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Phil Barlow: Artist Profile
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Phil Barlow: Artist Profile

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Philip Barlow doesn’t want to be pigeonholed, boxed in as this kind of painter or that kind. The 80-years-young artist says he keeps “one foot in the box and the other outside – exploring the unexplored.” That’s why, in his exhibit this month at Phillips Gallery, you’ll see a few...

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Sam Wilson: At play among the masterworks
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Sam Wilson: At play among the masterworks

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
  A new Sam Wilson isn’t just the most recent example of the same thing, like a comedian’s latest joke or a hack writer’s newest story. While the qualities that bring his fans coming back are still here—the wit, the gentle teasing of art’s academic side, the superb drawing, the...

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Traci O'Very Covey & Denis Phillips in Ogden
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Traci O’Very Covey & Denis Phillips in Ogden

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
You probably know Traci O’Very Covey’s work from the year’s she did design work for the Utah Opera; and Denis Phillips is one of the better known artists in the state. In this new exhibit, at Ogden’s Gallery at the Station, both artists exhibit new bodies of works that may come...

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Getting Religion at Kayo Gallery
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Getting Religion at Kayo Gallery

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
If the two devoutly-to-be-wished consummations are magnificent visuals and the ability to render visible wonders that would otherwise be invisible, the holy grail (so to speak) of religious art combines the two in works that bestride the realms of realism and imagination. This month, two very different ways to this...

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David Kranes: Dramaturgy of Space
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David Kranes: Dramaturgy of Space

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • 1 Comment
David Kranes will tell you he’s driven. Since his arrival in Utah from his home in New England in 1967, he has taught students at the University of Utah Creative Writing Program, directed the Sundance Playwright’s Lab, written 7 novels and now, with his recently released The Legend’s Daughter (Torrey House Press)...

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Janell James' Studio Space
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Janell James’ Studio Space

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Salt Lake artist Janell James has been busy this spring. In April she started showing with Coda Gallery in Park City and 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake (where she’s currently part of a group exhibit), and this month she’s headed to Santa Fe with a 10-foot trailer full of...

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Centennial Valley Arts Celebration
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Centennial Valley Arts Celebration

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
This fall Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes is partnering with the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Education Center for a Celebration of the Arts in remote Centennial Valley, Montana. Featuring a workshop with our Hints & Tips columnist John Hughes, the celebration is open to artists working in any...

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Tony Smith Rides Again
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Tony Smith Rides Again

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Legend has it . . . Tony Smith would arrive at class with a pan of white paint and a roller, ready to cover up all the portions of a student’s paintings he didn’t like. He would throw a student’s materials into the hallway, yelling “Get Out! I don’t want...

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Death in the Present: Katharine Cole's The Earth Is Not Flat
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Death in the Present: Katharine Cole’s The Earth Is Not Flat

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Katharine Coles couldn’t trust her senses. On a grant from the National Science Foundation, she boarded a ship to cross the infamous Drake Passage, the world’s roughest crossing, to live in Antarctica. For the celebrated writer, it was a hunt for poetry and instability, a dislocation from ordinary life. But...

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Organizing Your Plein Air Gear
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Organizing Your Plein Air Gear

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Summer’s coming so it’s time to get your plein air gear together. John Hughes gives you hints (and photographs to match) on how to organize your gear to make the best of your time in the field. Read the article in the May 2013 edition of 15 Bytes.

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Albert Fallick-Wang at the SLC Photo Collective
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Albert Fallick-Wang at the SLC Photo Collective

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Albert Fallick-Wang’s photographic work will be on exhibit this month at the SLC Photo Collective. For this exhibit, though, he hasn’t touched a camera. Using screenshots of Google Earth and Google Street Views, Fallick-Wang explores the way we see and perceive the world. Read Ehren Clark’s review in the May...

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Artist Awards
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Artist Awards

by 15 Bytes on Apr 9, 2013 • No Comments
You may have heard a little bit about Utah’s 15, our program designed to celebrate Utah artists and their impact on our community. For those of you waiting with bated breath, we’ll be announcing the recipients of the award at our 35×35 Gallery Stroll reception April 19 at 8 pm at Finch Lane Gallery. We’re...

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Sunday Blog Read...Michael McLane
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Sunday Blog Read…Michael McLane

by David G. Pace on Apr 6, 2013 • No Comments
Each month we post for your reading enjoyment literary works-in-progress…works soon-to-be-published…or works recently released. The Sunday Blog Read is a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of writers with a Utah connection. And we’re pretty confident you’ll be inspired. So…curl up on the couch with your favorite cup-a-joe and enjoy! * * * In...

