Earlier this year Ernesto Pujol’s Awaiting captured our community’s attention as dozens of participants joined the artist in a 12-hour site specific performance at Utah’s State Capitol (see our April edition). Tonight, Gary Vlasic’s 48-hour performance at the Salt Lake Art Center — entitled “Dark Horse: Fallen Shadow” and promising continuous movement emphasizing the meditative...
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Blue Critchfield
If you’ve visited Artspace City Center (home of Art Access Gallery, Tanner Frames Gallery and uaf Gallery) you’ve probably seen the work of Blue Critchfield. For years his large paintings mixing realistically rendered figures with surreal elements and abstracted styles caused visitors to stare through the glass walls of his studio when he wasn’t there...
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Donna Poulton on Edgar Payne
One of the hardest parts of writing is deleting that hard-won paragraph that just doesn’t fit the final draft. Equally difficult for a film editor is watching all that wonderful material end up on “the cutting room floor.” But while authors rarely have the comfort of anticipating a volume of unpublished paragraphs, filmmakers can always...
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Ben Hammond
“To get something to work three-dimensionally is . . . it makes me want to slam my head against the wall and it’s hard. But there is nothing more fulfilling than when you pull it off.” Watch the interview HERE. COMMENT below.
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Rod Heiss
A native Californian, sculptor Rod Heiss came to Utah fourteen years ago to apply his skills as a craftsman during the state’s building boom. When the housing market collapsed three years ago, Heiss encountered a moment of crisis. He made the most of the opportunity and threw himself back into his love of sculpture. Read...
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Justin Wheatley Interview
Justin Wheatley talks with 15 Bytes about his mixed-media paintings of houses and homes. Check out the interview on page 3.
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Smog Lake City
Salt Lake City’s inversion might endanger your health, but it sure can be beautiful. Check out Alex Haworth Johnstone new short film on “Smog Lake City” on page 6.
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Olivia Mae Pendergast’s Malawi Video
Our June 2008 edition of 15 Bytes used the occassion of an exhibition of her works at Park City’s Phoenix Gallery to interview Olivia (Holly) Mae Pendergast about her trip to Malawi. Recently the artist posted a video about her experience on Youtube and we’ve brought it to you directly here on Extra!Extra! We’d like to...
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Tribal Portrait: Beauty and Brutality :: A Video
If you are having troubles viewing this video it may be because of your browser (anyone out there want to leave a comment and clue us in as to how to embed the video and have it work cross browsers?). Try going directly to the source of the video at http://artistsofutah.org/15bytes/07may/trent4.mov. Another problem may be...
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