Utah’s inversion has turned everything along the Wasatch front a dull, depressing shade of gray. But don’t let a little haze and fog fool you about the color gray. In the right hands it can do marvels. The Eccles Community Art Center is practically reveling in grays, as […]
Little Utah vocabulary lesson: To describe art you have three choices: art is either realistic, impressionistic, or abstract. So, if it doesn’t look like a photograph, and is not a little-landscape-with-pretty- brush strokes, then it must be abstract. At least that’s what I gather from Bountiful Davis […]
by Aaron Moffett If it were not for a failed business venture in the early Seventies, Salt Lake City would not have one of its premier galleries. It was after two-and-a-half years at the construction business and a business venture gone badly that Dave Ericson opened Gallery […]
The Utah Legislature will be in session during January and March of 2002, with a break for the Olympics. The following articles are designed to inform the public about issues that will be addressed during the 2002 Legislative session which affect the visual arts community. The opinions expressed […]
Everyone likes their PC. And anyone who has purchased, inherited, or illegally copied a piece of imaging software has enjoyed experimenting with distorting, morphing, hazing or otherwise manipulating their photographs. What’s better then being able to take a photograph of your older brother and make his nose swell […]
Anthony Siciliano’s evocative array of collage pieces now on display at the Atrium Gallery in Salt Lake City’s downtown library express the montage of images, both private and public, that float across the eyelids of our collective experience. The fascination of many of the works on display […]
Every year the Utah Arts Council sponsors a Statewide Competition/Exhibition. The themes of the exhibition rotate among Painting and Sculpture, Crafts and Photography, and Mixed Media and Works on Paper. This year, the Bountiful/Davis Art Center held the Mixed Media and Works on Paper exhibition. This particular […]
While brisk, autumn weather finally crept into Utah at the end of October, young Utah artist Jeff Hein allowed Artists of Utah to sneak into his Salt Lake City home and studio: The smell of linseed oil mixes with that of the Heins’ pet rabbit, which scurries […]
Daryll Erdmann’s CHROMA GALLERY provides the storefront for the Rockwood Art Studios in Sugarhouse. Located at 1064 East 2100 South, between the Bingham Gallery and the Maytag Store, the studios is home to over fifteen artists, Erdmann’s gallery, and Jill Davis’ frame shop. Almost all of the occupants have […]
viva Derrida! all hail Barthes! and please pass the Foucault. A recent collaborative exhibition at the Salt Lake City Library’s Atrium Gallery (In and Out of Habit, July 7 — August 18) provides me with the perfect opportunity to vent. To rant, really; to rant and rave, at least […]
Late summer heat was not enough to keep collectors and artists from meeting together in the Tuscany Restaurant garden for the third annual Art for Hope Silent Auction. About 200 charitable art lovers wandered through the Tuscany restaurant gardens August 26, 2001, admiring the work of close to […]
During the month of September, Salt Lake City Public Library’s Atrium Gallery features the photographs of Craig Denton, professor of communications at the University of Utah. Twenty-five medium-sized works are on display at the third-floor gallery of Salt Lake’s main library. The photographs feature close-up views of lichen-strippled […]
Claire Taylor holds a Master of Science in environmental humanities and a Bachelor of Fine Art with a printmaking emphasis from the University of Utah. She has been an artist in residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and has held teaching-artist residencies with the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. She has exhibited extensively in Utah and her work has been commissioned by many Utah organizations including the Salt Lake City Public Library, Ken Sanders Rare Books, Back of Beyond Books in Utah, the Sustainability Office at the University of Utah and Torrey House Press. She formally worked as the Studio Manager, Instructor and Lead Printer at the Book Arts Program & Red Butte Press at the University of Utah.
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