Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Stephen Goldsmith in Salt Lake City, 2014. Photo by Zoe Rodriguez. “What—exactly—are you?” I ask Stephen Goldsmith as we walk through City Creek Park, past an elegant little flume that Goldsmith created when he was involved in the redesign of the park back in the ‘90s. Making sense […]
Work by BASHA. There’s no doubt graffiti can be a nuisance, for the personal property owner whose trashcan or mailbox becomes defaced with an indecipherable signature or the business owners who find themselves repeatedly repainting an exterior wall. But equally indisputable is that graffiti is an art form. […]
Sculpture by Andrew Kosorok at The Face of Utah Sculpture XIII. The Utah Cultural Celebration Center is a large, beautiful building tucked away on many acres of land, lending the space a quiet ambiance that makes visitors at once feel welcome and as if they are in a […]
“Epic Tornado” by Jason Jones Thanks to Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein storming the art world in the 1960s, scenes from comic books, graphic novels, and newspaper advertisements don’t look totally foreign in art gallery space. However, animation and illustration are still separated from the serious business of […]
When Sabrina Squires was earning her BFA in Visual Arts at Brigham Young University, she discovered a magical world of artistic possibilities in the pages of National Geographic. The glossy magazine pages with stunning images did not serve as source material, but, rather, become a collaged surface she […]
In Sticks Laid In Patterns and Other Mundane Oracles, her upcoming exhibit at the Alice Gallery in Salt Lake City, Wren Ross mines the symbologies of oral storytelling traditions to explore the contemporary need for new myths and new heroes. As she says in this video interview, recorded as […]
Bonnie Sucec in her Salt Lake City studio. Photo by Simon Blundell. While her father was busy shaping his young daughter into a pinball wizard, Bonnie Sucec’s mother encouraged her to paint pictures on the walls of their Midvale home. And later, at Jordan High, revered Utah abstract […]
Since completing his MFA at Yale in 2014, Michael Ryan Handley has been busy. A native Utahn, he now operates out of studios in Philadelphia and New York. His artistic processes are complex and experimental, combining a western fascination with the land with a typically eastern penchant for […]
“My attraction to glass comes from an infatuation with colors,” says Valerie Hollstein. “It expresses right off the bat what I need to convey. I can choose contrasting color temperatures without muddying my colors, as I would with oil. It is a more spontaneous response that lets me […]
Edit someone’s words long enough and their voice begins to seep into your own. For 10 years, I worked with Ehren Clark, one of the most passionate voices in Utah’s art community, and his many verbal mannerisms — his cadences, syntax and lexicon — became so familiar, so […]
In Submerged Reflection, up this month at Modern West Fine Art, the versatile painter J. Vehar-Evanoff moves away from depicting the natural world of animals to abstracted landscapes and unpredictable natural elements. As someone from the West — Vehar-Evanoff was born in Wyoming and raised in Utah — this recent […]
“We invite people who carry a camera in their pocket to explore this creative art form that mirrors and shapes everyday life,” writes curator Kathy Cieslewicz of the Sears Museum’s new photography exhibit Sight Site, which opened June 19.It certainly seems that the idea of “everyday life” lies in […]
It’s cute, it’s colorful, you might give it a moment’s attention as your getting on or off the TRAX for a BEES game. But at some point, give this mural a little more of your attention and take a look at all the tiny interpretations of what Salt […]
On a morning walk to the Murray post office and back along State Street I discovered a new-to-me shop in town – The Clever Octopus – a clever idea founded by two art educators. The compact store, with workshop space in back, solves several dilemmas some of us […]
Figure painter Marcus Vincent turned to narratives of experience through color dynamics in his collection titled “Objekte,” on display at Utah Valley University’s Woodbury Art Museum. Here, he examines barely perceptible sheens and subliminal color pops in one painting in the exhibition. Photo by Gary Brodeur When an […]
“. . . the wings torn with old storms remember The cone that the oldest redwood dropped from, the tilting of continents, The dinosaur’s day, the life of new sea-lines.” – Robinson Jeffers Pelicans are ancient birds. The remains of a beak found in France dating back 30 […]
an excerpt from the Paris episode of Canvasing the World How does a viewer come to connect with the painting on the museum wall, with its evocation of the past, present and future, as well as the hand that made it? How does the artist discover inspiration, connecting […]
“Becoming Whole” by A.J. Oishi. Acrylic on canvas. 60″ x 72″ Notifications pinging and screens flashing: the average person’s day is filled with hundreds of stimuli demanding attention. In The Human Condition, philosopher Hannah Arendt writes that the point at which the world passed into modernity is when […]
I’m standing on a sandstone cliff, about to make my way down to “False Kiva,” a Class II archeological site located beneath a dramatic overhang in Canyonlands National Park. In the distance, Candlestick Butte is unmistakable. It’s a flat fin of a rock that juts out into the […]
