Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
The documents on display in Amy Jorgensen’s The Body Archive: Residual Evidence must be among the most gregariously challenging photographs ever shown. (At the Central Utah Art Center in Ephraim through December 6 and at Art Access from 15 June through July 30, 2007.) Large and colorful, they are full of the optical pleasures […]
Sylvia Ramachandran teaches ceramics at the University of Utah. She is included in the faculty show at the UMFA this month as well as Terra Nova’s Great Things/Small Packages exhibit in Provo. 1) What are you reading lately? Right now I’m reading James Trilling’s Ornament: A Modern Perspective While I was in art school, I […]
Kennedy. Belushi. Olpin. I still mourn. Those of us who are senior enough remember where we were when we heard about the shots in Dallas. I remember when I first heard the news of John Belushi’s death and I’m still not sure if I’m sad or mad at […]
Over twenty years ago, a new public art program began with a grassroots effort to make fine art readily available to the public. In 1983, Salt Lake County created the Art Advisory Board as an outside resource to the Salt Lake County Commission in areas pertaining to fine […]
The Denver Art Museum’s new Frederic C. Hamilton wing, first announced in 1999 and designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, officially opened its doors in mid-October of this year. What will surely prove to be a landmark in the heart of the mile high city, Libeskind’s Hamilton wing is the […]
by Tom Livesay & Anna Marie Boles The following was originally published in Utah 2006: Fine Crafts & Photography, the exhibition catalogue for the Utah Arts Council’s Annual Statewide Exhibition on exhibit through November 2006. The show was juried by the authors. Tom Livesay is the director of the Whatcom Museum of History […]
by Brandon Cook It was almost a decade ago that Charley Snow moved to Helper, the coal mining town located near Price, Utah which is also a bourgeoning arts community. Behind his small, one bedroom home, Snow has erected a quonset hut structure to serve as his studio […]
Eric Maisel, author and creativity coach, recently asked a group of painters to think about what their work means. “Why do you paint? What meaning are you making as a painter? Why do you choose the subjects you paint?” For an artist at my level, these were tough […]
Artists of Utah has been developing so quickly over that past two years that there may be many features to our website that some readers/surfers are still unaware of. One of these is the Venue Vybe, located in our forums section, which invites artists to post their comments […]
Interviewing both Linda and Kimberly Southam at the same time is “electric” to say the least. As they discuss the history and future of their gallery and their insights into artists, galleries and the art market, energy absolutely floods out of these two vivacious women. Together, they […]
A long time ago in a gallery far, far away, rebels banded together to create an art with a new relation to reality. They called their art “Realism,” but we know it today as merely the opening engagement of a movement that came to be called “Modernism.” The […]
A recent trip to the Springville Museum of Art, where I visited the In Memoriam exhibit dedicated to four recently deceased Utah artists, spurred in me, rather naturally, thoughts of mortality; in addition, I began to think of generations and their passing, particularly artists. Not that these four artists […]
Feature: Alder’s Accounts Art That’ll Spook You by Tom Alder It may come as no surprise to most Utahns that we are ingrained with superstitions, folklore and other lies—oh, that sounds terrible. After all, most folklore is true, right? Perhaps it is because Utah remains the “Crossroads of […]
Have you ever tossed a small pebble into a pond and watched as the ripples extend out seemingly forever? The Utah Museum of Art at 125 South Main Street is a relatively new and small organization but it is making its presence felt and generating big waves in […]
by Brian Hoover I always refer to myself as a painter who prints. I was introduced to Lithography back in 1985 while attending the Cleveland Institute of Art and I went on to receive an MFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York. Choosing printmaking was one […]
Utah is fortunate to have Anna Campbell Bliss, a sophisticated artist who sets a high standard for herself and her colleagues. Bliss, who is 81-years old, recently struggled with macular degeneration, which threatened to completely destroy her sight, and a flood that destroyed much of her studio. Despite […]
Occasionally, there is a place and time — a school, a salon, a section of a city — which seems to be a focus for more than its share of talented artists. One such place was the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf between 1973 and 1987. During that time, Bernd Becher […]
The moment you enter the Kearns Building on Main Street, you know you’re in a unique and historic building. As you quietly ascend the marble staircase, you hope you will find something special when you reach the top. What you find is a long hallway, and at the […]
October is the time for spooks and ghosts and this book, produced in conjunction with a 2005 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is the prefect Halloween treat. The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult is a collection of images of ghosts, spirits, and otherworldly […]
