On Saturday, Amanda Michelle Smith’s ceramic painting “Virtual Reality” will be sold at auction via Unibrow, the startup begun by her husband, Casey Jex Smith. “It’s the culmination of 11 1/2 years of effort. It’s been overwhelming for our family, but we’re hoping for some good to come […]
When 15 Bytes first encountered Casey Jex Smith almost a decade ago, he seemed exactly the sort of artist the world craves and Utah schools, almost alone in academe, excel in producing. At the premier U.S. art schools, from Yale to the RISD (the proximity of Yale to […]
I. If it has become a cliché that art usurps the place in modern life once held by religion, it’s an ironic cliché, for of all the subjects and sources of our art, religion is surely one of the least respected. In fact, in its purest sense […]
viva Derrida! all hail Barthes! and please pass the Foucault. A recent collaborative exhibition at the Salt Lake City Library’s Atrium Gallery (In and Out of Habit, July 7 — August 18) provides me with the perfect opportunity to vent. To rant, really; to rant and rave, at least […]
Casey Jex Smith is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the San Fransisco Art Institute and now lives in Oakland, California. Utah Artists DirectoryArtist listings in our Utah Artists Directories are open to all visual artists who reside part-time or full-time in the state […]