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Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

Ryan Harrington is Building a Quiet Architecture of Influence

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Ryan Harrington has lived in Utah long enough to watch its creative landscape reshape itself—slowly, unevenly, and often through the efforts of people working quietly in the background. Over the past two decades, he has become one of those people. His art blends the clarity of design with the energy of urban visual culture: his marker and acrylic works are built from clean lines, calibrated color interactions, balloon-lettering structures, and a long-running block-head character that shifts mood with the smallest change in outline. The work is approachable, polished, and distinctly his. But Harrington’s influence extends far beyond the pieces he makes. Through framing, curating, collecting, teaching, and simply showing up for other artists, he has become a connective thread in Utah’s creative fabric.

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Marwan Nahlé’s Exhibit of Storms and Silence Offer Small Canvases with Vast Horizons

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Ehren Clark would have loved this show at the Sweet Branch Library—The Domains of the Mystical. The loose, swirling, sometimes turbulent brushwork; the small figures caught up in backgrounds that dissolve into clouds of abstract color fields—all this would have appealed to our late colleague. He might have […]

Gallery Spotlights | Visual Arts

From Tenure Track to Bookstore: Elpitha Tsoutsounakis Reimagines Creative Work in Salt Lake City

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“It just wasn’t a good fit anymore,” says Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, who after a decade and a half as a professor at the University of Utah has resigned her position—to open a bookstore.
On a quiet stretch of Salt Lake City’s historic Film Row, inside a former film-reel vault that once housed Cosmic Aeroplane, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis is hoping to build a new kind of creative space—Books & Supply, an art and design bookstore that doubles as a studio, gallery, classroom, and community hub.

Gallery Spotlights | Visual Arts

The Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) Finds Sanctuary in the Temple

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Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.

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