Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
For most photographers, finding the right moment to press the shutter is crucial. Dayle Record, whose large, color photographs of the Great Salt Lake, Singular Images: The Lake I Love, are currently on display in Charley Hafen’s cozy, brick-and-glass jewel box of a gallery, handles the critical moment like a painter who first draws her subject, then waits until the sun is right to limn the light and capture the defining moment.
A review of Steven Fawson’s exhibit of portraits of artist friends at the Gallery at Library Square through March 9.
You’ll find this mural on the side of the former home of the Citizen’s Coal Co. on 600 West, also known as Warm Springs Road for the hot/warm springs that were once a place of recreation for pioneer era Utahns, including Brigham Young. Call has painted the letters […]
Local architects respond to the newly announced design for the Kimball Art Center expansion and renovation.
This month Park City’s Public Art Advisory Board installed a new public art piece. “Sheltering Aspens,” by Koryn Rolstad, consists of approximately 75 fabricated “trees” and over 1000 “leaves.” Koryn is a Seattle based artist who was chosen by an RFQ to create a piece in the entry of the newly renovated Marsac Building
Here’s another photograph from the Utah Arts Council archives. Nine more finalists for an Arts Council Fellowship. Can you name a majority? Those look like Allen Bishop paintings in the background. 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 […]
A video profile of Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic. It’s a love story. It’s also a story about creative passion, technological exploration and what to do with all those ones and zeroes.
Installations by Pam Bowman and Noah Coleman cause Ehren Clark to ruminate on time.
A look at the pottery studio at the Peterson Art Center, where William James spins his fantastical lamps and jars inspired by the mysteries of the Ocean.
A review of three bodies of work by Salt Lake artist Cris Baczek, including motion-activated cyanotypes, large-scale proof sheets and found images from the archives of the UMFA.
A look at Alpine Art’s upcoming 24 x 24 exhibit, a group exhibition of photographs documenting the first twenty-four hours of 2012.
A review of Sundance’s new media exhibition New Frontier 12 at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
A group of vegans, among them artists, teachers and musicians, heads to the hills for communal living where they develop a unique practice of partner sharing. Northern California in the 1960s? No, Juab County, Utah in 1918.
Woodbury Art Museum presents an exhibition of women printmkakers from their community outreach program, Hidden Voices.
Ann Poore takes a look at PechaKucha, Salt Lake’s nights of creative chit cat where presenters get 20 slides, 20 seconds and a mic.
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 […]
Snow scenes have a natural appeal, to artists and patrons alike. But as John Hughes explains in this month’s Hints ‘n’ Tips article, when working with snow, some artists see too much white.
This weekend we visited the studio/theater of Another Language Performing Arts Company on the campus of the University of Utah where Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic are busy getting ready for the 2.0 version of their telematic cinema performance Duel*Ality.
We are preparing a video profile of the creative
We recently came across this almost twenty-year-old photograph from an exhibition of nine finalists for the Utah Arts Council Fellowship grant. Can you name the nine artists? We’ll give you a hint: one of them is this month’s Artist Profile and he mentions this exhibition in his video […]
