Mark Crenshaw
Mark Crenshaw talks with Anne Cummings-Anderson about his process, the direction he is taking with his work, and the experience of transference through art.
15 Bytes
UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kayo Gallery is Moving
Salt Lake’s Kayo Gallery is moving. Though the move isn’t geographically very big — owner Shilo Jackson will be taking over the space adjacent to hers, recently vacated by Frosty Darling, allowing the former Kayo Gallery to be home to the expanding Green Ant furniture store — Jackson […]
Over $20,000 for Plein Air Artists
A look at the upcoming plein air competitions with over $20,000 in prizes, including the Ogden Arts Festival competition, which begins this weekend.
Granite Furniture Tear-Down
The Granite Furniture building in Sugarhouse, empty for half a decade, is finally being transformed. We’re not sure what to make of the architectural renderings for what the new owners, Boulder Ventures, plan on doing with the space (“uninspired” comes to mind, but the image is small so […]
35 x 35 at Finch Lane in March 2013
We’ve just received word from the Salt Lake Arts Council that Artists of Utah’s third 35 x 35 exhibit will open at Salt Lake’s Finch Lane Gallery in March of 2013. 35 x 35 is our showcase of art by Utah’s young generation. The exhibit features work by […]
Frances Darger to retire
If you attend the Utah Symphony Saturday night for the final symphony in Thierry Fischer’s season-long Beethoven Cycle (since Fischer is performing them backwards it’s actually Beethoven’s first symphony), you’ll also catch the final performance of violinist Frances Darger. Now 87, Darger has been with the orchestra for […]
Atemporal Radio Tour hits Nox Contemporary
John Cage once said, “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” Fascination with noise is at the heart of Flinching Eye Collective, a Denver-based performance group that embraces, attacks and […]
Salt Lake City’s Emily Johnson
Emily Johnson is a recent graduate from the University of Utah’s History MA program and the new collections registrar at Utah Arts & Museums. During her time at the U, she focused heavily on public history and art, and co-curated an exhibit for the Utah Museum of Fine […]
What’s Going on at the Stroll
For the May Gallery Stroll tonight there’s so much going on you’ll have to make some difficult choices. Here’s a bit of where our crew is heading tonight. Fresh back from some international travels, Geoff Wichert headed over to Mestizo Arts this week to see the new show […]
Twelve Minutes Max Premieres Sunday
New performance venues in Salt Lake, including the Dunce School for the Arts’ 12 Minutes Max series, premiering Sunday, May 20.
UTA Bus Shelter Murals & Other Mixed Media
As the Standard Examiner reports, an exhibit currently in Washington Terrace (Weber County) features murals that have already or will soon be installed in UTA bus shelters. The works are by locals, from well-known artists like Earl Jones, whose work is scheduled to be installed in Kaysville, to […]
Salvador Dali’s Line: Yes
We’re not generally the type of blog to share YouTube videos – piano-playing cats and the like. But in recognition of his birthday today, we thought you might like this appearance by Salvador Dali on the 1950s television show “What’s My Line?” Watch as, in a foreshadowing of […]
Take It Down: Using a DMCA Takedown Notice for an Online Copyright Infringement
by Nicholas Wellls Do you own the copyright to any creative works? If you’re an artist, you do, whether you’ve registered the copyright or not. Anything you create is copyrighted. These days, the place where your copyrighted work is most likely to be used without your permission is […]
Sugarhouse Art Walk
If you’ve read this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, you know Local Colors of Utah is now in Sugarhouse. A detail you might have missed in the article is that Sugarhouse now has its own Art Walk, a welcome event since there are far too many art openings […]
Art Pillars
Ruth Lubbers, Nancy Boskoff and Stephanie Harpst to speak at Culture Bytes and Dr. Vern G. Swanson to retire from the Springville Museum of Art.
Lance Larsen New Poet Laureate & Other Mixed Media
Last week Governor Gary Herbert named BYU professor Lance Larsen the state’s new poet laureate. As the Daily Herald reports, during his five-year term the Springville resident will travel the state “promoting what he calls a lost art form” (read the article here). Larsen, and his artist wife […]
Reuben Nakian’s “Juno”
In the May edition of 15 Bytes we featured an interview between curator Frank McEntire and sculptor Neil Hadlock, whose work is being featured at Nox Contemporary this month. As discussed in the article, Hadlock’s abstract forms have become familiar parts of Utah’s outdoor artistic landscape. When Hadlock […]
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Show a Little Love
Ever since an early version of this month’s edition was leaked online, rumors have been flying around the internet that the May edition features a shot of our esteemed editor as Botticelli’s Venus. Is it true? You’ll have to read “Show a Little Love” to find out. 15 […]
Up and Down The Creek: Stephen Goldsmith on City Creek
City planner Stephen Goldsmith takes a look at the new City Creek project and worries “we are burying our heads about the importance of authenticity.”
