Salt Lake artist Janell James has been busy this spring. In April she started showing with Coda Gallery in Park City and 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake (where she’s currently part of a group exhibit), and this month she’s headed to Santa Fe with a 10-foot trailer […]
Any time spent in Montana’s remote Centennial Valley is transformational but the beautiful fall season requires the word spectacular. The crisp clear morning air, the golden grasses and shimmering lakes on the valley floor, and the brilliant colors of the aspens in the alpine forests — all combine to […]
Legend has it . . . Tony Smith would arrive at class with a pan of white paint and a roller, ready to cover up all the portions of a student’s paintings he didn’t like. He would throw a student’s materials into the hallway, yelling “Get Out! I […]
Death in the Present Katharine Coles’ The Earth Is Not Flat by Camille Pack Katharine Coles couldn’t trust her senses. On a grant from the National Science Foundation, she boarded a ship to cross the infamous Drake Passage, the world’s roughest crossing, to live in Antarctica. For the celebrated […]
Simplifying the Process Organizing your gear to make the most of your time in the field by John Hughes Painting on location is a demanding activity that requires lots of concentration, forcing the artist to devote maximum intellectual resources to the task. For this reason, it makes sense […]
The large exhibit space in the back of the SLC Photo Collective is the ideal housing for Yale MA fine art graduate Albert Fallick-Wang’s large-scale photographs, lending not only the proper physical proportions, but also an allowance of space that encourages the type of expansive cognitive connection this […]
The applause is still echoing from the Rose Wagner Arts Center. Saturday night, Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen concluded her 11-year run with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and the audience let their appreciation be heard. Dancer Jo Blake, who is also leaving the company, received just as warm […]
What happens after we die? Are we reincarnated either physically or spiritually? Do some of us go to Heaven and some to Hell? Are we reunited personally with a deity or absorbed impersonally into an absolute? Or is death simply the end, with nothing at all awaiting? If […]
Anyone who has attended the Utah Symphony over the past two years knows how Thierry Fischer has helped changed the artistic landscape of the state. What most don’t realize, however, is what his wife has done for that same landscape. The Fischers live in Geneva, Switzerland and […]
In a tense moment near the climax of The Ordinary Truth, a woman in her seventies wades across a rocky creek in a remote forest in the dark of night. As she feels her way, her senses heightened by danger, she conjures for readers the feeling of finding […]
After a season of counting down to their 50th Anniversary year and anticipating the departures of both Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen and veteran dancer Jo Blake, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company premiered ONE Thursday evening. ONE is, in a sense, one of the most diverse and international shows the company […]
In conjunction with their current exhibition Cinematic, the CUAC in Salt Lake City is presenting three free film series featuring work by local filmmakers. With an abundance of visual imagery, ranging from black and white animation to lushly colored poetic references, these short films by Also Sisters, Jan […]
the exhibition. This past Friday we held our 35×35 Awards Reception at Finch Lane Gallery. At the reception we announced the honorees of Utah’s 15 (see yesterday’s post). We also announced the winners of the cash prizes for the 35×35 exhibit. They are: Juror’s Award Mary Toscano Juror’s […]
If you missed our awards reception at Finch Lane Friday night you were not privy to the winners of our new program “Utah’s 15 Most Influential Artists”. These past couple months we asked our readership to nominate the artists they felt have changed the cultural landscape of our […]
For our Sunday literary post we have a bit of listening for you rather than reading. Playwright, teacher, novelist and short story writer David Kranes sat down to talk with KUER’s Doug Fabrizio this week. In May Kranes’s new collection of short stories, The Legend’s Daughter, will be […]
There’s a lot going on tonight for the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, so a little planning won’t hurt. Here’s our suggestion for an itinerary: 6:00 pm: ART IN TRANSIT You’ll want to get in as much as you can, plus at the Art in Transit-West Side Stories event, […]
Exciting, bold, adventurous and energetic color; rich, luscious, raw and sensuous texture; lucid, mannered and eclectic form; intricate exhaustive, varied and diminutive pattern — surely a cornucopia of formal painterly elements such as this is the result, at the nine o’clock hour, of an extensively attended Gallery Stroll. […]
It’s an open secret that outside the enormous industrial manufacture of paper for packaging and publishing, paper making remains one of the more prolific creative crafts in the world. Visitors to Saltgrass Press in Sugarhouse will have seen exotic papers, made in places like Japan from a range […]
When the University of Utah chose to cancel its fiber arts program in the early ’90s, a group of dedicated students decided to form their own organization, to continue learning new techniques and encourage each other’s artwork. The Utah Surface Design Group (USDG) was born. Part of an […]
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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