Tag: Eric Overton

Modern West’s “Lake Effect” Reveals Great Salt Lake’s Peril in Visual Narratives

By Geoff Wichert on January 30, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

Tears are made of salt water. Grief is love. Whatever I have come to know as love and grief, I have learned from Great Salt Lake. -Terry Tempest Williams The fate of Great Salt Lake is hardly more than a footnote in the longer story of how immigrant […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

With “Formal Elements” Modern West Foregrounds Three Artists Who Clarify Its Mission

By Geoff Wichert on March 22, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Lenka Konopasek, a Utah artist who emigrated to Utah from the Czech Republic, has documented disasters in her art involving humans and nature in many ways: tornados, mega storms, explosions, fires, even personal accidents; and yet when Modern West Gallery invited their artists to submit work concerned with […]