Horizon Lines: Scott Blaser at Patrick Moore Gallery
Scott Blaser, a Utah native now living in London, will bring his paintings and prints back to his home state for an exhibition at Patrick Moore Gallery, November 10 -30.
Tutored by the Land
Dale Thompson explores the Tutored by the Land exhibit at Artspace, and the workshop that inspired it.
Jane’s Home
It’s a South Temple mansion filled with ideas – as well as a major Utah art collection. A singular place founded on a single principle: that of the Golden Rule.
Split Screen: Your Land/My Land at the UMOCA
Over UEA weekend I took a trip with the family to the desert, and we stayed for a couple of nights at the Ramada Copper Queen Casino in Ely, Nevada. It’s an odd sort of hotel, with an open floor plan similar to many residential homes: all the […]
If You’ve Never Voted Before
If you’ve never voted before, make this the year you do. Tomorrow you can go to your polling stations to cast your ballot for local, state and national elections. But today you can cast your vote for Utah’s Art Magazine. Not every state has an art magazine like […]
The Viewer’s Duty
Ann Poore sent this to us recently, a snippet from the acclaimed autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame: During the day Lawrence and I would take the usual route to Soho, followed by a “gallery crawl” inspecting the new paintings in each gallery. This was his duty, […]
What’s All That Polka Dot Business
When she was about five, artist Shalee Cooper says her little sister Chantel had a polka dot shirt, and Shalee and older sister Dawn would tease Chantel, saying, “What’s all that polka dot business?” “Now,” Cooper says, “I can’t get rid of the polka dots. I see them […]
David Pace
David Pace is a writer, literary critic and arts administrator with work appearing in American Theatre, The Christian Science Monitor, Quarterly West, Dialogue, Sunstone, and Irreantum, among other journals, newspapers and a book with a forthcoming narrative non-fiction piece in Alligator Juniper. He was a stage critic in […]
Introducing the Documentary Project Fund
Some amazing photographs have appeared on the cover of National Geographic Magazine. One of the most enduring is Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl. Shot in 1985, the iconic image brought a face to the conflict in Afghanistan. The girl, Sharbat Gula, wears a vulnerable and terrified expression on […]
Catch Sue Martin This Month
Midvale artist Sue Martin is a busy lady this month. As noted in a post last week, one of her paintings is a prize winner at the Utah Watercolor Society exhibit at Patrick Moore Gallery. Another work was accepted into the University of Utah juried exhibit that just […]
Saturday Snaps: Wind, Dust and Sun
To honor our volunteer photographers, who do such a fine job making Utah’s Art Magazine look fabulous, we’ve decided to begin a new feature in our Daily Bytes section. In Saturday Snaps we will feature a photograph from one of our photographers. The photographs featured may be about […]
Monsters and the Dead
Halloween and Day of the Dead exhibits and events at Blonde Grizzly, Charley Hafen Gallery, Dunce School for the Arts and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.
UWS 2012 Award Winners
The Utah Watercolor Society opened their Fall 2012 exhibition at Patrick Moore Gallery on Friday. The exhibition, which is up through November 2, was juried by artist Donna Zagotta. 2012 UWS Fall Member Exhibition Award Winners Best of Show Downtown Salt Lake – Brienne Brown Award of Excellence […]
And The Winners Are . . . (Utah 2012)
The October 2012 edition of 15 Bytes featured a video interview with Stefano Catalani and Mary Anne Redding, jurors of Utah Arts & Museum’s statewide annual exhibition Utah 2012: Craft & Photography. Because the winners of the exhibition had yet to be announced, we withheld the final […]
Sunset at Sun Tunnels
On Saturday evening, about seventy-five people descended on the Sun Tunnels in Utah’s west desert to watch the sunset with the artist Nancy Holt, who is in town for the opening of her exhibit Sightlines, at the UMFA (read about it in the October edition of 15 Bytes). […]
Linda C. Smith
A native of Utah, Linda C. Smith began her career in dance at the age of four with Virginia Tanner’s Children’s Dance Theatre. In 1966 she become a founding member of Repertory Dance Theatre where she fulfilled her dream of becoming a performer, teacher, choreographer, writer, producer and […]
Tutored by the Land and other exhibits at Gallery Stroll
On October 19, photographs from a workshop held in Centennial Valley, MT will be unveiled at Artspace Commons. The exhibit, Tutored by the Land, is titled after a quote from Barry Lopez, a well-known author with a love for the environment who calls fieldwork “being tutored by the […]
Pecha Kucha Is Back
Pecha Kucha night is back and once again will be held at the State Room, 638 S. State St., on Oct. 22 from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 and on sale now at www. thestateroomslc.com and they sell out fast. As we told you in detail […]
Who Goes To The Sun Tunnels? Who Reads 15 Bytes?
True story. Last weekend I was with my family at the Sun Tunnels. Two weeks before the big Nancy Holt event, and on a Monday to boot, we thought we might have the place to ourselves (see below for tips getting there). Two other lovers of art […]
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