Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
While growing up in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park in the 1970’s, future photographer Sedona Callahan often practiced by shooting the murals that decorated her community. She may, or may not, have known she was documenting a significant and fragile historical moment for […]
Most artists probably think about frames after they’ve completed their paintings. But not Anthony Granato. For him, the frame is a key part of his inspiration and creative process. In fact, he jokes, they speak to him, suggesting the perfect images from his storehouse of ideas. If you […]
A look at House Gallery’s exhibit of Charles Fresquez, which comes down on March 26.
Another look at one of the artist couples feature in our February edition, saved for this week to coincide with Mark Knudsen’s exhibit at Phillips Gallery.
Geoff Wichert responds to the Tribune article on the Spiral Jetty and Epic Brewing mentioned in this week’s Mixed Media feature.
Cathy Newton is the senior music critic at The Salt Lake Tribune, where she has worked in various capacities since graduating from Utah State University in 1988. She also is a charter member of the Tribune’s features copy desk. Highlights of her reporting career include interviewing Harry Potter […]
An exhibit at UVU’s Woodbury Museum takes graffiti artists off the streets and into the museum.
On the occasion of Tim DeChristopher’s trial, Hikmet Loe looks back at the 2008 attempt to drill for oil in the Great Salt Lake.
In our March 2011 edition of 15 Bytes Carol Fulton sits down with Patrice Showers Corneli, a professional biologist and committed artist showing this month at Gallery UAF.
Geoff Wichert examines the genre in the hands of Charles Becker, Vincent van Gogh and Brad Overton.
A video look at an exhibition that embraces novelty pencils.
One of art’s functions has always been to document the world. Humanity has always had a desire to capture and preserve the places that surround us. Through imagery we can learn about the past; how and where people lived and how they saw the world. With the invention […]
In our March 2011 edition John Hughes says studies are as important inside the studio as they are out in the field.
We remember a Utah artist who was a pioneer in backlit art.
Don’t try these painting techniques at home.
An old institution looks to the future.
A rare opportunity this month to view and purchase Heritage Prints of early Utah photographer George Edward Anderson.
Some art is as concrete as the arranged objects it depicts or as prosaic as the theories it attempts to illustrate. But there is another type of art; one that revels in exploration of meaning and metaphor, its abstracted motifs and iconography lacking clear subjects or narrative purpose. […]
In our March 2011 edition we take a look at three performing arts spaces that also function as visual art spaces.
