Features on public art published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine.
Dan Gerhart’s 2003 sculpture, featuring a bronze sphere atop a stainless steel pole and named for the 6th-century Greek, rises up out of the cattails near the Pioneer Precinct police station. A lot is attributed to Pythagoras — in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy — but it […]
Squatters Pub in West-Downtown Salt Lake City is a mine for public murals!—designed and created by some of the most well-known local muralists. Trent Call painted the black-and-white brewery how-to mural which is sandwiched between Chuck Landvatter’s colorful hop-bearded micro-brew god, Mackinzie Donovan’s celebratory 25-year Squatters brand mural, and Mike Murdock’s “25 […]
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“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.” – Vincent van Gogh If you want good art, go to good bookshops. That is because art and language and knowledge are one […]
These images appear on the side of an upholstery and furniture restoration business, but are meant more for the patrons of the LDS Wardhouse-turned-Buddhist Temple across the parking lot. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by […]
German-born sculptor Ursula Brodauf is best-known for her modernist works that deploy a keen sense of form and space. You’ll find her “Intensity” at the entrance to Salt Lake City’s Fire Station #11, tucked away along the east end of the Salt Lake City airport grounds. An image of […]
This alleyway, which you can find underneath the large visible Madonna mural near the corner of 200 South 200 East, is the densest concentration of murals in the city. They are sometimes known as the FICE murals, because of the storefront business in the Guthrie building which helps […]
Mural by Chuck Landvatter celebrating Thelma McDonald, the original landlord of the homes that were bulldozed to make way for the new apartment complex. Corner of 600 West and North Temple. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith our In Plain Site byline […]
Artists Lola Reyes, Dawn Taylor, Miguel Galaz, Danny Stephens, Jorge Arellano, and Zachary Franzoni have been hard at work, between fall showers, decorating the doors at Salt Lake City’s Neighborhood House for their eighth annual Urban Gallery. Neighborhood House is a non-profit organization committed to providing quality, […]
Darl Thomas’ sculpture makes the invisible (the wind) visible as the sculpture slowly rotates with the breeze. It’s location at Fire Station #9, west of the Salt Lake International Airport, means it gets plenty of winds, and most days you’ll be able to see its slow rotation. […]
The creeks that flow into Salt Lake City have helped to shape the east bench neighborhoods, but just as important is the Wasatch Fault Line, which basically runs along 1300 East and is the reason there’s a steep drop off west of the thoroughfare. Few of the residents […]
There’s a whirlwind of artistic activity along the Wasatch Back this year: a large metal piece called “Urban Tornado” by Salt Lake City’s Lenka Konopasek has been installed at the Summit County Building in Kimball Junction and Riverton artist Tim Little’s assemblage “Fly Utah” is in front of […]
Pavlos Kougioumtzis’s 2002 abstracted rendering of Prometheus bearing fire stands on the Jordan River Parkway, along 500 South, across the street from Jake Garn Blvd. and on the same block as Neighborhood House. A greek sculptor, painter and architect, Kougioumtzi lives and works in Athens and Delphi. Discover more […]
Look at its location on a map and its hard to think of a more out of the way place for a piece of public art, but people who work in anonymous office buildings under the shadow of the freeway deserve aesthetic pleasure just as much as anyone […]
Neil Haddock’s sinuous steel form was commissioned by the Boyer Company in 1983, and since then has added a bit of life to the courtyard of this otherwise mundane office building at 400 E. South Temple. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith […]
Light Camera Action Public art project that combines the old and the new in photography Stephan Kopolwitz’s Light Camera Action, located on the main campus of Salt Lake Community College (State Street and 1700 South in Salt Lake City), blends centuries-old methods for reproducing images with 21st century technologies […]
Thomas Schulte Tacoral 1982 Copper and aluminum On June 30, 1980, a storm in Salt Lake City blew copper off the Utah State Capitol dome. In an attempt to salvage the copper and preserve a significant piece of Utah history (the copper was installed in 1916), Governor Scott […]
