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Glass artist Sarinda Jones has just learned she will be doing a show at Art Access in April in conjunction with the Moran Eye Center. She is collaborating with Bryan Jones, Ph.D., of Moran to design and create fused glass sculptures inspired by the structure of eye cells […]
Photographer, author, filmmaker, philosopher and entrepreneur Mark Hedengren tells us: “After doing a few series on peoples’ interaction with nature as shown in my show at the UVU (Woodbury) art museum, “The Natural Man,” I am now doing work that focuses on people and the urban environment. Here […]
A collector who relies on thrift stores to provide his found objects, Jared Lindsay Clark says he finally “relented” to work with kitsch ceramic figurines in earnest in 2006. “I had seen them calling my name since my undergrad years at BYU. I tinkered with the genre but […]
READ LOCAL First is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Each month, 15 Bytes offers works-in-progress and / or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction and memoir. Today, 15 Bytes features […]
Beth Krensky, shown here performing her Shroud/Shawl piece (photographed by Josh Blumental), tells us that for 2015: “I continue to engage with my performative pieces and will return to the Salt Flats to perform my piece, Skirt of Sorrow and Forgiveness that was recently exhibited at the UMFA. […]
Roundly praised, intermittently censored, and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. —Margalit Fox, New York Times obituary The news that a touring exhibit of works by Maurice Sendak, the […]
Along with worldwide photography and work in his Ogden studio (easel painting, drawing, architectural design) Paul Butler is looking forward to his annual WENDOVER PROJECT, “when, each summer, we create paintings out on the Salt Flats.” The 18th annual event will be Sept. 12. Paul describes it as […]
“You two just keep getting better,” Denis Phillips observed Wednesday afternoon at a walkthrough of the terrific new show by Mark Knudsen and Leslie Thomas. And he’s an artist who doesn’t hand out compliments readily. The public seems to agree: five paintings have sold already including a 24”x […]
One of the key questions art plays with at the present moment can be implied to the five-word phrase it is and it isn’t. Most traditional works of art unambiguously intend viewers to see just what they pretend to be: a visage, a human figure, a moment from life. Kandace Steadman pulled three artists from Finch Lane’s slush pile, the stack of proposals every gallery (like every publisher, whence the term is borrowed) draws from, and juxtaposed them to call attention to three relatively new forms of this ambiguity.
Hyunmee Lee is “experimenting with a variety of mark-making to achieve depth in my painting. Experimenting with these works on paper and creating gestural calligraphy are always giving me inspirations. This year I am living seriously a notion of ’empowerment of self.’ ” After 19 years in Utah […]
A fondness for pina coladas and getting caught in the rain is the reason we see Brad Slaugh in front of the 5th in a series of night scenes he has been working on during the year he is spending walking around the hilltop towns in Central Colonial […]
At a time when “new media” is all the rage, Salt Lake City artist David Wolske uses a centuries-old printing technique that has disappeared from its once-ubiquitous place in the commercial world but which lives on in small studios like Wolske’s and at book art centers like the […]
The Topaz Museum in Delta opens this month with an exhibition of works on paper by artists interned at the camp during World War II.
Jesse Quebbeman-Turley is a drummer — when he enrolled in college and began his jazz studies major, his stated goal was “to play drums professionally.” What he didn’t expect was to become a composer. “Drummers don’t write songs” he laughs. “Composers are serious people, and I’m a drummer.” […]
In Don’t Read This, eight artists attempt to explore incorporating the verbal content of a message into the way it’s presented without allowing text to hijack the image.
Ehren Clark puts together the pieces of Andrew Ballstaedt’s art, from Klee-inspired houses to friendly monsters and family flags.
Hikmet Sidney Loe knows the Great Salt Lake. The Westminster College professor and scholar has spent years visiting, studying and writing about the lake since she first came West and fell in love with Utah’s desert landscapes, especially the basin and range areas to the west of the […]
Scene selection can be a huge advantage or a stumbling block to the advancement of your work. Often, the problem with a painting is not that an artist can’t paint well enough, but that the choice of subject matter lacks that certain something that will lend itself to […]
When he’s not busy raising money for Repertory Dance Theatre or editing 15 Bytes’ literary content, David Pace pounds away at his laptop, tablets and phone, writing his own fiction and essays. After two decades of writing and re-writing a novel manuscript, Pace is anticipating the publication of […]
