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.
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Maya Angelou’s flawless quatrain receives a response in Stacy Phillips’ Let’s Get Personal: Faces of Humanity, currently on view at Finch Lane. […]
Who is suffering? At some point in the life of a family assaulted by dementia in one of its many forms, this question may emerge in a rare moment of clarity. While the loss of mental acuity and the capacity to both recall and comprehend one’s own life […]
Fidalis Buehler’s paintings often appear deceptively simple: flat figures, awkward hands, distorted proportions and faces obscured by hoods or masks. He seems to be working in code, charging ordinary objects like couches, sneakers, or an inflatable swimming pool with a private mythology of stories half-remembered and half-inherited. Born […]
Brian Kershisnik is among the more generously talented artists presently on the Utah scene. Not only does he paint and make prints, but he writes songs that he then performs and records with a group of musicians. From there, he made the natural leap to poetry, which he […]
It was just over a year ago, in August of 2024, that Halee Roth debuted in a two-artist exhibition at her local venue, which happens to be the Bountiful Davis Art Center. Recalling those large abstractions, mixed media fields of flawlessly controlled color articulated in depth by map-like […]
Several Utah artists, including Edward Bateman and Trent Call, have used the Deseret Alphabet in their work, but none has done so as prolifically as the late Bob Moss. The exhibition in his honor at The Gallery at Library Square in Salt Lake City remembers the vision of […]
Time and time again in these pages, Geoff Wichert has proven the exception so often that one might think it has become the rule, but from my perspective group exhibitions are still the hardest to write about. Not so much the curated exhibition, centered around a theme—those have […]
Beth Krensky’s solo exhibition, The Trees Will Love You and the Earth Will Hold You, at Material Gallery in South Salt Lake, Utah, is a quietly powerful meditation on belonging, vulnerability, and the healing potential of nature. Through a thoughtful arrangement of sculpture, video, and performance relics, Krensky […]
Julie Nester and her staff have chosen women as the focus of their current show, the title of which, She Roars in Color, gives a good idea of why. This is not the opening salvo in the next battle of the sexes; rather, it might be in recognition […]
In reference to works of art, “calligraphy” is often used as an adjective. For example, we say a certain artist’s line quality is “calligraphic.” But of course fine hand-lettering is a visual art form in itself, one inclusive of language, but also able to function apart from it. […]
For a gallery that only recently opened, Border & Square, just south of downtown Provo, feels like a classic gallery space. Set in the large open area between a small framing showroom and the back frame shop, the gallery has a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere, big white walls, and […]
Spend a little time with the gifted, itinerant street painters on YouTube and it soon becomes apparent that almost anything can become the support for a painting, from a guitar to a guitar case, or a laptop’s cover, or even an inexpensive, mass market oil painting on canvas. […]
The folks at Craft Lake City, Utah’s Do-It-Yourself festival, can’t have been unaware of the irony: for their latest “Celebration of the Hand” exhibit they’ve curated works executed by a robotic arm. Cheeky buggers. Displayed outdoors on the Museum of Temporary Change’s placards, Emergence features reproductions of 14 […]
Video art has been around for a long time. Performance art even longer. The exhibition (Im)posibilidades, at Ogden Contemporary Arts, is at the center of the Venn diagram of the two. And it’s an interesting place to be. Performance art is in person, live, and ephemeral. Not theatre, […]
Whoever wrote that art is not progressive—that it doesn’t advance as artists learn how to better express themselves and pursue their goals—certainly didn’t look at the way the century of Surrealism has progressed. When, in 1924, André Breton published his Manifesto of Surrealism, he spoke to artists who […]
With an exhibition title that riffs on Andy Warhol’s 1966-1967 Exploding Plastic Inevitable—which featured a series of multimedia events that extended the exhibition beyond the gallery—Exploding Native Inevitable is, similarly, both multimedia and a reference to life beyond the gallery. Curated by artist Brad Kahlhamer and now-retired Director […]
Alissa Landefeld is one member of a small-but-mighty segment of the Utah arts scene. Originally from Montana, she started out to be a biologist, earning honors at UVU and traveling the world to connect with other students of the science of life. She found, however, that her urge […]
Kristina Lynae’s Flesh and Sinew, on view at The Gallery at Library Square through October 10, turns to the human body—deconstructed, recombined, and reimagined—to probe questions of identity, intimacy, and fragmentation in the present day. Born in California in 1999 and based in Salt Lake City, Lynae came […]
Walking upright on two legs is arguably the most essential human trait. Walking—and the vertical posture that enables doing it—are believed to have freed early hominids’ hands to develop and exploit fine skills, which in turn called on their brains to grow larger and more versatile. Walking thus […]
