Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Sundance artist Kent Christensen takes human obsession seriously: Like food, especially food, with an emphasis on dessert. And typically, that is what he paints. He recalls growing up “in the orange, lemon, and avocado groves of Southern California, where I acquired a fondness for orange crate labels, pop […]
“Venus and the Gift,” Sunny Taylor, acrylic on panel, 29×25,” 2017 When she’s creating her paintings, Sunny Belliston Taylor thinks in terms of “constructing” an image, or “building” a surface. “I piece visual information together in a way that feels very sculptural,” she says. “And although my works are […]
Shawn Porter’s works are derived from observation, developed by idea, and realized through a mastery of diverse materials and technique. The physicality of his installations capture the viewer with an aesthetic composed of formal elements and a playful taste for pushing the boundaries of material, balance and weight, […]
Lydia Gravis, an artist who lives and works in Ogden, where she’s gallery director of the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University, earned her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design in Boston. The artist she loves, Julie Mehretu, a native of Ethiopia, […]
Printmaker and artist Martin Blundell, whose son, photographer Simon Blundell, is profiled in February’s edition of 15 Bytes, studied at the U under Robert Kleinschmidt during the mid-70s and is well known for his mixed-media drawings and paintings. He and two partners just sold SDI, a large Salt […]
Fiber artist, poet, improviser and producer of live performances around the country, Danielle Susi also teaches and performs weekly at The Comedy Loft in Ogden while working as Art Gallery and Event Specialist at Salt Lake Community College. Author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (Dancing Girl […]
Frank McEntire is a gatherer; he’s an assemblage artist and they just can’t help themselves. He thought doubling the square footage of his studio last year would help with his enormous collection of stuff, so while he is still located in an old warehouse on a dirt road built […]
Stone sculptor Jonna Ramey was educated at Stanford University with a degree in filmmaking and art and, in the 1970s, created feminist performance art and environmental sculpture with performances and installations throughout California. For 30 years she made her living as a film writer/director in San Francisco. In […]
Ryan Harrington is a mixed-media artist who has lived in Utah for nearly 22 years and worked part-time as an artist for more than 10. His work is continually evolving, spanning a number of genres and culminating in a unique blend of what he terms “contemporary urban folk […]
Darl Thomas, who received his BFA at the U of U and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, says he learned to weld and drill and tap holes and the value of machine tools at the U, “and that has been the method of producing […]
Controversy has erupted over the Logan City School District’s decision to sell 11 paintings by regional artists apparently purchased through a program of early arts champion and Utah state representative Alice Merrill Horne, whose 150th birthday was celebrated Jan. 2. She helped 37 school districts and libraries across Utah […]
Laura Boardman will open “Rabbit Studio” in Teasdale in 2018, after purchasing the 80-year-old Main Street grocery store in July of 2015 and spending years on the remodel — despite advice from many general contractors to just tear it down. “The Rabbit now has a 1,500-square-foot studio for […]
When we last heard from Patrice Corneli (see our Artist Profile in March 2011), she was enjoying rediscovering art after an 18-year hiatus while focusing on raising two little girls and on her “second love,” evolutionary biology. The latter stemmed from growing up on 5 acres in Illinois on […]
Susan Jarvis has always been an artist. Her first art job, she says, “was scribbling all over my mother’s white chenille bedspread with ruby red lipstick. I don’t remember it but I’m told that it wasn’t received very well.” She scribbled images of her siblings onto paper and […]
Elise Zoller studied architecture at Princeton and practiced in that field for several years. She also trained in drawing and oil painting (something she has practiced now for 20 years) at The Academy of Realist Art in Boston and Master’s Academy in Springville. “Change is my only constant,” she says. […]
