Tucked into a storage closet-turned gallery space at the back of the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Bianca Velasquez’s You’re the Best! A Prize Installation glimmers from mirror tiles and metallic shimmer, deep within a black tunnel. Trophies lline shelves like those in a kid’s bedroom or a […]
For more than a decade, playwright Elaine Jarvik has been asking big, uncomfortable, and often funny questions on Utah stages—about belief, identity, power, and the stories people tell themselves. With Sunny in the Dark, now receiving its world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company, she turns that curiosity […]
St. George has a different essence than southern Utah destinations like Moab. It feels distinctly Arizonan, its southern border brushing the state line. Palm trees read differently than junipers; the rock is more vermilion than the saffrons of the southeast. Given its desolation and remoteness, it is perhaps […]
In a new multimedia exhibition, Buenos Aires–based siblings Gonzalo Javier Silva and Susana Isabel Silva examine sound as a cultural technology through a body of work that is varied yet cohesive. They reflect on how sound is made, perceived, recorded, and transmitted across different places and times, using […]
Shoutout to the docents of the St. George Art Museum. I hope to be a morsel as patient and informed as they are one day—showing the youth how to look at art, asking questions that get them grasping at the subject matter. What do the colors make you […]
Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks the most interesting art these days is to be found in the littoral zone where abstraction and representation blend. The new show at ‘A’ Gallery, Love in the Abstract, “invites viewers to explore emotion, connection, and intimacy beyond literal representation.” […]
At the turn of the 20th century, the American West came vividly into focus in the public imagination, shaped by a flourishing body of romantic representation circulated through poetry, illustration, travel writing, and popular media. Among the voices helping to define this picturesque vision was Henry Herbert Knibbs, […]
Getting people to your show is one of the hardest parts of exhibiting—and one of the most important. Artists can spend months making the work. Galleries and institutions spend time shaping the presentation, installing it, writing about it, and putting their name behind it. Then the doors open […]
Clinton Whiting’s Veiled Support, showing in an upstairs gallery at the St. George Museum of Art, walks us through time, asking us to reflect on fleeting moments and intimacies, the people we come from and who we are. Whiting uses a Japanese style in his stroke—simple ink brush […]
Most photographs aren’t begging to be turned into paintings. The things a camera captures effortlessly—busy detail, awkward smiles, a split-second expression—can become stiff or even unbearable once translated into brushwork. But Kirsten Holt Beitler has a rare ability: she can take the casual, unpolished image and make it […]
In the 21st century, it’s not necessary to be a feminist in order to see how the deck is conventionally stacked against women. While some of these inequities are right up to date—pregnancy, contraception, autonomous healthcare among them—others date all the way back to the beginning of Time. […]
Photographers spend their lives recording other people’s stories—weddings, events, news, the fleeting moments that make up someone else’s memory. What they rarely do is turn the focus on themselves. For longtime Utah photographer Steve Coray, that inversion became both a creative challenge and a reckoning. His recently self-published photo […]
Fans of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing may remember the show’s famous jab at the Mercator projection, a map so ubiquitous we mistake it for neutral. Little could those viewers have known, back in the George W. years, how much that same projection would come to shadow a […]
“We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” —John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962 Witness to the activities of modern humanity has led to any number of tempests in ever-so-many teapots. Was 9/11 a […]
Those of us of a certain generation will be familiar with this refrain (and may have repeated it ourselves so often that it feels like a truism): Utah supports the performing arts much more than it does the visual arts. There are historical reasons for that belief: Unlike […]
Maureen O’Hara Ure’s work has long felt like a private language, built from fragments of art history, accumulated marks, and creatures that seem to emerge from some half-remembered medieval imagination. This makes her paintings immediately recognizable, and if you’ve followed her work over the years—especially her solo exhibition […]
One of the disappointments at the semiannual Poor Yorick Open Studios is the absence of James Charles. He occupies prime real estate at the crease in Poor Yorick’s B-wing, operating out of a large, enclosed space that you can catch glimpses of in our video profile of the […]
When Alli Harbertson first walked into the Andrews home, it was the paintings that stopped her. “They’re everywhere,” Harbertson recalls. The living room—where Karen Andrews’ hospital bed had been placed—was filled with artwork, paintings covering the walls and leaning against furniture while ceramics, blankets and small sculptures covered […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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