The problem with contemporary art, post-modern art, call it what temporary label you will, the problem with new art is always that it doesn’t look like art. Two of the signature schools of late modernism—found art and assemblage—exemplify this dilemma. How can a jumble, not just of familiar […]
“Cloud,” a public artwork commissioned by Utah Arts & Museums, has been named as one of the 50 best public art projects by the 2013 Public Art Network Year in Review by Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts. Installed at Dixie […]
Occasionally someone will say to me, “I can’t draw a stick figure.” The intended meaning is that they have no artistic talent. This may be true or not, but the real reason is most likely they don’t have the desire to learn or have not been instructed properly. […]
As I read one of the stories about halfway through David Kranes’ new collection, The Legend’s Daughter, I became lost in the language: the tangents, the circle-rounds, the free-form understated bombast. I started to wonder if I might need whiskey flowing in my veins to understand the narrative, to […]
When Kim Duffin passed away in 2012, after serving as the Assistant Director of the Salt Lake Arts Council for 25 years, everyone knew his shoes would be hard to fill. In fact, the Arts Council has had to find two people to do it. As we announced […]
As a silent epidemic, sexual violence is America’s elephant in the room. One is hard pressed to find a citizen unaffected by such crimes. Certainly this topic is not a common one within visual art, nor a student art show for that matter. The predominant silence-or likewise apprehension-to […]
Despite the common perception that dance is most frequently found in performing arts venues, Utah’s dance artists have always stepped outside of theater settings to find new venues for their work. Sofia Gorder’s recent work with inFluxdance at Art Access and Danell Hathaway’s direction of Movement Forum at […]
Somewhere along his path, while growing up in his native Utah or later, studying illustration, painting, and graphic design at the prestigious Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anthony Granato acquired a genuinely idiosyncratic approach to making art. It’s not unusual for an artist to seek out vintage frames […]
by Danell Hathaway In its second installment, loveDANCEmore’s Daughters of Mudson proves to be a viable resource for artists who not only value the investigative nature of choreography, from inception to presentation, but who dare to reexamine and refine their work, allowing the audience to be privy to […]
During the Utah Arts Festival Fernando Lara visited artists to ask them what it meant to be a “Salt Lake City artist.” His video piece was published this week in Salt Lake Magazine, and features the artists from our recent colLABorART project at The Leonardo. OTHER MIXED MEDIA […]
The cover of the forthcoming New Yorker magazine invokes a familiar image: a blonde woman in a nightgown reacts in terror to the sight of a giant face at her window. It’s Fay Wray and King Kong, of course, but with a twist: the giant eyeball peering in […]
Is there a market for Mormon literature even among the LDS? Is the goal of writers who, with apologies to Emily Dickinson, see “Mormonly” to seed crossover work for those outside the tradition, or, like the once thriving Yiddish press that spawned Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, simply write and publish […]
We’ve had thousands come through the Lab at the Leo to take a look at our colLABorART event in conjunction with the Leonardo. Beginning Thursday, the artist pairs began working on their pieces and on Saturday, while a packed audience mingled through the space, all eight artists were […]
To celebrate their 35th anniversary Cannella’s, the Salt Lake City restaurant devoted to good food and good times, has unleashed artist Ben Wiemeyer on the south side wall of their building. Founded in 1978 by Joe and Missy Cannella on the corner of 500 South and 200 East, […]
(please note: Williams Fine Art at 641 East South Temple has changed its name to Alderwood Fine Art. Clayton Williams now operates Williams Fine Art at 132 E Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 | 801-712-7577 – www.williamsfineart.com) Hopping locations is difficult, tedious, and time consuming. Although it […]
The new Whitespace gallery, across Wall Avenue from the Union Station in Ogden, opened with an impressive array of artworks emphasizing noteworthy materials rather than familiar names or genres. For instance, photographer Koh Sang Woo knows that documentary photographs are old news; his digitally manipulated color images, like […]
The drive from Salt Lake up to Eden can take you over Trappers Loop near Snowbasin Ski Resort and is an inspiring prelude to the equally inspiring plein air oils and watercolors exhibit by Hadley Rampton now through July 6 at the Free Spirit Spa & Yoga […]
From a 15 Bytes article by Sue Martin on the Airport Line artwork:Ruby Chacon, who is known as a community activist as well as a gifted painter, was charged with developing a station art project that would involve the diverse community around 850 West, as well as reflect […]
WHAT: Get your work shot by a professional photography studio WHERE: 7×7 Creative, 682 South 700 East (above Ward and Child: The Garden Store) in Salt Lake City. WHEN: Saturday, June 15, 10am-1pm WHO: Artists of Utah, in collaboration with 7×7 Creative HOW MUCH: $30 donation to Artists […]
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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