I first encountered Logan Madsen’s artwork upon stumbling into Art Access during his debut solo exhibit in 2006. Since then, his work has metamorphosed: from the subject matter of bold-colored flowers into a harrowing, self-referential realism. I was excited to attend Syndrome Psychology, an art exhibit at the […]
“The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars Imagine life as Leonardo da Vinci: you want to know everything. The land, the sky, how things work, how things within invisible spheres exist, how to make brand new […]
I am not a western art aficionado, maybe because I’ve lived most of my life in the West and lean toward “Been there, seen that” when it comes to western art as a genre. I’ve viewed enough paintings of “Indian Chiefs,” mythic cowboys, sainted pioneers, unblemished landscapes, and […]
Take a moment to imagine a Cubist meteor shower, in which a whole sky full of points of light fly through the darkness, through otherwise empty space, yet suddenly come to an edge where none should be, pause as they might at the top of a cliff, then […]
The new imagining of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts includes a small gallery devoted to photography from their permanent collection. The first rotation in this space features Ilse Bing, a 20th-century photographer who was forever changed by the world around her and expressed a deep personal change […]
“Over the Sea” opens on a pair of black shoes with extremely high heels, unstable bases that support a pair of legs in dark stockings, fluted by seams running straight up to where they, and the legs, disappear beneath a fluid, acid-green skirt that whips back and forth […]
When the Utah Museum of Fine Arts closed its doors January 18th to begin installing a state-of-the-art vapor barrier in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building, many thought its programs might go into hibernation for over a year as well. Not so. An ambitious attempt to continue its […]
Gretchen Dietrich, executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), is being honored this month as one of Utah Business magazine’s 2015 “30 Women to Watch.” The magazine’s annual recognition program spotlights women business leaders who have distinguished themselves across a diverse range of fields, from […]
Hard to believe we’re at salt 11 already, but here we are, and Duane Linklater, an Omaskêko Cree from Moose Cree First Nation in present-day Northern Ontario, Canada, is the artist at hand. These semi-annual “salt” exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, showcasing work by emerging […]
To consider oneself an American is to acknowledge an inherent lack of cultural homogeny. The nation is comprised of countless national ancestries, cultures, religions and customs. So much so that the traditional and hopeful “melting pot” metaphor has given way to the more realistic “tossed salad.” The […]
Last week the Kimball Art Center got tough in its negotiations with Park City over their redesign. After a second design was rejected by the city because it didn’t comply with historic preservation guidelines (see here) the Kimball Board of Directors announced it would look for a new […]
How many views does it take to depict the steady, human-formed creation of absence on the land? In the case of Utah Museum of Fine Art’s (UMFA) current exhibition Creation and Erasure: Art of the Bingham Canyon Mine, the answer is over one hundred. This well-researched, historical view […]
