Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Art, Music and Charity. It’s hard to beat that combination. This weekend Weird Chief Pictures presents the 3rd annual Submerged in Art, a gathering of Art & Music designed to benefit Salt Lake’s The Road Home homeless shelter. On February 24th and 25th above the Tap Room in […]
For most photographers, finding the right moment to press the shutter is crucial. Dayle Record, whose large, color photographs of the Great Salt Lake, Singular Images: The Lake I Love, are currently on display in Charley Hafen’s cozy, brick-and-glass jewel box of a gallery, handles the critical moment like a painter who first draws her subject, then waits until the sun is right to limn the light and capture the defining moment.
A review of Torben Bernhard and Travis Low’s documentary short about Frisco, Utah, screening this week at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Remember last year, when yarn-bombing was the thing? People were wrapping trees, signs, bikeracks and other objects in yarn. It culminated in the Random Acts of Art (see our article) yarnbombing at the Utah Arts Festival (see our video post). Well, the other day we were driving in […]
Are you heading out to the Salt Lake galleries tonight, and wondering what you should check out? Our February edition of 15 Bytes has a number of articles on shows you can catch tonight, including: The opening reception for 24 x 24 at Alpine Art. Sundance’s New Frontier […]
A few of our local partners recently announced new arrivals. The Leonardo At the beginning of the month The Leonardo announced that Holotype, the large-scale installation that takes up a large chunk of the main floor has been completed. When The Leonardo first opened Holotype was merely a […]
The cover story for this month’s edition of Foreign Policy magazine features 13 “out-of-the-box” ideas to save the world economy from some of the smartest people they know. Number 2, from economist Diane Coyle, is to hire everybody. In the long-run she’d like that the private sector be […]
Local architects respond to the newly announced design for the Kimball Art Center expansion and renovation.
This month Park City’s Public Art Advisory Board installed a new public art piece. “Sheltering Aspens,” by Koryn Rolstad, consists of approximately 75 fabricated “trees” and over 1000 “leaves.” Koryn is a Seattle based artist who was chosen by an RFQ to create a piece in the entry of the newly renovated Marsac Building
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center has announced the winners of their annual statewide competition, juried this year by Adrian Van Suchtelen. Ruth Menlove’s horse made out of driftwood took first place. Simon Winegar’s oil painting of a bright yellow engine won the second place award. And Scott Terrill’s photograph […]
Here’s another photograph from the Utah Arts Council archives. Nine more finalists for an Arts Council Fellowship. Can you name a majority? Those look like Allen Bishop paintings in the background. 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 […]
This weekend we visited the studio/theater of Another Language Performing Arts Company on the campus of the University of Utah where Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic are busy getting ready for the 2.0 version of their telematic cinema performance Duel*Ality.
We are preparing a video profile of the creative
We recently came across this almost twenty-year-old photograph from an exhibition of nine finalists for the Utah Arts Council Fellowship grant. Can you name the nine artists? We’ll give you a hint: one of them is this month’s Artist Profile and he mentions this exhibition in his video […]
Andrea Bowers, the Marva and John Warnock Visiting Artist in Residency, will be giving a free, public lecture tonight (Wednesday, January 25) at 7:00 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Bowers combines her passions for art and activism through a variety […]
Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to […]
The Leonardo is open today, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with their civil rights exhibit This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dia Art Foundation recently named two local organizations as stewards of the Spiral Jetty: Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. What does this mean for Robert Smithson’s famous work? Find out at “The Future of Spiral Jetty: Community and Collaboration […]
In Fahimeh Amiri’s “Reaching for Liberty,” Darius the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, is seated on his throne in Persepolis, the center of Persian power. He is represented in monumental scale, in the abstracted two-dimensional side view profile of much of the art of the ancient Near […]
Three years ago, Art Access hosted the what I thought I saw exhibit, which featured ten pairs of photographic and written portraits of individuals with intriguing, though not readily apparent, stories. It was the beginning of a book project designed to challenge “the way we look at things […]
