Patrice Showers Corneli: Creative Play with Oil Paints and Microscopes
In our March 2011 edition of 15 Bytes Carol Fulton sits down with Patrice Showers Corneli, a professional biologist and committed artist showing this month at Gallery UAF.
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George Edward Anderson – Utah Pioneer Photographer 1860-1928: Heritage Prints at 15th Street Gallery
A rare opportunity this month to view and purchase Heritage Prints of early Utah photographer George Edward Anderson.
BDAC Annual Statewide Winners Announced
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center has announced the winners of its 2011 Annual Statewide Competition. 1st Place Erin W. Berrett Five-O oil 2nd Plac Paul Vincent Bernard Tremblings Dry Point on aluminum with oil 3rd Place Marcee Blackerby Nesting […]
Utah Chamber Artists: Bernstein, Mozart and the Miraculous Case of the High “C”s
by Crystal Young-Otterstrom Once upon a time I hated all music written after 1900. That statement was true for all music including pop and classical. Shocking, I know. Little by little I happened upon pieces of music that blew my mind, until I finally became the music nerd […]
15 Bytes Redesign
As you can see we’ve uploaded the 15 Bytes redesign. This is a work in progress so there is still plenty to do, but we’ve had so much “blog” content lately that we had to come up with something better to present it. Our monthly editions will still […]
Sunday Reading: The Digital Experience
As we’re busy doing an initial redesign of the 15 Bytes portion of our site, code and art in the digital age have been on our mind. And we’re not the only ones, as we found in these two recently published articles in the national media: In The […]
Have Enough Voyeurism in Your Life?
In 1992 MTV broadcast the first installment of The Real World and Reality TV was born, ushering in a flood of voyeurism and narcissism that has so permeated our pop culture that we no longer even feel the humidity. In Domesticated a group of Snow College art students […]
Legislative Updates from the Utah Cultural Alliance
First, on the local level (text courtesy of UCA member organization Utah Heritage Foundation): Preservation moratorium proposed Senate Bill 243, Historic Areas or Sites Amendment, was released with text on Monday, February 7, 2011. In brief, the bill proposes a year-long moratorium on designations, expenditures, and development agreements […]
Chuck Close at Salt Lake Art Center
Tonight the Salt Lake City Film Center presents a free screening of a documentary on artist Chuck Close at the Salt Lake Art Center. The screening of Chuck Close, a film by Marion Cajori, at 7 pm is part of the Film Center’s Creativity in Focus film series. […]
$15,000 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting
This week the Salt Lake Art Center and Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation announced the creation of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, a new national painting prize that will recognize exceptional emerging and mid-career artists in the United States. The recipient of this bi-annual prize […]
Kenvin Lyman 1942 – 2011
(This posting by Frank McEntire is excerpted from his article, “Kenvin Lyman: Jammin’ Over the Rainbow,” coming in the March issue of 15 Bytes and on his website at www.frankmcentire.com) Art is the honey of human experience gathered on the wings of sacrifice and hard work. ~ Kenvin […]
Brian Kershisnik Little Victories
” . . . For many, Brian Kershisnik’s paintbox is like the voice box of a diva . . .”
Read Geoff Wichert’s review of Kershisnik’s Meyer Gallery exhibit in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes.
Chris Thornock Studio Space
Like many young artists Chris Thornock started his painting career working out of a studio complex — the original Poor Yorick’s, first in the Marmalade district, and later at the 700 South location. But wanting more convenient access and in an attempt to save money, Thornock built his own […]
James Franco Afraid of Flying
The Salt Lake Art Center announced that that Renaissance man James Franco will not be attending the January 27 presentation of his work Three’s Company: The Drama at Salt Lake Art Center’s exhibition of Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier. “With the Oscars so close can’t risk flying,” his […]
Mixed Media This Week
Design competition injects art into empty lot: The winner of an innovative public art competition will fill an empty lot in the heart of Salt Lake City with a temporary field of composite rods, which will sway in the wind like tall grass or aspens.http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51036669-81/art-competition-lake-salt.html.csp The new […]
CUAC pARTy BUS
Two hours south of Salt Lake City, rural Sanpete County is home to a disproportionately high amount of artistic activity. There’s the well-known artistic enclave of Spring City, and, just to the south, Ephraim, home to Snow College and the Central Utah Art Center. For a number of […]
Documentary Film
The Sundance Film Festival will be in town in a little over a week. In addition to all the star-sightings and “independent” films featuring Hollywood actors that will be the focus of much of the attention at Sundance, the festival has some exciting, if less-heralded aspects: the shorts, […]
Dan Steinhilber in ARTnews
One of the advantages of having been around for ten years is that we have a deep archive. In fact, we could probably cover half of what’s going on in Utah’s art world at any given time by linking back to a previous article in our archive. Or, […]
Sunday Reading
Our Mixed Media editor, Terrece Beesley, has sent us some recent articles on Utah’s art scene that might interest you: 1/5 Creating a scene: Emerging artists in Utah That’s why we’re focusing on this handful of emerging creatives who aren’t waiting their turn to be noticed by the […]
