Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
This weekend, a group of friends, including honorees Charles Bowden and Rosalie Sorrels, sat in Ken Sander’s living room to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Ken Sanders Rare Books. The night concluded a manic month-long series of events in his store, including visiting authors, performers, and artists. Not […]
The Sears Gallery, at Dixie State College in St. George, Utah continues to present sophisticated fine art exhibitions with the latest project by curator Kathy Cieslewicz, titled Reunion. Reunion is a collection of 24 artists “who matriculated through the Brigham Young University art program over a span of 15 years” notes […]
In a photographic portrait we see Alley, a young woman with olive skin and black hair, in a white room that doubles as kitchen and dining room. Her stance is too energetic to call a pose: she pivots on one foot like a dancing figure carved on a […]
Public vs. Private: Who Owns the Light? Sean Slemon and Herman Dutoit at CUAC by Geoff Wichert From ten feet away it appears that in Tied Up/Tied Down, Sean Slemon has filled a shadow box with bits of leafy foliage and then overlaid lengths of orange ribbon in […]
Some of us “emerging” artists are not quite ready for prime time, that is, the highly selective galleries where prices tend to start at around $1,000. For us, an artist-owned and operated cooperative gallery might be a better venue to show and sell our work. But a relationship […]
Google search Adele Alsop and you will find reviews in the New York Times and national art magazines. Alsop’s artistic heritage includes a long line of painters that extends to her great grandfather and includes her grandmother, mother and several cousins. She has an impressive education and what […]
by amanda moore 15 Bytes sat down with the four major candidates in the Salt Lake City mayoral race to get their views on arts in Salt Lake City. We asked each of them the same set of questions, and although each expressed general support, their answers varied […]
Bevan Chipman, a friend to many of us at 15 Bytes and a champion of the visual arts in Utah, died Saturday after a long struggle with prostate cancer. You can view some of his paintings at his website. Read about his role as a collector here and as […]
Art Access is a gallery with a purpose: a mission abbreviated in its name and personified by the photo of collaborating artists Joe Adams and Brian Kershisnik displayed in their foyer. Yet because of the generous interpretation of that goal—a reading as broad-minded as the mission itself—pursued by director […]
Most of us who live along the Wasatch Front are familiar with Kimball Junction, located at the site of the original Kimball Ranch in Summit County. A white frame house which can be seen from I-80, and is adjacent to the main sandstone Kimball home, was used as […]
What’s your idea of eating out? Do you hit the drive-thru window while you’re out running errands? Do you wait in long lines, grab your food, find a seat and then shovel it in before you need to hit your next destination? Or maybe you try to enjoy […]
by Zoe Rodriguez I’ve loved Joseph Alleman’s work ever since I came across it three years ago, so I thought I knew what his Logan studio would look like. Super tall ceilings, white walls and big windows… something you’d see in a magazine, I guess. I was dead […]
You can find Salt Lake City artist Karl Pace in his studio at the Poor Yorick Open Studio, September 28th & 29th. What hangs above your mantel? The artwork above my mantel changes frequently, but usually there is a monotype that my wife, Martha Klein, has done or a […]
The art of the Western world has thrived because it has existed in a generally recognized and appreciated visual vocabulary. Generally speaking, a Carravagio will elicit similar effects from most viewers. A Raphael will allow reverence, a Rembrandt awe and wonder. Poussin is calm. David conveys intense desire to act, […]
Many are aware of classical art, but most are unaware of the fullness of the tradition, whose elements are so fundamental to the basic structure of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was a tradition that had its genesis with the Greeks, the Romans, subsequently the Renaissance revival, and […]
by Sean Francis One of the most magnificent works in the retrospective of visionary artist Benson Whittle now at The Museum of History and Art in Fairview is a wooden screen/pierced relief that treats a deep and ancient myth: Apollo’s thwarted pursuit of Daphne. Carved and coaxed out from a […]
Friends compare her to the Travelocity Gnome, the red-capped garden figurine that appears in travel snapshots all over the world in the company’s ad campaign. Wong is more local than her bearded counterpart, but equally ubiquitous. Wherever she goes she is herding people (friends or strangers) into groups, […]
On July 18th, Tom Alder, Vice President of Zions Bank Private Mortgage Banking, played host to over twenty-five artists, art lovers and art professionals at the Zions Bank headquarters in downtown Salt Lake City. Alder, who writes a regular feature for 15 Bytes, invited contributors to the ezine […]
Doug Braithwaite is known around the state for his plein-air landscape paintings, which have won numerous awards. Brandon Cook reviewed the artist’s recent exhibition at the Eccles Community Art Center in Ogden for our June edition. What hangs above your mantel? I have a 1986 etching called “Chripalis : […]
