Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
In 2004, the Salt Lake Arts Council, in conjunction with the Downtown alliance, decided to use the eight hexagonal kiosks along Salt Lake City’s Main Street between South Temple and 400 South, to host artwork by local artists. The first year seven artists were chosen to have their […]
Galleries seem to be popping up all over Utah. Some open in small rural towns with less than a thousand people, while others open in the heart of metropolitan areas where competition can be stiff. In our pages we highlight both well-established and emerging galleries, and this month […]
DADA: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris Ed. Leah Dickerman, with essays by Brigid Doherty, Dorothea Dietrcih, Sabine T. Kreibel, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf, Mathhew S. Witkovsky. National Gallery of Art, Washington in association with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 0-89468-313-6 (softcover); 1-933045-20-5 (hardcover) […]
“We have great artists in Utah,” declares Lila Abersold, a 16-year veteran of the Utah Arts Council’s Visual Arts Program. And she should know — not only is she the curator of the state’s fine arts collection, she also has the opportunity to travel to every corner […]
1)What are you reading lately? I have been reading the biography of “Siquieros” by Phillip Stein. I read only a few pages of it a night so you can do the math and figure out that I am only half way through but have been carrying it around […]
by Emily Chaney It’s Saturday, March 18th. Leaving my sweats, television, and usual married-Saturday-night at home, I venture onto Park City’s Main Street. Starting at the top of the street and walking down, I end up in front of Chester’s Blacksmith clothing store. The large windows display images […]
photos by Tom Szalay | text by Robin Macnofsky, Ogden City Arts I met David Wolfgram in the late 90’s when has was crafting African wooden drums and selling them at local arts fairs. In 1999, after rescuing 13 old growth trees on their way to the dump—(torn […]
by Ruth Lubbers All of us who love the arts community have recently gone through a spate of devastating losses with the deaths of Robert Olpin, Lee Deffebach, Ed Maryon and Brent Gehring. On March 6, we also lost a self-effacing but important figure in Utah art history. […]
Whenever someone asks me how I go about collecting early Utah art, I tell them my three rules: 1) I must like the particular artwork, 2) I must admire the artist and 3) (optional) an interesting story or provenance connected to the particular work of art will […]
A local Salt Lake City artist has been giving artwork away for free — up to one hundred pieces last year alone. But you won’t find any of that work around town. It has been going to the UK, Australia, Hong Kong and all over the United States. […]
by Jim Edwards Confronting the paintings of Hyunmee Lee, what impresses is their celebration of gesture and depiction of a nearly unlimited sense of space. Abstract and intuitively painterly, her aesthetic is one of immediacy perpetually seeking its own nature. Her marks as gesture, either as broadly applied […]
Wasatch Frame Shop owner Bill Barron is a fine art photographer, art framer and ex-ski patrolman. In fact, you could say Wasatch Frame Shop was born on the ski slopes of Alta, Utah, where Barron worked on the ski patrol. “I got the idea to start framing art […]
I have a sense of being “citizen-victim” of politiculture, recently enduring the politibabble of the Governor’s “State of the State” address and the President’s “State of the Union” address – both evocative of Orwell’s “double speak,” the Cold War, the McCarthy witch-hunt for “Unamericans,” the Watergate break-in and […]
photos by Tami Baum | text by Shawn Rossiter You might call Midvale painter Jon Johnson the McGyver of the studio space. He enjoys tinkering with gadgets and adapting furniture, tools and found objects to the unique needs of his art. He has a small gadget made of […]
If you haven’t been to the UMFA in a while (and, well, there’s good reason – it’s the only art museum in the state that charges regular admission fees!) then make March your month to go. If you time things right, you will not only be able […]
Walter Benjamin laments, in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Reproducibility”, that modern works of art have lost their “aura.” Modern images, Benjamin states, no longer have the ability to inspire or create awe in their viewers. . . and I was beginning […]
Lindey Carter, currently showing her work at Phillips Gallery, is one of the gallery director’s happy discoveries. Meri DeCaria came across Carter’s watercolors at the Ogden Farmer’s Market one day and knew she wanted to represent her work. Carter, the triple great-granddaughter of pioneer artist C.C.A. Christensen, grew […]
If you’ve been to see the Robert Motherwell: Te Quiero exhibit at the Salt Lake Art Center, you’ll have noticed the ubiquitous writing on the wall – quotes from the artist, historical perspectives and cultural commentary. The man responsible for the writing is Jay Heuman |0|, who just […]
Husband and wife artists Clay and Rebecca Wagstaff from Tropic, Utah, showing this month at Finch Lane Gallery. Rebecca: 1)What hangs above your mantel? We don’t have a mantel, but there is a very nice, large, graphite drawing by Clay Wagstaff in the living room. 2) If you […]
