Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
The metal air filters should be your first clue that Carson Cahoon is interested in materials. Six of them, in a row, without comment or adornment, frame one end of his exhibit Dead or Alive, on the basement floor of the SLC Main Library, where Cahoon, a Salt […]
In March of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of what started as 4,000 Black, working-class people and allies from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in a march that swelled to 22,000 and spurred the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, granting Black Americans […]
The President’s Art Show at Salt Lake Community College is essentially a juried, statewide art exhibition. It never fails to bring out a substantial cross-section of recent, high-quality Utah art, along with a large and enthusiastic audience. Its sponsors, the SLCC Art Committee, also challenge all involved by […]
A Perspective of Nature, now on view at Alpine Art & Frame in Salt Lake City, brings together four artists—Sarah Ashley Peterson, Laura Hope Mason, Jodi Steen, and Matthew Hassing—whose works channel the restorative power of the natural world into the places we live and gather. At a […]
With university faculty art exhibitions, there is rarely a throughline—a main theme or narrative that ties all the disparate works by different artists together—and the UMFA’s Relative Truths, seems, at first, to be no exception. There are several stated themes—isolation, division, contested histories, cultural anxiety, dismantling of human […]
Photographer, researcher, and preservationist Sheila Nadimi has been honored with the Utah Historical Society’s 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of her decades-long project Eagle Village, which documents the site and memory of the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City. The award acknowledges Nadimi’s extraordinary service in preserving […]
It’s a precarious time in America to protest, to speak freely. Whether cancellation, the lawsuit or jail, serious forces are arrayed against the citizen who chooses to walk down the street, fist raised. Into this atmosphere, three Ogden photographers have been pointing their cameras at dissent in public […]
Shalee Cooper had already begun to pack. A few paintings were boxed, ready to be shipped back to the Mandelman/Ribak Foundation, which the gallery had been working with since 2018. After six years at the Bogue Foundry, Modern West’s lease would be up in December. In a changed […]
The folks at Julie Nester Gallery in Park City have a healthy appetite for abstraction, but they tend to make sure it’s about something. The poster child for their Autumn Show, Newport Beach painter Chris Gwaltney’s “Carnival Ride (book reading chairs),” not only includes the title pair of […]
Working off the grid in a cabin outside of Park City—the home and studio she fashioned from a repurposed shipping container—Bridgette Meinhold is putting the final touches on a new collection of encaustic and cold-wax paintings at Gallery MAR beginning November 7. How the Light Gets In continues […]
At the entrance to Saltgrass Printmakers’ Salt Lake City studio, a sinuous form winds across the wall. The dozens of two-foot-square woodcuts, each carved by a different artist and fitted edge to edge, form the Year of the Snake Exquisite Corpse, a sprawling, collaborative print project conceived by […]
There’s an assumption widely made that, by definition, a portrait must have an essential relationship with the identity of its subject. It discloses the identity of the individual whose portrait it purports to be. Yet there is nothing necessary about that connection, especially in the subtle and powerful […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts opened its newly relocated, reimagined, and redesigned Mexican and Central & South American Galleries to crowds of visitors on Saturday, October 18 with the Nuestro pasado es presente /Our Past is Present celebration featuring live music and performance, art-making workshops and food […]
When it comes to the cultural significance of the West, there are at least three versions—the Mythic, the Romantic and the Real—and each version can more or less apply in either the past or the present. The Myths of the West might best be found in pulp literature, […]
Cultivated Surfaces, the name of Nathan Mulford’s new show at “A” Gallery (where it is surrounded by the recently reviewed works of Jeff Juhlin and Halee Roth, among others) is without doubt one of the finest exhibition titles to come along in a while. To understand why, it […]
If you happened to have visited The True and the Real exhibition at UMOCA during the NCECA annual conference back in March, you probably came across Jason Walker’s “Trophic Cascade.” The sculpture presents a jaguar poised to launch at its prey from a tree hybridized with civic sewer […]
There certainly is no shortage of talent exhibited at the Urban Arts Gallery. Dozens of local artists display their work throughout the high-ceilinged retail space the gallery occupies in the Gateway Mall—a perfect stop for tourists and locals alike to pick up gifts or souvenirs from the Salty […]
Over the summer of 2025, the Ballpark neighborhood of Salt Lake City has become an open-air gallery, thanks to the Ballpark Mural Program—a creative initiative that brought ten new murals to walls across the district. “The Ballpark mural program has turned the Ballpark neighborhood into an open-air gallery,” […]
In the latest iteration of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ salt series, Brooklyn-based artist Adama Delphine Fawundu continues the program’s mission of bringing emerging voices in contemporary art to Utah. Known for her work in video and photography as well as layered textile assemblages, Fawundu weaves together […]
