A quick feature where we check in with Utah artists to see what they’re up to.
Inspired by her artist mother, bouyed by the support of her husband — who gave her three tubes of paint as a wedding gift — and pushed by artist mentors at workshops, Stephanie Hock says she been able to find her artistic voice. She’s intrigued by art’s ability […]
Travis Lovell is an associate professor of photography at Utah Valley University who specializes in the history of the medium including various historic and traditional methods of photography. Much of his work is centered around the landscape and the unspoken stories and concerns of overlooked or minimized areas, […]
For Michael Aaron Hall, 2019 is shaping up to be pretty busy, with travel and a focus on monuments. In the spring he’s headed to Washington D.C. to see Daniel Chester French’s Lincoln Memorial, which has been a long-term goal. In the summer, he’s headed to New York as […]
Looking back, Sarah Winegar says 2018 was “a year for exploring what role I wanted art to play in my life.” She had opportunities to exhibit and teach, run workshops, get accepted to and refected from shows. The culmination, at least professionally, was a collaborative show at Provo’s […]
Rebecca Klundt is a Salt Lake City native and graduate from Brigham Young University with a BFA in 2D studio art, an emphasis on painting. And power tools. From a distance Klundt’s works may look like simple 2-D paintings, or maybe collage works, but they are actually created with found […]
As a self-taught artist, Andrew Alba says he’s able to create works “outside the constraining expectations that contemporary artists educated within the academy often face.” That hasn’t kept the artist out of official art institutions, however. He’s halfway through a year-long residency at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, […]
Tara Carpenter Estrada, an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Brigham Young University who received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah, is known mostly for her ceramics and mixed-media art, but she says in 2019 she’ll be diving deeper into textiles. “In […]
Nathanael Read’s BFA from the University of Utah is in painting and drawing, but these days you’re most likely to find him hovering around the presses at Saltgrass Printmakers playing with ferric chloride. 2018 was a good year for the printmaker, painter, illustrator and “wanna-be comic book artist,” with […]
Fiber artist, poet, improviser and producer of live performances around the country, Danielle Susi also teaches and performs weekly at The Comedy Loft in Ogden while working as Art Gallery and Event Specialist at Salt Lake Community College. Author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (Dancing Girl […]
Frank McEntire is a gatherer; he’s an assemblage artist and they just can’t help themselves. He thought doubling the square footage of his studio last year would help with his enormous collection of stuff, so while he is still located in an old warehouse on a dirt road built […]
Stone sculptor Jonna Ramey was educated at Stanford University with a degree in filmmaking and art and, in the 1970s, created feminist performance art and environmental sculpture with performances and installations throughout California. For 30 years she made her living as a film writer/director in San Francisco. In […]
Ryan Harrington is a mixed-media artist who has lived in Utah for nearly 22 years and worked part-time as an artist for more than 10. His work is continually evolving, spanning a number of genres and culminating in a unique blend of what he terms “contemporary urban folk […]
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