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.
Sculptor, Ben Hammond, was awarded the Dexter Jones Award for bas relief, one of four award winners in the Young Sculptors’ Competition for 2008. The Young Sculptors’ Competition dates back to 1959 and is sponsored by the National Sculpture Society. Ben won the award based on his sculpture […]
Check out Gavin’s Underground today for interviews with Jason Metcalf and Cara Despain, who are showing this month at Salt Lake’s Kayo Gallery. Metcalf, who works in a variety of mediums including painting and performance, was our featured artists in January and Despain, whose recent paintings are featured […]
Gavin Sheehan’s post today at Gavin’s Underground featured interviews with Nick Potter and CJ Lester, two artists featured in the Present Tense exhibit at the Salt Lake Art Center (see our June edition). Potter and Lester were both involved in the 337 Project last year and their work is […]
Earl Denet was in an automobile accident earlier today in South Jordan and did not survive. A Hopi and resident of Riverton, was well-known for his kachina dolls, figures carved from the roots of the cottonwood tree and given as gifts to young Hopi girls so they too can learn […]
by Beryl Kosta The 337 Project was, without question, one of the most exciting visual arts events of 2007. Bringing together one abandoned building, 150 Utah artists and 10,000 visitors over its brief six-day life, the 337 Project demonstrated not only the great talent in the Utah arts scene, […]
Local artist Lenka Konopasek recently completed a piece commissioned by the Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake Arts Council and Salt Lake City Corporation. Located on the platform of TRAX’s Old Greek Town Station (200 South 550 West), the piece consists of multiple parts playing with gears as a motif. […]
The Utah Foster Care Foundations’s 6th annual Chalk Art Festival is this weekend, June 13th and 14th in downtown Salt Lake City. During the festival, thousands of families gather at the Gateway to watch dozens of artists create, beautiful, temporary works of art. To get you — and the participating […]
As part of his Daily Documentary series, Dallas Graham interviewed Sundance artist Jann Haworth on the occasion of her upcoming exhibit Pop Plastiques at the Salt Lake Main Library. Below are images by Graham as well as a segment of the interview. For the complete interview, visit Montage-Creative. 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE […]
This month’s edition of 15 Bytes is shaping up to have a sort of mini-theme: travel. Which seems appropriate with summer just around the corner. In addition to our article on Amanda Moore, we have an interview with Olivia Mae Pendergast about her trip to Africa, and a […]
by Kimberly Rock It’s picturesque: winter in Park City, Utah. Bedazzled holiday trees softly shine through swirling snow. Through thick crowds of sun-kissed skiers, delicious scents beckon from restaurants and warm coffee bars. And the Park City galleries, with their rich array of media, styles, and artists, perfect […]
Back on May 12, we made a post about the Orphaned Works Bill. Here’s an interesting YouTube post (it’s really an audio file rather than a video) about the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc If you want to communicate with your elected officials about this bill go to: http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/ 15 BytesUTAH’S […]
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series Wraps The 2007-2008 Season with a Free Screening Of My Kid Could Paint That On June 4th. The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series wraps its 2007-2008 Season this week with a free screening of My Kid Could Paint That on June 4th. An […]
Laurie Lisonbee of Salem won Best of Show in the Hilton Head Art League 2008 National Juried Exhibition, Walter Greer Gallery, Hilton Head, South Carolina. The painting “Pigeon Pose With Spoon,” was selected for the $2500 award from among 798 artworks entered nationally. Her painting “Crazy Eight” recently […]
If you’ve been to Salt Lake City’s Gallery Stroll recently, you’ll know that the Broadway Art Block (between about 150 East and 350 East) has become a vibrant and exciting part of the downtown tapestry. With galleries, bookstores, record stores, fashion boutiques, antiques, coffee shops and more, the […]
American Artist Magazine will feature Salt Lake City-based pastel artist Colleen K. Howe with the cover story of its July/August 2008 edition as well as the lead article on MyAmericanArtist.com. Howe’s “Zion Overlook,” a 24-by-30-inch pastel painting, is the cover image with an accompanying eight-page article titled “Four Steps […]
Utah is well known for its pilgrimage art, artworks whose context give the viewer what Michael Kimmelman has described as “the virtue of the pilgirmage.” These works are either remote or affected by temporal conditions (or both) meaning that only the lucky few, those willing to put in the […]
In our September 2007 edition, we learned that (then mayoral candidate) Ralph Becker is a fan of Jim Jones and H.L.A. Culmer and that he believes “we need to be continually promoting the great Utah art we have;” now, thanks to the Utah Cultural Alliance’s May Culture Bytes, the […]
Photography 2.0: an essay by Jackie Brethen Leishman on the occasion of Pixelism, an exhibition of works by Brett Sykes at the Thanksgiving Point Art Institute Photography is often overlooked in the discussion of fine art. Only recently have some photographs demanded the high prices/notoriety the other art […]
Dismantling Geneva Steel: Photographs by Chris Dunker Essays by Diana Turnbow and Sara J. Northerner Brigham Young University, Museum of Art reviewed by Laurel Hunter Geneva Steel, in Vineyard, Utah, opened in the 1940s to mill steel for use in WW2 war ships. It slowly declined after its […]
