Salt 18, the current presentation in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ international series of contemporary art invitationals, presents Amor Muñoz, a well-known Mexico City artist who researches the interaction of technology and culture and their impacts on each other. That she has succeeded in this can be […]
It seems logical to assume that the more artists and their works are included in an exhibition, the more variety can be expected. What’s to be made, then, of 70 works by 70 artists, musicians, writers, and activists, all of which are limited to black and white and […]
I like a good ghost story. Especially this time of year. And especially a slow-burn intellectual ghost-tale that reveals like a puzzle. Think Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, or Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. Ghosts roam free in Abigail Rose-Marie’s exceptional novel, White […]
Madeline Rupard’s 2002 Subaru Forester foregrounds an episode from her actual life. Considering that UMOCA, where these fewer than two dozen identically formatted acrylic paintings are now showing, is publishing them as a book they will offer in their gift shop alongside her previous collection, it might make […]
It’s probably safe to assume that it’s a coincidence: that what will likely be among the last great shows in the splendid, large gallery at UMOCA, where so much current or contemporary art has met the collective gaze, should take time as one of its thematic examples of […]
“Jones and Elsner have been exhibited together before,” says Steven Salabsky, a fine art consultant at Phillips; and it is easy to see why. Their signature mediums might have been different, but they sang the same song: form, balance, value, and the skillful manipulation of light—on the subject […]
Imagine a microwave. Now imagine an art gallery about that size, filled with an assortment of ghostly hybrid creatures. Got the picture? It might look something like Hello Darkness, the latest show at Meanwhile Park’s MINIMO Contemporary Gallery, where a compact space makes unlikely room for the macabre. […]
Salt Lake City Honors Five with Mayor’s Artist Awards Salt Lake City has named Artes de México en Utah, Cheryl Ann Cluff, Russel Albert Daniels, David Ericson and Laura Allred Hurtado recipients of the 2026 Mayor’s Artist Awards. The five were recognized Oct. 13 at Finch Lane Gallery […]
By the time Becky Bloom landed in Utah, she had already worked at New York’s Rubin Museum of Art, studied at Yale and the University of Michigan, and spent summers conducting research in the western Himalayas. Museums were the career she had been building toward for years. She […]
The founding editor of 15 Bytes, Shawn Rossiter, put his cards on the table, so to speak, when he titled the umbrella organization “Artists of Utah” and not Art of Utah. His focus was then, and 25 years later still is, on the community of our artmakers. Among […]
I refuse to accept the notion that artworks are puzzles meant for the audience to decipher, especially when it is assumed there is only one right answer. Ideally, an encounter with a work of art is more like a collaboration in which the artist and a viewer come […]
Gregg Deal’s music is full of piss and vinegar, righteous anger delivered with a hot blade of wit and invective. “I’m not a very good Indian,” he announces in “Bad Indian,” one of the songs he performs as frontman for the punk band Dead Pioneers. “My cheekbones aren’t […]
When Stephen Trimble published The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin in 1989, the metaphor of his title seemed almost inevitable. Sagebrush blanketed nearly half of the Great Basin, the enormous sweep of basin and range country extending from Utah across Nevada and into California […]
In October, you could walk a few blocks through downtown Salt Lake City and encounter a woman accused of witchcraft, a closeted Mormon man’s grieving parents, a telekinetic teenager covered in blood and a family watching the Great Salt Lake disappear. Salt Lake’s stages are having a dark […]
If you’re new to Utah’s art world, right now the work of Anna Campbell Bliss may feel like one of those odd vocabulary words you’ve only just learned and suddenly hear everywhere. Her geometric compositions, built from color and repetition and carrying a glowing, mesmeric power, have been […]
When Gilmore Scott got in trouble at school, he had to help the teachers explain his misdeeds to his mother. The youngest of six children, Scott grew up in Blanding, Utah, where his mother raised the family on her own and worked as a cook for the San […]
While the celebrated playwright George Bernard Shaw’s maxim, “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches,” might be droll, it is not accurate. Artists Who Teach, at the Bountiful Davis Art Center through November 23, brings together ten educators whose work ranges widely in medium and subject, while […]
A good book can be hard to enter. It is often written at a frequency the mind rejects. That resistance is also where the chance of being changed lives. There is a rarer kind of book that asks you to retune first, so you can digest what is […]
As a child, Liza Doran fell in love with the souks of Arabia. As a young woman, she fell for the textile traditions of Belgium. Then she was seduced by photographs of a beat-up stone building in Bluff, Utah. For the next 40 years, she learned what […]
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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