David LeCheminant was a glass artist with a decade of experience when he moved from San Francisco to Salt Lake City in 2007. He found the transition difficult — with proper studios and trained assistants in SLC in short supply — so he would return to San Francisco “to work in a proper glass blowing studio.” It was on one of those trips that he visited the newly rebuilt DeYoung Museum where there was a retrospective of Louise Nevelson. “Until that moment, I didn’t believe in love at first sight, but that exhibition changed that idea — and changed the ultimate direction of my career as an artist,” he says.
David Meikle is a Salt Lake City native whose promising career as an artist was signaled early on when, in 1987, he was the state winner in art in the Deseret News Sterling Scholar Competition for high school students. That promise has been fulfilled with various awards and […]
Rolling into the new year, Liberty Blake is working on collages for a landscape show at Modern West in March as well as some smaller works for the UK organization Art on a Postcard, as part of their upcoming International Women’s Day auction event. She’s also one of […]
“I am living that phrase, ‘Careful of what you wish for,’” says Salt Lake City artist Stephanie St. Thomas, who is gearing up for a very, very busy March. She has been accepted into the prestigious La Quinta Art Signature Event (Mar. 5 — 8), will be attending […]
“I mostly paint women and trees,” says Bountiful artist Sarah Bigelow Maynard. “I am inspired by the faces and experiences of a mother, of a child, of an old woman. I draw from my own experiences as a mother, as well as of people I know,” says the […]
She calls herself a “graphic designer by trade and an oil painter by design.” Lucia Heffernan, a Taiwan native who graduated from Binghamton University in Fine Arts and Design, created an award-winning creative design agency before moving to Utah in 2000 to concentrate on painting. She experiments with […]
For Joseph Alleman, an important motive to paint lies in understanding his surroundings. “Finding compelling subject matter within an environment is all about looking beyond detail, breaking things down into shapes and values. There’s definitely a time and place to venture into the unknown but for me the […]
Bill Viola. Sandy Skoglund. The Dutch masters. These are a few of the influences Megan K. Geilman cites for her photographic work. The Provo-based artist, who studied at the California College of the Arts and Brigham Young University, shares with these artists an interest in the tableau, the […]
“I love drawing, it is where I came from,” says University of Utah art professor Tom Hoffman. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Hoffman earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989, and an MFA from Northwestern University in 1991. He has worked as a realist in a […]
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READ LOCAL First represents Utah’s most comprehensive collection of celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and memoir. This month we bring you Hector Ahumada, a Chilean poet and naturalized citizen who has lived in Salt Lake City for nearly forty years. “Poetry belongs to all genders,” says Hector, a participant […]
At one point, Maggie Willis envisioned being a genetic engineer. “I really love science and how things work, and the building blocks of life,” says the Arizona native. But she found an unconventional way of expressing this same sentiment in art, and found a stronger pull towards the creative […]
