Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Because of the new apartment complex it faces and in whose windows its vibrant colors are reflected, this long mural at the 300 East Station of the S-Line is likely to become known as the Zellerbach Mural. Its host, though, is actually the warehouse for Kimball Electronics. The […]
You can get a cup of joe and adopt a Fritz, Mittens or Socks at this little cafe in Salt Lake City’s Central City neighborhood. This side of the building has been decorated with an appropriately feline mural. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In […]
Other parts of the Jordan River Parkway are festooned with official public art like sculptures and installations, but the artwork here at 300 South is a little more DIY. On the side of the Wernli Inc. Refrigeration building, murals depicting life and wildlife along the river have gone […]
This colorful mural, featuring work by Trent Call (left wall) Gailon Justus aka Sweet Needles (central), and Mike Murdock (right), along with a community garden, has transformed a boarded-up building and helped to revitalize this nook of the Granary District near the Central Ninth Market. In 2015, ground was broken […]
This mural on the northeast corner of the Big-D Construction Corporation in Downtown Salt Lake City features a construction worker. The building itself (established in 1922) is a historic landmark, the first cast-in-place concrete warehouse West of the Mississippi. It was very important to Big-D president Jack Livingood […]
James Kirkland, a local muralist who spent years as an artist in both New York City and San Francisco, painted these large illusion murals on the backside of the Positively Fourth Street music practice space. These murals are an easy cross-walk distance from Pioneer Park. Head over to see […]
Secluded in a small, pitch-black viewing room in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, a troubled musician suddenly breaks into a virtuosic drum solo. Both terrifying and impressive, the performance unleashes a combination of sounds that is just shy of chaos. After a few minutes of what seems […]
Roger Whiting, another muralist who worked on the Mr. Muffler building during the 2018 Mural Fest in South Salt Lake, engaged 65 students in South Salt Lake community after-school programs to design and paint a mural. It was a feat that was empowering for both Whiting and the […]
Street mural by Daniel Overstreet, created in May 2018 as part of Mural Fest. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith our In Plain Site byline we feature publicly viewable art, both official and street art, throughout the state of Utah.
Billy Hensler, an artist from Provo, UT, painted this massive wolf on the east side of the Mr. Muffler building in South Salt Lake as part of the first-ever South Salt Lake Mural Fest. Hensler has been painting murals as his “day job” for years and said it […]
Graphic designer, photographer, painter, street artist, Josh Scheuerman enjoys expressing his ideas on canvases large or small – including this large brick “canvas” provided by Signed and Numbered, a custom frame and art shop in South Salt Lake. The mural was completed as part of the first annual South Salt […]
“Convergence” by Douwe Blumberg. Photo by Chiana Rossiter. “Convergence,” a 20-foot-tall work of cast aluminum forming a partial male head that peers skyward, adds a sense of intrigue and mystery to the nondescript government building it flanks, just off I-215 in Taylorsville. Installed in October of 2017, Douwe Blumberg’s sculpture […]
A new mural standing tall on the façade of the Furst Construction Company headquarters at 700 West and North Temple celebrates the resilience of the Salt Lake west-side community in its fight against gentrification. Created by first-generation Colombian American artist Jessica Sabogal, the mural features an image of […]
Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012.Painted by various Salt Lake City teenagers, the mural displays different narratives with themes of hope, health, and loving care. The mural is located on the east side of the Fourth Street Clinic – Pamela Atkinson Center building. It reads: “Welcome to the Lake.” […]
Jamie Wayman’s show at the Art Barn in 2003 drew approval from the 15 Bytes critic of the day, but Kasey Boone questioned whether an interesting idea might not become a gimmick, asking, “Can you paint underwater scenes your whole life?” The answer is, absolutely: Wayman’s career has […]
Ann Poore grew up an army brat — her late father, she jokes, would have emphasized the latter part — who spent her formative years in northern California in the late ‘60s. She came to Salt Lake City to finish college, which she did at the age of20, […]
Once, after we had moved to a new city, I found it helpful to drive my daughter to and from school. In time, her inborn need to be independent led her to public transportation, which she still relies on four decades later, but our pleasure in each other’s […]
Muralist Jorge Arellano moved from Mexico City to Salt Lake City and began painting murals when he realized his passion for stencil graffiti. Before painting, he played in multiple punk bands. His murals represent the voices of oppressed men, women, and children.This mural faces UTA’s S-Line TRAX. Created May, 2018. Photo […]
“Water Crossing,” 2016, triptych, charcoal on vellum mounted on board, 96″ x 165″ It’s not hard to see why, when BYU Museum of Art’s Curator of American Art Kenneth Hartvigsen and his staff set out to take the measure of artistic responses to the international refugee crisis, they […]
