Anna Betbeze’s hide-like abstractions in Dark Sun cling to UMOCA’s gallery walls, sagging slightly as they loom over the viewer with a deranged, yet mysteriously beautiful presence. Betbeze’s irregular painting surfaces are wool rugs that the artist burns, tatters and douses with ink and industrial acid-dyes. Vibrant colors […]
The Statewide Annual Exhibition invites all Utah artists to submit their work—the art itself, not slides—the accepted works to be shown as a group in the Rio Gallery. Each year’s exhibit tackles a loosely defined subset of art, three or four specified media, all work made in the […]
James and Mirabel Rees In the rush of the holiday season it can be easy to get caught up in the commercialization of the winter. However, the holidays are also the best part of the year to spend time with family, express gratitude, and look for ways to […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Salt Lake City-based Matthew Ivan Bennett, resident playwright at Plan-B Theatre Company, listed by American Theater magazine as one of 14 companies nationwide exemplifying social action and civic engagement. A fixture in the local theater scene and beyond, Bennett is currently working on a new […]
Daniel Beecher, Stephanie Howell, Robert Scott Smith, Christy Summerhays, Jay Perry, and Emilie Starr in Eric Samuelsen’s The Ice Front. Photo by Rick Pollock. Historical dramatic theater pieces are often difficult to pull off in a small, quiet black box setting. Plays of such gravitas seem to require […]
Ursula Perry (center) and members of Repertory Dance Theatre in Bill Evans’ “Suite Benny.” Photo by Sharon Kain. With tap shoes, reading glasses, and a relaxed yet specific performance demeanor, William “Bill” Evans literally (and figuratively) stepped into the spotlight at the conclusion of his solo, “Three Preludes.” […]
One of the many benefits of a juried exhibition that pulls from artists across the country is the potential for variety in the technique and motivation displayed. As The University of Utah’s biennial PaperWest exhibition comes to a close this month, we’re reminded of that potential through work that ranges […]
Compiling faculty shows is a balancing act between honoring the artists’ personal styles and still telling a story with an exhibition. An artistic gem in this genre can be found in Sanpete County, in the form of the 2017 Snow College Visual Arts Faculty Biennial Exhibition. It’s a hodgepodge […]
“After the Flood” ca. 1940, oil on board, 28″ x 36″ Winston Churchill, who wrote history when he wasn’t busy making it, once quipped that history is written by the victors. He might have written instead that it is only through the writing of history that a victory […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Springville-based fiction writer Akramah Cofie. His novel-in-progress, “A Fortnight in ’79,” tells the story of Emilia, a woman who refuses to let die her dream of getting an education. It also gives a glimpse of Ghana, in the latter part of […]
Whenever I think of Suzanne Simpson, I think of sunshine. And on learning of her passing from breast cancer on Nov. 3, I find that I still do. We first met more than 20 years ago, when I was working at the photo mecca of Borge Andersen & […]
Photo by Shawn Rossiter Since it was purchased by Phoenix-based Vestar more than a year ago, The Gateway outdoor mall is gradually re-branding itself as a destination for art, entertainment, and culture. That’s not to say shopping has taken a backseat, but shoppers are in for some surprising […]
Since the advent of the Internet, mailings have dropped dramatically, yet millions of letters are still sent every day. What happens to all those used envelopes? At least some of them find their way into the inventive collages of Jean Richardson. In her exhibition Destination Unknown, at the Granary Art […]
Photo by Simon Blundell. Kristina Lenzi is finding middle age a pretty good place to be. “I’m a private person,” she says as we sit across a table in the Poor Yorick studio she moved into just a couple weeks prior. “I’m horrifically shy. On the other hand, […]
Artists of Ballet West in Nicolo Fonte’s Carmina Burana. Photo by Luke Isley. Ballet West’s fall offering is loaded with icons. The world premiere of Nicolo Fonte’s Carmina Burana, a co-production with the Cincinnati Ballet, draws inspiration from Carl Orff’s well-known score that set the poetry of medieval clergy to […]
Photo of Paisley Rekdal by Austen Diamond If the Three Tenors can draw stadium-size crowds, why not poets? Asphodel, That Greeny Flower by Williams Carlos Williams (d. 1963) is an institutionally well-established poem among writers, coffee shop patrons, bar flies and academics. The modernist love poem discovers a certitude so […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Patricia G. Karamesines, novelist, poet, blogger and nonfiction writer who today offers two poems. Originally from Virginia, Karamesines now lives outside of Blanding. Her novel The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books) is a unique Utah murder mystery, set at the site of an archaeological dig […]
The Weyward Sisters, by local playwright L. L. West, is a quaint journey through a never-before-seen side of “Macbeth” that is both hilarious and refreshing, with the three leading ladies carrying the story brilliantly through to its conclusion. The play starts out with a brief introduction – a […]
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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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