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.
In 2010, Brigham Young University Joe Ostraff professor received a Visual Art Fellowship from the Utah Arts Council. It was his second time. The first time, in 1993, he won for a group of paintings done with his children. He’s been looking for collaborative opportunities ever since. […]
Copyright is a legal right that gives the creator of a work an exclusive right to control how that work is used. Copyright only covers the tangible expression of an idea, not the idea itself, but copyright lasts a long time — until 70 years after you die, […]
In this video interview University of Utah professor Al Denyer discusses her new body of work inspired by the Arctic.
You work somewhere long enough and it starts to seem like home; leaving your desk, your files, and your coworkers feels a little like leaving your bed, your books and your family. After almost 22 years with Utah’s visual arts program, Lila Abersold has decided it’s time to […]
“The Yardstick” is a constantly morphing public art wall in West Downtown Salt Lake City that attracts street artists as well as tourists.Here is the wall as it appeared in February 2018. January 2012, photos by Shalee Cooper and Tyler Bloomquist December 2011, photos by Laura and Matt […]
Jared Clark was born in Provo, Utah on June 1st 1976 but was quickly moved to southern Mexico where his father dug as an archaeologist. He was next relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan through grade school and came full circle back to Orem, Utah for Jr. High and […]
John Hughes gives tips on painting architecture in plein air painting.
Last month the Salt Lake Art Center (now the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art) opened an exhibition of works by California artist Kim Schoenstadt, recipient of the first Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. The $15,000 biennial prize was instituted by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation […]
Local artist Kory Fluckiger starts a new company to develop children’s books for the iPad.
“All of my work is essentially an effort to recreate the Mystery in material form,” Hankins says. “My HyperObjects Series is specifically an attempt to accrete a group of unique pieces whose qualities reflect the Mystery for me—multi-dimensional, embedded, arcane, enfolded, enigmatic, patinated, archaic, alchemical, sacred and emergent […]
by Ed Reichel Much has been written in recent years about the problems facing many of the nation’s symphony orchestras and opera companies. It seems that they’re either burdened by financial woes or coping with finding ways to reinvent themselves and stay alive and viable in an ever […]
On yesterday’s Radio West, Doug Fabrizio interviewed musicologist Jeremy Grimshaw, author of a new book on LaMonte Young, a local boy who became pioneer in the Minimalist music movement, influencing scores of artists and musicians while remaining relatively unkown to the general public. You can listen to the […]
Tonight Salt Lake County rolls out its 2011 art collection. Every year Salt Lake County appropriates funds to purchase artwork for its public collection, which they place in public spaces in County buildings. Tonight the County holds a public reception in which the newest acquisitions are unveiled and […]
Randall Hankins’ HyperObjects opens tonight at Cordell Taylor Gallery.
Website Workshop, Defining the Leonardo, and working on Salt Lake’s cultural core.
Kim Schoenstadt’s paintings are sometimes on paper or canvas, but more often than not they are painted directly on the walls of a gallery — and the floor and ceiling. She is the recipient of the first-ever Catherine Doctorow Prize in Contemporary Painting. In this video clip, Schoenstadt […]
Recognition makes some artists want to go big. Al Denyer has gone microscopic. For her current installation at The Leonardo she has put one of her works on the surface of a microchip.
In our November 2011 edition of 15 Bytes Tom Alder took a look at the mystery of Florence Truelson, an eccentric Utah artist of the first half of the twentieth century. As Tom reported, the builder of a unique house on the west side of town – known […]
A survivor of cancer and heart disease, photographer Gerry Johnson understands the value of time. In his current project, Capturing Veterans Pride, his giving some of that time to the service men and women who have served our country.
