When I think of Daniel Mont-Eton’s Homeward I think ambient – a word derived from ambire in Latin, meaning “to go around” – and around and around. I think of the dancers’ almost-constant physical contact when dancing together, each an integral part of the other’s environment, supported by […]
While her father was busy shaping his young daughter into a pinball wizard, Bonnie Sucec’s mother encouraged her to paint pictures on the walls of their Midvale home. And later, at Jordan High, revered Utah abstract painter Don Olsen would fuel her passion for art. This doesn’t in […]
In Sticks Laid In Patterns and Other Mundane Oracles, her upcoming exhibit at the Alice Gallery in Salt Lake City, Wren Ross mines the symbologies of oral storytelling traditions to explore the contemporary need for new myths and new heroes. As she says in this video interview, recorded […]
Since completing his MFA at Yale in 2014, Michael Ryan Handley has been busy. A native Utahn, he now operates out of studios in Philadelphia and New York. His artistic processes are complex and experimental, combining a western fascination with the land with a typically eastern penchant for […]
“My attraction to glass comes from an infatuation with colors,” says Valerie Hollstein. “It expresses right off the bat what I need to convey. I can choose contrasting color temperatures without muddying my colors, as I would with oil. It is a more spontaneous response that lets me […]
The 1-5-B, Episode 5: READ LOCAL with Larry Menlove and Jennifer Sinor On Thursday, June 29, Utah writers Larry Menlove and Jennifer Sinor came to Salt Lake City’s Finch Lane Gallery as part of READ LOCAL, a collaboration between Salt Lake City Arts Council and 15 Bytes, with […]
Reviewed by Cheryl C. Pace Thin Spines of Memory seems to me to be less an autobiographical work than a poetic discourse on the role of the past and recollection in every human life, any human life. Hers as author. Yours and mine as readers. And to the […]
Edit someone’s words long enough and their voice begins to seep into your own. For 10 years, I worked with Ehren Clark, one of the most passionate voices in Utah’s art community, and his many verbal mannerisms — his cadences, syntax and lexicon — became so familiar, so […]
Lindsie Smith will be getting back down to earth in her new role as Executive Director of the Kimball Art Center (KAC). “It is an exciting time to be joining the Kimball Art Center,” she said, “as we plan for a new facility that will allow us to expand our ability to inspire […]
In anticipation of the next installment of our READ LOCAL series, David Pace talks with Larry Menlove about grit-lit, the place of armadillos in fiction, and what happens in Utah during the gloaming.
In Submerged Reflection, up this month at Modern West Fine Art, the versatile painter J. Vehar-Evanoff moves away from depicting the natural world of animals to abstracted landscapes and unpredictable natural elements. As someone from the West — Vehar-Evanoff was born in Wyoming and raised in Utah — […]
“We invite people who carry a camera in their pocket to explore this creative art form that mirrors and shapes everyday life,” writes curator Kathy Cieslewicz of the Sears Museum’s new photography exhibit Sight Site, which opened June 19. It certainly seems that the idea of “everyday life” […]
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