Melissa Hempel
Melissa Hempel works for museums. Especially interested in visitor experience, she completed degrees in Museum Studies and the History of Art and Visual Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. A California native, Melissa is ready to explore the artistic community in Utah, and learn how to live in the snow. She currently works at UVU’s Woodbury Art Museum.
Father and daughter artists Linnie Brown and Marinus E. Wolf base their current show, Related, on the theme of crosswords. Their paired pieces illustrate questions and answers from the trivial puzzles, one artist exploring the answer as the other poses the clue. It all started from Linnie’s opinion of […]
Film has always been an exploration of technology, so it made sense when Sundance began a contemporary art exhibit as part of their annual festival four years ago that they would focus on technology-driven works. This year’s iteration of New Frontier, which was on display this past week in […]
Growing up in Southern California, my summers were spent at the beach, where the menacing call of its flying inhabitants loomed over our play like the marine layer that blocked out the sun. Our trips were split between playing in the sand and deciding which one of us […]
NFOM: Sundance Art Scene In a world designed to escape personal realities for just a few hours at a time, the Sundance Film Festival hosts a collective exhibition of artists from around the world at its New Frontier on Main. Acting more like Sundance’s documentary competition, several of […]
Liu Xiaodong’s “Hotbed,” 2005 The Salt Lake Art Center invites you to sit and contemplate their current exhibition of contemporary Chinese art. In Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art four artists respond to the Three Gorges Dam project, a massive engineering feat that, while harnessing the Yangzi […]