A look at the UMFA’s new exhibit of idiosyncratic photographer Mike Disfarmer, whose portraits of the rural residents of Cleburne County Arkansas have made him a posthumous art star. With a free lecture and movie screening tonight at 7 pm.
Within the matte and frame lies an almost blank, gray rectangle. Recognizing the one contrasting spot—a foot, toes downward, entering at the top-left corner—causes this undifferentiated area to pop into focus: a reach of asphalt or concrete stretching away from the camera, into which open space a woman […]
We’ve always thought Sundays are a great day for reading — whether in an easy chair with your favorite paper, curled up on a couch with a good book or out in the park with your favorite ereader. With that in mind, we’re going to be running a […]
Back in November St. George artist Ronald Wilkinson posted a comment to our “Contact” page suggesting — rightly so — that our coverage in southern Utah is wanting. I posted a public reply explaining why it was difficult to get our writers from the Wasatch Front to cover […]
West Valley artist Frank McEntire is in Ephraim tonight as part of Snow College’s ongoing series of Art Talks. Students and visitors will have the opportunity to hear McEntire talk about his artistic practice, and they’ll be able to view that practice made flesh (or rather metal or […]
Because kinetic sculptures are often seen in communal places — at Trax stations, in civic centers, parks, libraries — they too often assume associations of banality. Thankfully, the exhibit of small, intimate works by Cal Vestal now showing at the Dibble Gallery in Phillips, reconstruct the essential uniqueness […]
Herding cats is never easy, and when the Sundance Film Festival comes to town it gets doubly hard. Many of our writers like to spend a good chunk of January at the screenings, which can make it hard to get them to write on the local art scene. […]
It’s 2013 and with new beginnings comes new chances to learn and grow. Local artist Colleen Reynolds is taking the opportunity to use the year ahead as a chance to watch how her art progresses. She has started the Facebook group “Throwdown 2013: Get Your Groove On 100.” […]
What would you do with $10K? Rent a studio for a year? Create a new body of work? Hire a photographer to document all your art? Launch a website? Travel to all those openings your work is featured in but you’re too art-poor to attend? Utah Arts & […]
If you went strolling in Salt Lake last night and instead of checking listings first decided to simply stop by a few of your favorite galleries you may have encountered a surprise or two. For instance, Patrick Moore Gallery in Sugar House was all shuttered up, and the […]
The cover of the January edition of ARTnews magazine features the detail of a painting by an artist who isn’t even mentioned within its pages. Barbara Pollack’s cover story on the new wave of interest in postwar Japanese art mentions plenty of Ushio Shinohara’s compatriots, artists like Jiro Yoshihara, […]
This Saturday, The Utah Opera is presenting Florencia en el Amazonas — their first ever opera sung in Spanish. Mexico’s Daniel Catán was first performed in 1996 as a commission for Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Seattle Opera and was the first Spanish-language opera to be commissioned by major United […]
Artists of Utah is pleased to welcome Carol Fulton to its Board of Directors. Carol grew up traveling the world (she has lived in Brazil, Ireland, Portugal, the Dutch West Indies and the USA) in a family full of art lovers and collectors. It was only when she […]
You probably recognize her work. Not only because Park City’s Gallery MAR has featured her work every January for the past three years, but because the graphic jouissance of her looping black lines and the chromatic splendour of her palette are hard to forget. Amy Ringholz’s solo show at […]
edited by Terrece Beesley This week Ogden’s Palette Club announced the winners of their annual exhibition at the Eccles Community Art Center in Ogden. Mac Stevenson, who shows regularly at Ogden’s Gallery 25, won the overall Best of Show award for his watercolor “East Wind.” […]
A “dog and pony show” usually refers to either an elaborately produced advertising or publicity event designed to promote an idea or product, or to a poorly produced traveling circus show of little substance or talent. “Dog & Pony,” a dance performance presented by the very talented […]
Due to the snow, Finch Lane has canceled their opening tonight but New Topographies at Pinnacle Performance is still on.
This Friday and Saturday Westminster will showcase its first fully-staged opera. Written by Henry Purcell in 17th Century England, the opera is 400 years old, but you wouldn’t know it watching this particular production. Those familiar with the story know Dido as the queen of Carthage in ancient […]
You hear from us about the need to raise funds twice a year, in the Spring and Fall. Of course, we’re thinking about it all year long. With our 35X35 exhibit, Utah’s 15, and other programs in 2013 fundraising is particularly on our mind. We need to raise […]
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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