Artist Profile: Anton “Tony” Rasmussen
A video profile of Anton “Tony” Rasmussen in conjunction with a 50-year retrospective of his work at the Springville Museum of Art.
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A Year in Salt Lake Art
Friends compare her to the Travelocity Gnome, the red-capped garden figurine that appears in travel snapshots all over the world in the company’s ad campaign. Jo-Ann Wong is more local than her bearded counterpart, but equally ubiquitous. Wherever she goes she is herding people (friends or strangers) into […]
Wynter Jones: Her Best Foot Forward
As she prepares for a new solo exhibit at Salt Lake’s A Gallery, it is refreshing to hear her Wynter Jones say, ‘I’m not as pissed off as I used to be.’
Drawing Together: Cassandra Barney & Brian Kershisnik
A look at Cassandra Barney and Brian Kershisnik’s collaborative drawings now up at Kayo Gallery.
The Tip of the Iceberg: Video Work at UMOCA
Not since the construction of City Creek Center has there been such a racket on West Temple. Eight videos in UMOCA’s summer exhibition Cantastoria are creating quite a ruckus in the usually hushed galleries, as a cacophony of chanting, giggling and clicking converges in the subterranean galleries. For those accustomed […]
Limits of Imagination: Gia Whitlock
“Ocean” How does one harness the imagination to the point where it traverses the divide between a free flow of excessive creativity and provocative fine art? Gia Whitlock’s canvases currently on exhibit at Salt Lake’s 15th Street Gallery suggest an answer. A multi-media artist who experiments with materials […]
The Face of Utah Sculpture VIII
Far from the display of challenging aesthetic statements that make up many modern art shows, this one is immediately accessible and, in place of consternation, is more likely to generate feelings of pleasure, fun, and even exhilaration.
Michael Frayn’s Skios
by Geoff Wichert From the Renaissance on, the theme of history has been expansion: the Age of Exploration carrying adventurers and map-makers to every corner of the globe; the Reformation replacing a monolithic church with religious diversity; philosophy yielding to ideology; capitalism finding the price of everything while […]
Contemporary Art in Rural Utah
The CUAC is evicted and Green River’s Epicenter hosts Richard Saxton’s multi-media project The Majestics.
Native American Celebration in the Park
For more than 15 years, the drums of the Intertribal Powwow have been heard in Liberty Park just as the Days of ’47 Parade disbanded. Part of the Native American Celebration in the Park, founded by Salt Lake City graphic designer and Navajo Cal Nez and still headed […]
CUAC Evicted & Other Mixed Media
The big local art news last week (while we were on vacation) was the announcement that the Central Utah Art Center is being evicted from its Ephraim home in August. As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune and the City Weekly, for the past six years the CUAC […]
Christian Jankowski’s Casting Jesus
Images of Christ are abundant in residences worldwide, with various styles and portraits to choose from. But how much do we really think about the inspiration for such images? Because Christian imagery has become standard, viewers seldom think of the contemporary ‘industry’ of religious art. In the documentary […]
Are We Well-Read?
Would you be surprised to learn that Salt Lake City is one of the “most well-read” cities in the country? And not just, like, 19th on a list of twenty, but actually in tenth place, beating out cities like Seattle and Atlanta. That was the news that came […]
The Face of Utah Sculpture
Eight years ago local sculptor and glass artist Dan Cummings wanted to find a venue to show off Utah’s 3-D talents. He found a partner in West Vally City’s Utah Cultural Celebration Center and the Face of Utah Sculpture exhibit was born. Tonight is the opening iteration of […]
Lenka Konopasek’s In Motion: Old Greek Town Station 200 South 500 West
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Michael Jackson & the Deer Valley Music Festival
You gotta love summer evenings outside: warm temps, fresh air, listening to music while lying on a blanket with a drink in hand instead of trapped in an uncomfortable seat. And for some reason you can talk to the person next to you without suffering a disapproving glare […]
2131 South 1100 East : Sprague Library
“Sugarbeets” by Day Christensen, 2003. Photo by Jared Christensen, 2012. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map
Westminster College Campus
“Science in Time” inside the east entrance of the Meldrum Science Center. Photo by Jared Christensen, July 2012. “Butterfly Wings” by Dan Cummings, in the stairwell of the Meldrum Science Center. Photo by Jared Christensen, July 2012. “Aunt ‘Em” by Kraig Varner. Photo by Jared Christensen, July 2012. […]
50 S. Main Street : Sky Bridge
April 2012. Photo by Portia Snow. April 2012. Photo by Portia Snow.
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