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 Brian Hoover I always refer to myself as a painter who prints. I was introduced to Lithography back in 1985 while attending the Cleveland Institute of Art and I went on to receive an MFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York. Choosing printmaking was one […]
by Kent Rigby Emerging artists, particularly in the literary world, are sometimes referred to as “young lions,” an appropriate term, given their youthful strength, singleness of purpose and ravenous appetites. Such traits can be equated with young lions out on the prowl, looking for their first “kill.” Young […]
photos by Tami Baum When Andrew Smith’s father, well-known sculptor Denis Smith, sold his house in Highland a couple of years ago, it meant not only that Andrew would be losing his childhood home; it also meant he would be losing his studio, which he shared with his father. Andrew […]
Salt Lake City residents, especially those in the Sugar House area, have a decision to make: What to do with the Garfield Elementary school located at 1838 South and 1500 East. Garfield hasn’t been an elementary school for more than 20 years now, but it has remained an […]
by Brian Christensen I have known Pam Bowman for a number of years now, and during that time I have seen an exciting transformation in her work. When I first met Pam, she was already very accomplished in the fine crafts as a weaver. As a sculpture teacher […]
by Ed Bateman Writing about art in a book without pictures might strike you as odd – something like singing about dancing. But since works of art also have meaning, who better to unpack that meaning than someone whose passion is ideas – a trained philosopher. Arthur C. Danto […]
by Kindra Fehr One fascinating aspect of Contemporary art has been its interest in expanding the canon of materials used in its creation. Moving beyond traditional painting, drawing and sculpture, we are beginning to see a wide, essentially endless, array of sources. This opening of the material canon has […]
by Tom Alder One of the truly unique early Utah artists was Henri Moser, a classically-trained artist who settled in Logan, Utah and was credited with painting 1,197 works in his lifetime. After his formal training in Utah schools and studies in Paris, Moser returned to Utah to […]
Last month, we reported on the Rio Gallery’s Untitled exhibition, a collaborative effort between thirty Utah artists (who provided the artwork) and the public (who were invited to provide titles). There are still a few days left before the exhibit closes on June 9th if you’d like to match up […]
It is last call for Salt Lake City’s Groutage Gallery, and possibly the last chance to see artwork by Harrison Groutage himself. After more than a year of successful business, Sugar House’s Groutage Gallery will be closing its doors permanently May 31. For two weeks only, an exciting […]
For an artist to continue growing, to stay interesting — to themselves and to their public — they must be willing to engage their work in new modes, materials and methods. Such changes often require an artist to cross a bridge. The flow, the river of work, is […]
What if Edvard Munch’s famous painting had been named “The Migraine” instead of “The Scream”? Would it have become the iconographic emblem of existential angst it is today? Would it be hanging on museum walls (or being stolen from them)? Maybe. The work, after all, is the work, […]
Last year, Park City’s The Kimball Art Center introduced its first Arte Latino, an exhibition and celebration of Latino art and culture. The second installment of this annual event, Arte Latino; A Celebration of Latino Art in Utah is now on display in all galleries of the Center. […]
In 2004, the Salt Lake Arts Council, in conjunction with the Downtown alliance, decided to use the eight hexagonal kiosks along Salt Lake City’s Main Street between South Temple and 400 South, to host artwork by local artists. The first year seven artists were chosen to have their […]
Galleries seem to be popping up all over Utah. Some open in small rural towns with less than a thousand people, while others open in the heart of metropolitan areas where competition can be stiff. In our pages we highlight both well-established and emerging galleries, and this month […]
photos by Tom Szalay | text by Robin Macnofsky, Ogden City Arts I met David Wolfgram in the late 90’s when has was crafting African wooden drums and selling them at local arts fairs. In 1999, after rescuing 13 old growth trees on their way to the dump—(torn […]
by Ruth Lubbers All of us who love the arts community have recently gone through a spate of devastating losses with the deaths of Robert Olpin, Lee Deffebach, Ed Maryon and Brent Gehring. On March 6, we also lost a self-effacing but important figure in Utah art history. […]
by Jim Edwards Confronting the paintings of Hyunmee Lee, what impresses is their celebration of gesture and depiction of a nearly unlimited sense of space. Abstract and intuitively painterly, her aesthetic is one of immediacy perpetually seeking its own nature. Her marks as gesture, either as broadly applied […]
by Melanie Steele On a typical weeknight in Helper, Jamie Kirkland can often be found surrounded by five or six of her artist cohorts and a sizable stack of poker chips. In the five short months that she’s lived in this small southeastern Utah town, she has become […]
