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.
If there is an artistic form that the Utah audience might survive seeing less of, surely it’s the landscape: a medium that is tolerant of exploitation almost to a fault, and which has seemingly been shown in every way imaginable. Of course, discerning individuals might argue that what’s […]
In a world where authenticity is prized, we often treat the physical object with much more reverence than its photographic representation. But two exhibits at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) complicate that notion. Repainting the I: The Intermountain Intertribal Indian School Murals presents 11 murals […]
I have a new hero. And she’s a Pop artist. Pop Art is the most—OK, popular—art movement in America, rivaled only by Impressionism. Those French artists looked seriously at modern life as they witnessed its changes: the coming of the steamboat and the railroad, the remodeling of their […]
The phrase “perennial avant-garde” may sound positive, but it’s actually a criticism of one of the primary characteristics of Postmodernism: the need of mainstream artists to continue demolishing the user-friendly accessibility of traditional forms in order to advance the task of making room for a revolutionary new art. […]
It has happened again. In the immediate aftermath of my breakthrough in understanding an artist whose labors in two separate artistic gardens had puzzled me for years (see here), another artist has brought forth a similarly converse second body of art. Robert Füerer is a seasoned world traveler, […]
Though there is no set theme for the exhibit, the Spring Salon can create a strong contrast between and among works, causing interesting conversations, whether the pieces are hung near each other or in separate rooms. Hanging Greg Newbold’s “New Year’s Day, Black Rock” and Nick Rees’ “Refinery” […]
Tyler Alexander thinks of himself as a bit of a Napoleon. Not the continent-conquering general who rode France’s revolutionary wave to become one of the most fateful figures in European history. Rather, the nephew, an emperor as well, of sorts. He began as the first president of France’s […]
After a hit Broadway musical, the curious presentation of an animated TV show, and a live-action series on plural wives—each more popular than could have been anticipated—it may be hard to believe that there was a recent time when some Latter-day Saints, except when on a mission, didn’t […]
The visual cultures of the Himalayas are the rock-and-roll of Buddhist art. Wrathful deities wear flaming hair and skull garlands. Tantric divinities intertwine their limbs in sexual embrace. The searing mineral brilliance of cinnabar and azurite compete for the viewer’s attention. And ritual cups made of human craniums […]
I have friends who deny themselves the pleasures of visiting a gallery, so determined are they to avoid the wall signs that they interpret as telling them how to look at the art, how to interpret it, and how to respond. They’re equally determined not to read the […]
In the busy symphony of downtown Ogden, a new player has been added to the collective soup of the city’s soundscape. If you ignore the roar of cars, beeping of crosswalks and white noise of discombobulated chatter, and instead follow the low, hypnotizing hum in the air, you’ll […]
There are any number of categories into which the variety of fine and visual artists, and their works, can be divided. There are characteristics of the artists themselves: are they men or women? Are they young and newly fledged (like those in Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibit) or […]
I first learned of the future Orem Public Library when samples of its stained glass panorama, drawn from folk tales and children’s literature, appeared in public, but I didn’t get there to see the finished complex for myself until I was recently encouraged by Marissa Albrecht to see […]
Modern West Fine Art is no stranger to meticulous curation, yet their latest exhibition manages to exceed even already high expectations. A Woven History, where each artwork sits in thoughtful conversation with the others, centers nine female artists, exploring the boundaries of their work in relation to womanhood […]
A trend that has emerged on the international art scene is getting national notice, not all of it positive. These artists and their works depart markedly from the modernism of the past century. Where in the past there were specific movements—Impressionism, Cubism, the Fauves, The Blue Rider—today’s artists […]
As someone who collects vintage tablecloths for their linocut style patterns and whose taste for cottagecore is in her Wisconsin genes, as someone who comes from a lineage of Midwestern farmers and was named after a grandmother who, in the 1930s, practiced a craft that went out of […]
Chatting with Scout Invie in her official capacity at Modern West, where for a time she performed such invaluable services as putting visitors in touch with the artists whose works were on display, was always a pleasure and a learning experience. Not only did she know her subjects, […]
Before there were any art museums, there was the Wunderkammer—the Room of Wonders—and the Cabinet of Curiosities. Beginning in the 16th and continuing into the 17th centuries, these were how royalty and the wealthy showed off their collections: of art, natural history specimens, scientific instruments, and noteworthy objects […]
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 […]
