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Pablo Cruz-Ayala at 35×35

Currently a student at the University of Utah studying art and biomedical engineering, Pablo Cruz-Ayala creates multi-media works that explore the complexities of Latin American identity. The work weaves together elements from pre-Colombian Indigenous cultures and contemporary Western standards to foster dialogue on cultural value, identity, and the experiences […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Kaleidoscope Garden Blends Emerging and Established Talent for a Fusion of Art and Environment

Art Access has gone through many changes since its salad days as a must-visit gallery early in the new millennium. Over the intervening years, many of Utah’s best-known artists took turns helping artists of proven merit, but who were prevented by various circumstances from achieving their potential, to […]

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Liza Trépanier at 35×35

  Light is often thought of as a means to an end — a source of illumination rather than a subject in and of itself. In works like “Phototropic Delicatessen,” Liza Trépanier focuses on light as a subject. This vertical panel appears to be a palimpsest of colors, […]

Book Awards | Literary Arts

Craig Childs’ Journey into the Heart of Ancient Rock Art Wins a 15 Bytes Book Award

Craig Childs’ Tracing Time, a compelling work of creative nonfiction inspired by the author’s excursions through the American Southwest, has been awarded a 2023 15 Bytes Book Award. With a career spanning several decades, Childs has distinguished himself through a unique blend of adventurous exploration and deep scholarly […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

At the Kimball, Lee Mingwei Offers Utah Residents the Gift of Connection

With their latest installation, Park City’s Kimball Art Center adds itself to a prestigious international list of exhibition hosts for internationally renowned artist Lee Mingwei. The Taiwanese-American artist’s work focuses on (among other things) intimacy and connection. He explores the ubiquitous nature of these raw human moments and […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Faith in Frame: Springville Show is Utah’s Artistic Exploration of Religion and Spirituality

Given the fundamental motivating role of religion in cultural and artistic expression all over the world, it’s not surprising that the first art work to employ the renaissance discovery of accurate visual perspective was such a work — Masaccio’s “Holy Trinity,” which depicts the three-persons-in-one-God enumerated by Christian […]

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