READ LOCAL SUNDAY is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. 15 Bytes regularly offers works-in-progress and/or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and memoir. Today we feature Provo-based Trish Hopkinson, co-founder of […]
“Back to Then (Self-portrait” by Yidan Guo Yidan Guo is an artist who is combining ancient traditions with breathtaking examples of modern life. Her watercolor exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery, East vs. West, is just that. In the exhibition, the SUU professor presents a skillful mastery of Chinese Gongbi […]
Unity and Difference – a perfect description of Janiece Murray’s current exhibition is captured within the title of the show. In the many pieces by the Salt Lake City artist displayed at Finch Lane Gallery, close inspection leads to great rewards. Each of her designs, while incredibly different in […]
The flow of water, ink, and watercolor on paper create serendipitous images reminiscent of landscape, both mystical and familiar. This is the world of Karen Kurka Jensen who found “the language of her soul” in the ancient Chinese art form of sumi-e. The Heber City artist was trained […]
On the side of a small, non-descript building in South Salt Lake, Jacob Edward Shirley has created a mural for Wasatch Work Force, an employment agency. Next to painting murals for a living, the guy doing demolition in the middle looks like he has the best job. Discover more art […]
Bonnie Phillips at Phillips Gallery, 2014. Photo by Zoe Rodriguez Photography. “I’m not so sure you have to like art as much as be stirred by it; we’re so easily stirred by something we like, but can we find that emotion inside with something we question?” That’s how […]
Stephen Goldsmith in Salt Lake City, 2014. Photo by Zoe Rodriguez. “What—exactly—are you?” I ask Stephen Goldsmith as we walk through City Creek Park, past an elegant little flume that Goldsmith created when he was involved in the redesign of the park back in the ‘90s. Making sense […]
READ LOCAL SUNDAY is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. 15 Bytes regularly offers works-in-progress and/or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and memoir. Today we feature Salt Lake City-based […]
Anne Cullimore Decker’s home on the East Bench of Salt Lake City is a lot like Anne Cullimore Decker herself: elegant, gracious, artistic. One of Utah’s premiere dramatic artists, she’s worked in theater, opera, television, and film. Decker’s life is an inspiring journey through a commitment to art, […]
Work by BASHA. There’s no doubt graffiti can be a nuisance, for the personal property owner whose trashcan or mailbox becomes defaced with an indecipherable signature or the business owners who find themselves repeatedly repainting an exterior wall. But equally indisputable is that graffiti is an art form. […]
Sculpture by Andrew Kosorok at The Face of Utah Sculpture XIII. The Utah Cultural Celebration Center is a large, beautiful building tucked away on many acres of land, lending the space a quiet ambiance that makes visitors at once feel welcome and as if they are in a […]
“Epic Tornado” by Jason Jones Thanks to Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein storming the art world in the 1960s, scenes from comic books, graphic novels, and newspaper advertisements don’t look totally foreign in art gallery space. However, animation and illustration are still separated from the serious business of […]
When Sabrina Squires was earning her BFA in Visual Arts at Brigham Young University, she discovered a magical world of artistic possibilities in the pages of National Geographic. The glossy magazine pages with stunning images did not serve as source material, but, rather, become a collaged surface she […]
READ LOCAL SUNDAY is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. 15 Bytes regularly offers works-in-progress and/or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and memoir. Today we feature the work of […]
In Sticks Laid In Patterns and Other Mundane Oracles, her upcoming exhibit at the Alice Gallery in Salt Lake City, Wren Ross mines the symbologies of oral storytelling traditions to explore the contemporary need for new myths and new heroes. As she says in this video interview, recorded as […]
READ LOCAL FIRST is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. 15 Bytes regularly offers works-in-progress and/or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and memoir. Today, we feature Salt Lake City-based Michael Mejia and […]
Left to right: Samantha Matsukawa, Amy Falls, and Daniel Mont-Eton in “Homeward”. Photo by Dat Nyguyen/Motion Vivid, lighting by James K. Larsen. When I think of Daniel Mont-Eton’s Homeward I think ambient – a word derived from ambire in Latin, meaning “to go around” – and around and […]
Bonnie Sucec in her Salt Lake City studio. Photo by Simon Blundell. While her father was busy shaping his young daughter into a pinball wizard, Bonnie Sucec’s mother encouraged her to paint pictures on the walls of their Midvale home. And later, at Jordan High, revered Utah abstract […]
Since completing his MFA at Yale in 2014, Michael Ryan Handley has been busy. A native Utahn, he now operates out of studios in Philadelphia and New York. His artistic processes are complex and experimental, combining a western fascination with the land with a typically eastern penchant for […]
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.
To discover more artists, visit our Utah Artists Directory
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