Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York was dubbed, its founders surely thought the title […]
by Andy Marvick An intriguing group of new oil paintings and related pieces fill the main rooms of the Braithwaite Fine Art Gallery beginning November 6th. They are the recent work of Fiona Phillips, a member of SUU’s adjunct faculty in art who completed her Master of Fine […]
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We’ll start the Notes for Bob and Bill feature with a few corrections on our recent article on Louise Richards Farnsworth. We hope to soon be publish a full biographical sketch of the artist, culled from material discovered since the publication of our Alder’s Accounts article. But first […]
The Object Moved by Its Own Success: Alex Gross and Sandy Smith at CUAC by Geoff Wichert “These artists are masters of their materials; their work is clear where they want it to be clear.”—Adam Bateman, founding curator of CUAC’s contemporary program. Marcel Duchamp provocatively said that the […]
We are be introducing a new recurring feature, both in the pages of 15 Bytes and in our blog, Extra! Extra! Notes for Bob and Bill, named for the late Bob Olpin and Bill Seifrit, will be articles, notes, observations, questions and comments regarding Utah Art History. We invite […]
When he first stumbled across Dave Doman’s work online, Dallas Graham was immediatley struck — by the monsters, bold lines and organic, breathing letters. “What I wouldn’t give to see this guy’s sketchbook…” he thought to himself. So earlier this month he called up Doman and asked him […]
It may take years to finish, but one thing is for sure, BOB will be big — 22,000 square feet, to be precise. When completed, the Bridge Over Barriers, a tile mosaic being created under the 300 North I-15 overpass, will be one of the largest public art […]
Joan Woodbury, a Cedar City native, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and studied as the first Fulbright Scholar in dance with Mary Wigman in Berlin, Germany. She is a retired professor of modern dance from the University of Utah, where she taught for 47 years. […]
Someone once said that, “pottery is as old as the human soul.” The need to carry and store the most fundamental items necessary to sustain life has dictated the need for containers. At the outset of human history, the most fundamental containers were pots, as evidenced in the […]
So a Cowgirl in the UK gets up in the morning and bangs her head on the ceiling; groans out of the bunk bed, as the mattress could be called a little challenging; the bed was one of the pieces of furniture for a film-musical made in 1967 […]
When the nationally traveling exhibition This is Our Land: Discovering America & the World Through Original Illustrations from Children’s Books came to town earlier this year, Utah was proud to have one of our own, Jean Arnold, among its artists (see February 2008). Now the Springville Museum of Art gives us […]
Call me crazy, but I dream of going back to school — this time to earn a BFA in painting. I already have B.A. and M.A. degrees in speech and drama, but acting and directing are no longer my passions. I want to paint really well. Am I […]
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the fiery Cassius, sensing that his fellow nobleman, Brutus, has undefined misgivings about Caesar’s increasing power, seeks to lure him into a conspiracy to topple the would-be king. First, he must convince Brutus of the impending danger and convince him to “put country first.” He […]
One of the monumental challenges in researching early Utah artists is that regardless of how talented the artist may have been or how many paintings he or she may have created during a lifetime, frequently there is precious little written about them. The researcher of primary material may […]
J. Kirk Richards is one of a number of talented young figurative painters in the area who, now in their thirties, are beginning to attract large followings, command substantial prices and receive acknowledgment in significant exhibitions. Richards is currently being recognized by the Springville Museum of Art with […]
The Bridge Academy of Art in Provo is set to open later this month. Founders and instructors Jeff Hein, Justin Taylor, Ben McPherson and Sean Diediker began the Academy, an experimental institution that proposes to endorse the “Classical Tradition without excluding the insight and advancements of the Modern […]
A joke popular in the mid 20th century went like this. Recovering from a near-death experience, a man tells the eager listeners crowded around his hospital bed what happened to him after he had, for all intents and purposes, died: “I went to heaven,” he tells them, “and […]
“What a difference good art makes!” exclaimed homeowner Kristy Blair as she watched Cordell Taylor hang several paintings on the walls in her Federal Heights home. Kristy Blair is not only a homeowner, but a real estate agent for Summit Sotheby’s International Real Estate. Sotheby’s recently joined the Salt […]
