15 Bytes Post-Stroll
15 Bytes will be holding a casual post-stroll gathering on Friday, March 19th. We will be meeting at Caffe Molise/The Artful Cup (55 West 100 South) immediately following Gallery Stroll. The post-stroll meetings are an opportunity for writers from 15 Bytes to gather after the Stroll and discuss this month's exhibitions. All members of the community are invited for an informal get-together to network, discuss the night's exhibitions and larger aesthetic issues or simply grab something warm and hot after all the night's finger food.
By 9 pm some parking spots usually open up in the area. Salt Lake Art Center members can get free parking all night. Contact the Art Center for more information. If you plan on ordering something from Caffe Molise, plan on getting your orders in by 9:30 pm.
If you're looking for ideas on what to see this Gallery Stroll, check out page 8 of the current edition. Be sure to see the Rod Heiss and Paul Reynolds exhibits at Finch Lane, and the Caryolyn Coalson and Francesc Burgos shows at Phillips (all of which were featured in this month's edition). You'll also want to see the Launch-11 exhibit of contemporary sculpture at the Salt Lake Art Center.
Standford Mirling, Brandi, Won't You?, 2008, oak, vinyl, mixed media, 87" x 34" x 30", courtesy Salt Lake Art Center
By 9 pm some parking spots usually open up in the area. Salt Lake Art Center members can get free parking all night. Contact the Art Center for more information. If you plan on ordering something from Caffe Molise, plan on getting your orders in by 9:30 pm.
If you're looking for ideas on what to see this Gallery Stroll, check out page 8 of the current edition. Be sure to see the Rod Heiss and Paul Reynolds exhibits at Finch Lane, and the Caryolyn Coalson and Francesc Burgos shows at Phillips (all of which were featured in this month's edition). You'll also want to see the Launch-11 exhibit of contemporary sculpture at the Salt Lake Art Center.
Standford Mirling, Brandi, Won't You?, 2008, oak, vinyl, mixed media, 87" x 34" x 30", courtesy Salt Lake Art Center
In this month's edition Sue Martin interviews Amber Heaton as she prepares her installation for the Friends of Friends show at the GARFO.
"Each painting is a journal, beginning as a blank surface within which to create a dialogue. Reynolds absorbs cues (be they visual, or not) from a variety of sources: images from the road, from walls; graffiti; random patterns. Pattern, shape, imagery, and content are processed and incorporated into his works in layers of meaning. Reynolds’ artist statement codifies this investigation: “My paintings are getting messier. The recent pieces lean toward the world of marks and lines more than that of shapes. Recognizable objects show up as they would on a wall exposed to random scribblers. I take my cue from casual graffiti, wall histories, tar repairs, paint-outs, old manuscripts, bird tracks, and maps.”
"Some theorists will tell you that the artist, along with the author, is dead, but many artists act as if the viewer is the deceased one. The freedom offered by the limitless possibility made available through plurality of form and content seems to be tempting artists to ignore the crucial partner in a work of art: the viewer. Art is not to be found in layers of paint or in the bristles of a brush but in using these with voice and vision, where content and form reach a state that allows for the phenomena of an exchange where the viewer is as important to this dynamic as the art . . ."
"Here are figures, ornamental vessels, and architectural bas reliefs from archeological sites throughout Latin America. In each case the familiar conventions have been subverted by the addition of found objects, materials, and references that are both contemporary to the audience and recognizably out of context. . . . ."
"The act of painting something that isn’t there visually, of finding a harmony between a developed technique and a state of mind can be unsettling for an artist. Take Coalson’s 2010 picture 'Am.' 'This one was a gestalt. It just came and went. It didn’t get built up like the others. It didn’t segue between the other pieces. It just happened,' she says. . . ."
"A conversation with Francesc Burgos ranges from ancient ceramic firing methods to the way Mozart visualized a musical composition “almost as a three-dimensional form” before he ever wrote it down, a method not unlike this ceramist and sculptor’s manner of creating his own work. . ."
In this month's edition of 15 Bytes Amanda Finlayson tells us about a group of artists and art lovers who are throwing their creative weight behind Peter Corroon's Gubernatorial bid.
Every year American Style Magazine ranks America's Top 25 Arts Destinations. Since the rankings are based on readers' votes, the list of winners -- separated by city size -- is as much about mobilization of voters in a city as it is about nationwide recognition. As you might guess, this can result in some odd rankings. Internal errors can be just as confusing. Miami is listed as a mid-size city, and in that category trails behind Alexandria, VA and Rochester, NY?
