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 era of mass incarceration went vogue in the 1970s, when the perceived uptick in crime had the American public and politicians shaking in their britches. Racially-coded theories like the broken windows theory and mandatory minimums disproportionately caught Black people and other people of color in the carceral […]
At the height of its awareness by the public, studio glass was often cited as the most financially rewarding medium of art. A single blown-glass master and his dealer staged several successful million-dollar exhibitions in Seattle. Tacoma’s Dale Chihuly, known to Utahns as the artistic star of the […]
The 2025 Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah at Springville Museum of Art takes place in a nation and at a time when both those parts of the spectrum of reverence are under attack. So long as a dominant minority of our citizens is determined to ignore both […]
The metal air filters should be your first clue that Carson Cahoon is interested in materials. Six of them, in a row, without comment or adornment, frame one end of his exhibit Dead or Alive, on the basement floor of the SLC Main Library, where Cahoon, a Salt […]
In March of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of what started as 4,000 Black, working-class people and allies from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in a march that swelled to 22,000 and spurred the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, granting Black Americans […]
The President’s Art Show at Salt Lake Community College is essentially a juried, statewide art exhibition. It never fails to bring out a substantial cross-section of recent, high-quality Utah art, along with a large and enthusiastic audience. Its sponsors, the SLCC Art Committee, also challenge all involved by […]
A Perspective of Nature, now on view at Alpine Art & Frame in Salt Lake City, brings together four artists—Sarah Ashley Peterson, Laura Hope Mason, Jodi Steen, and Matthew Hassing—whose works channel the restorative power of the natural world into the places we live and gather. At a […]
With university faculty art exhibitions, there is rarely a throughline—a main theme or narrative that ties all the disparate works by different artists together—and the UMFA’s Relative Truths, seems, at first, to be no exception. There are several stated themes—isolation, division, contested histories, cultural anxiety, dismantling of human […]
It’s a precarious time in America to protest, to speak freely. Whether cancellation, the lawsuit or jail, serious forces are arrayed against the citizen who chooses to walk down the street, fist raised. Into this atmosphere, three Ogden photographers have been pointing their cameras at dissent in public […]
The folks at Julie Nester Gallery in Park City have a healthy appetite for abstraction, but they tend to make sure it’s about something. The poster child for their Autumn Show, Newport Beach painter Chris Gwaltney’s “Carnival Ride (book reading chairs),” not only includes the title pair of […]
Working off the grid in a cabin outside of Park City—the home and studio she fashioned from a repurposed shipping container—Bridgette Meinhold is putting the final touches on a new collection of encaustic and cold-wax paintings at Gallery MAR beginning November 7. How the Light Gets In continues […]
There’s an assumption widely made that, by definition, a portrait must have an essential relationship with the identity of its subject. It discloses the identity of the individual whose portrait it purports to be. Yet there is nothing necessary about that connection, especially in the subtle and powerful […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts opened its newly relocated, reimagined, and redesigned Mexican and Central & South American Galleries to crowds of visitors on Saturday, October 18 with the Nuestro pasado es presente /Our Past is Present celebration featuring live music and performance, art-making workshops and food […]
When it comes to the cultural significance of the West, there are at least three versions—the Mythic, the Romantic and the Real—and each version can more or less apply in either the past or the present. The Myths of the West might best be found in pulp literature, […]
Cultivated Surfaces, the name of Nathan Mulford’s new show at “A” Gallery (where it is surrounded by the recently reviewed works of Jeff Juhlin and Halee Roth, among others) is without doubt one of the finest exhibition titles to come along in a while. To understand why, it […]
There certainly is no shortage of talent exhibited at the Urban Arts Gallery. Dozens of local artists display their work throughout the high-ceilinged retail space the gallery occupies in the Gateway Mall—a perfect stop for tourists and locals alike to pick up gifts or souvenirs from the Salty […]
In the latest iteration of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ salt series, Brooklyn-based artist Adama Delphine Fawundu continues the program’s mission of bringing emerging voices in contemporary art to Utah. Known for her work in video and photography as well as layered textile assemblages, Fawundu weaves together […]
Many who are susceptible to its charms consider Zion to be possibly the most beautiful of our national parks. While the nearby Grand Canyon is better known, Zion inverts its effect, becoming much more intimate. We approach Grand Canyon from the top and gaze down in wonder. Zion […]
In her newest body of work, Meri DeCaria turns inward, translating grief and renewal into color, rhythm, and form. Created in the wake of her husband Mark’s passing in 2021, the series represents an introspective exploration of what she calls “a reflection of my new reality.” “These pieces […]
