Repertory Dance Theatre is a collection of noticeably varied talents. Its company members possess distinctive personalities that can be glimpsed regularly in all RDT productions, no matter the program or how seamlessly they may move as a group. The second year of RDT’s Emerge, a choreography showcase for the […]
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 […]
The 1-5-B, Episode 9: Square One – Helper Artists of Utah https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/the-1-5-b-helper_1-2_1-2.mp3 For a while, seemed like everyone was painting still lifes. Images of vintage toys and figurines (maybe some marbles and matchbooks as well) viewed straight on and placed in nondescript settings popped up everywhere. It was […]
Racism and discrimination have played far too important a role in the formation of American society. The treatment of minorities in this country has been a history of violence and oppression, filled with stories many would wish to forget, but cannot. Though many great strides have been made […]
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 […]
Photo by Austen Diamond. Paisley Rekdal was recently named the Utah Poet Laureate, a five-year post, and it is obvious that she deserves the title. Besides an upcoming collection of poetry in which she reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Rekdal has published five collections of poetry and three books of non-fiction. […]
When Chuck Landvatter was approached by Juxtapoz Magazine to create a mural as part of their Wall Sessions, a series of murals across the country sponsored by Boost Mobile, he decided he wanted to share. Landvatter, who has executed a number of individual large-scale murals across Salt Lake City, got […]
Myriad Dance Company recently presented its winter offering, Perspective, at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). The company’s first publicized performance under the artistic leadership of Kendall Fischer, Perspective lived up to its name by subverting expectations for the venue and format in which dances are presented. If you’re not […]
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 […]
Artists make art for rich people. Well, maybe not for them, but it’s the well-to-do and the institutions they govern who buy art. If that statement is an oversimplification, there’s a basic economic truth at its core: most of the people artists know can’t afford their work (for that matter, […]
“Metallic Dream,” Lee Deffebach, 1986. Once they were our Young Turks, upending the establishment, smashing the windows of a staid and conservative artistic world with new styles, techniques and ideas. Because they found a home in Phillips Gallery, they thrived, determining the tastes of a generation of Utah […]
Prolific Utah-based artist Nathan Florence has never been averse to change (as we’ve noted before in 15Bytes) but his new exhibit leads us further into his ongoing process of exploration and the resultant progress. While many artists will try to demonstrate their progress in leaps, often pivoting […]
“Arcanum,” Adam Watkins, 2015. Adam Watkins’ photography is strangely hypnotic. Using ornate settings, theater-like props, and bright colors, his images are given a life of their own, creating scenes he describes as “paradoxes of hyper-reality and the empathic tissue of the photographic narrative.” Watkins even admits to sometimes […]
Cody Chamberlain, with Antelope Island in the background. Photo by Simon Blundell. On a recent trip East, Cody Chamberlain visited the usual museums: saw the blockbuster Michelangelo show at the Met, a terrific O’Keeffe in the Carnegie, hit the Warhol and MoMA, too. But he also stopped at […]
When Sweet Lake and the Dispensary moved into this building on the corner of 1700 South and Main Street, they brought more than just good eats to the neighborhood. They also brought a little street art vibe with this mural, which appears on the buildings west facade. Discover […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Kamas-based author and editor Barbara Richardson, winner of the 15 Bytes inaugural Book Award in fiction for her novel Tributary. Most recently the editor of a collection of essays by environmental writers on the subject of “dirt,” she returns here to fiction with this excerpt […]
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 […]
In the winter of 2013, Paul Crow encountered northeastern Utah’s East Canyon Reservoir as a solid sheet of ice. It had frozen over the course of two days without any snowfall to become a completely smooth, deep blue sheath. “It was this weird thing because you never see […]
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 […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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