Xaviera Simmons: An Interview
A video interview with Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist featured in the UMFA’s salt 4.
Announcing Art Lake City
This month, Laura and Matt Chiodo, curators at Salt Lake’s Alpine Art, hit the streets of Salt Lake, cameras in hand, to capture the lively street art scene around the capitol city. Discovering the art all around you is the impetus behind our new project, ART LAKE CITY, […]
An Interview with Kim Schoenstadt
Last month the Salt Lake Art Center (now the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art) opened an exhibition of works by California artist Kim Schoenstadt, recipient of the first Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. The $15,000 biennial prize was instituted by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation […]
Kent Christensen’s Sweet Mormon Landscape
The subject of this month’s Artist Profile begins a residency at The Leonardo today.
Randall Hankins HyperObjects
Randall Hankins’ HyperObjects opens tonight at Cordell Taylor Gallery.
Reflections on Venus
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
Morphing Leonardo: Artists’ Residencies at the New Museum
By Ann Poore “Great things take a long time,” muses Jann Haworth, director of artist residencies at Salt Lake City’s new art and science museum, “and Leonardo was no stranger to taking a long time over things.” She has been involved for six years now and acknowledges that […]
Camilla Taylor Comes Back to Utah
Camilla Taylor, a native of Provo and graduate of the University of Utah, is back in town this week with a solo exhibit and printmaking workshop at Saltgrass Printmakers, as well as an appearance (of her work) at Art Meets Fashion. Taylor is a printmaker by trade and […]
Edward Burtynsky Interview
Edward Burtynsky’s The Industrial Sublime, now up at Weber State University’s Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery through November 22nd, was reviewed in the September 2011 edition of 15 Bytes. Earlier this month Burtynsky came to Weber State University, and before giving his artistic talk Hikmet Sidney Loe sat […]
Gallery Stroll Tonight: Timbre, Phase 2 and 15 Bytes Tees
There’s a lot happening tonight in Salt Lake’s art world. You’ve already read about some of it in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, and you can see a full list of exhibitions. There are a couple of exhibits you have to see tonight if you want to […]
No Detour: What We’re Working On
With the North Temple viaduct torn up for resurfacing and closed to traffic, it’s tempting for those coming from downtown to skip the challenge of navigating over to the West Side. It’s a temptation worth resisting, for several reasons. For one, a quick detour past the Gateway complex […]
Stopping in at Jimmie’s
Geoff Wichert takes a look at the incarnation of Jimmie’s at the Westgate Lofts.
Lenka Konopasek Speaks at the SL Art Center
The argument could be made that Salt Lake multi-media artist Lenka Konopasek stands astride two contrasting, major approaches to art, with one foot firmly in each, all the while subscribing to neither. Born and raised amid the European postwar experiment with figurative abstraction—Bohemia is one of the places […]
Landing Moves: Jared Steffensen
Our Artist Profile this month is Salt Lake’s Jared Steffensen, who is showing at Nox Contemporary.
Go To Hell
Go To Hell: New Theatre from . . . a New Theatreby Davey Davis Go To Hell. A flippant condemnation, and a preview of things to come. There’s lots of skin-deep but fiery anger behind the first production from The New Works Theater Machine, and a whole lot […]
St George Art Academy
by Lisa B. Huber Just over a year ago, the St. George Art Academy was a random list of wishes in the brains of two St. George natives, Alisha Tolman and Aimee Bonham. Both of these talented women hold Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees–Tolman, in drawing from Utah […]
Travis Nikolai
In the basement below Broadway’s Frosty Darling, in a small gallery that opened quietly a few months ago, Travis Nikolai has installed a new exhibit of multi-media paintings entitled Hot Young Suicides: Audition for the 27 Club. Those who visited Artists of Utah’s 35 x 35 exhibit last […]
The House Has Found a Home: Julie Dunker’s gallery comes of age in a new downtown location
What started out as a “Livingroom” in Holladay is now a “House” along 400 South in the former L. Lorenz Knife Shop. Although the House Gallery has only occupied its current space for a few months, owner Julie Dunker celebrated the gallery’s one year anniversary in October. As […]
Jan Andrews’ JOSEPH BRODSKY
Joseph Brodsky: In the Prison of Latitudes a film by Jan Andrews In 1963, Joseph Brodsky was arrested by the KGB. While most Americans were probably too distracted that year by the arrest in Alabama of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, the ominous news of 80 American […]
