Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Inspiration comes from many places, and what inspires an artist to create may not be the same thing that inspires a viewer to appreciate, but the power of good art is that ability to act as a mediator, as a go-between, from the source of initial artistic inspiration […]
Beginning this Friday, the Granary Art Center in Ephraim, Utah will be assaulted with a visual overwhelm of printed Instagram images for #Blessed: User-generated Content and Indexing Spirituality. The hashtag #blessed has been used over 34 million times since Instagramʼs inception. It was used well over 8,000 […]
Art depicting women engaged in roles as creators, protectors and transmitters of culture through a Chicana feminist lens.
Photo by Zoe Rodriguez David Maestas doesn’t regard being an artist as a career choice, or something he necessarily initiated at a certain point in his life. It is a way of life, and how life always has been. “I think being an artist is a full-time thing, […]
Teresa Jordan’s newest book, The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off), is, first of all, a collection of essays, beautifully woven together by a theme inspired by Benjamin Franklin. Just as Franklin sought to live his life according to those virtues he deemed important to living well, Jordan […]
A 2012 profile in Southwest Art tells the coming-of-age story of Billy Schenck, painter of the southwest now exhibiting at Modern West Fine Art: a Midwest boy who learned how to draw by copying comic books, in the mid-1960s he heads to art school, where he discovers the works […]
by Duncan Hilton Francis Zimbeaux was a storyteller and a mythmaker, whether in his art or in his life. His paintings frequently explored remembered or imagined landscapes, and were shrouded in a mythic mist, filled with reclining nudes, dancing nymphs and pipe-blowing Pans. His own story […]
When I was a little kid in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I was enamored of the City and County Building on Washington Square. My father, Carleton Caine Alder, worked there for years as the chief deputy county treasurer and when I visited Dad, I wandered around […]
Two steps up on the east side of the third floor of Westminster College’s flagship Converse Hall is a small sitting area framed by a steep pedimented gable and the large, east-facing window. Four lounge chairs — three covered in a faded maritime-blue fabric made of knotted-thread polyester […]
Brigham Young University professor Joseph Ostraff has made many trips to Tonga. This piece, made in response to an experience he had while visiting the island of Foa, was created in 1999 and accessioned into the State of Utah Fine Art Collection in 2002. Ostraff says painting is […]
When Jena Schmidt saw ‘Black North’ written inside the lid of her grandfather’s brass compass, the words resonated with her painterly project as though she’d found a fellow explorer. While compass directions have rich associations for us, they don’t really have colors: north is no more black than […]
Known primarily for his encaustic abstractions inspired, in part, by the landscape of southern Utah, Jeff Juhlin has started 2015 as he has for the past five Januarys — by teaching a couple of encaustic workshops at the Hui Art Center in Maui. “It’s a stunningly beautiful place […]
Well known for painting still life compositions of subjects such as a glass of water or a marble, Brian Blackham is pursuing his other love in 2015: “As of late I have been sculpting more than painting,” he says. “I am trying to take the assembled brush stroke(s) […]
The delightful and always intriguing work of Maureen O’Hara Ure, where small and mysterious creatures abound, was recently seen in the Faculty Show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah where she lectures and can also be seen nicely displayed on the second […]
Author and illustrator of numerous books, unanimously awarded the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning by a panel made up of Garry Trudeau, Jules Feiffer and John Sherffius and long-time journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune, Pat Bagley tells us: “Cartooning was suddenly in the spotlight with the tragic […]
Sculptor Cordell Taylor is working towards a show he has in May at Agora Gallery in Chelsea, N. Y. “I’ve been showing there for the last couple of years with the “Geo-Met Series” I’ve been working on over the past 10 or so years,” he says. In an artist […]
Steven Sheffield tells us he’s hoping soon to get back to several larger paintings he began last fall. “They are currently packed away as Rockwood Artist Studios and Sugarhouse endures renovation. As a result, I’m working smaller this winter.” Still fascinated with the abstract, he is looking to combine […]
Narrative painting, in the form of history painting, was once the pinnacle of Western art, the zenith of Alberti’s 15th-century treatise on painting, and a prerequisite for anyone seeking access to prestigious academies in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the advent of modernism, narrative’s importance waned, while […]
Known mostly for his fine paintings of horses (though he works in other genres) and his friendly presence on Facebook, talented Spanish Fork artist Fred Lyman is spending early 2015 working diligently to recover from a debilitating stroke he suffered in December. Brother of the late artist Kenvin […]
