I was just a few chapters into my reading of Eli McCann’s debut novel, Stitched, when I paused and asked myself, “I wonder if my mother would like this book?” I often pass on what I’ve read to my mother. Though only about one in seven pass the […]
A few days before his wife, Lori, died, Russell Wrankle applied for Family and Medical Leave from his teaching position at Southern Utah University. Emergency room visits had become too frequent for him to continue teaching, though the couple still hoped a new drug might extend her life. […]
Any good interior has a piano. Or so Brian Kershisnik seems to think. We recently noticed just how often one turns up in his paintings: uprights tucked against walls, keyboards anchoring domestic scenes, instruments waiting to be played (see the work at David Ericson through Oct. 10). Maybe […]
“I saw my darkness, I saw my light, I saw everything in between, and now I’m a new human being,” says Aziza Abdieva. “I’m a Phoenix rising.” Fear is a darkness that is hard to climb out of, but Abdieva has made her artistic career by welcoming it. […]
When the Salt Lake Bees pulled up stakes and left for Daybreak after the 2024 season, they ended roughly a century of professional baseball around the corner of 1300 South and West Temple. The team’s owners found what they were looking for farther south—room for a new stadium […]
Amber Caron, who has taught at Utah State University since 2019, is a recent recipient of a Utah Artist Fellowship which recognizes her exceptionalism in the field of literature at a pivotal point in her career. “Getting the Fellowship now—with my first book out and my second book […]
Twenty-five years ago this month, Sunnie Bybee was a young artist fresh out of BYU when her work appeared in In and Out of Habit, the six-person exhibition reviewed in the very first issue of 15 Bytes. A quarter century later, Bybee is still making art—and still interested […]
Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Frank McEntire and his wife traveled to New York City. The wreckage of the World Trade Center was still being cleared, but throughout the city another response to the attacks had appeared. McEntire remembers “altar-like memorials” on fences, […]
It began with a hymn. Methinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space,’ Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place.” Camilla Stark, Rusden Scott, and LAZERos set out to create an elusive “place” in downtown Provo. All they needed was a title. “We […]
When the Utah Museum of Fine Arts opened in the new Marcia and John Price Museum Building on the University of Utah campus in 2001, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the color. Frank Sanguinetti, the museum’s longtime director and the driving force behind its new […]
On September 9, Jasmine Khaliq joins Lisa Bickmore and Paula Mendoza for the inaugural installment of the Ambit Poetry Series, a new monthly reading series in downtown Salt Lake City begun by poet Lindsey Webb (Books & Supply, 252 E. 100 South, SLC, 6:30 pm sharp) Khaliq is […]
Twenty-five years ago this week, in the first issue of 15 Bytes, Casey Jex Smith made an appearance in these pages. He was fresh out of art school and participating in his first exhibition, In and Out of Habit, a six-person collaborative show at the Salt Lake City […]
Rebirth & Healing, an exhibition of watercolors and woodcut prints by Nancy Steele-Makasci, on display at the Sweet Branch Library through October 3, is visually enticing for gallerygoers. In the show, the artist offers a series of vertical stripe paintings—twelve in total—whose bands of variable widths and iridescent […]
A charcoal-grey smog sweeps across an American highway, the acrid tang of exhaust fumes so strong they snake into the cabin through the front windshield. A motorcycle, indefinitely rendered useless under a layer of cold plastic, leather, and steel. A single, perpetually parked car. The moment between calling […]
If you’re a newcomer to Salt Lake City’s art scene—say, sometime in the past decade—you may have no idea that this stretch of 500 West was once one of the most vibrant corners of the city’s cultural landscape. It began 25 years ago. Downtown was looking west, […]
They bought the property on a whim. David and Brigitte Delthony were mid-career artists out of Berlin traveling through the Southwest when they stumbled across a property for sale outside the small town of Escalante, Utah. It was a former sawmill. The owner needed cash for another project, […]
Our Delicate Ecosystem, on view at Phillips Gallery through September 11, continues the enduring environmental mission of gallery owner Bonnie Phillips. It is a cohesive collection of photography, mixed media, painting, sculpture and more that—in and of itself—creates its own “delicate ecosystem” of art, mirroring the exhibition’s theme […]
It was a dark and stormy night. Perfect for reading a good mystery novel, and I had a few on hand that looked promising. The weather seemed a harbinger of winter and I determined to lay in more who-done-its before Utah’s fall/winter season kicks in hard, assuming it […]
How do you cultivate and sustain a thriving arts economy when you aren’t located in a major global art city? It is a question many art institutions and organizations are asking, especially at a time when the art world is wavering and feels uncertain. Material, a local art […]
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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