Alternative Venue: Salt Lake City Martine Café Tapas by Lisa B. Huber Don’t let the red sandstone façade intimidate you. Martine’s Café Tapas, located at 22 East and 100 South (in the old Utah Commercial and Savings Bank Building built in 1889), although just as classy on the […]
If you’ve ever driven west from Salt Lake to Wendover you’ve seen it: Karl Momen’s “Tree of Utah.” Momen’s sculpture, along with Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” and Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” make Utah a destination place for international aficionados of land art. But while the “Spiral Jetty” […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’m enjoying a stack of new poems given to me by Utah’s Poet Laureate, Ken Brewer. Some of the by-the-bed books I’m chewing on, listed here as lifted from the stack, include: -Craig Childs’ The Secret Knowledge of Water (just a few pages […]
Jeffrey Hein photographs by Manju Varghese | text by Joyce Cheun Walk in this classic brick building located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, and you will find an elegant steel staircase in the center that broadly opens upward. Climb to the top floor, and you […]
Not Your Mother’s Mormon Art Annie Kennedy at the Central Utah Art Center by Geoff Wichert In Doctrine and Covenants, a kind of L.D.S. handbook, Joseph Smith enjoins his followers on venerable theological grounds to practice moderation in all things. Those good people, responding out of impulses set […]
The Utah Arts Council’s Fellowship Exhibition Karen Horne, Steve Larson, Madison Smith, & Paul Stout at the Rio by Kent Rigby The Rio Gallery at the Rio Grande Depot exists within a huge cavernous space. One might wonder how it could possibly be used as a successful gallery. […]
The October 2005 edition of 15 Bytes features: Jeff Hein’s Studio Space | On the Spot | In Plain Air page 2 Horne, Larson, Smith, Stout | Martine’s Cafe Tapas page 3 Annie Kennedy | Springville’s Cowan Gallery page 4 Sculpture at A Gallery| Dean & Bonnie Stephens […]
In his elegantly written and accessible read, “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa,” Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for the New York Times, explores the creative process as it is revealed in the lives of artists and non-artists alike. Kimmelman brings a critic’s […]
The UVSC Woodbury Art Museum’s current sculpture exhibition, “Regions of the Mind: Exploring conceptual domains in contemporary sculpture,” explores the artistic pluralism that is contemporary sculpture. [portfolio_slideshow] The installation of the nine sculptors’ work reflects this pluralism, giving each artist’s work its own alcove, chamber, or cell of […]
[portfolio_slideshow] Some sculptors treat language as just another malleable substance, no different from wax or bronze. BYU Sculpture Professor Brian Christensen has chosen to call the dozen new works on display at the Central Utah Art Center Body and Time. Here “and” stands in for a word […]
Visage Salon, located at 2006 South 900 East South, is a new face on the Gallery Stroll line up. Visage has been a member of the official Gallery Stroll Association since May 2005. Their membership is new, but the concept for opening for Gallery Stroll began with […]
Gallery Spotlight: Salt Lake City Kayo Gallery by Mariah Mann Mellus photos by Tami Baum Kayo Gallery opened seven months ago after a facelift transformed this previous optical center into a sleek contemporary art gallery and studio space. Located at 300 South at 315 East in Salt Lake […]
Wednesday, Oct. 2
Creative Nonfiction, Featuring Tessa Fontaine and Katharine Coles
Weller Book Works, 6:30
*
Thursday, Oct. 3
Fiction, Featuring James A. McLaughlin, Michael Mejia and George Handley
Finch Lane Gallery, 7 pm
*
Friday, Oct. 18
Poetry, Featuring Rob Carney, Lance Larsen, Tacey M. Atsitty
The Printed Garden (Sandy), 7 pm
Recent Comments