Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
This month at Art at the Main Layton artist Terrece Beesley brings her brightly colored and densely organized watercolors to a Salt Lake audience. Beesley’s compositions are so animated with compositional energy that it seems difficult to call them “still” lifes. The backgrounds of her paintings have as much importance as any […]
This month at Gallery MAR you can view Randall Lake’s “Blue” paintings, a group of work first explored in our profile of the artist in the January edition of 15 Bytes. These deeply personal and stridently polemical paintings reveal a rarely seen aspect of the Utah artist best known for his […]
What happens when you sign a contract – with yourself – to produce an ambitious quantity of work in a year? It’s positively life changing, as Midway artist Susette Gertsch will tell you. On a meandering painting trip through Europe in 2009, Gertsch stopped in the UK to […]
When going on location to paint en plein air, there are several things to keep in mind. First and foremost is your reason for being there, which will modify your approach and results to a certain degree. The thing you should settle on right away is your purpose that […]
by Kasey Boone, Geoff Wichert, Shawn Rossiter While not everything, context is something in a work of art and these three reviews of current shows in Salt Lake examine various ways in which what goes on once a work has left the studio can influence what we call “art.” Erin Berrett […]
The Art of Obsession, a duet for gallery by sculptor Julie Lucus and painter Jeannie Hatch, will have closed by the time this review goes to pixels, though according to director Scott Waters some of the sculptures will remain in the Sugarhouse Gallery during the next month’s show […]
A year ago 15 Bytes writer Ehren Clark profiled Emmanuel Makonga, a watercolor painter and graphic artist who grew up in the former Zaire and who has been living in exile since 1993 because of his controversial work as a political cartoonist. In the article Clark mentioned Makonga’s […]
“Raama . . . lived like a common man, but ordinary men did not live like Raama.” Tantalizing legend: around 1470 the Florentine master Andrea del Verrocchio undertook to paint the baptism of Christ for the Church of San Salvi, assisted by two apprentices. One, Alessandro Filipepi, […]
Cristin Zimmer’s MFA final exhibition Surface . . . ing opens today at the Gittins Gallery, on the University of Utah campus. The exhibit, which runs through May 27 and features figurative ceramic works, was mentioned in the PasteUps feature of the May edition of 15 Bytes and […]
Josh and Catherine Kanter stand in an installaiton at the Salt Lake Art Center. In most families certain things are givens. Religious affiliation in some. Political parties in others. Even which sports team to root for can be an unspoken bond in a household. At the Chicago home […]
For this month’s column on Higher Ed, I headed to Orem to visit with the people of Utah Valley University. The changeover from UVSC to UVU has had a major impact on the art department as well as the rest of the campus. UVU has some fresh […]
Kerry Transtrum places a piece of glass in the kiln. It’s a brisk Sunday morning in March. We’re in a large warehouse in South Salt Lake where Kerry Transtrumis demonstrating a technique that we can’t properly describe in these pages without the fear of internet filters shutting out our […]
by Lane Bachman My first impression of Jenevieve Hubbard’s series Narrow Passage is that it seemed to have taken a tedious amount of time to execute each piece. The tedium is always thwarted, however, by the artist considering the act of process as being an integral part of the work. Narrow Passage, unveiled […]
Normally I focus my remarks on the painting process, but today I would like to take a moment and wax poetic on the subject of painting in a more general sense. I am mainly directing this commentary to young aspiring artists who are trying to find themselves artistically. […]
Mikell Stringham, a Utah native, is a young entrepreneur energetically pursuing an alternative business model with her gallery-without-walls, Mondo Fine Art. Stringham received her B.A. in Business Marketing from the University of Utah. Passionate about art, she later moved to Italy, where she attended the Florence University of Art, […]
This month at Kayo Gallery Salt Lake City artists Cara Despain and Mary Toscano open an exhibit of individually executed drawings, as well as a collaborative installation piece, entitled Into the White. The relatively young artists share a similar aesthetic, with an interest in expressive line executed on sparse […]
To the Greeks, character was fate. More than accident, and certainly more than willpower, his inborn pattern of action and response determined how a man’s life turned out. The equivalent influence in an art gallery is architecture. At the A Gallery, for example, a featured artist can […]
Van Chu at The Gallery at Library Square. Photo by Zoe Rodriguez. It would be a disservice to Van Chu to spend the majority of this article discussing the unfortunate pairing of his work with photographs by Carl Oelerich, so the criticism will be brief. Chu’s latest exhibit, Photographic […]
by Melissa Smolley There are places that invoke a type of deep seeded serenity within us. They aren’t necessarily the most picturesque, or even the most inhabitable, yet something about these places resonates stillness within. Such places invite inquiry and encourage exploration, both intrinsically and externally. When […]
