Utahns have an unprecedented opportunity over the next five months to see exceptional examples of art history spanning 600 years. The Sense of Beauty, at the BYU Museum of Art, offers highlights from the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. While the Museo […]
Housed in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Street Gallery, Mariposa unfolds in a corridor of curated light. Carlos Rosales-Silva’s paintings range from small, intimate works to expansive site-specific wall pieces, each alive with high-key color, bold geometry and textured surfaces. Encountered together, they feel both deeply familiar […]
Unexpectedly situated in the westernmost gallery space at Finch Lane, Underground Library presents the paired works of Andrew Rice and Jason Manley. The exhibition’s title evokes secrecy, buried knowledge, and invisible systems of thought, and the two artists deliver dramatically different yet eerily complementary contributions to this theme. […]
At times we have a disconnect with writing: we believe writing exists within an unseen, made-up world. But Ashley Brown’s writing begs to differ. A Pleasant Grove native, Brown spent her formative years exploring the mountains and trails of the Wasatch Front. This had a profound effect on […]
The St. George Art Museum has appointed Meagan Evans as its new Manager and Curator, a move the museum says marks “a bold step forward in shaping the Museum’s future through dynamic exhibitions, thoughtful scholarship, and community engagement.” “It is a privilege to contribute to the legacy of […]
Memories and dreams, ceremonies and dancing, family and community—all are reflected in the BYU Museum of Art’s Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together), where stories are told in meandering pathways of paint and pattern. Curated from the collection of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of […]
“I paint what I feel through what I see.” —John Sproul “If I’m going to be isolated, I’d rather do it alone and not in a crowd.” This familiar wish of one beset by strangers comes to mind when contemplating the art of John Sproul. Consider the painting […]
Now in its 11th year, the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival continues its mission of platforming independent theater with a lineup that reflects the city’s growing appetite for bold, locally driven performance. Running from July 24 to August 3, this year’s festival features 24 original productions across two […]
There’s a tree-lined, shady lane in a Salt Lake City suburb that isn’t quite a dead-end street, blending as it does almost imperceptibly into the grounds of the local grade school. In the middle of that final block, behind a hand-forged iron gate, sits a modest-looking home—a house […]
“What is the answer?” And after a pause, “What is the question?” These famous last words of Gertrude Stein, spoken from a hospital bed to her lifetime partner, Alice B. Toklas, in 1946, seem to echo the question asked every year for the latest quarter century by The […]
An American became and remains an international figure in his art in spite of never having spent a day in art school. Asked about the sources of his creative approach, he complained that he was always “reinventing the wheel,” that is, struggling to find techniques that he later […]
Utah artists and their audiences are no strangers to the salvage of discarded objects possessing the power to suggest rich associations between these things and new ideas. Nor do we lack experience with assemblage, the bringing together of unrelated bits and pieces to stimulate the cerebral and aesthetic […]
Some might know Gretchen Reynolds as Paul Reynolds’ wife. She and Paul were definitely a dynamic duo and she was every bit a shooting star, just in more unconventional ways. I had the chance to meet Gretchen around 2012 when Kristina Lenzi introduced us. They had the idea […]
Jan Hamer has been contributing to the Utah literary scene for many years, not only by publishing her own collection of poems and essays titled A Story by Ravens (2022, Binary Press Publications) but also by training the next generation of writers and creatives in Utah. Hamer taught […]
Josh Winegar’s Future Monuments, currently in the Projects Gallery at UMOCA (behind the gift shop, which the gallery doesn’t employ as an exit) includes 12 untitled, heavily manipulated, black-and-white composite photographs assembled from, among other things, photos of carved stone sculptures (presumably originating from monuments). Winegar has gone […]
What inspires someone to become a writer? For many, it begins with a private impulse—an urge to hold language as carefully as a newborn, to express something essential before it vanishes. Yet countless voices never find the space to be heard. In the rush of daily noise and […]
After more than a decade as a hub for contemporary art in central Utah, Granary Arts has closed its physical space in Ephraim and announced it will continue operations through a virtual, project-based model. “As we move away from our origin story and this place we have called […]
Nationally and internationally renowned researcher, potter, and beloved educator John Childs Neely IV passed away at his home in Logan, Utah on Sunday, June 1. He was 71. His colleague, Massachusetts-based studio ceramicist Christopher Gustin, described Neely as “an ambassador who traveled the world passing on his knowledge […]
If there is an artistic form that the Utah audience might survive seeing less of, surely it’s the landscape: a medium that is tolerant of exploitation almost to a fault, and which has seemingly been shown in every way imaginable. Of course, discerning individuals might argue that what’s […]
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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