You probably have a week to ten days left to see the current exhibitions at participating Salt Lake galleries before the next Gallery Stroll. Here’s Kasey Boone’s World Series take on what there is to see. HOME RUN: If you only have time to make it to one […]
Allen Bishop
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? I usually have 2 or 3 (or 4 or 5 or 6) books going at the same time. I actually even finish some of them; others are little more than browsed through (things like money or politics, I would have to be […]
If You Don’t Buy It — We Will
Inside the Vault: Truths & Myths from the Utah State Fine Art Collection The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,100 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and […]
Breaking New Ground: Provo’s Terra Nova Gallery
Provo is certainly not the art capital of Utah. Compared to Salt Lake City or Park City, Utah County has almost no commercial art galleries to speak of. So, when David Hawkinson and his wife Florence decided to open a gallery in this quiet college town, they were […]
Why Do We Hang? UAC’s UTAH 2003, CRAFTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
by Jill MacAllister/photos courtesy UAC Issues that haunt all local artist exhibitions have followed some of Utahs foremost artists to the UVSC Woodbury Art Museum in Orem. The Museum currently showcases the Utah Arts Council’s Utah! 2003: Crafts and Photography, featuring eighty-seven pieces from sixty-one Utah artists. These […]
Brian Christensen in Ephraim: Provo sculptor explores perception
by Jennifer Davis To take a walk in someone else’s moccasins is a strategy that encourages seeing things from a different point of view or perception. Brian Christensen, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, focuses on perception in his latest series of sculptures, which are now on […]
John Moore: Animal Action Artist
photos by Steve Coray Standing beneath the life-sized drawing of an Allosaur and her young displayed along one wall of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s Dinosaur Tales Exhibit, the viewer is not only awed by the complete realism and preciseness of this image, but also by the […]
Boyd Reese: Our Very Own van Gogh
The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,100 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and office buildings throughout Utah and many travel with the Utah Arts Council Traveling […]
Political Landscapes
by Lisa Scopes Oliver As the seasons start their metamorphosis once again and shades of fall begin coloring the hillsides, an artist’s thoughts turn to contemplate many things: capturing the landscape on canvas, finding alternate venues to display their works, and, possibly most important this fall, deciding which […]
Making it All Come Together: an interview with Shawn Rossiter
by Dee Moffett DM: You are having two shows almost back to back. You’re about to take down one called Venice & Tuscany at the Halles Gallery and now you’re having a one-man show at Chroma Gallery. But when I look at the works in the two shows I’m surprised by […]
Kent Miles
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? “I’ve revisited a lot of books lately. I’ve read Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter to keep up with the kids. I’ve read Hugh Nibley’s collected essays and The Bourne Identity.” WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO PAINT YOUR PORTRAIT? Henry Moore. […]
E Street Gallery
E Street Gallery owners Sandra Jensen and Cruser Rowland have a business card which reads “Seek the Unique.” Nothing could be more true while visiting the E Street Gallery. Nestled in the historic Avenues District at the lower end of E Street in Salt Lake City, this beautiful […]
Mainly Art
Where can you go on a Friday or Saturday night and see artists congregating on the sidewalk selling jewelry, painting landscapes, making didgeridoos, or chiseling African stone? How about listening to live music, watching interpretive dance, or having your kids make their own hula-hoops or mosaic art? San […]
Squash Courts & Tupperware Parties: Dave Hall & Family
by Laura Durham On October 17 and 18 Squashworks will exhibit Four Generations of American Painting, featuring the artwork of Dave Hall , his father Vernon Hall, his grandmother Esther Bailey Hall, and his great-great grandfather Thomas H. Snow. And to answer your question, no, Squashworks is not […]
Art and Wild
Exploring the concept that freedom is the basis of all creativity, whether in the consciousness of an artist or in the process of nature. “An artist has to be free to create whatever he or she wants.” Ric Collier, Director Salt Lake Art Center “In wildness is the […]
Entering the Fine Art Print Market
The Fine Art Print Market . . . it’s glamorous, it’s mysterious, it’s scary. But most of all, it’s very hard to find out how and when to make that move. In the next two installments of our “Marketing Tips” we will help you determine if it is […]
Overheard
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE SL COUNTY’S JULY “ART TOO! ART NOT!” A MONTHLY PANEL DISCUSSION. DISCUSSING THE “IMPORTANCE OF PAINTING IN SOCIETY” WERE KAREN HORNE, JOHN ERICKSON AND LAYNE MEACHAM. LM: Do we need art? Well, we don’t have any choice. Artists are going to paint […]