Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Every Labor Day weekend, the streets of Payson fill with the smell of fried onions, the sound of marching bands, and the bustle of carnival rides. Onion Days has been the town’s signature celebration since 1925, when Payson’s farmers were famed for the onions they grew in the […]
With an exhibition title that riffs on Andy Warhol’s 1966-1967 Exploding Plastic Inevitable—which featured a series of multimedia events that extended the exhibition beyond the gallery—Exploding Native Inevitable is, similarly, both multimedia and a reference to life beyond the gallery. Curated by artist Brad Kahlhamer and now-retired Director […]
Recently, Amy Childress sent us a press release for the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Pre-Qualified Artist Pool. We sent her back a few rapid-fire questions, for a feature we call “On the Spot,” where we get to know better the art professionals filling up our inbox. What […]
Alissa Landefeld is one member of a small-but-mighty segment of the Utah arts scene. Originally from Montana, she started out to be a biologist, earning honors at UVU and traveling the world to connect with other students of the science of life. She found, however, that her urge […]
“Monsoon season” has arrived, which is an odd phrase to write in a desert state, but particularly so during one of the hottest and driest summers on record. It’s the term we use for the mid-to-late summer weather cycle that brings sometimes intense afternoon thunderstorms. It typically runs […]
It all started with a dream she had in her mid-20s. She was seeing herself, middle-aged, spinning wool on an old-school spinning wheel in front of a field of sheep. “At that time I knew nothing about [spinning wool], so I had to figure out what this was […]
Kristina Lynae’s Flesh and Sinew, on view at The Gallery at Library Square through October 10, turns to the human body—deconstructed, recombined, and reimagined—to probe questions of identity, intimacy, and fragmentation in the present day. Born in California in 1999 and based in Salt Lake City, Lynae came […]
Walking upright on two legs is arguably the most essential human trait. Walking—and the vertical posture that enables doing it—are believed to have freed early hominids’ hands to develop and exploit fine skills, which in turn called on their brains to grow larger and more versatile. Walking thus […]
In Master Classes, we were taught never to start an essay with a dictionary definition and to avoid the thesaurus at all costs. So I’m going to break two expensive rules by quoting the thesaurus here, concerning the title of one of artist Jordan Layton’s pieces, currently on […]
On Friday evening, as part of the August Gallery Stroll, the ever-gracious and most erudite David Ericson and his staff hosted the Wheatley family of artists in their cozy gallery in the Avenues. In an exhibition titled Date Night, pride of place went to Justin Wheatley, fresh from […]
“I just want somebody that sees my work to get an experience they wouldn’t get anywhere else”—Jeff Juhlin, 15 Bytes, 2011 His supporters at ‘A’ Gallery have assembled a small but eloquent introduction to the revolutionary new direction Utah native Jeff Juhlin has taken over the past few […]
Waiting to surprise you along the heart of historic Main Street in the former coal mining town of Helper, Utah, the Helper Mini is proving that even small spaces can spark creative conversations. At just 14 inches square—the size of one of those neighborhood “libraries”— this micro-gallery has, […]
Utahns have an unprecedented opportunity over the next five months to see exceptional examples of art history spanning 600 years. The Sense of Beauty, at the BYU Museum of Art, offers highlights from the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. While the Museo […]
Housed in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Street Gallery, Mariposa unfolds in a corridor of curated light. Carlos Rosales-Silva’s paintings range from small, intimate works to expansive site-specific wall pieces, each alive with high-key color, bold geometry and textured surfaces. Encountered together, they feel both deeply familiar […]
Unexpectedly situated in the westernmost gallery space at Finch Lane, Underground Library presents the paired works of Andrew Rice and Jason Manley. The exhibition’s title evokes secrecy, buried knowledge, and invisible systems of thought, and the two artists deliver dramatically different yet eerily complementary contributions to this theme. […]
Memories and dreams, ceremonies and dancing, family and community—all are reflected in the BYU Museum of Art’s Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together), where stories are told in meandering pathways of paint and pattern. Curated from the collection of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of […]
“I paint what I feel through what I see.” —John Sproul “If I’m going to be isolated, I’d rather do it alone and not in a crowd.” This familiar wish of one beset by strangers comes to mind when contemplating the art of John Sproul. Consider the painting […]
There’s a tree-lined, shady lane in a Salt Lake City suburb that isn’t quite a dead-end street, blending as it does almost imperceptibly into the grounds of the local grade school. In the middle of that final block, behind a hand-forged iron gate, sits a modest-looking home—a house […]
“What is the answer?” And after a pause, “What is the question?” These famous last words of Gertrude Stein, spoken from a hospital bed to her lifetime partner, Alice B. Toklas, in 1946, seem to echo the question asked every year for the latest quarter century by The […]
