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.
As Frank McEntire wrote about in our November edition, non-profits and cultural organizations frequently seek out visual artists to help them out in their fundraising goals. McEntire pointed out that these fundraisers can sometimes have a negative impact on the art community, drawing patrons away from the commercial art […]
by Marti Grace Ashby Cordell Taylor opened his new gallery space on November 13th with an exhibition of works by Dennis Reynolds. Taylor is a successful artist in his own right, is married to another successful artist, Lenka Konopasek, and has operated gallery spaces in the past. This latest iteration, […]
by Namon Bills Ask yourself the following questions: How long has it been since I saw an installation? How long has it been since I saw a whole show of installations? How long has it been since I made it down to Price? The answer on all counts, […]
In November’s PasteUps we suggested that Salt Lake’s south end might be accruing enough mass to become a critical component of Utah’s visual art scene. News this month from new arrivals and long-time residents bolsters our projection. Later this month Signed and Numbered will be closing their downtown location and […]
The Salt Lake City Film Center presents Jennifer Baichwai’s MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES at the Salt Lake Art Center this evening (December 11) at 7pm. The screening is free. This striking new documentary is on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs […]
by Jason Metcalf Jeff Lambson’s current curatorial endeavor at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, explores contemporary portraiture through a broad variety of artists and mediums. Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self is presented in three distinct sections: Rituals that Shape Identity; Facades, Mirrors and Masks; and The Real […]
by Corey Strange Somewhere between Maynard Dixon and the contemporary artists who paint Utah’s landscapes is Jim Jones. Bridging the past with the present, Jones has been a staple of the southwest landscape movement for many decades. On exhibit now at Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Gallery is what […]
Jim Jones, the renowned painter of southern Utah, passed away at his home in Cedar City on Saturday. As we reported in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes (see page 2), Jones, who never married or had children, left his estate and his last paintings to Southern Utah […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) recently announced that Lisa A. Arnette has assumed the position of Director of Development and External Relations at the museum. From 1998 to 2003, Arnette served as a development officer at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) on the University […]
by Elizabeth A. Peterson This month’s Alder’s Accounts column is being guest-written by my friend, former University of Utah Department of Art and Art History chair, and my thesis chair, Professor Elizabeth Peterson. I had planned to write about Alvin Gittins, Utah’s foremost figurative artist, until learned Elizabeth […]
A bright spot of hope was visible on the local art scene this month with the opening of the 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake City. Late this summer local art aficionados mourned the closing of Palmers Gallery — which had given exposure to emerging and underappreciated artists […]
Our monthly Mixed Media feature in 15 Bytes (page 10) provides you links to various articles outside of Artists of Utah’s publications that deal with Utah’s visual arts scene. Every once in a while we’ll drop a notice about articles here in our blog. So, here are a […]
Julie Checkoway’s film “Waiting for Hockney” premieres on the Sundance Channel Thanksgiving week. You may remember Checkoway as the art critic for the Salt Lake Tribune for 2008. Her film, “Waiting for Hockney,” profiles artist Billy Pappas, who spent 10 years of his life creating a minutely rendered […]
Every year Southwest Art Magazine recognizes talented emerging artists in their feature 21 under 31. But since emerging artists aren’t always under 31 years this year they decided to also highlight artists over 31. Utah artists Jill Barton and Wendy Chidester made the Honorable Mention list. The magazine […]
It’s official, Artists of Utah will be throwing a Holiday Office Party at the Salt Lake Art Center on December 17th. For us the entire visual arts community is our office, so we’d like everyone to come (this is not a fundraising effort — just a desire to […]
Salt Lake County Arts Funding Threatened – Act NOW to Save It! by Sue Martin If you care about Salt Lake County’s support for visual arts – specifically, the county’s art collection – now is the time to weigh in on budget deliberations by the county council. Salt […]
Con Artist, a film about 80s art-star Mark Kostabi, will be showing at the Salt Lake Art Center tonight (Friday, November 13) as part of the Salt Lake City Film Center’s Creativity in Focus program, which shows an art-related film every second Friday, through December. The film is […]
Someone has decided that the Trustees of Westminster College shouldn’t be looking up Trent Alvey’s dress. That seems like a self-evident, uncontroversial proposition. But the dress is actually a work of art Alvey created in 2007, and has been hanging in the Giovale Library as part of the […]
What makes for a good fundraising pitch? Like other non-profits we’re always looking for ways to get across that basic, fundraising message — what we do is important; we need your money to do it. We don’t put on fancy events to do it (because then we’d need […]
