Utah Artist Profiles published in 15 Bytes, featuring magazine length profiles of Utah artists.
At the entrance to Saltgrass Printmakers’ Salt Lake City studio, a sinuous form winds across the wall. The dozens of two-foot-square woodcuts, each carved by a different artist and fitted edge to edge, form the Year of the Snake Exquisite Corpse, a sprawling, collaborative print project conceived by […]
If you happened to have visited The True and the Real exhibition at UMOCA during the NCECA annual conference back in March, you probably came across Jason Walker’s “Trophic Cascade.” The sculpture presents a jaguar poised to launch at its prey from a tree hybridized with civic sewer […]
It all started with a dream she had in her mid-20s. She was seeing herself, middle-aged, spinning wool on an old-school spinning wheel in front of a field of sheep. “At that time I knew nothing about [spinning wool], so I had to figure out what this was […]
In the tattooed hands of Virginia Catherall—inch markings on her left hand for ease of measuring lengths in purl and knit—two simple sticks and a single strand of yarn transform into wearable landscapes that capture the sublime beauty of Utah’s salt flats and vistas of glacier-carved mountains. Her […]
Spring is emerging. Critters are out, both in the soil and on the canvas. There’s no one better than Salt Lake City painter Trevor Dahl to manifest the good happy stuff of this season of re-emerging life and blooming. Whether it’s on canvas, stretched linen or the side […]
They are part ceramic, part painting; filled with girls, in fancy dresses, climbing trees and mountains in exotic landscapes; and there are monsters, lots of monsters, threatening or doing battle with the young ladies. In one work, a girl hefts a giant sword to slice open the gut […]
Elise Wehle mentions two big accomplishments in 2024: For the first time in her career, a museum purchased her work; she also potty-trained her youngest child. “Although I’ve been creating art professionally for twelve years, this year was the first time a museum acquired my art…not just one […]
It would surely come as a surprise to visit an artist’s home and find in it no works of art, no books, and most unlikely of all, little evidence of the owners’ creativity. The home of Mark and Kari England, a charming house on a street devoid of […]
Kent Christensen is an acclaimed artist, illustrator, and designer as comfortable in New York City and London as he is Sundance or the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City. For more than four decades he’s been making art from all of those places, as we see in […]
There is something to be said about experience, about story. Every person has their own and no story is exactly alike. Yet, somehow, all stories have the power to connect us. The human experience, though unique, shows evidence of a life lived. Stories allow people to relate to […]
His show now up at Fice is not the one Chuck Landvatter wanted to hang. There were technical glitches — evasive studs, hardware failures, a broken TV — so that the piece he was most proud of, a video collaboration with Eric Overton, ended up precariously propped on […]
Carly White is easy to pick out in a crowd — her red hair and bright smile make sure of that. It’s even easier to identify her as some sort of creative type, dressed as she often is in a perfectly styled, colorful mix of vintage and modern […]
Explosive colors surround Elisa Gomez. From blues so deep they almost look black to rich yellows and bright scarlet reds. Gomez’s works reach out, inviting their viewers to step closer and take in the stirring colors, compositions, and textures found on their canvases. Like her works, Gomez’s life […]
Veera Kasicharernvat stands tall, though not rigid. As he moves about his studio, weaving between press and table and bookshelves, his movements are supple, purposeful. Quick with a smile, his is a quiet, joyful presence. The energy he brings to this space, where he paints and prints and […]
Baylee Berglund is a creative force, a multifaceted artist and an inspiration to anyone chasing their dreams. Named Ogden Arts Festival 2022 “Best Emerging Artist,” Berglund is an artist with a skill set that seems to be growing by the day. A look at Berglund’s pieces gives you […]
During your First Friday Art Stroll each month in Ogden, you may find yourself lucky enough to run into a man named Codey Quintana, wearing a satchel full of zines and stickers ready to be handed out. Quintana is a digital artist and the creator of the OUNCE […]
In Renaissance workshops, artists often specialized: for a nativity scene or portrait of a noble, one artist might work on all the background landscapes, while another might be called in to paint the folds in a saint’s robes and a third would show off their skills on delicately […]
