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.
The titles of some artworks add meaning. Others are just for identification. But in poetry, a title can be part of the work. Reading “Sit-ups with Mr. Johnny Keats,” I thought the title a witty metaphor for struggle. It was only midway through 2009’s Utah Book Award for […]
Here are a couple of articles on the visual arts that have appeared recently in local publications: The Tribune reports on the unlikely journey across Germany of one of local artist Elmer Preslee’s bizarre artworks. Read here. The City Weekly’s Brian Staker discusses the Salt Lake County Art […]
Do people still curl up on the sofa to read the paper on Sunday morning? We imagine that the numbers are dwindling so quickly that the phrase will soon be as anachronistic and incomprehensible to our younger readers as “putting on a record.” On the other hand, with […]
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums (what most of us call the Utah Arts Council) has announced the recipients of its 2011 Visual Arts Fellowship awards. Alison Denyer (seen here in her studio as part of our Artist Profile in June 2010) of Salt Lake City and […]
As we contemplate expanding our coverage into the performing arts, Salty Cricket Composers Collective is one of the groups in our radar to cover. We haven’t quite pulled that together yet, but we didn’t want you to miss an opportunity to hear music by this group of local […]
Local filmmaker Davey Davis is headed to Palestine. Davis has been doing camera work for some of our video interviews (remember the Sam Wilson interview?), and since he’s been manning the 337 Art Truck you’ve probably run into him at one event or another. In January he’ll be […]
Utah Lawyers for the Arts Since 1983 Utah Lawyers for the Arts has quietly been providing free legal services on art-related matters to low income Utah artists and art organizations. It is modeled after numerous Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts organizations throughout the country. It also seeks to educate […]
Tonight at the Salt Lake Art Center the Salt Lake City Film Center will be screening Exit Through the Gift Shop, the film by famous street-artist Banksy. In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes we published local filmmaker Davey Davis’s review of the film. “Banksy’s Exit Through the […]
Charlotte Boye-Christensen takes notes during rehearsal. In anticipation of next week’s opening of Cipher, I sat down with Ririe-Woodbury’s Charlotte Boye-Christensen today to discuss “Touching Fire,” the new collaborative piece that will be given its world premiere in this showcase of five of the choreographer’s work. We’ll be […]
Go To Hell: New Theatre from . . . a New Theatreby Davey Davis Go To Hell. A flippant condemnation, and a preview of things to come. There’s lots of skin-deep but fiery anger behind the first production from The New Works Theater Machine, and a whole lot […]
by Tyler Spurgeon The Utah Museum of Fine Art puts its best face forward with a collection of prints, photographs and sculpture. Most of the work in the show falls under the umbrella of Pop, and overtly or otherwise deals with portraiture. The artists within Faces are well known, but the work […]
Behind the cover of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gallerists But Were Afraid To Ask you won’t find the tell-all the title suggests. There are no salacious anecdotes from the big-name gallerists that have attained rockstar status in today’s international art world. For the most part the 51 […]
I hate art, the art world, and everything that comes of it. Wait, no. I love it. I couldn’t live without it. Images, and their subsequent appreciation, are what give my life color. This is going to be rough. Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop is an incredibly relevant, coherent […]
by Kandace Steadman Action figures and cartoon characters live in the work and real life of artist Joe Wilson, a forgotten artist in the chronicle of Utah art. Joseph Francis Marion Wilson, better known as Joe, was born in Salt Lake City in 1913. He spent his early […]
Film Review A Conflicted Radiance A new film on Jean-Michel Basquiat by Davey Davis Of the people who know the childlike, energy-filled, and massively busy works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, most are familiar with the orbiting cautionary tale of success and the art market which consumed and destroyed him, […]
by Lisa B. Huber Just over a year ago, the St. George Art Academy was a random list of wishes in the brains of two St. George natives, Alisha Tolman and Aimee Bonham. Both of these talented women hold Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees–Tolman, in drawing from Utah […]
by Melissa Smolley I once heard a fascinating firsthand account of what it is like to experience a severe stroke — from a neuroscientist with a unique capacity to ingeniously articulate the event. In what she described as the most transcendent and terrifying experience of her life, she […]
In the basement below Broadway’s Frosty Darling, in a small gallery that opened quietly a few months ago, Travis Nikolai has installed a new exhibit of multi-media paintings entitled Hot Young Suicides: Audition for the 27 Club. Those who visited Artists of Utah’s 35 x 35 exhibit last […]
by Namon Bills On November 15th sculptor Brian Christensen will install five outdoor works on the Snow College campus in Ephraim. Entitled Reinterpretation, the show, says Christensen, “is based on reinterpreting and finding meaning in materials with a previous functional life and history. Each piece has elements that […]
