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.
Some years ago I was standing with a friend, looking up at the night sky, when she suddenly announced that she could see a face in the full moon’s disk. Yes, I replied: the Man in the Moon. Then she explained that in her forties she still thought […]
Chad Tolley & Members Show continues at Saltgrass Printmakers through the end of May. A postcard from SaltGrass Printmakers announcing a members’ show always gets posted by my door: a “must-see” event that by itself justifies a trip to Sugarhouse and the downtown environs. The collective of artists that make up the […]
Galleries in Downtown Provo have always been open late on the first Friday of every month for their gallery stroll, but their April event marked the beginning of a new annual event: “Art Chase.” People taking on the “Art Chase” challenge picked up a card at any of […]
The books of Robert Sabuda, acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator, are both mystifying and awe-inspiring to me. Which is why I eagerly anticipated his exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Art, which opened last month and continues through the summer. I was expecting that an exhibit by the […]
Over 20 years ago, philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto published his seminal essay reinterpreting the Hegelian concept of “the end of art” and introduced his notion of the “post-historical era.” Thirty years prior, another influential philosopher and shaper of aesthetic theory, Theodor Adorno, gave his own […]
Barbara Lyman has decided to throw away her brushes. Because she hates to clean them, she has traded in her sable and hog bristles for the palette knife. Her change in tools is matched by the dramatic stylistic change evident in her new body of work, on exhibit […]
Most months when editing this ezine, I begin to see patterns and connections in our arts community. Sometimes I think the confluences are simply constructs of my imagination; but other times — like with the number of video installations last month — the evidence is too strong and […]
Entering Art Access’s Access II Gallery, where Linnie Brown’s Landmarks: Recent Works is on display through April 13th, one might ask, “Has Picasso gone crazy?” No, Picasso has not gone mad, but Linnie Brown has lucidly painted — constructed (as cubists do) — a series of abstract works which are […]
Despite their apparently simple compositions, Lindsay Frei’s new series of paintings, Alterations, are anything but simple, and raise many pertinent questions — most poignantly, issues involving the nature of human identity and individuality. The Helper artist’s inspiration for these works stem from her discovery of an abandoned suitcase of old clothing. […]
On a recent trip to Moab, I found gallerist Brian Parkin, a British native and soon-to-be American citizen who came to Utah via San Francisco, at the Grand County Library running a slide show/art talk/review with friends and artists of the Moab Abstracts 2007. This annual show, now […]
Salt Lake City artist John Bell will exhibit works from four separate bodies of work at the Patrick Moore Gallery, March 7th through March 31 in an exhibit entitled Building Icons. Mr. Bell further distinguishes himself as the thinking man’s abstract expressionist as he continues to develop his hallmark style […]
In February, Salt Lake witnessed the inauguration of a new monthly film series, OUT/EX, presented by The Pickle Company’s Artists-in-Residence, Loaf-i Productions, in collaboration with Lost Media Archive. Hosted by Nobrow Coffee (in the former Kayo Gallery space) on the third Saturday of every month, OUT/EX will alternate each […]
Places, a space-breaking exhibit by local artist Anne Watson, has been startling drivers and strollers along Salt Lake City’s 17th south for the past month. Watson has birthed a new exhibition space by using the glass-encased alcove’ on the north side of Westminster Colleges Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory […]
Bill Viola, this year’s Tanner lecturer on human values, is the best known and most critically admired video artist. He has the kind of all-but-exclusive prominence held by Nam June Paik in closed-circuit TV and Robert Smithson in earthworks, that Dale Chihuly has in glass or, for that […]
Later this month, Salt Lake City’s The Pickle Company will host a week of events with internationally known Latino artists. Rites of Democracy, held March 17th through the 21st, will feature the U.S./Mexican Performance Art Troupe La Pocha Nostra, which includes Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Violeta Luna. Raised in […]
by Bren Jackson William Post’s simple, small platinum prints, sixty of which are now on display at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, do not shout for attention. Rather, it is the images’ unassuming presence that intrigues and draws the viewer in. Primarily landscapes, Post’s images emphasize the solitude […]
Utah County may not immediately come to mind when looking for great art in this state, but I consistently find art in the area that satisfies. With two major educational institutions, a spattering of galleries, and three distinctly different Art Museums, a smorgasbord of art work is […]
Multi-media artist Curtis Olson has returned this month to Park City’s Phoenix Gallery with an eagerly anticipated exhibit entitled Earth and Sky. Olson has become a forceful draw for the gallery since he began showing there in 2003 as collectors have become fascinated with his contemporary evocations of the western landscape. Though […]
It’s hard to imagine how two bodies of work by two established artists, each making original and mature art and each working at the top of her form, could look more comfortable together than these two. When artists show together they sometimes divide the gallery between them […]
