Midvale artist Sue Martin has been busy. This past month one of her watercolors won an award at the Utah Watercolor Society’s annual juried members show; another piece was accepted into the University of Utah’s select juried exhibit at Williams Fine Art; and for the recent Salt Lake Gallery Stroll she […]
In October 2008 we first reported on Salt Lake’s Bridge Over Barriers, saying the project to transform the underbelly of an I-15 overpass between the Guadalupe and Jackson neighborhoods of Salt Lake into a work of art might take years to complete. Our prediction proved prescient: four years later […]
by Emily Lyver-Harris Housed in a small room in the Modern and Contemporary gallery of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, salt 6: Emre Hüner plays an unlikely interlocutor to the immense retrospective, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, installed just one floor beneath it. If one of the central threads of Sightlines is to examine […]
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.
Dale Thompson explores the Tutored by the Land exhibit at Artspace, and the workshop that inspired it.
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.
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, 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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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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