Phoenix Ostermann
A profile of Phoenix Ostermann, who, as Reclaimed Sentiment, is exhibiting a collection of collages inspired by “mid-century” illustrations at Nox Contemporary.
Xaviera Simmons: An Interview
A video interview with Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist featured in the UMFA’s salt 4.
Tony Fitzpatrick at Kayo Gallery
Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick is the type of colorful character that is welcome fodder for arts writers. In an art world overrun with degree-toting professionals who nip and tuck their way into stable careers while dreaming of blue-chip status, Fitzpatrick is a larger-than-life figure more at home in […]
Karen Horne’s Nocturnes
Karen Horne is an “artist’s artist” if there is such a thing. She has taken all the lessons we try to absorb in the classroom or workshops – like color theory, simplification, gesture drawing, value and form, and the lush handling of paint – and demonstrates them […]
Announcing Art Lake City
This month, Laura and Matt Chiodo, curators at Salt Lake’s Alpine Art, hit the streets of Salt Lake, cameras in hand, to capture the lively street art scene around the capitol city. Discovering the art all around you is the impetus behind our new project, ART LAKE CITY, […]
Jared Clark On The Spot
Jared Clark was born in Provo, Utah on June 1st 1976 but was quickly moved to southern Mexico where his father dug as an archaeologist. He was next relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan through grade school and came full circle back to Orem, Utah for Jr. High and […]
Painting Architecture
John Hughes gives tips on painting architecture in plein air painting.
Kory Fluckiger’s Copper Pi
Local artist Kory Fluckiger starts a new company to develop children’s books for the iPad.
Light & Color: Dave Hall and Collins at Williams Fine Art
A review of Dave Hall and John Collins’ exhibit of landscapes, now up at Williams Fine Art.
Welding the Mystery: Randall Hankins’ HyperObjects
“All of my work is essentially an effort to recreate the Mystery in material form,” Hankins says. “My HyperObjects Series is specifically an attempt to accrete a group of unique pieces whose qualities reflect the Mystery for me—multi-dimensional, embedded, arcane, enfolded, enigmatic, patinated, archaic, alchemical, sacred and emergent […]
SL County 2011 Collection
Tonight Salt Lake County rolls out its 2011 art collection. Every year Salt Lake County appropriates funds to purchase artwork for its public collection, which they place in public spaces in County buildings. Tonight the County holds a public reception in which the newest acquisitions are unveiled and […]
Introducing Kim Schoenstadt
Kim Schoenstadt’s paintings are sometimes on paper or canvas, but more often than not they are painted directly on the walls of a gallery — and the floor and ceiling. She is the recipient of the first-ever Catherine Doctorow Prize in Contemporary Painting. In this video clip, Schoenstadt […]
Al Denyer – Micro
Recognition makes some artists want to go big. Al Denyer has gone microscopic. For her current installation at The Leonardo she has put one of her works on the surface of a microchip.
Florence Truelson – Found
In our November 2011 edition of 15 Bytes Tom Alder took a look at the mystery of Florence Truelson, an eccentric Utah artist of the first half of the twentieth century. As Tom reported, the builder of a unique house on the west side of town – known […]
Kent Christensen: Artist Profile
You could call him the Candy Man. A fine artist who paints appealing confections with many layers of meaning, Kent Christensen sells his work at a gallery in London, at Williams Fine Art in Salt Lake City, and splits his time between a small apartment in New York City and a stunning, light-filled home he built at Sundance five years ago.
Wayne Kimball’s Surrealist Dream
Wayne Kimball’s current exhibit at the Covey Center for the Arts, Things Put Together By Hand Without Instructions In A Basement, is a realm of broken and ruined antiquity, birds, timepieces, and fragmented body parts. The viewer, left equally without instruction, is invited to piece it altogether, a […]
Doublespeak
You stand in the center of four large screens. Angled to surround you, each screen offers a different perspective of a rocky desert landscape. From a single perspective of rock emerge, one by one, four women dressed in Old West, 19th-century costume: a spirited, blue-clad pioneer, a fierce […]
Connie Borup’s Closer Look
If these lingering autumns— where the clocks change before the leaves do, children solicit candy sans parka, and the first real snow tarries long enough to come as dressing on the turkey — if they are the West’s new reality, then Connie Borup is the painter to sing […]
Troy Hunter’s Essential Art
A review of Troy Hunter’s light-enfused photography at uaf gallery.
