New Frontier 12
A review of Sundance’s new media exhibition New Frontier 12 at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
God is Great? Fahimeh Amiri & Loné Vilnius at Finch Lane Gallery
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 East, rendered […]
EVOLUTION (MEGAPLEX): Part of New Frontier 12 at UMOCA
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 […]
Chauncey Secrist: 15 Years, One Night
In conversations local artist Chauncey Secrist conveys a thoughtful intensity that ranges from playful to philosophical. His latest exhibit at Guthrie Studios is a reflection of that. On display is 15 years worth of work but the show has remained untitled because he feels it’s too soon in […]
Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff
Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery.
Agency Randomness Chaos: A Sound Installation
A review of Georgia and Rob Buchert’s sound installation at BYU’s Gallery 303.
Feast and Fast; Jennifer Barton, Sunny Taylor, Carolyn Guild
A lot can go on at the Springville Museum of Art. Sure, the Soviet era realism and impressionism never seems to find its way into storage, and when the annual Spring Salon and the Religious and Spiritual Art exhibits are hung they stick around for extended runs, but […]
Tony Fitzpatrick at Kayo Gallery
Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick is the type of colorful character that is welcome fodder for arts writers. In an art world overrun with degree-toting professionals who nip and tuck their way into stable careers while dreaming of blue-chip status, Fitzpatrick is a larger-than-life figure more at home in […]
Karen Horne’s Nocturnes
Karen Horne is an “artist’s artist” if there is such a thing. She has taken all the lessons we try to absorb in the classroom or workshops – like color theory, simplification, gesture drawing, value and form, and the lush handling of paint – and demonstrates them […]
Light & Color: Dave Hall and Collins at Williams Fine Art
A review of Dave Hall and John Collins’ exhibit of landscapes, now up at Williams Fine Art.
Welding the Mystery: Randall Hankins’ HyperObjects
“All of my work is essentially an effort to recreate the Mystery in material form,” Hankins says. “My HyperObjects Series is specifically an attempt to accrete a group of unique pieces whose qualities reflect the Mystery for me—multi-dimensional, embedded, arcane, enfolded, enigmatic, patinated, archaic, alchemical, sacred and emergent […]
Wayne Kimball’s Surrealist Dream
Wayne Kimball’s current exhibit at the Covey Center for the Arts, Things Put Together By Hand Without Instructions In A Basement, is a realm of broken and ruined antiquity, birds, timepieces, and fragmented body parts. The viewer, left equally without instruction, is invited to piece it altogether, a […]
Doublespeak
You stand in the center of four large screens. Angled to surround you, each screen offers a different perspective of a rocky desert landscape. From a single perspective of rock emerge, one by one, four women dressed in Old West, 19th-century costume: a spirited, blue-clad pioneer, a fierce […]
Connie Borup’s Closer Look
If these lingering autumns— where the clocks change before the leaves do, children solicit candy sans parka, and the first real snow tarries long enough to come as dressing on the turkey — if they are the West’s new reality, then Connie Borup is the painter to sing […]
Troy Hunter’s Essential Art
A review of Troy Hunter’s light-enfused photography at uaf gallery.
Joy Nunn’s Passers-by
A review of Joy Nunn’s Passers-by at Art at the Main.
Transformed by Light
David Linn, whose immaculately rendered monochrome images of figures in states of spiritual struggle and enlightenment are well-known in this state, says the creation of art “requires and elicits self discovery.” One of art’s greatest powers are the surprises and revelations that emerge from the artistic process, he […]
Reflections on Venus
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
Soft Violence: Tyler Spurgeon’s Deficient
“Newton” In Deficient, his current exhibit at Nox Contemporary, Tyler Spurgeon presents a series of semi-abstract paintings that probes the question of “who or what determines an individual’s value” in relation to a “societally imposed sense of inadequacy,” and does so in a frank and compelling way that challenges […]
