Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Meet the artists of 35×35. One of them gave birth the day before the opening. One is a twin. One is color blind. Can you guess who is who? We didn’t have all of the material we wanted for the opening on Friday night, so this week we’ll […]
Behind all those beautiful people there’s some beautiful artwork. Finch Lane Gallery is saying their count had the crowd for the opening of Artists of Utah’s 35×35 at 600. We think that might be a bit generous, but it was definitely crowded tonight. We know there were at […]
Kathy Adams from the Trib was nice enough to do an article on our 35 x 35 show opening tonight. Kathy Adams? That’s right, she usually writes on dance. But since we’ve got Ashley’s Anderson’s performance piece going on downstairs (a couple of times during the opening) I […]
The theme of Friday evening’s festivities at King’s English was “The Earth Is Not Flat,” from the title of Katherine Coles’ fifth volume of poetry, just published and eagerly anticipated by followers of Utah’s leading poet. If that title sounds more like it belongs on a scientific treatise […]
Situated next to Provo, Utah, Orem is one of the most conservative communities in the United States. I mention the politics only to mark the courage of Terry Tempest Williams and why so many of us were struck by her transparency at the Orem Library when she highlighted […]
Lauren Gallaspy, who joined the Art & Art History Department Ceramics Area at the University of Utah this year, is one of twenty-five artists across the country who has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. The prestigious award comes with a $25,000 cash award. […]
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center opened its Annual Statewide Competition last night in their new (but temporary) space at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse in Farmington. The 38th annual competition featured 115 pieces created by 81 different artists. The winners, chosen by juror Mikell Stringham of Mondo Fine Art, […]
You may not have realized it, but this has been a season of Mendelssohn for the Utah Symphony. Music Director Thierry Fischer programmed Felix Mendelssohn’s five symphonies for the 2012-2013 season and this weekend the Symphony will conclude the performance cycle with a concert featuring the first and […]
For the Park City Gallery Stroll tonight, (yes, it’s the last Friday of the month already) J GO Gallery is revealing a new body of work by Curtis Olson — three years in the making. The exhibit’s title, Antikythera: Knowledge Objects, is a reference to an ancient […]
It’s coming. March 8th. At Finch Lane Gallery. Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibition, a look at thirty-five artists under the age of thirty-five. Video, sculpture, painting, printmaking, ceramics, performance, installation and drawing. In one gallery. Conversing. And here’s the lineup, selected from over 100 entries by Artists of […]
Maybe you missed gallery stroll last Friday or you just didn’t get enough. We’ve got you covered. This Friday, CONCEPT is hosting its grand opening. The latest addition to the Granery District is a gallery and eco-friendly furniture store founded by Jeffrey Potts, John Harris, and Jeff Barker. […]
Another Language Performing Arts Company continues to push boundaries and redefine theatre. Think back to geometry class and mapping points on a grid. The x-axis runs horizontally and the y-axis runs vertically. It’s a two-dimensional plane. But then there is the z-axis, a visual representation of our three-dimensional […]
A traveling exhibit of mummies from around the world takes over The Leonardo, the UMFA mounts an exhibit of works depicting the American Indian and LEGOs are the building blocks for sculptures at the Kimball Art Center.
Artworks can make visible the success of their makers, but to understand the struggles that produced them, and so the triumph they represented, something more is needed. Paul Cézanne was an artist who mastered his chops long before he was accepted by the gatekeepers, and the stories of […]
Greg Stocks, a local painter, has fond memories of his late professor Harrison “Grout” Groutage, who passed away on February 5 at the age of 87. In the mid-80’s, Stocks took a watercolor class from Groutage and found himself in the instructor’s office for a personal critique. “I […]
Get ready, 35X35 is coming! After we closed up our entry form Friday night we realized we had received over 100 entries for our upcoming 35X35 exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery. Our board of directors has their work cut out for them winnowing all the great entries down […]
One of Britain’s most famous artists, David Hockney has survived the various “funerals” held for the art he has practiced for over five decades: painting. His works from the sixties and seventies – paintings of swimming pools and portraits of his friends – have become iconic images of […]
The authors and publishers of Torrey House Press descend on Weller Book Works Saturday to discuss their work and what it’s like to write and publish books in the “new” West.
A look at the UMFA’s new exhibit of idiosyncratic photographer Mike Disfarmer, whose portraits of the rural residents of Cleburne County Arkansas have made him a posthumous art star. With a free lecture and movie screening tonight at 7 pm.
