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 […]
WHAT: Create your own website using free WordPress software WHERE: 7×7 Creative, 682 South 700 East (above Ward and Child: The Garden Store) in Salt Lake City. WHEN: Saturday, June 15, noon-4 pm. WHO: Artists of Utah, in collaboration with 7×7 Creative HOW MUCH: $100 fee. Participants are […]
Along with loveDANCEmore’s Mudson, Sugar Space has become a “go-to” venue for seeing alternative, experimental, and non-professional dance, along with dance film. SUITE: Women Defining Space is another fine example. Given that the number of female dancers in Utah far exceeds that of male dancers, one could legitimately […]
Technically the MFA Maisch is finishing at the University of Utah is in ceramics, but clay makes up just a portion of her work. The objects in Maisch’s studio are a combination of organic and industrial materials, with a mixture of created and found elements. All share a […]
In the wake of a spate of articles and rebuttals on the “death” and usefulness of poetry, on its accessibility, and other catalysts of infighting amongst schools of poets, Lance Larsen’s new collection, Genius Loci, came as welcome relief. Many of Larsen’s poems transcend such specialization and erudition. They are […]
Dancers do it. Musicians do it. Even writers do it (we’re thinking of Wu Ming). So why not artists? This month, Artists of Utah is celebrating the art of collaboration with a special event at The Leonardo during the Utah Arts Festival that explores what happens when […]
15 Bytes started out as a visual arts publication. And it still is. But over the past year or so we’ve expanded our coverage to include some of our friends and colleagues in other fields. Earlier this year, we announced the addition of a literary editor, and this […]
In 1975, British feminist artist Mary Kelly, along with Margaret Harrison and Kay Hunt, completed a comprehensive conceptual art project called Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry. Part sociological study, part conceptual art, the book and documentation indexed the lives and daily schedules […]
Art doesn’t ask questions: people do. So when Salt Lake Community College professor Lynn Kipatrick first saw the ‘blind’ drawings by John Sproul that form the visual half of their joint show at the City Library, questions came to mind as part of her response. Fortunately, Kilpatrick […]
Daughters of Mudson may sound more like the name of a weird band than the name of an annual dance performance. And you may or may not have been to Salt Lake’s Masonic Temple this spring to see the works-in-progress show called Mudson, put on by loveDANCEmore. Either way, the […]
by Chris Cutri BYU professor of art Sunny Belliston Taylor likes shapes. For the past decade she has built an increasingly sophisticated body of work that explores the “objecthood” of painting. Her abstracted paintings make overt references to their own structure, to the boundaries of the panel’s dimensions, […]
One culture’s culinary pleasure is another culture’s entrenched taboo. Which can come in handy if, say, you’re a young maritime Republic looking for divine protection and a little tourist industry: legend has it the Venetians swiped the relics of St. Mark, their patron saint, by layering them […]
As spring rushes into summer in Utah, the time spent out of doors each day has increased exponentially: we want to be surrounded by bright light, warm air, and beautiful landscapes. Utah offers an abundance of varied, even verdant environments we can inhabit and enjoy. Solitude can be […]
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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