Darl Thomas’ sculpture makes the invisible (the wind) visible as the sculpture slowly rotates with the breeze. It’s location at Fire Station #9, west of the Salt Lake International Airport, means it gets plenty of winds, and most days you’ll be able to see its slow rotation. […]
The creeks that flow into Salt Lake City have helped to shape the east bench neighborhoods, but just as important is the Wasatch Fault Line, which basically runs along 1300 East and is the reason there’s a steep drop off west of the thoroughfare. Few of the residents […]
Pavlos Kougioumtzis’s 2002 abstracted rendering of Prometheus bearing fire stands on the Jordan River Parkway, along 500 South, across the street from Jake Garn Blvd. and on the same block as Neighborhood House. A greek sculptor, painter and architect, Kougioumtzi lives and works in Athens and Delphi. Discover more […]
Look at its location on a map and its hard to think of a more out of the way place for a piece of public art, but people who work in anonymous office buildings under the shadow of the freeway deserve aesthetic pleasure just as much as anyone […]
Neil Haddock’s sinuous steel form was commissioned by the Boyer Company in 1983, and since then has added a bit of life to the courtyard of this otherwise mundane office building at 400 E. South Temple. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith […]
Light Camera Action Public art project that combines the old and the new in photography Stephan Kopolwitz’s Light Camera Action, located on the main campus of Salt Lake Community College (State Street and 1700 South in Salt Lake City), blends centuries-old methods for reproducing images with 21st century technologies […]
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Angelo Caravaglia’s two sculptural pieces adorn the corners of this nondescript white building. Caravaglia was a professor at the University of Utah and was commissioned for a number of public art projects. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 […]
Back in the September 2013 edition of 15 Bytes we featured a photo essay on the street art — public and private — of South Salt Lake. Because our office is in the city, we continue to get to know the area and discover new gems, including this pair of […]
The apartment building next door has become a destination for street art murals, but this building had its own wall art years before – mosaics embedded into the walls of the building’s entrance. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, […]
Mural by Los Angeles artists El Mac and Retna on the side of the Guthrie Building. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith our In Plain Site byline we feature publicly viewable art, both official and street art, throughout the state of Utah.
Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Photo by Liberty Blake, September 2013. Photo by Liberty Blake, September 2013. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This mural is for the selfie generation. Designed by University of Utah professor Kim Martinez, and executed with the help of her students, this mural near 2700 South features quotations from a number of famous art works and the placement of painted footprints to suggest one take a photo of oneself in the […]
Each of Salt Lake City’s Fire Stations features artwork by Salt Lake City artists and Fire Station #6, in Salt Lake City’s Poplar Grove neighborhood, now features “Courage Under Fire” a collaboration by John Hess and Benjamin Higbee. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map […]
The Nine Muses, designed by artist Troy Pillow, surround the intersection of 9th East and 9th South, a hip neighborhood complete with a bike shop, bar, coffee shop, cinema, gelateria, dance studio and more. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE […]
To celebrate their 35th anniversary Cannella’s, the Salt Lake City restaurant devoted to good food and good times, has unleashed artist Ben Wiemeyer on the south side wall of their building. Founded in 1978 by Joe and Missy Cannella on the corner of 500 South and 200 East, […]
From a 15 Bytes article by Sue Martin on the Airport Line artwork:Ruby Chacon, who is known as a community activist as well as a gifted painter, was charged with developing a station art project that would involve the diverse community around 850 West, as well as reflect […]
Shawn Porter’s “Spatial Perception,” part of the TRAX Airport Line, was installed in Spring of 2013. Porter has said of the work: “This series of two sculptures reference the Jordan River, Riparian Zones, wetlands and wildlife existing throughout the Salt Lake Valley and near the Salt Lake City […]
