Reflections on Venus
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
Shawn Rossiter
The founder of Artists of Utah and editor of its online magazine, 15 Bytes, Shawn Rossiter has undergraduate degrees in English, French and Italian Literature and studied Comparative Literature in graduate school before pursuing a career in art.
Robin Denevan: Is and Is Not
A review of new waterscapes by Robin Denevan at Julie Nester Gallery.
Art Meets Fashion
Galleries come and go. Others reinvent themselves. (A)perture has done something in between. In 2008 Heidi Gress and Anne Cummings-Anderson opened Aperture Gallery in Sugarhouse. The not-for profit space, an extension of their public relations and marketing firm of the same name, was designed to provide a […]
Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel
We return to our series of reviews of novels set in the art world with Shawn Rossiter’s review of Ernesto Sabato’s existential classic The Tunnel.
Doug Snow: Drama of the Land
A review of the dual-exhibit retrospective of the late V. Douglas Snow.
Lee Cowan: 24 Hour Portraits
Lee Cowan has a new approach to portraiture – the 24 Hour Portrait.
Jared Clark’s BILD
If you’ve been inside the Salt Lake Art Center any time this year you’ve noticed the cosmetic and structural changes: the brightly painted signage that steers you from one gallery to the next; the video screens on the lobby walls; and the Street Level Gallery’s new access point […]
Nox’s DRAWN
A video look at an exhibition that embraces novelty pencils.
Performing Art Exhibition Spaces
In our March 2011 edition we take a look at three performing arts spaces that also function as visual art spaces.
Carol and Bill Fulton
When Carol Fulton met her husband Bill, who helped photograph the couples in the feature she wrote for us this month, their interest in art was relatively dormant: she owned a few works of art, and he had once gone through Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Twenty-three years later, though, the couple says that art is the cement that holds their relationship together.
Poor Senator Stephenson
From his recent statements that degrees in the liberal arts are “degrees to nowhere” Utah State Senator Howard Stephenson (R, Draper) appears to be either: 1) disappointed in himself 2) a “liberal” 3) a seer Or possibly all three. Disappointed because his own bachelor’s degree in psychology has […]
Jan Andrews: Artist Profile
March 29, 2020: Among the many fine exhibitions we aren’t able to see at the moment is JAN ANDREWS : Honor and Dissonance at Granary Arts in Ephraim. This video profile of the artist was filmed in 2011 and includes footage from Kamikaze, one of the films featured […]
Culture vs Entertainment
Does it really matter what we call something? I doubt Romeo was thinking about linguistic theory when he pleaded with Juliet to forget the silly names keeping them apart, telling her “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”; but his point, that a name is […]
Don Olsen: Music in Paint
The visual arts have regularly been considered with regard to their relations: in the heyday of oil painting literature was the next of kin. In contemporary art the closest cousins are philosophy, and her bastard child, theory. But for a few decades in the middle of the last […]
An Education in Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Cipher reviewed by Shawn Rossiter Ririe-Woodbury Dance’s Cipher, playing Thursday through Saturday at Salt Lake’s Rose Wagner Art Center, is an opportunity. An opportunity for what? There’s no right word for it, or at least not one. For entertainment, yes, because whether you like Glenn Gould, Schubert, the […]
Back in High School?
by Shawn Rossiter At the Artists of Utah Office Holiday Party this evening I was pleased to meet Austen Diamond, a writer and editor for City Weekly. He told me he mostly writes on music but that in this week’s edition he has contributed two visual arts articles. […]
Interview with Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Here’s part one of our interview with Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Boye-Christensen is the artistic directory of Ririe-Woodbury Dance in Salt Lake City. She has been with the company since 2002, during which time she has choreographed 18 original works for Ririe-Woodbury. In Cipher, which will be performed December 16-18 […]
Shawn Porter: Driven by Idea, Married to Material
Shawn Porter knows materials and how to use them, but in art, he says, the idea comes first. Porter has always worked with his hands. He says he doesn’t really understand something unless he can see the mechanics of it and his mind can communicate with his hands. […]
Nox Contemporary
This Friday, December 3rd, Utah’s newest space for contemporary art in Salt Lake opens with a group show entitled Prime: The First Exhibit. Works by John Sproul and his wife Emily Plewe, the forces behind Nox Contemporary, will be joined by Shawn Porter, Jen Harmon Allen, Tom Aaron […]
