This beautifully executed mural by Roots Art Kollective, featuring an image of artist Frida Kahlo, appears on the side of a Mexican bakery in Taylorsville: 5423 S. 4015 West. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith our In Plain Site byline we […]
Along the Jordan River Parkway, a grieving family has turned this nondescript piece of infrastructure into a memorial. Accessible by foot or on bike, it is across the canal from the Khadeeja Islamic Center, 1019 W Parkway Ave, West Valley City. Discover more art with our Art […]
Price Real Estate has placed sculptures at a variety of properties they have built or maintain in Salt Lake City, including the company headquarters at 230 E. South Temple, where you’ll find this sculpture of a resting rhinoceros serving as a playground for two birds. Discover more […]
If you’ve been to the state Capitol recently, say for marches about the election or Black Lives Matter, you may have spotted a sculptural commemoration of inequality at another time in our history: the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19 th Amendment that gave many women the right to vote […]
Since it’s painted on the Clever Octopus building (2250 South West Temple) one might expect, well, a cephalopod, but Dan Toro’s massive cephalopod orgy going on across the street might have made Evan Jed Memmott & Isaac Hastings think twice about the idea. Instead, for South Salt Lake’s […]
During lockdowns and quarantines people have been discovering the outdoors. They probably have run across Chris Peterson, who didn’t need a global pandemic to get him out in the wild; and he brings wild settings back with him to urban landscapes, and charges his experience with neon color. […]
Parisians hated the Eiffel Tower when it first went up. They weren’t crazy about I. M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid, either. Both, however, have become iconic landmarks. Tourist attractions. Destinations in and of themselves. And that’s what Salt Lake City is counting on with Ned Kahn’s “Pages of Salt,” […]
Located along 900 South and centered on 200 East, the Maven District is home to Salt Lake City’s largest community of female-owned businesses. It’s appropriate then, that the bevy of murals that have gone up on the north-facing parking lot on the west corner of the intersection are […]
Billy Hensler has created murals for a variety of clients: municipalities, hospitals, dentist offices, private individuals. And the subject and style can change with each client, from twinkly, light-filled landscapes ala Thomas Kinkaide to dark, chiaroscuro fantasy villains. Wildlife is a recurring motif in many of his murals. […]
AM Source 2285 S. Main Street South Salt Lake What will South Salt Lake’s downtown area look like in two decades? Who knows. As Evan Jed Memmott’s mural reminds us, “Nothing Lasts.” Right now, however, the area is going through a revival, with hundreds of new residences popping […]
Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia South Salt Lake He’s got a BS in Interpersonal Communications from the University of Utah, an MFA in Drawing & Painting from Utah State University, and a KA (kick ass) from the streets. Raise a glass to Chuck Landvatter’s for his latest mural, completed for […]
Gustin Hydraulics 151 W. Commonwealth Ave. South Salt Lake Life got you down? Feeling under pressure? Ann Chen’s mural on the face of this high-pressure hydraulics shop may be just the message you need — “Change Starts With You.” The mural was completed as part of South Salt […]
“Aspen Forest,” which fronts the new Utah Department of Environmental Quality Technical Support Center in Salt Lake City, is the latest in a number of successful public art projects by Salt Lake City artist Day Christensen. With a degree in art and design from Brigham Young University and […]
Traveling south on Main Street, it’s hard to miss Trent Call’s eclectic homage to the Utah Jazz. There are plenty of Easter eggs to be found in the mural that celebrates the team’s 40 seasons: longtime fans will be able to pick out the evolution of the team’s […]
A half-mile of masking tape, gallons of exterior paint, dozens of rollers and brushes and some not-entirely-successful lessons in operating a scissor lift — that’s what it took Jann Haworth to create her recently completed mural facing the Pictureline parking lot in Salt Lake City’s Granary District. Haworth’s […]
Fluid Picasso-esque metal figures, Mad Max steam-punk vehicles, astronauts basking in the Utah air, and insects the size of your children (Honey, I shrunk the kids!). Take a walk down Broadway to view these identified “Flying Objects”—the works of established and emerging Utah sculpture artists. The ongoing project is […]
Originally, this piece by Greg Ragland was installed in an empty lot in the Central Ninth neighborhood, where the city had helped local residents organize a community garden. Since then, the neighborhood has gone through a revival, so the lot is no longer empty, nor a garden, and the sculptures […]
Discover the artistic side of Salt Lake City. Over the years, we have reported on and captured the publicly viewable artwork that crops up all over SLC, from the official public art installations to street art and even the strange things that pop up in people’s yards and […]
Because of the new apartment complex it faces and in whose windows its vibrant colors are reflected, this long mural at the 300 East Station of the S-Line is likely to become known as the Zellerbach Mural. Its host, though, is actually the warehouse for Kimball Electronics. The […]
