Utah Artist Profiles published in 15 Bytes, featuring magazine length profiles of Utah artists.
Photographer Mark Hedengren has traveled the world on assignment, but he says his favorite place to shoot is here in Utah, his own backyard. So when he learned that two of Photography’s greats, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, came here in the 1950s to shoot “Three Mormon Towns” […]
Chris Gauthier’s photography has always had a message. For years, it was the message of others, but at a certain point Gauthier had an epiphany and decided to devote the skills he had learned in the advertising industry to the things he wanted to say. It was after […]
As part of our 35×35 exhibition in the spring of 2013, 15 Bytes interviewed participating artist Matthew Allred, who was selected for the Artists of Utah Board of Directors award. 35×35 gave us a glimpse at the artist’s Heliography series, which is now on exhibit at Salt Lake […]
The word illustration is derived from the Latin word illustrare meaning, to enlighten. Fitting etymology to consider after meeting Salt Lake City-based illustrator, Isaac Hastings—an enlightened artist with a succinct vision and artistic philosophy. Hastings draws hands in a way that bequeaths a certain grace to his characters, many […]
When Hadley Rampton travels she is drawn, she says, “to the old places. There is history there. When I travel that is what really intrigues me, that is what really excites me… and I also really love history. I want to get to what the truth of […]
“This job is not for anyone who is short on patience or ability to focus,” says Bonnie Scott. “I’m working harder now than I did before I retired!” Since December of 2012, Scott, a retired accountant, has been designing and creating boxes of varying shapes and styles using […]
This month, Saltgrass Printmakers features the work of Andrew Rice, a printmaker who explores the poetic possibilities of empty spaces and isolated figures. In April, as part of our 35×35 exhibition, we interviewed Rice to discuss his work and chosen medium. We caught up with him again this […]
Hilary Jacobsen likes to paint skulls, but don’t call her fascination morbid.
“I control what I can control and then I try to manage what I can’t control,” says Utah County artist Amy Tolk Richards. Richards is speaking on both an artistic level and on a personal level: as a mother, spouse, and human being. Richards’ canvases are simple and […]
In the center of David Ruhlman’s UMOCA exhibition, standing like an altar, there is an ancient card table. The black material of the table is rubbed off around the edges, with the old plywood substructure showing through at the corners and in patches across the surface. Painted across […]
Technically the MFA Maisch is finishing at the University of Utah is in ceramics, but clay makes up just a portion of her work. The objects in Maisch’s studio are a combination of organic and industrial materials, with a mixture of created and found elements. All share a […]
Philip Barlow doesn’t want to be pigeonholed, boxed in as this kind of painter or that kind. The 80-years-young artist says he keeps “one foot in the box and the other outside – exploring the unexplored.” That’s why, in his exhibit this month at Phillips Gallery, […]
Exciting, bold, adventurous and energetic color; rich, luscious, raw and sensuous texture; lucid, mannered and eclectic form; intricate exhaustive, varied and diminutive pattern — surely a cornucopia of formal painterly elements such as this is the result, at the nine o’clock hour, of an extensively attended Gallery Stroll. […]
Jared Lindsay Clark is one of three artists chosen to inaugurate the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s (UMOCA) artists-in-residence program. Along with Brian Patterson and Mary Toscano, Clark will have access to national curators and critics, workshops in professional development, monthly critiques, special access to visiting artists and […]
Last month at Utah Valley University artist Inez Harwood broke the Guiness World Record for the longest tie-dye. That, she says, was the fun part. The work leading up to 3000 feet of vibrant color was full of its own set of complications — and also wonderful […]
Dan Vu, a student at the University of Utah, discusses his work. He is exhibiting this month in Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibit at Finch Lane Gallery. Shawn RossiterThe founder of Artists of Utah and editor of its online magazine, 15 Bytes, Shawn Rossiter has undergraduate degrees in […]
After working in Manhattan, running a farm in Wisconsin, and owning a restaurant in Salt Lake (remember Brumbies?), Karen and Paul Gladstone have retired and discovered the joys of working in ceramics. Karen, President of Clay Arts Utah, and her husband Paul, both work in clay but their […]
photos by Simon Blundell “Pound on the Star: invisible number signs are realized; the capacities of an atom are multiplying in space. The tone Shines. And what here is ear to its fulsome stream, is also somewhere eye: this dome Arches itself somewhere in designs.” Rainer Maria […]
