Joy Nunn’s Passers-by
A review of Joy Nunn’s Passers-by at Art at the Main.
Gerry Johnson’s Capturing Veterans’ Pride
A survivor of cancer and heart disease, photographer Gerry Johnson understands the value of time. In his current project, Capturing Veterans Pride, his giving some of that time to the service men and women who have served our country.
FINALLY . . . a book about Tony Smith
Ann Poore reviews Tony Smiths book about . . . Tony Smith.
Blair Buswell: Studio Space
In this month’s edition we visit the studio of Pleasant Grove sculptor Blair Buswell.
Slusser Gallery
Ready to prove that Salt Lake City does have a thriving art scene and that art sales really are turning around, Mark and Sherrie Slusser, have opened the doors to Slusser Gallery in a split-level office-building on 100 South. |1| It’s a brand new business venture for the […]
House of the 7 Crooked Gables: The talented and tragic life of Florence Truelson
One of the compelling factors that keeps me digging into Utah art history, is when I come upon mysterious stories, like that of Florence Truelson. My bible, Artists of Utah, by Olpin, Swanson, and Seifrit, describes her only briefly, as a celebrated artist who was part of the […]
Transformed by Light
David Linn, whose immaculately rendered monochrome images of figures in states of spiritual struggle and enlightenment are well-known in this state, says the creation of art “requires and elicits self discovery.” One of art’s greatest powers are the surprises and revelations that emerge from the artistic process, he […]
Reflections on Venus
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
Soft Violence: Tyler Spurgeon’s Deficient
“Newton” In Deficient, his current exhibit at Nox Contemporary, Tyler Spurgeon presents a series of semi-abstract paintings that probes the question of “who or what determines an individual’s value” in relation to a “societally imposed sense of inadequacy,” and does so in a frank and compelling way that challenges […]
Artist Profile: Shilo Jackson
“What do Salvador Dali, Alice in Wonderland, the Mona Lisa, and fortunes from cookies have in common? For one thing, they are among the ephemera collected by Shilo Jackson to be used in various combinations someday in a painting. That day is here as Jackson finishes some 30 […]
Robin Denevan: Is and Is Not
A review of new waterscapes by Robin Denevan at Julie Nester Gallery.
Andrew Kosorok: 99 Names of God
“Victorious 08 (Al-‘Aziz)” Andrew Kosorok is an extraordinarily gifted artist and teacher whose passion and talent with glass and design, and his zeal for authentic personal spiritual enlightenment and truth, are essentially linked and manifest in all of his artwork. Kosorok’s current display of work at West Valley’s […]
Toni Youngblood: Calligraffiti
A review of Toni Youngblood’s Calligraffiti exhibition at Charley Hafen Gallery.
Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake
by Rebecca Durham For me, talking about chamber music is almost as inspiring as listening to chamber music — especially with those who are passionate about it. I had the opportunity to spend a delightful hour with a group of dedicated individuals who demonstrate not only their love […]
Jerry Hardesty’s Kickstarter Experiment
Renaissance artists had the Catholic church and wealthy patrons to fund their art projects. Jerry Hardesty has nearly 5,000 Facebook friends and the Kickstarter community. Who needs a patron with millions when the Internet allows easy access to thousands of people who just might want to invest as […]
PasteUps: Swinj Productions, Urban Art and SL Art Center’s First Fridays
photos by Will Thompson The Salt Lake Art Center is going rogue. Starting this month, they are moving their exhibition receptions to the first Friday of the month. They will still be open late on third Fridays during Salt Lake’s Gallery Stroll, but from now on they will be opening a […]
In Memoriam: Pat Denner
On September 25th, 2011 Utah artist and illustrator Pat Denner passed away at the age of 87. Denner was a fixture along Salt Lake’s Broadway district, where he was immediately recognizable in his fedora hat and yellow cadillac. Denner’s is not a household name, but you’ve seen his […]
Art Meets Fashion
Galleries come and go. Others reinvent themselves. (A)perture has done something in between. In 2008 Heidi Gress and Anne Cummings-Anderson opened Aperture Gallery in Sugarhouse. The not-for profit space, an extension of their public relations and marketing firm of the same name, was designed to provide a […]
New Urban Gallery at Neighborhood House
The new Urban Gallery at Neighborhood House goes up this weekend, Friday September 23, and Saturday, September 24. Since 2008 the 337 Project has been transforming the garage doors at Salt Lake’s Neighborhood House into an Urban Gallery, featuring work by Utah’s street and fine artists. In previous […]
