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.
by Captain Captain collective | photos by Skylar Nielsen Losing someone is never easy, and cleaning up what they left behind can be a daunting and melancholy task. In the fall of 2008 a group of local artists at Captain Captain Studios began to talk of putting on an exhibition for […]
In our December 2008 installment of Alder’s Accounts, which profiled Donald Beauregard, we failed to include an image of the artist with the story. Here is a photograph of Beauregard courtesy of the Springville Museum of Art; And to make up for our editorial oversight we’ll add another […]
Matt Glass, a drummer who has played in a number of local bands and recent graduate of the Photography department at Weber State, makes unsettlilng photographs with a touch of comedy. He describes his Apocrypha series as ” cinematic, baroque, apocalyptic and cool.” He has two upcoming shows, […]
Local artist Alex Bigney, who teaches at Utah Valley University, has just published a book entitled Talking to Tesla. Over the past four years the painter has undergone experiences that have profoundly impacted his art and changed his life. In a series of uncanny dreams the enigmatic and now […]
The Utah Division of Arts and Museums (what you might know better as the Utah Arts Council) has announced its 2009 Visual Arts Fellows. Colby Brewer of Salt Lake City and Josh Winegar of Ogden have each received a $10,000 award and a place in the 2008/2009 Visual […]
The 337 Project’s Art Truck is coming to a rest stop near you. The Art Truck is a 25 foot moving van that has been transformed into a traveling art show that brings cutting edge art into communities all over Utah. arttruck 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE […]
Salt Lake City artist J. Thomas Mulder passed away just before Thanksgiving. Mulder was born to Dr. William and Gweneth Gates Mulder in Salt Lake City in 1939 and spent most of his life in the city. Mulder earned a BA from the University of Utah in 1957, […]
bdaclg An affinity has always existed between art and poetry. Many who call one their primary vocation have been known to dally with the other: Michelangelo wrote sonnets: Elizabeth Bishop was a talented watercolorist. Poets have frequently made great art critics. Charles Baudelaire and Guillaume Appollinaire were both […]
To celebrate the holiday season the UMFA is displaying Brian Kershisnik’s Nativity in its lobby beginning today, and continuing through January 2. Kershisnik is known for his ability to put abstract qualities of human life on canvas. Rich in color and distinctive in texture, his work often focuses on […]
Old Story: a Norwegian, a Scotsman, and a German walk into a community center in a tiny rural town. They’re carrying a suitcase that they claim contains treasures from the wider world. In an alternate version they claim the valise contains a time machine that can show the […]
Boise, Idaho native Katie Woslager is the new Grants and Endowment Manager for the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. Woslager, who joins the Division with a background in management, human resources, and sales, will play an integral role in the development and roll-out of the Division’s new […]
Our November edition of 15 Bytes featured a short video clip of Amy Caron and crew installing her Waves of Mu project. The video was from an Alaska installation but was run in conjunction with the unveiling of Waves of Mu in New York. The New York Times called […]
Every month in our Mixed Media section of 15 Bytes (page 10) we publish links to articles about Utah’s visual arts scene that appear in other publications. Of course, by the time we publish some of the shows reviewed in the Mixed Media section have already come down, […]
The Salt Lake County Art Committee held its annual Open House Tuesday Evening at the County Building on State Street. At the event, the committee unveiled its 2008 acquisitions and donations and showed a video of interviews with a number of the artists whose works were purchased (these […]
The Southern Utah Watercolor Society is holding their "Fall Show" in at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center in Mesquite, Nevada. Their opening reception was this past Friday night, November 14, at which awards where given for top honors and ribbons were displayed. This juried event featured 26local artists. […]
Young Benefactors, the featured arts organization in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, isn’t the only collectors-oriented group at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. The UMFA is also happy to let lovers of Utah & Western art buy art for their collection. Friends of Utah & Western Art […]
Victoria Rowe Berry , Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University , and Andrew Yarosh, Director of the Moab Music Festival recently joined the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors. “I am excited that we will have expanded geographic representation from northern […]
Yesterday NPR reported on recent art auctions, by Sotheby’s and other houses. Recent art auctions in New York and London have resulted in weak bids and withdrawn pieces. A commodity once thought to be recession-proof is showing signs of vulnerability. But some insiders say that may not be […]
This image of a painting by Alice Merrill Horne, used to illustrate the article "Flowers and Feuds" in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, was sent to us by a private collector. It isn’t signed, but there is a prominent AMH exhibition label on the painting’s back (still […]
