This weekend we visited the studio/theater of Another Language Performing Arts Company on the campus of the University of Utah where Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic are busy getting ready for the 2.0 version of their telematic cinema performance Duel*Ality.
We are preparing a video profile of the creative
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Al Denyer’s Gold Rush
In this video interview University of Utah professor Al Denyer discusses her new body of work inspired by the Arctic.
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Xaviera Simmons: An Interview
A video interview with Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist featured in the UMFA's salt 4.
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An Interview with Kim Schoenstadt
Last month the Salt Lake Art Center (now the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art) opened an exhibition of works by California artist Kim Schoenstadt, recipient of the first Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. The $15,000 biennial prize was instituted by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation to honor the late painter Catherine Doctorow...
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Introducing Kim Schoenstadt
Kim Schoenstadt’s paintings are sometimes on paper or canvas, but more often than not they are painted directly on the walls of a gallery — and the floor and ceiling. She is the recipient of the first-ever Catherine Doctorow Prize in Contemporary Painting. In this video clip, Schoenstadt introduces us to the four new works...
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Al Denyer – Micro
Recognition makes some artists want to go big. Al Denyer has gone microscopic. For her current installation at The Leonardo she has put one of her works on the surface of a microchip.
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Brian Hoover Video Interview
An interview with painter Brian Hoover on the occasion of his exhibit at Contemporary Design & Art Gallery.
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Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell is a Bountiful artist with a growing reputation due to his expressive handling of paint. While his pastoral landscapes are an easier sell, Bushnell is drawn to more urban settings: freeway passes, refineries, stoplights. In the above interview Bushnell discusses why he searches out these places, what he has discovered along the way,...
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Erica Houston
An Addiction to Colored Pencils A video interview with Erica Houston Portrait painting is a notoriously difficult task, and not just because the ability to achieve a reasonable likeness with line and color is a craft that requires hours of dedication. Dealing with the emtoins and self-image of a patron can prove as trying as...
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Chad Crane
Some artists embrace their background. Others flee it. Chad Crane does something in between. Though he is a rural Utah boy who grew up watching Westerns and surrounded by the cowboy life, Crane hates cowboy paintings. Which is precisely why he started to paint them. These aren’t the kind of cowboy paintings you’re likely to...
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