Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
One way of looking at art has always been as a luxury item. Hence the precious metal castings and finest-stone sculptures, the gold-leaf frames, and such personal adornments as jewelry and splendid accessories. Then, in the 20th century, other options emerged. In part, that was a result of […]
4 Common Corners is a fiber arts collective whose members come together to celebrate the beauty of the Southwest. Over time, their exhibitions have celebrated such signature local elements as Rocks, Cottonwoods, and Things Abandoned. Their current showing, now in the Edna Runswick Taylor Foyer, at the East […]
Walking into the airy Julie Nester Gallery in Park City right now, you’ll encounter a scene of monochromatic calm assembled from a frenzy of material play. In Mending Joy, Elodie Blanchard transforms scraps of fabric and clothing into layered tapestries, freestanding textile urns, and basketball-player-tall stuffed trees that invite […]
At a moment when American political rhetoric once again toys with territorial ambition and “friendly takeovers,” Ogden Contemporary Arts presents an exhibition that reminds viewers that the last age of U.S. imperial expansion never truly ended. In Reclamation at Ogden Contemporary Arts, three Filipine artists explore the legacy […]
“Path Into Pines” demonstrates at least two of the ways Utah painter Anne Becker plays with her medium. On the one hand, her material choice, “oil and cold wax,” might be described as neither fish nor fowl: it isn’t straight oil, nor is it encaustic: it has characteristics […]
On view through June 21, 2026, Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts brings together more than three decades of the artist’s practice in an exhibition that approaches storytelling not as illustration, but as structure. Drawn from the collections of the Jordan […]
What happens to a successful artistic collaboration when it ends in the death of one of its members? In the midst of their lives, after their children were grown, and with years of opportunity to make splendid works of art before them, Marcee and Ric Blackerby suddenly faced […]
Once upon a time, art was all about content. Hard as it may be to believe, for the longest time technique didn’t really enter into it. The dubious may want to check out an early exception: public sculpture in ancient Rome, where eventually two forms existed side-by-side. One, […]
Doug Smith is a Utah native whose credentials include degrees from both the U of U and BYU. While his design work and painting are familiar to people in at least 22 states, he shows consistently at Salt Lake City’s 15th Street Gallery, which is well known for […]
Coming back to Utah after the pandemic allowed Emily Hawkins to embark on a new path—an MFA at Brigham Young University. Twenty years after receiving a BFA in photography from the University of Utah, the mother of four has found her voice and broadened her media to incorporate printmaking, […]
All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers -Mary Oliver Abigale Palmer paints landscapes like Mary Oliver writes poetry. Her brush brings new and yet familiar ways of seeing. The paintings recognize themselves among the family of things. Staring at them echoes a forest […]
Well my friends are all gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I’m crazy for love, but I’m not comin on I’m just payin my debt every day In the Tower of Song -Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s lyrics […]
Modern West opens a new chapter with Unbound: Art of the West, the first exhibition staged in the gallery’s new space at 242 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City. On view through March 20, 2026, the inaugural show introduces the gallery’s presence along one of the city’s […]
Usually, when a creative event is described as “not to be missed,” the claim is rooted in its contemporary relevance. Numerous indispensable art exhibitions have conveyed alarm about the environment and what threatens it, and to be sure no political or social circumstance feels more pressing, nor so […]
In the back gallery of SUMA, which is dedicated to Jim Jones, the Cedar City painter and local legend who helped establish this fine institution of art, resides an exhibit of postcard-size posters from the Fillmore West, collected by the artist’s brother. While living in San Francisco in […]
It was short-lived, Art Nouveau. The ten years before and after the turn of the century, the movement burned like a hot, heavy romance, laced with sensuality and grace—elegance and sophistication, long hair and cigarettes. The style emerged from a rejection of industrial production while simultaneously harnessing its […]
Every year, the Glass Art Guild of Utah mounts a comprehensive exhibition of local glass arts at Red Butte Garden that is exhaustive in more than one sense of the word. All media, from the smallest ornaments and tiny, colorful objects to large functional and decorative creations, are […]
“Above all, see that I am here.” For Salt Lake City artist Desarae Lee, that line anchors everything. Working primarily in pen and ink, she creates intricate narrative drawings built from obsessive, meditative linework. “The work is small: look closer,” she says. “Accept what is unchangeable—mistakes made with […]
Showing in a student-curated exhibition at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Mass Produced: The Advent of Affordable Art brings together prints from the height of the Associated American Artists era—black-and-white lithographs that capture the lives of everyday Americans during and after the Great Depression. These works take […]
