For this month’s In Plain Site page 2 photo essay Salt Lake photographer Portia Snow has been out shooting her “neighborhood,” an area that begins in the Avenues and stretches down to the new development at City Creek. Portia wasn’t shy with the shutter, so we won’t be […]
Italian author Antonio Tabucchi died Sunday of cancer. Little was made of his passing in the states, though most European papers noted his achievements, and in the English-speaking world the BBC remarked on his career (Tabucchi has been a contender for the Man Booker International Prize). It’s a […]
Today’s post comes from the Renewal exhibit at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City: Matthew Moore’s response to Suzanne Larson’s “Sonja Singing in the Tub.” You can see all the visual works and literary responses at the UCCC through April 25. Read our profile on Suzanne Larson in […]
Ten years ago Poor Yorick Studios held its first Open Studio Event at its downtown Salt Lake location (we introduced our readers to the studios, and its founder Brad Slaugh, in our October 2002 edition of 15 Bytes). In 2006 the Salt Lake location closed and Slaugh moved […]
The big news this week is that City Creek, the downtown Salt Lake City development project including a new mall, opens. We’ll be discussing the aesthetics, design and public impact of the project in the pages of 15 Bytes. Glen Warchol at the Salt Lake Tribune is underwhelmed […]
Camille Pack describes her experience at the Utah Symphony’s World Premiere of Michael Jarrell’s Emergences (Nachlese VI).
If you’re wondering what to see during Gallery Stroll this evening, take a look at Geoff Wichert’s preview of the Laura Sharp Wilson retrospective at House Gallery.
This mural, shot in March 2012, is no longer extant.
This mural, a collaborative effort created in 2012, appears across the street from The Pickle Factory, a building which has been an art hub at various times in Salt Lake City. Photo by Shalee Cooper. March 2012. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map
by Geoff Wichert What is the FAX machine? It’s a teleportation device. It’s the beginning of the Internet! —Aaron Moulton, Senior Curator of Exhibitions, UMOCA, in an interview on KCPW. Aaron Moulton is wrong about the relation of the Fax, or facsimile machine, to the Internet. While the […]
The organ. It’s the granddaddy of instruments, a big, loud, all-surrounding piece of machinery/architecture designed to fill out airy cathedrals. Tonight our friends at Salty Cricket present an evening of works devoted to it. Organists Neil Thornock and Haruhito Miyagi will perform ten works by Utah composers, half […]
Tonight Renewal opens at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. In the exhibit “nine artists breathe life into discarded or forgotten objects in this visually striking collection of three dimensional arts.” Curator Jason Lanegan has also asked nine local writers to respond to the works. […]
A review of a new documentary about Utah artist Anna Campbell Bliss, premiering this month at the UMOCA.
Even though Steven Larson is one of the most successful young artists in Salt Lake City, he hesitates to allow this designation to define just who he is.
Geoff Wichert traces the search for form in exhibits by Brian Usher and Teresa Kalnoskas at Park City’s Julie Nester Gallery.
Ehren Clark tells us how Marci Erspamer uses one sinewy line of Paynes Gray to connect herself to the world.
Architect Nathan Webster discusses the Tracy Aviary’s new look.
A review of Georges Rouault’s Cique de l’Etoile Filante suite of prints, now on exhibit at the UMFA.
As we’ve talked up the launch of Art Lake City (look for the app in June) people have asked us, “What will it include?” “Will it be about public art projects?” “Or will it be about the street scenes?” Yes is our answer. If it’s in Salt Lake […]
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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