Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Who is suffering? At some point in the life of a family assaulted by dementia in one of its many forms, this question may emerge in a rare moment of clarity. While the loss of mental acuity and the capacity to both recall and comprehend one’s own life […]
Fidalis Buehler’s paintings often appear deceptively simple: flat figures, awkward hands, distorted proportions and faces obscured by hoods or masks. He seems to be working in code, charging ordinary objects like couches, sneakers, or an inflatable swimming pool with a private mythology of stories half-remembered and half-inherited. Born […]
Brian Kershisnik is among the more generously talented artists presently on the Utah scene. Not only does he paint and make prints, but he writes songs that he then performs and records with a group of musicians. From there, he made the natural leap to poetry, which he […]
So well-ensconced is he in the corner of the D-wing, you might think Paul Vincent Bernard has always been there, that he was already resident when the cinder blocks were first stacked around him and the steel girders laid above him to form this warehouse on a dead-end […]
It was just over a year ago, in August of 2024, that Halee Roth debuted in a two-artist exhibition at her local venue, which happens to be the Bountiful Davis Art Center. Recalling those large abstractions, mixed media fields of flawlessly controlled color articulated in depth by map-like […]
Several Utah artists, including Edward Bateman and Trent Call, have used the Deseret Alphabet in their work, but none has done so as prolifically as the late Bob Moss. The exhibition in his honor at The Gallery at Library Square in Salt Lake City remembers the vision of […]
For more than a decade, Salt Lake City has been transformed with a colorful explosion of public art projects, street art and murals. (Don’t believe us? Check out our Art Lake City map). GREENbike would like to take that trend mobile with a new blend of art and […]
Now in its 11th year, the Avenues Open Studios tour continues to draw visitors into one of Salt Lake City’s most iconic neighborhoods with an ethos as open as its name suggests. “No Judging, No Censoring, and Everyone Welcome” is the event’s Statement of Purpose, and organizer Anne […]
In the evolving landscape of Salt Lake City’s Granary District, where brick warehouses mingle with new creative spaces, one figure has come to symbolize the neighborhood’s spirit of reinvention: Hoodah, a towering, hand-built wooden troll who watches over the streets from his perch near 400 West and 700 […]
Time and time again in these pages, Geoff Wichert has proven the exception so often that one might think it has become the rule, but from my perspective group exhibitions are still the hardest to write about. Not so much the curated exhibition, centered around a theme—those have […]
Beth Krensky’s solo exhibition, The Trees Will Love You and the Earth Will Hold You, at Material Gallery in South Salt Lake, Utah, is a quietly powerful meditation on belonging, vulnerability, and the healing potential of nature. Through a thoughtful arrangement of sculpture, video, and performance relics, Krensky […]
In 2024, Ryan Hymas helped put Santaquin on the map. The art map. The artist, 11 years sober, transformed a late-19th-century pioneer dwelling into an art extravaganza inside and out. When he first began renting the house on Main Street, it was falling apart and full of cobwebs. […]
Julie Nester and her staff have chosen women as the focus of their current show, the title of which, She Roars in Color, gives a good idea of why. This is not the opening salvo in the next battle of the sexes; rather, it might be in recognition […]
In reference to works of art, “calligraphy” is often used as an adjective. For example, we say a certain artist’s line quality is “calligraphic.” But of course fine hand-lettering is a visual art form in itself, one inclusive of language, but also able to function apart from it. […]
For a gallery that only recently opened, Border & Square, just south of downtown Provo, feels like a classic gallery space. Set in the large open area between a small framing showroom and the back frame shop, the gallery has a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere, big white walls, and […]
Spend a little time with the gifted, itinerant street painters on YouTube and it soon becomes apparent that almost anything can become the support for a painting, from a guitar to a guitar case, or a laptop’s cover, or even an inexpensive, mass market oil painting on canvas. […]
The folks at Craft Lake City, Utah’s Do-It-Yourself festival, can’t have been unaware of the irony: for their latest “Celebration of the Hand” exhibit they’ve curated works executed by a robotic arm. Cheeky buggers. Displayed outdoors on the Museum of Temporary Change’s placards, Emergence features reproductions of 14 […]
Video art has been around for a long time. Performance art even longer. The exhibition (Im)posibilidades, at Ogden Contemporary Arts, is at the center of the Venn diagram of the two. And it’s an interesting place to be. Performance art is in person, live, and ephemeral. Not theatre, […]
Whoever wrote that art is not progressive—that it doesn’t advance as artists learn how to better express themselves and pursue their goals—certainly didn’t look at the way the century of Surrealism has progressed. When, in 1924, André Breton published his Manifesto of Surrealism, he spoke to artists who […]
