ability to inspire […]
The Southern Utah Museum of Art, which opened on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City last year (see here), announced this week that Jessica Farling will be coming to Cedar City on July 1 to begin her new job as museum director/curator.Farling arrives in southern Utah […]
“Deborah Danner” by Tyler Bloomquist Confusion. The title of the 14-portrait exhibit by Tyler Bloomquist sums up the main emotion felt by many people faced with a violent confrontation between civilians and police, particularly when someone is killed. Bloomquist’s main goal with the portrait series is to capture […]
“After the Dance” by Howard Lyon The Springville Museum of Art has announced the prizes for their 93rd annual Spring Salon. The top prizes draw from the three genres of classical painting: figure, still-life and landscape. Howard Lyon, of American Fork, took the first-place prize with a nostalgic […]
Jenna Lineweaver with her painting “Awakening #2.” The Southern Utah Art Guild has announced the winners of its show Turn Up the Heat. The judges for Turn Up the Heat show were nationally known artist Bev Doolittle and her artist husband Jay. The show features 85 pieces of art of all […]
“Rajkumar College” by James Mollison In the late 1980s and 1990s, what has become known as “politically correct” became culturally ubiquitous. United Colors of Benetton, the Italian-based brand that embraced multiculturalism with its advertising campaigns featuring models from around the world, was at the forefront of this cultural […]
Also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain, sleight of hand refers to the manual dexterity used by conjurors and magicians to manipulate commonplace physical objects so that they appear to materialize and dematerialize right before our eyes, making the impossible and remarkable appear normal and ordinary. The painter Jeff Juhlin does something analogous in […]
