Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
A request has been filed to permit oil drilling in the Great Salt Lake four miles from the Robert Smithson’s earthwork, the Spiral Jetty. The proposed exploratory drilling, subsequent infrastructure, and staging area would all be be visible from the Jetty. The State has not yet made a […]
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay reviewed by Tony Watson In the opening line to his new book Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, National Book Award-winning author Peter Gay writes, “Modernism is far easier to exemplify than to define.” In the following five hundred plus pages […]
Reading Shawn Rossiter’s article “ Not Your Grandmother’s Stroll” in the January 2008 issue of 15 Bytes, put me in mind of the formative years of Gallery Stroll. My family and I had moved to Utah from Michigan in 1981 and by 1983 I was a volunteer on […]
The Tree of Utah by Hikmet Sidney Loe The Tree of Utah, our (in)famous sculpture on the side of highway I80, marks its 22nd anniversary today. Standing at Milepost 26 near Wendover, it serves as a visual marker in this flat stretch of The Great Basin. If you […]
Survey for New Artspace Creative Community Artspace is in the design phase for a new creative community at 850 South 400 West in Salt Lake City. The 3.7 acre site will have affordable artist live/work units as well as affordable housing (rental and homeownership) for artists and others, […]
The Unexpected Nature of Installation by Geoff Wichert Sometimes an installation gets an unexpected boost from nature: so it was in the outdoor sculpture garden at the Central Utah Art Center this week. One of the rare sumptuously beautiful works of art with critical credibility, Roscoe Wilson’s Waste […]
Annette Everett of Saint George was honored with “Best of Show” for her sculpture, “Duet, Mary & Martha” by a jury of Master Signature Members of American Women Artists (AWA), a non-profit organization dedicated to the inspiration, celebration and encouragement of women in the arts. The piece was awarded […]
Those of you living or working near downtown Salt Lake may have been wondering what the fireworks were all about last Friday. They were part of the celebration of the reopening of the Utah State Capitol. The fireworks followed a PRIVATE rededication ceremony and preceded a PRIVATE reception, just […]
The Salt Lake Art Center announced Thursday that local artist Annie Kennedy has been appointed the new Curator of Education for the Center. Kennedy, who holds an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York, comes to the Center after having served as the Director of Education and […]
At the start of the New Year, we are sitting down to assess the past year and plan for the following. As part of that process, we are looking at some of our numbers for 2007, and since this Artists of Utah thing is a community venture we […]
In Sunday’s paper, the staff at the Salt Lake Tribune took a look back at 2007 to rate the biggest visual arts events of the year. Though the big-name institutions like BYU’s MoA and the UMFA were mentioned, it was a local lawyer and graphic designer who decided […]
Recently Read: Vision, Reflection, & Desire in Western Painting reviewed by Shawn Rossiter If the crass commercialism of the holiday season has you down, if the increasingly sophisticated and invasive methods of appealing to your innate narcissism as a means to convince you to purchase more gadgets and […]
