Apocalypse, Now: CUAC Begins with the End
Laura Hurtado takes a look at After the End, CUAC Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition.
35×35: Where are they now?
What has happened to the artists from our 2009 version of 35×35? We check in with them.
Creating Form Through the Use of Positive and Negative Space
John Hughes discusses using positive and negative space to give objects in your paintings full shape.
Sandy’s Thomas L. Durham
Thomas Durham is a Professor of Music at Brigham Young University and the Executive Director of the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. He attended the University of Utah before earning his Ph.D at the University of Iowa. He currently lives in Sandy. What are you reading lately? Three books–the […]
Venessa Gromek: Outdoors Into Art
Venessa Gromek is fairly new to the Utah art scene, but is already making quite a splash. She has a piece in CUAC Contemporary’s inaugural show After the End, which opened on December 22nd; and other works are being installed this week in a solo show titled, The […]
Koichi Yamamoto: the Local Benefits of a Peripatetic Printmaker
“With no news from abroad, a culture ends up repeating the same things to itself. It needs the foreign not to imitate, but to transform.” —Eliot Weinberger We take for granted that Utah has one of the more vibrant and lively arts cultures in the nation. That said, […]
Season’s Greetings
For over 50 years a Salt Lake City neighborhood has celebrated the season by displaying paintings illustrating the Bible story of the nativity in their front yards. The current owners of the houses aren’t sure how the tradition started, they just know that when they moved in they […]
A Season for Angels
Angels often come to come to mind around Christmas, so it seems fitting that Amy Caron’s “Angel Series” is currently on display at Frida Bistro. The playful pieces are suspended cheerfully from the ceiling and add to the atmosphere of Jorge Fierro’s restaurant. “Aesthetically, I think […]
Mary Jane Wright Straight
Local artist Mary Jane Wright Straight passed away on November 20, 2012. She was an upbeat individual, always ready with a laugh or anecdote, Mary will be missed by her family and the many members of our art community who enjoyed her company. The third of four children, […]
James Burnes Sculpture Installed in Park City
Gallery MAR recently announced that their featured artist James Burnes installed a new public artwork in Park City. “Flanco” was selected by the Park City Public Art Advisory Board as part of their Rotating Sculpture Project. It is for sale through Gallery MAR and will be on display […]
David Estes: Artist Profile
Like many artists, David Estes didn’t start out thinking art would be a viable living. He studied it in college, but didn’t immediately pursue painting as a career. After a fellow artist encouraged him to work in oils, though, he became hooked, and over the past decade […]
The Pure Object: An end and a beginning for Roland Thompson
In his new work, interlocking lines of colored metal, with no other compositional elements, Roland Thompson has gone to the core of his aims and has created pure objects.
Susan Kirby: A Story in Every Painting
photos by Kelly Green To walk through the front door of Susan Kirby’s house is to see an intimate portrait of Kirby herself: every wall is covered with paintings she’s created, small to large, and each one tells a piece of her story. One of these works, a 7’ […]
Art, Science and the Land: Rio Mesa Center encourages artists, including Christine Baczek
The University of Utah’s Rio Mesa Center near Moab Utah fosters artistic exploration.
Serendipity and a Dog Named Rudy: Corinne Humphrey’s formula for success
What do you get when you combine an author, professional photographer, teacher, philanthropist, flight attendant, and artist? Corinne Humphrey, the award-winning author and illustrator of two children’s books, with a third in the works. Humphrey is from a small town in Virginia, where she dreamed of being a […]
Utah’s Art City
Walk along the streets of Springville to see why they call it “Art City.”
LeConte Stewart
Ann Poore takes a look at the new definitive work on LeConte Stewart.
Global Artists Living Locally
What is exceptional about “Global Artists Living Locally,” an exhibit sponsored by the Utah Refugee Coalition now up in the atrium of Salt Lake’s Main Library, is that it does nothing to stigmatize the nature of the refugees it showcases – rather, it casts each artist in the […]
The Herb & Dorothy Show at Nox
The group exhibition at Nox Contemporary provides perfect holiday fare: small works that make a large impact. The show’s title, The Herb & Dorothy Show, reflects the far-reaching impact of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a New York City couple who collected art over their lifetime together, amassing […]
