Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
If you’ve ever driven west from Salt Lake to Wendover you’ve seen it: Karl Momen’s “Tree of Utah.” Momen’s sculpture, along with Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” and Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” make Utah a destination place for international aficionados of land art. But while the “Spiral Jetty” and […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’m enjoying a stack of new poems given to me by Utah’s Poet Laureate, Ken Brewer. Some of the by-the-bed books I’m chewing on, listed here as lifted from the stack, include: -Craig Childs’ The Secret Knowledge of Water (just a few pages […]
Jeffrey Hein photographs by Manju Varghese | text by Joyce Cheun Walk in this classic brick building located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, and you will find an elegant steel staircase in the center that broadly opens upward. Climb to the top floor, and you […]
In Doctrine and Covenants, a kind of L.D.S. handbook, Joseph Smith enjoins his followers on venerable theological grounds to practice moderation in all things. Those good people, responding out of impulses set even deeper in human nature, have striven ever since to do twice what he asked of […]
The Rio Gallery at the Rio Grande Depot exists within a huge cavernous space. One might wonder how it could possibly be used as a successful gallery. However, the staff of the Utah Arts Council Visual Arts Program somehow manages to hang very successful fine art exhibits in […]
The UVSC Woodbury Art Museum’s current sculpture exhibition, “Regions of the Mind: Exploring conceptual domains in contemporary sculpture,” explores the artistic pluralism that is contemporary sculpture. The installation of the nine sculptors’ work reflects this pluralism, giving each artist’s work its own alcove, chamber, or cell of the […]
Some sculptors treat language as just another malleable substance, no different from wax or bronze. BYU Sculpture Professor Brian Christensen has chosen to call the dozen new works on display at the Central Utah Art Center Body and Time. Here “and” stands in for a word we lack: […]
Visage Salon, located at 2006 South 900 East South, is a new face on the Gallery Stroll line up. Visage has been a member of the official Gallery Stroll Association since May 2005. Their membership is new, but the concept for opening for Gallery Stroll began with […]
Kayo Gallery opened seven months ago after a facelift transformed this previous optical center into a sleek contemporary art gallery and studio space. Located at 300 South at 315 East in Salt Lake City, Kayo Gallery sparked new life into this otherwise matured neighborhood. The list of emerging […]
Org Spotlight: The Arts Organizaton Finding the Artist’s Way by Dana Hagio Utah has many venues for instruction in creating art: University classes, private instruction, art academies, continuing education programs, plein air groups, etc. The Arts Organization, located in Salt Lake City, believes in a different type of […]
Some artists, especially those who are starting on this path, complain they can’t seem to find time to create. If ever there was a role model for fully living the creative life, it is Susan Gallacher – painter, teacher, and owner of King’s Cottage Gallery. Though much of […]
Salt Lake City artist Brad Slaugh On the Spot . . . 1) What are you reading lately? The New Yorker faithfully and four separate half-read books promiscuously: Everything and More: a History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace (bogged down in the math) A Heartbreaking Work of […]
The Utah Arts Council, in cooperation with University of Utah Health Sciences Education, VCBO Architects and the Division of Facilities Construction and Management, announces the completion of three public art works for the new Health Sciences Education Building on the University of Utah campus. The art selection […]
photos by Kim Driggs ~ text by Jules Augson Five years ago, Sandy Brunvand set out to buy a new home in the Avenues. Not long after her search began, she discovered what was to soon become her studio space – the third-story attic of a Victorian home. […]
Don’t believe everything you read. Or at least don’t swallow it wholesale, for words are slippery things. They can mask something just as easily as they can point to it – especially when those words are art labels, the mediocre adhesives we use to desperately pull together […]
Part of my role as Salt Lake Gallery Association President is to help assist artists, represented by member galleries, with the advancement of their careers. Towards that end, I was excited to hear of an exhibition opportunity for Salt Lake City artist John Bell in New York […]
photos by Tami Baum Walking into Paul Stout’s studio at the University of Utah, where he works as an assistant professor, is almost like walking into a metal shop. His shelves consist of toolboxes full of screws, nuts, bolts and connectors. Colorful electrical wires sit on the ground […]
Dennis Mecham, an amazing local photographer, has lived down the street from me for seven years. Over the years, I would stroll into his studio and check out his most recent work or say hello as we picked up our morning coffee. As far as a in depth conversation […]
The Salt Lake Gallery Association has long been a supporter of alternative fine art venues. Our By-Laws allow for three categories of membership:(1) Gallery member (2) Arts-Related Business (3) Sponsor. Many people are familiar with our monthly Gallery Stroll event and are acquainted with the more high […]
