Final Light: The Life and Art of V. Douglas Snow
A new book edited by Frank McEntire explores the life and art of the late V. Douglas Snow.
Justin Wheatley at Finch Lane Gallery
Justin Wheatley explores the hidden meaning of homes in Salt Lake City in this video interview.
Namon Bills’ That Thing You Hate
What should artists do about styles they don’t like? Namon Bills says embrace them.
Kenvin Lyman’s Cookbook
It’s hard to decide what’s better in this new book published by Gibbs Smith: the recipes or the art.
Art in South Salt Lake
Take a detour into South Salt Lake to check out interactive murals, painted electrical boxes and other eclectic artistic expression.
Sketch Sundays at Sqautters
Pizza, beer and art. Try to come up with a better trifecta. The three come together in a new monthly event at Squatters.
John Hughes’s Summer Excursions
From staying in a cozy room in bucolic Spring City, to backpacking in the Tetons, plein air painter John Hughes tells us what he did on his summer vacation.
Pilar Pobil’s Legacy
Pilar Pobil’s art, and her marvelous house are both colorful fixtures in Utah’s art scene. Her friends plan to keep it that way.
Salt Lake City’s Shirley Ririe
What is your favorite building in Utah? It’s a cross between the Salt Lake Library and the New Museum of Natural History. I love the architecture of the library and go there every week or two, and I feel like it’s my library. I’m so proud of it. […]
Amy Tolk Richards: Artist Profile
“I control what I can control and then I try to manage what I can’t control,” says Utah County artist Amy Tolk Richards. Richards is speaking on both an artistic level and on a personal level: as a mother, spouse, and human being. Richards’ canvases are simple […]
Bicycle Art in Park City
The creative process is one particularly unique from person to person. A vast array of art is generated every single day from almost nothing but an artist’s imagination. When the Kimball Arts Center in Park City teamed up with SRAM to put on the SRAM pART PROJECT, individual […]
Glass Art at the St. George Art Museum
From a blue depiction of microscopic amoeba to a life size rectangular wall of an artist’s abstract version of their life, it’s clear that residents of the St. George area will get their share of beauty from Sparkle and Glow: A Clear View, the glass art exhibition at The St. […]
Courage Under Fire at Fire Station 6
Each of Salt Lake City’s Fire Stations features artwork by Salt Lake City artists and Fire Station #6, in Salt Lake City’s Poplar Grove neighborhood, now features “Courage Under Fire” a collaboration by John Hess and Benjamin Higbee. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map […]
Residencies at UMOCA
The deadline for UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program is Saturday, July 20th at 11:59 PM. UMOCA’s Artist-in-Residence Program is designed specifically to meet the various needs of artists living in Utah today. As such, only Utah artists may apply and applicants will be selected primarily based on demonstrated artistic […]
Nine Muses at 9th & 9th
The Nine Muses, designed by artist Troy Pillow, surround the intersection of 9th East and 9th South, a hip neighborhood complete with a bike shop, bar, coffee shop, cinema, gelateria, dance studio and more. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE […]
The Personal Mythic Vernacular of David Ruhlman
In the center of David Ruhlman’s UMOCA exhibition, standing like an altar, there is an ancient card table. The black material of the table is rubbed off around the edges, with the old plywood substructure showing through at the corners and in patches across the surface. Painted across […]
2013 Design Arts Utah: Exhibition Review
The backpack is ubiquitous in twenty-first century America: it is, in fact, one of the few accessories that comfortably crosses both gender and generational lines. They vary in color and ornament, just enough for you to know your own, but they are close to interchangeable. Yet this one, […]
Kaori Takamura’s American Quilt Series
In the 1990s, a theory gained popular traction — though never professional credence — that in the nineteenth-century quilts were used to help runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. Hung outside a house or slave shack, the theory went, the quilts were either signals to passing slaves — […]
Love Hours at Alice Gallery
Contemporary representations of parenthood are rampant in popular culture. Ranging from idyllic to distressing, such portrayals oftentimes generalize a complicated experience. Love Hours, an exhibition currently at the Alice Gallery in Salt Lake City tackles this immensely personal and time-honored experience. As a scholar of feminist art, the show’s curator […]
