Utah Exhibition Reviews published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine, including reviews of local Utah artists, regional artists, group exhibitions and traveling exhibits of national and international artists.
The art of Andrew Wyeth was largely rejected and ignored by the stuffy critics of his day, no doubt due more to the historical moment than to any shortcoming on his part. But he responded to the resulting lack of intermediaries standing between him and his audience by […]
Modern scholars have revised their opinions on the part that things like talent, energy, determination, and even intelligence play in achieving success. Sure, those things are helpful, but none now seems so critical as luck. Good fortune is essential; bad luck can cancel all those advantages. A good […]
In the statement accompanying his cut-up and reassembled images, which he collectively titles Offense of Legacy, Greggory Wood tells us that by “legacy” he means to invoke something that parents, for example, might bequeath to their children. Or rather, that which they mean to leave, attempt to bestow, […]
Tucked into a storage closet-turned gallery space at the back of the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Bianca Velasquez’s You’re the Best! A Prize Installation glimmers from mirror tiles and metallic shimmer, deep within a black tunnel. Trophies line shelves like those in a kid’s bedroom or a […]
St. George has a different essence than southern Utah destinations like Moab. It feels distinctly Arizonan, its southern border brushing the state line. Palm trees read differently than junipers; the rock is more vermilion than the saffrons of the southeast. Given its desolation and remoteness, it is perhaps […]
In a new multimedia exhibition, Buenos Aires–based siblings Gonzalo Javier Silva and Susana Isabel Silva examine sound as a cultural technology through a body of work that is varied yet cohesive. They reflect on how sound is made, perceived, recorded, and transmitted across different places and times, using […]
Shoutout to the docents of the St. George Art Museum. I hope to be a morsel as patient and informed as they are one day—showing the youth how to look at art, asking questions that get them grasping at the subject matter. What do the colors make you […]
Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks the most interesting art these days is to be found in the littoral zone where abstraction and representation blend. The new show at ‘A’ Gallery, Love in the Abstract, “invites viewers to explore emotion, connection, and intimacy beyond literal representation.” […]
At the turn of the 20th century, the American West came vividly into focus in the public imagination, shaped by a flourishing body of romantic representation circulated through poetry, illustration, travel writing, and popular media. Among the voices helping to define this picturesque vision was Henry Herbert Knibbs, […]
Clinton Whiting’s Veiled Support, showing in an upstairs gallery at the St. George Museum of Art, walks us through time, asking us to reflect on fleeting moments and intimacies, the people we come from and who we are. Whiting uses a Japanese style in his stroke—simple ink brush […]
Most photographs aren’t begging to be turned into paintings. The things a camera captures effortlessly—busy detail, awkward smiles, a split-second expression—can become stiff or even unbearable once translated into brushwork. But Kirsten Holt Beitler has a rare ability: she can take the casual, unpolished image and make it […]
In the 21st century, it’s not necessary to be a feminist in order to see how the deck is conventionally stacked against women. While some of these inequities are right up to date—pregnancy, contraception, autonomous healthcare among them—others date all the way back to the beginning of Time. […]
“We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” —John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962 Witness to the activities of modern humanity has led to any number of tempests in ever-so-many teapots. Was 9/11 a […]
Maureen O’Hara Ure’s work has long felt like a private language, built from fragments of art history, accumulated marks, and creatures that seem to emerge from some half-remembered medieval imagination. This makes her paintings immediately recognizable, and if you’ve followed her work over the years—especially her solo exhibition […]
One of the disappointments at the semiannual Poor Yorick Open Studios is the absence of James Charles. He occupies prime real estate at the crease in Poor Yorick’s B-wing, operating out of a large, enclosed space that you can catch glimpses of in our video profile of the […]
When Alli Harbertson first walked into the Andrews home, it was the paintings that stopped her. “They’re everywhere,” Harbertson recalls. The living room—where Karen Andrews’ hospital bed had been placed—was filled with artwork, paintings covering the walls and leaning against furniture while ceramics, blankets and small sculptures covered […]
Someone who glanced through the door at Carol Sogard’s Finch Lane exhibit wouldn’t be entirely wrong to assume that what they were seeing was not art, but science. Fossil Remains deliberately partakes of both activities. Sogard’s extraordinarily good-looking and impeccably well-organized exhibition reminds us that all true knowledge […]
There are two populations avidly discussing Artificial Intelligence, or AI, of late. One is the group that created it and promotes it while anticipating soon becoming rich, or at least finally making some money. The other is the rest of us, who have heard a lot about it […]
Salt Lake’s public libraries have in common more rooms than strictly needed, but which are not wasted. Each branch has at least one art gallery, and the main library, which has its own TRAX stop and a row of shops that curl around its plaza like a sleeping […]
