Selections by Doris Humphrey, Lar Lubovitch, Andy Noble, and Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof made up the beautifully danced and masterfully compiled lineup in Repertory Dance Theatre’s Inside/Outside program. Four unique islands in RDT’s vast repertoire, these dances exemplify differing eras, goals, methods, and legacies from the wide, […]
Inside the Animal, Shanan Ballam’s latest poetry collection, is subtitled “The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems” and encompasses some of her 2010 chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers. Only some — a number of poems from the earlier work have been dropped as the poet has sharpened her focus, and new […]
In the lobby of The Monarch, a multistory building in Ogden’s Nine Rails Creative District, brown craft paper hugs the wall in undulating rolls and reefs, forming an archway between two sections of the building. The work of Maine-based collaborative duo Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, “Unmaking […]
Stefanie Dykes has a busy fall. She has curated Poesis, a group exhibition of printmakers at Art Access (see our review) timed to coincide with the Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Symposium (Oct. 9 – 12); and her work appears in In Good Company, an exhibition at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre’s […]
Penumbra, presented by Myriad Dance, offered a series of short pieces inspired by the relationship of movement to lighting. Picture, if you will, the moon during an eclipse. Those who have been lucky enough to experience even a partial eclipse, such as that seen in Salt Lake City […]
if you touch the roof of my mouth with your finger tip you could win a prize
granted, it would just be another lie
like the time I told you my tongue would cure your headache
or that time you said I was kind
“The deepest thing we can learn about nature is not how it works, but that it is the poetry of survival.” — John Fowles The Poetry of Survival, up at Utah State University Eastern’s East Gallery through Nov. 1, showcases work by Anne Kaferle and Kadi Franson, two artists […]
In the darkened gallery they float like apparitions, life-size outlines of figures captured in poses that shift between submission and aggression, carved masks sprouting from their flattened surface suggesting fear, defiance, bafflement, awe. Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez’s Casta Paintings, currently on exhibit at the Street Gallery of the Utah Museum […]
An artistic process that’s been practiced for centuries, from Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts to Andy Warhol’s silk-screens, printmaking is a dynamic art form with capabilities that extend far beyond its typical associations with wall posters or flattened reproductions. Contemporary printmaking surprisingly lends itself to a variety of processes, from […]
The 7th annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival is fast approaching, and the festival’s founder, Kristina Lenzi, has curated 24 presenters whose works are appropriate for all ages, visually and conceptually interesting, and unrehearsed. Lenzi demands that “unrehearsed” remain an emphasized component and descriptor of these works. Unrehearsed, […]
Myth, open at Modern West Fine Art until October 31 and featuring three of the gallery’s newly represented artists — Fidalis Buehler, Mitch Mantle, and Wren Ross — combines their three bodies of work, which share a preoccupation with pictorial symbolism and a dash of aesthetic abruptness. Colorful, […]
Jason Lanegan’s “Ancestral Reliquary II: Sylvina Belle Frohlich” could be described as a geometric assemblage that, hanging on a wall, establishes a context that literally connects it to architecture. The reference is underscored by hints in its shape: complex, house-like, but initially disorienting, not least because of the […]
Artists of Utah is now accepting submissions for our 35×35 exhibition, coming to Finch Lane Gallery, Mar. 13 – Apr. 24. This exhibition is open to all Utah artists 35 years old and younger.
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