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.
Summer may be the prime time for festivals, but in Utah the drop in temperatures and return to school does not signal the end of its festival season. Many of the festivals coming up are local harvest celebrations that, while they might feature artist booths, are more about […]
One of the hardest parts of writing is deleting that hard-won paragraph that just doesn’t fit the final draft. Equally difficult for a film editor is watching all that wonderful material end up on “the cutting room floor.” But while authors rarely have the comfort of anticipating a […]
Many of you will be familiar with what goes on in the two upper floors of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, where the curatorial staff puts on a variety of exhibitions culled from the museum’s collection and loans from other institutions. Less well known is what […]
by Curt Hawkins “Shadowed Arch” by Kate Starling, 30″ x 40″. Watching Colleen Howe set up her easel during the “wet paint” painting session is a defining moment. I get it. On the spot painting. I watch Colleen Howe squeezing tubes of oil onto her palette, squinting into the […]
The return to regular routines for children and adults alike this week marks an unofficial end to summer for most of Utah, including those of us at 15 Bytes. During most of the summer we have taken a break from our hectic routine, both on the blog and […]
As you’ll see from the video below Zane Lancaster has a very understated presence. Put him on a stage with a mic and we don’t think he’ll do much for the audience at your local comedy club (even a very inebriated one). But Ruth Lubbers thinks the art […]
On Thursday, August 5, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, one of our community partners, is holding a free performance and panel discussion entitled “Arts and Social Change: Can art initiate change in a community?” The event will take place in the Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre of the Rose Wagner […]
In 19th-century France artists spent most of the year in the cosmopolitan capitol where they were in the midst of activities. In the summers, however, they would migrate to the rural coasts, first Normandy and Brittany, and later to the Mediterranean south. Though Paris by no means lost […]
In our effort to keep you up to date on what’s going on in our arts community we’ve been providing links to visual arts-related articles in other sources. We’ve always done this in our Mixed Media feature on the last page of 15 Bytes, but since by the […]
15 BytesUTAH’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.
15 Bytes (and EXTRA!EXTRA!) is on vacation for most of June, but here are a few links to keep you busy while we’re gone: 6/3 Art collecting — for the rest of us : Art paints an intimidating picture for those who want to build a collection. Read […]
A year ago 15 Bytes writer Ehren Clark profiled Emmanuel Makonga, a watercolor painter and graphic artist who grew up in the former Zaire and who has been living in exile since 1993 because of his controversial work as a political cartoonist. In the article Clark mentioned Makonga’s […]
We’d like to welcome photographer Carson Heslop to the 15 Bytes team. Earlier this month Heslop visited the Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll and sent us the following images from his time along Historic 25th Street. These exhibitions are up through the Month of May. The next Art […]
Cristin Zimmer’s MFA final exhibition Surface . . . ing opens today at the Gittins Gallery, on the University of Utah campus. The exhibit, which runs through May 27 and features figurative ceramic works, was mentioned in the PasteUps feature of the May edition of 15 Bytes and […]
The Park Record reports today that vandals have targeted one of the street art pieces done by British artist Banksy during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. His image of a filmmaker filming a flower being picked by the same filmaker, which has been on the side of Java […]
by Lane Bachman My first impression of Jenevieve Hubbard’s series Narrow Passage is that it seemed to have taken a tedious amount of time to execute each piece. The tedium is always thwarted, however, by the artist considering the act of process as being an integral part of the work. Narrow Passage, unveiled […]
Mikell Stringham, a Utah native, is a young entrepreneur energetically pursuing an alternative business model with her gallery-without-walls, Mondo Fine Art. Stringham received her B.A. in Business Marketing from the University of Utah. Passionate about art, she later moved to Italy, where she attended the Florence University of Art, […]
by Melissa Smolley There are places that invoke a type of deep seeded serenity within us. They aren’t necessarily the most picturesque, or even the most inhabitable, yet something about these places resonates stillness within. Such places invite inquiry and encourage exploration, both intrinsically and externally. When […]
by Kelly Green Walk into a painter’s studio and it’s all about color: on the palette, on the canvases, dripped on the floor and spilled in every corner. A sculptor’s studio, on the other hand, is all about line. The colors tend to be muted when not completely […]
