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.
2/28 CITYWEEKLY: Everything is Collective: Expected Image at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art In Utah, the landscape and the natural world form a huge part of the state’s identity. Yet while we think we know what that landscape looks like—and what we expect it to look like—that idea is one […]
Hung back to back next to the north windows in the west galleries, Sarah May’s cyanotype tapestries seem to want to flee the gallery—to be taken on the wind to the shores of the Great Salt Lake. While at an artist residency at the Center for Photography in […]
In 2021, Kate Jarman-Gates started Clever Cucumber, a free community art studio for her neighbors on Salt Lake City’s west side. At the heart of its operations is a workshop, ingeniously nestled within Jarman-Gates’ garage, which can accommodate a dozen individuals. This space is a treasure trove of […]
This series of miniature dioramas by Alison Neville visualizes “select scenes from our long relationship with our fellow and sometimes not-so-fellow fauna,” says the artist. “Each one represents a situation based on real events researched through online media sources. Many are truly atrocities and some are subtly […]
Trained at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Aimee Odum works with one of the oldest art mediums, ceramics, and one of the newest, video, often combining the two as installations or assemblages “to create a space where future or parallel universes can be imagined.” Her ceramic sculptures are […]
“I have always been a collector and a keeper, unable to resist the allure of yet another outdated magazine or satisfying trinket,” says Maya England, a Salt Lake City artist who studied at Utah Valley University. “I value everyday accumulations of keepsakes and seemingly insignificant bits of […]
“Sheltered” by Zoe Ellwood is a poignant installation piece that employs the remnants of domesticity to explore the complexities of comfort and confinement within the context of childhood memories. The work is composed of an aged and worn bed frame, consisting of a headboard and footboard, which […]
“Space Station 1 & 2” comprises two paintings that explore the liminal space of consciousness experienced during epileptic seizures. The pieces are vibrant tapestries of color and form, evoking the complex neural transmissions of the artist’s brain. Abstract elements dance across each canvas, intertwining and overlapping in a […]
CJ Hales’ work represents the continuation of a long tradition of figurative painting in Utah. It is a tradition kept alive in the small town of Helper, Utah, where Hales now lives among several other artists. “Misdirection” represents a strand of this tradition, exemplified by David Dornan, a […]
2/5 SALT LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program has announced the selection of Seattle-based artist-led team Haddad|Drugan for the 400 South Viaduct Trail project, a key initiative aimed at revamping the corridor linking the city’s West and East sides. Laura Haddad […]
“I am not interested in a posed model on a set, rather in how the lives women live every day intersect and interact with the lives around them,” says Salt Lake City artist Matalyn Zundel. “The figures in my paintings are all engaged in a relationship of […]
Provo artist Colby Sanford looks for the poetic in the prosaic and his intimate paintings created in a restricted palette are often accompanied by poems that further illuminate the extraordinary in the ordinary. On the back of “Green Like Sunshine,” you’ll find the following poem: Green like […]
The duo of works presented here explores the intricate dance between structure and disruption, creating a visual dialogue about the complexities of human experience through abstract art. Created in 2023, “The Reverse is Also True” represents a monochromatic departure for Provo artist Rachel Henriksen. Since graduating from Brigham […]
In a review of Taylor Wright’s exhibit at Bountiful Davis Art Center in 2021, Geoff Wichert wrote that Wright’s paintings ” create a feeling of super-realism bordering on trompe l’oeil—painting that fools the eye with its optical presence. Like photographs, they invite the viewer to see right […]
A graduate of both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University, Provo artist Abigale Palmer uses bold color to breathe life into her portrait, still life and landscape work. These two landscape-inspired paintings are representative of her response to the variety of landscapes she finds surrounding her […]
As the title of this work suggests, Bianca Velasquez wanted to be “Easy to Raise.” She wanted to avoid being a difficult child and give her parents another thing to worry about. As an adult, however, Velasquez has returned to her childhood experience and in this work records […]
Frequent visitors to Finch Lane Gallery, may remember Malachi Wilson’s exhibit here in the Spring of 2023 (see our review) — a “drum machine” timed to the artist’s resting heartbeat, large gel medium transfer prints with embedded texts, a series of unique and ancient objects prepared […]
A mother of three, Sarah Winegar says her work is inspired by what happens day to day in her role as a caretaker. “I feel a constant tension between what they need and what I need. My imagery explores where our needs intersect, as well as where they […]
“Deflation of Flesh” by Bea Hurd presents a visually tactile exploration of the intimate relationship between human experiences and the materiality of everyday objects. The use of balloons – objects symbolizing celebration and ephemeral joy – now deflated and repurposed, speaks volumes about the transitory nature of pleasure […]
