Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Pam Bowman came to installation later in life, but over the past dozen years she has been making up for lost time, with numerous exhibitions here and abroad that have garnered respect and recognition, as well as a Utah Arts Council Visual Art Fellowship. Her most recent installation […]
Laura Sharp Wilson’s studio reveals the many influences that inform her work — the room in her basement in Salt Lake City is brimming with books that include botanical drawings, Asian art, outsider art, calligraphy, cartooning, abstract art, and Soviet art posters, so it’s no wonder her canvas […]
Installation view of “Cities of Conviction” at UMOCA. My dad told me a story once, from his childhood in Kansas. This kid lost all his money at a carnival, pitching rings at the necks of Coke bottles, trying and failing to win a prize for his sweetheart. The […]
This is a big month for the Orem-native Emily McPhie. Not only is her oldest child getting a driver’s license and youngest starting first grade, her new show Seasons has just opened (and will be up through September 20) at David Ericson Fine Art. She says that although it’s bittersweet […]
Still from Isabel Rocamora’s “Body of War” Depending on when you enter the gallery your hearing may be assaulted or soothed. The soundtrack for “Body of War,” one of two films by Isabel Rocamora now screening at Weber State University’s Shaw Gallery as part of the exhibit Ecstatic Solitudes, […]
Gregory Abbott’s “Remlock Too” Springville’s newest exhibition, Wit and Whimsy: Off the Deep End, is more whimsical than it is witty. The majority of the pieces are fun, lighthearted, and fantastic explorations of curiosity, but, for the most part, they fail to deliver on the exhibition’s promise to expose […]
John Hughes painting plein air in the Heber Valley. Midway Art Association, the folks that bring us the annual Plein Air Paradise painting competition in early July, will hold the first “plein air rendezvous and retreat” Sept. 13-16. Artists of all levels are invited to learn and paint […]
Angela Ellsworth’s “Seer Bonnets” frame works in the modern and contemporary gallery. Perhaps the only constant for venues that show art is change. Exhibits come and go, while curators faced with more objects to show than space to display them rotate often uncompromising objects through necessarily flexible, though […]
“Back to Then (Self-portrait” by Yidan Guo Yidan Guo is an artist who is combining ancient traditions with breathtaking examples of modern life. Her watercolor exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery, East vs. West, is just that. In the exhibition, the SUU professor presents a skillful mastery of Chinese Gongbi […]
Unity and Difference – a perfect description of Janiece Murray’s current exhibition is captured within the title of the show. In the many pieces by the Salt Lake City artist displayed at Finch Lane Gallery, close inspection leads to great rewards. Each of her designs, while incredibly different in […]
The flow of water, ink, and watercolor on paper create serendipitous images reminiscent of landscape, both mystical and familiar. This is the world of Karen Kurka Jensen who found “the language of her soul” in the ancient Chinese art form of sumi-e. The Heber City artist was trained […]
On the side of a small, non-descript building in South Salt Lake, Jacob Edward Shirley has created a mural for Wasatch Work Force, an employment agency. Next to painting murals for a living, the guy doing demolition in the middle looks like he has the best job. Discover more art […]
Bonnie Phillips at Phillips Gallery, 2014. Photo by Zoe Rodriguez Photography. “I’m not so sure you have to like art as much as be stirred by it; we’re so easily stirred by something we like, but can we find that emotion inside with something we question?” That’s how […]
Stephen Goldsmith in Salt Lake City, 2014. Photo by Zoe Rodriguez. “What—exactly—are you?” I ask Stephen Goldsmith as we walk through City Creek Park, past an elegant little flume that Goldsmith created when he was involved in the redesign of the park back in the ‘90s. Making sense […]
Work by BASHA. There’s no doubt graffiti can be a nuisance, for the personal property owner whose trashcan or mailbox becomes defaced with an indecipherable signature or the business owners who find themselves repeatedly repainting an exterior wall. But equally indisputable is that graffiti is an art form. […]
Sculpture by Andrew Kosorok at The Face of Utah Sculpture XIII. The Utah Cultural Celebration Center is a large, beautiful building tucked away on many acres of land, lending the space a quiet ambiance that makes visitors at once feel welcome and as if they are in a […]
“Epic Tornado” by Jason Jones Thanks to Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein storming the art world in the 1960s, scenes from comic books, graphic novels, and newspaper advertisements don’t look totally foreign in art gallery space. However, animation and illustration are still separated from the serious business of […]
When Sabrina Squires was earning her BFA in Visual Arts at Brigham Young University, she discovered a magical world of artistic possibilities in the pages of National Geographic. The glossy magazine pages with stunning images did not serve as source material, but, rather, become a collaged surface she […]
In Sticks Laid In Patterns and Other Mundane Oracles, her upcoming exhibit at the Alice Gallery in Salt Lake City, Wren Ross mines the symbologies of oral storytelling traditions to explore the contemporary need for new myths and new heroes. As she says in this video interview, recorded as […]
