Artist Profile: Anton “Tony” Rasmussen
A video profile of Anton “Tony” Rasmussen in conjunction with a 50-year retrospective of his work at the Springville Museum of Art.
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.
Steampunk History – Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
In June, Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett visited Salt Lake City, stopping at The Leonardo for a two-week residency before offering workshops during the Utah Arts Festival. In their innovative books the artist couple (he’s the images, she’s the words) creates a hybrid of history and fiction […]
Have We Done Aught Amiss? The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Titus Andronicus
The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s staging of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, will look familiar to anyone raised with the films of Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez.
Because 51 Is Bigger Than 50: The Utah Shakespeare Festival Embarks On An Exciting New Season
“For us, fifty-one is bigger than fifty,” said Brian Vaughan last night as he and co-Artistic Director David Ivers raised the curtain on the 51st annual Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Featuring six plays (for the summer, with an additional two to follow in the fall), […]
Blake and Cat Palmer
Read how artists Blake and Cat Palmer work together to achieve their individual artistic goals.
Daniel Everett at the UMFA
Travel should change your vision. So should an art exhibit. When the two combine, well . . . life is good. I recently spent time in Cyprus, a trip that serendipitously served as a fruitful primer for the Daniel Everett exhibit now up at the UMFA. Cyprus is […]
Mary Toscano’s Worry Lines
A review on Mary Toscano’s Worry Lines at the Main Library. It’s all about space.
Anna Campbell Bliss: Arc of Light
A review of a new documentary about Utah artist Anna Campbell Bliss, premiering this month at the UMOCA.
J. Leo Hafen
A group of vegans, among them artists, teachers and musicians, heads to the hills for communal living where they develop a unique practice of partner sharing. Northern California in the 1960s? No, Juab County, Utah in 1918.
Hidden Voices: Women Printmaking
Woodbury Art Museum presents an exhibition of women printmkakers from their community outreach program, Hidden Voices.
Donna Poulton’s Reuben Kirkham: Pioneer Artist
A review of Donna Poulton’s biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.
Feast and Fast; Jennifer Barton, Sunny Taylor, Carolyn Guild
A lot can go on at the Springville Museum of Art. Sure, the Soviet era realism and impressionism never seems to find its way into storage, and when the annual Spring Salon and the Religious and Spiritual Art exhibits are hung they stick around for extended runs, but […]
Utah’s First Color Photograph: Leo Hafen’s 1908 Lumière Autochrome
The first color photograph in the state of Utah: we know who created it and have a description of what it looks like, but we don’t know if it still exists. In 1908, John Leo Hafen created the first color photograph in the state of Utah, using the […]
Xaviera Simmons: An Interview
A video interview with Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist featured in the UMFA’s salt 4.
Tony Fitzpatrick at Kayo Gallery
Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick is the type of colorful character that is welcome fodder for arts writers. In an art world overrun with degree-toting professionals who nip and tuck their way into stable careers while dreaming of blue-chip status, Fitzpatrick is a larger-than-life figure more at home in […]
Connie Borup’s Closer Look
If these lingering autumns— where the clocks change before the leaves do, children solicit candy sans parka, and the first real snow tarries long enough to come as dressing on the turkey — if they are the West’s new reality, then Connie Borup is the painter to sing […]
Transformed by Light
David Linn, whose immaculately rendered monochrome images of figures in states of spiritual struggle and enlightenment are well-known in this state, says the creation of art “requires and elicits self discovery.” One of art’s greatest powers are the surprises and revelations that emerge from the artistic process, he […]
Reflections on Venus
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
Robin Denevan: Is and Is Not
A review of new waterscapes by Robin Denevan at Julie Nester Gallery.
