Sweetness Sells: Heather Barron at Phillips Gallery
Ehren Clark wonders what it is about Heather Barron’s paintings that makes her one of the best-selling artists in town.
Triffids Land at Leonardo
Philip Beesley’s installation at The Leonardo may not always work as hoped, but Alexandra Karl still finds the work enchanting. Read her article in the July 2012 edition of 15 Bytes.
Richard Russell’s Shakespeare
You can see his works this summer at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Read what it took to get them there in the July 2012 edition of 15 Bytes.
Cal Nez: Design for the Diné
As he gets ready for a new exhibit of paintings as well as the July 24th Intertribal Powwow, Cal Nez talks with Ann Poore about design, art and the bridging of cultures
Karen Krieger: Parks and Creation
Sheryl Gillilan talks with the new director of the Salt Lake Arts Council.
Travis Tanner on Making a Good Presentation
In his new Salt Lake City location Travis Tanner, owner of Tanner Frames, talks with Sue Martin on Making a Good Presentation.
Sweet Visuals: Sugar House In Plain Site
Originally the neighborhood was supposed to be home to a sugar beet factory that would alleviate the financial burden early pioneers endured to import sugar. When this initial attempt failed (it took thirty years and a move to Lehi for the state to get a local sweetner), the […]
Vern Swanson’s Swan Song
In the July 2012 edition of 15 Bytes Laura Durham talks with Vern Swanson about his three decades at the Springville Museum of Art, and an upcoming book on the collection.
Gallery Fare at the Festival
by Geoff Wichert I’m suspicious of anything calling itself an art festival. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s Pasadena’s world-renowned Pageant of the Masters, with dressed-up volunteers posed in three-dimensional tableaus based on famous paintings, or the local fair, anywhere, at which children get their faces painted while […]
Utah Public Artwork One of Top 50 in Nation
Susan Narduli’s “Land and Time,” a multi-media installation at the Natural History Museum of Utah, was selected by The Americans for the Arts Public Art Network’s Year in Review as one of the top 50 public artworks in the United States for 2011. Narduli’s work begins outside with […]
Kimball Art Center Design Wins DesignArts Utah
Sparano + Mooney Architecture’s design proposal for the addition and renovation to the Kimball Art Center in Park City has been selected to receive the 2012 Juror’s Award for DesignArts Utah 2012. Juror David Revere McFadden from the Museum of Art & Design in New York City jurored […]
Sustain the Granary
The Sustain the Granary event in Salt Lake City is this Friday, June 15, 6 to 10 pm. There is plenty happening at this week’s Gallery Stroll in Salt Lake City, so it is with a touch of trepidation that we bring up a concurrent event . . […]
Salt Lake Modern’s Tour of St. Mary’s
Being an informed local citizen means knowing your city: knowing its neighborhoods, its architecture, its natural and its human-made wonders. It makes living in the city a richer experience, and inspires one to become engaged in the public process of creating a city. That’s why this month we […]
Urban Arts & the SLC Arts Hub
Though graffiti artists are almost always outdoors when they work, we usually don’t think of paint cans when we think plein air. Which may explain why when we mentioned a list of plein air events in last week’s blog post we failed to mention the Urban Arts Festival, […]
Judging Values at the Beginning
When starting a painting, it is important that the first few values get put down on the canvas correctly before any other brushstrokes are recorded. I say value with the understanding that we are talking about color here — of course the color isn’t correct unless it […]
Paul Vincent Bernard: Artist Profile
Ehren Clark visits the studio of Paul Vincent Bernard to tell the story of this printmaker turned painter.
Aaron Moulton: Art Professional Profile
Simon Blundell talks with Aaron Moulton about the art of making exhibitions.
Mestizo’s Dollar Daze
Read Geoff Wichert’s review of Esperanza Cortes’ and Michael Pribich’s Dollar Daze at Mestizo Art.
David Baddley’s Not Home
David Baddley’s Not Home exhibit is reviewed by Alexandra Karl.
