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.
Gallery group shows recall double bills at the movies: if the contrast between artists contributes to a better understanding of each other’s works, or resonances enrich a common sense of purpose, the group show serves artists and audience alike. For the arts writer, though, they present a […]
For most photographers, finding the right moment to press the shutter is crucial. Dayle Record, whose large, color photographs of the Great Salt Lake, Singular Images: The Lake I Love, are currently on display in Charley Hafen’s cozy, brick-and-glass jewel box of a gallery, handles the critical moment like a painter who first draws her subject, then waits until the sun is right to limn the light and capture the defining moment.
A review of Steven Fawson’s exhibit of portraits of artist friends at the Gallery at Library Square through March 9.
Installations by Pam Bowman and Noah Coleman cause Ehren Clark to ruminate on time.
A review of three bodies of work by Salt Lake artist Cris Baczek, including motion-activated cyanotypes, large-scale proof sheets and found images from the archives of the UMFA.
A look at Alpine Art’s upcoming 24 x 24 exhibit, a group exhibition of photographs documenting the first twenty-four hours of 2012.
A review of Sundance’s new media exhibition New Frontier 12 at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Fahimeh Amiri’s “Reaching for Liberty,” Darius the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, is seated on his throne in Persepolis, the center of Persian power. He is represented in monumental scale, in the abstracted two-dimensional side view profile of much of the art of the ancient Near East, rendered […]
Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to […]
In conversations local artist Chauncey Secrist conveys a thoughtful intensity that ranges from playful to philosophical. His latest exhibit at Guthrie Studios is a reflection of that. On display is 15 years worth of work but the show has remained untitled because he feels it’s too soon in […]
Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery.
A review of Georgia and Rob Buchert’s sound installation at BYU’s Gallery 303.
A lot can go on at the Springville Museum of Art. Sure, the Soviet era realism and impressionism never seems to find its way into storage, and when the annual Spring Salon and the Religious and Spiritual Art exhibits are hung they stick around for extended runs, but […]
Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick is the type of colorful character that is welcome fodder for arts writers. In an art world overrun with degree-toting professionals who nip and tuck their way into stable careers while dreaming of blue-chip status, Fitzpatrick is a larger-than-life figure more at home in […]
Karen Horne is an “artist’s artist” if there is such a thing. She has taken all the lessons we try to absorb in the classroom or workshops – like color theory, simplification, gesture drawing, value and form, and the lush handling of paint – and demonstrates them […]
A review of Dave Hall and John Collins’ exhibit of landscapes, now up at Williams Fine Art.
“All of my work is essentially an effort to recreate the Mystery in material form,” Hankins says. “My HyperObjects Series is specifically an attempt to accrete a group of unique pieces whose qualities reflect the Mystery for me—multi-dimensional, embedded, arcane, enfolded, enigmatic, patinated, archaic, alchemical, sacred and emergent […]
Wayne Kimball’s current exhibit at the Covey Center for the Arts, Things Put Together By Hand Without Instructions In A Basement, is a realm of broken and ruined antiquity, birds, timepieces, and fragmented body parts. The viewer, left equally without instruction, is invited to piece it altogether, a […]
You stand in the center of four large screens. Angled to surround you, each screen offers a different perspective of a rocky desert landscape. From a single perspective of rock emerge, one by one, four women dressed in Old West, 19th-century costume: a spirited, blue-clad pioneer, a fierce […]