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Shawn Rossiter: Taking Action at The Leonardo
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Shawn Rossiter: Taking Action at The Leonardo

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • 1 Comment
At the Leo, Rossiter refers to other nearby works as well as the cubical space and alternation of narrow walls and windows that characterize the modern building. Not content with referencing and reinterpreting the space around him, Rossiter plans his drawings as reinterpretations of themselves. He covers a fraction of his very large paper support...

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Artist Profile: Jared Lindsay Clark
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Artist Profile: Jared Lindsay Clark

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • 1 Comment
Jared Lindsay Clark is one of three artists chosen to inaugurate the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s (UMOCA) artists-in-residence program. Along with Brian Patterson and Mary Toscano, Clark will have access to national curators and critics, workshops in professional development, monthly critiques, special access to visiting artists and lecturers, and exhibition opportunities outside the museum....

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Mike Bernard: Textural Analysis
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Mike Bernard: Textural Analysis

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
Guided by basic color theory and an expert understanding of paint, Michael Bernard launches into a process of discovery, talking his way through what might happen in the forthcoming steps with prescient presence of mind. “I’m going to grab… I’m thinking by this I’m going to pull what’s happening on top further down and soften...

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Louise Akebrand and the Art of Surveillance
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Louise Akebrand and the Art of Surveillance

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
The government may be watching you. So may Louise Åkebrand. But she’s also got her eye on the government. For the past three years Åkebrand’s art has been exploring the nature of surveillance. From a suite of works exploring “the most dangerous city in the world” to her own experiences spying on people in public...

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Going to the Movies at the CUAC
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Going to the Movies at the CUAC

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
The word cinematic most commonly makes reference to a relationship with, a suggestion of or being suitable for motion pictures. Yet, the diversity of media in CUAC’s most recent exhibition Cinematic makes evident that filmic culture has far reaching effects that spill well beyond its original parameters: it informs and influences photography (of course), like...

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Inez Harwood & The World's Longest Tie Dye
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Inez Harwood & The World’s Longest Tie Dye

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • 1 Comment
  Last month at Utah Valley University artist Inez Harwood broke the Guiness World Record for the longest tie-dye. That, she says, was the fun part. The work leading up to 3000 feet of vibrant color was full of its own set of complications — and also wonderful moments of insight. Watch the video interview...

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West Side Story: TRAX's Art in Transit
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West Side Story: TRAX’s Art in Transit

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
As the new light rail line to the airport opens this month, we can learn a lot about our Westside neighbors through the public art installed at TRAX stations. In fact, 15 Bytes and Salt Lake City Arts Council, in partnership with Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, invite you to take a stroll via TRAX on...

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David Habben Finding Gods at Kayo
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David Habben Finding Gods at Kayo

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • 3 Comments
It’s not exactly the Bloods and the Crips; it’s not even the Jets vs. the Sharks; but hang around a university’s art department or the local gallery scene long enough and you’ll notice the tension — that unstated battle between the “artists” and the “illustrators.” The latter are simply hacks for hire with no vision...

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Public Art: The Patron, the Paintings and the Place
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Public Art: The Patron, the Paintings and the Place

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
It’s all very Michelangelo. You’ve got your patron, your artist and your building in need of a triptych. (It was just one painting to begin with, but the space begged for three and the patron graciously agreed to pay for them.) The building is the Natural History Museum of Utah where the work goes on...

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Bridgette Meinhold
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Bridgette Meinhold

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
Local artist and writer Bridgette Meinhold can capture the nuts and bolts of a place, as well as its mood. Both skills lend themselves to her latest endeavors. She recently published her first book, “Urgent Architecture – 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World,” where she writes about sustainable housing in the context of...

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Jo Blake: A Final Curtain Call
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Jo Blake: A Final Curtain Call

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
Over the past decade, Jo Blake has become a sustaining force in the company, admired and respected by his audience, and loved by his colleagues. Now he is one of the RW dancers visiting the University of Utah, causing students to hush when he walks down the hallway. But those who know him all speak...

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Claire Wilson and Zack Pontious at the Library
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Claire Wilson and Zack Pontious at the Library

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
Any exhibit of more than one artist has something in common with a double bill at the movie theater, including an implicit invitation to speculate about why these artists, or their gallery, chose to show these particular works together. In the case of Claire Wison and Zack Pontious, sharing the fourth floor of the City...

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Utah's Young Generation of Artists
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Utah’s Young Generation of Artists

by 15 Bytes on Apr 4, 2013 • No Comments
Sometimes we forget that not all of our readers live in the Salt Lake Area. Or Utah for that matter. So, for those of you not able to make it to our 35 x 35 exhibit we’ve posted a slideshow of works from the exhibit — over sixty pieces by thirty-five Utah artists. See what...

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