Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Whenever I think of Suzanne Simpson, I think of sunshine. And on learning of her passing from breast cancer on Nov. 3, I find that I still do. We first met more than 20 years ago, when I was working at the photo mecca of Borge Andersen & […]
Photo by Shawn Rossiter Since it was purchased by Phoenix-based Vestar more than a year ago, The Gateway outdoor mall is gradually re-branding itself as a destination for art, entertainment, and culture. That’s not to say shopping has taken a backseat, but shoppers are in for some surprising […]
Katie Paterson (Scottish, born 1981), Totality, 2016, printed mirrorball, motor, and lights, 85 cm in diameter, photo © Ben Blackall, courtesy of the Lowry Take a moment to imagine a Cubist meteor shower, in which a whole sky full of points of light fly through the darkness, through […]
“Inversion” by Reid Elem Bringing a group of artists together can be like herding cats: with the natural desire for personal creativity, artists and their work are inclined to go their individual way rather than function as part of a group. So, when universities across the country curate […]
The breadth of Trent Call’s artistic ability stretches so wide that compartmentalizing it into bite-size pieces may be the best solution to trying to absorb his creativity. Fortunately, his new show at the chameleon-like God Hates Robots does just that. The small venue pushes artists to be more […]
No matter how much we may enjoy and even prefer an immediate and strong response to what we see, not all artworks can be adequately replied to with a simple “yes” or “no.” For two promising young multidisciplinary artists, Naomi Marine and Matt Kruback, art is clearly a […]
Joy Haynes and Steven Labrum show their playful site at their Impact Hub office. What started as a weekly challenge between two friends to do something – anything – creative has grown. Today the two friends, Joy Haynes and Steven Labrum, still embrace the playfulness of their original […]
The new imagining of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts includes a small gallery devoted to photography from their permanent collection. The first rotation in this space features Ilse Bing, a 20th-century photographer who was forever changed by the world around her and expressed a deep personal change […]
In Paul Harding’s novel Tinkers, a man, a clock repairman by profession, lies on his bed, dying. As his body fails him, he begins to hallucinate, picturing his carefully built world—the plaster on the wall, the paint in the rooms, the basement foundation he poured—crashing down. He sees […]
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Though people travel from around the globe to visit Robert Smithson’s monumental Spiral Jetty, located on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake, to this day some Utahns have no idea that one of the 20th century’s most iconic artworks exists in their own backyard. One who does is […]
Joe Carter in his studio. Photo by Simon Blundell. Joe Carter might not look like a “Burning Man” regular, but this summer’s gathering is the first he has missed in years. “We went to Element 11, instead,” he says, referencing Utah’s new, cozier version of the enormous desert […]
Ryan Trimble “Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it,” said Yeats. This is the motto photographer Ryan Trimble lives by and the thesis of the personal introduction on his website. Trimble is a photographer, writer, and father of three daughters, but he is first and foremost […]
In Utah, photography historically has been behind the times. If it was happening 30 years ago in New York, then it’s probably starting to happen now in Salt Lake City. photo_dot_alt proves this wrong as three artists bring the national dialogue on alternative photography to Finch Lane Gallery. Thomas Aguila, […]
At Salt Lake’s September Gallery Stroll, Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts | MICA opened Ali Mitchell’s Oil Fields, a multimedia exhibition evoking industrial landscapes as cultural artifacts as a means to explore complex systems of social, political, and economic production. 15 Bytes tracked down the recent University of Utah […]
“Mannequin Defectors I” Much has been written about Jann Haworth, but two things seem customary to mention. One is her formative involvement with Pop art, which began in England and with which she still identifies. This biographical fact might otherwise escape her American audience, since the substantive work […]
“Dinner Napkin No 1” Things were going swimmingly in the Garden of Eden before a sinister serpent offered Eve, Earth’s first woman, an apple. Though such a partaking was expressly off limits, Eve simply couldn’t resist the seduction of the deliciously bright and crisp fruit. Letting her selfish […]
Like microplastics, Justin Watson seems to be everywhere these days. There was “The Fountain of Youth,” his video installation at Bountiful/Davis Art Center, that came down recently, and currently you can see his piece |human| at Nox Contemporary and the exhibition . . . the future is the past is the future is […]
A few boxes remain to be unpacked in the entryway to Saltgrass’s new home. In anticipation of a grand reopening party on Saturday, Sept. 16., members, friends and volunteers are putting the finishing touches to Saltgrass Printmakers’ new space this week. Gentrification pushed the nonprofit out of its […]
