The largest work in Utah Arts & Museum’s Statewide Annual at Ogden Contemporary Arts is Cody Chamberlain’s “Procession,” an almost mural-sized, hyper-realistic depiction of a place somewhere in the vast Utah desert. It’s an accepted convention not to reveal the locations of rock art, for fear that if […]
Plain white canvas frames a small rectangle of paint at its center. The painted portion features a viewpoint that looks out over a landscape of red and white rock. A bronze-looking plaque centers itself at the forefront of the work. The viewer is placed as if looking at […]
No self-respecting dramatist would set a Biblical Apocalypse in the parking lot of a shopping center; it’s too mundane, too much a whimper and not a bang, to produce the proper sense of doom. Yet today it’s a routine event to carry the groceries out to the car, […]
Ron Linn is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland who received his MFA from the University of Oregon before coming to Utah to teach painting and drawing courses at Brigham Young University in Provo. He is a founding member of the PARC artist collective.
Attempts to gentrify south Provo have been quietly underway for decades. The area around 500 South just west of University Avenue is one of the few industrial areas from the early 20th century in Provo, and developers have recently started to capitalize on the industrial aesthetic fetish, turning […]
Ron Linn is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Portland, OR, whose work is primarily based in drawing. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. He has participated in several residencies, including Signal Fire, an artist and activist organization based in Portland, aiming to […]
