This weekend we visited the studio/theater of Another Language Performing Arts Company on the campus of the University of Utah where Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic are busy getting ready for the 2.0 version of their telematic cinema performance Duel*Ality.
We are preparing a video profile of the creative
We recently came across this almost twenty-year-old photograph from an exhibition of nine finalists for the Utah Arts Council Fellowship grant. Can you name the nine artists? We’ll give you a hint: one of them is this month’s Artist Profile and he mentions this exhibition in his video […]
Andrea Bowers, the Marva and John Warnock Visiting Artist in Residency, will be giving a free, public lecture tonight (Wednesday, January 25) at 7:00 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Bowers combines her passions for art and activism through a variety […]
We have started to catalog images from our staff photographers for our new Art Lake City app. We have challenged our photographers to always be on the look out for any piece of artwork in their neighborhoods and to document it. This will become our database of images […]
Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to […]
In conversations local artist Chauncey Secrist conveys a thoughtful intensity that ranges from playful to philosophical. His latest exhibit at Guthrie Studios is a reflection of that. On display is 15 years worth of work but the show has remained untitled because he feels it’s too soon in […]
In the December edition of 15 Bytes we announced Art Lake City, Matt and Laura Chiodo shot an entire photo essay to begin our project, this was one of the photographs that they took. Can you guess where it was taken?!?! There is plenty of art to see on […]
The Leonardo is open today, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with their civil rights exhibit This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dia Art Foundation recently named two local organizations as stewards of the Spiral Jetty: Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. What does this mean for Robert Smithson’s famous work? Find out at “The Future of Spiral Jetty: Community and Collaboration […]
In Fahimeh Amiri’s “Reaching for Liberty,” Darius the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, is seated on his throne in Persepolis, the center of Persian power. He is represented in monumental scale, in the abstracted two-dimensional side view profile of much of the art of the ancient Near […]
Three years ago, Art Access hosted the what I thought I saw exhibit, which featured ten pairs of photographic and written portraits of individuals with intriguing, though not readily apparent, stories. It was the beginning of a book project designed to challenge “the way we look at things […]
In 2010, Brigham Young University Joe Ostraff professor received a Visual Art Fellowship from the Utah Arts Council. It was his second time. The first time, in 1993, he won for a group of paintings done with his children. He’s been looking for collaborative opportunities ever since. […]
Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery.
A review of Georgia and Rob Buchert’s sound installation at BYU’s Gallery 303.
Laura Durham sits down with Nancy Boskoff as she retires from the Salt Lake Arts Council.
Mark Magleby’s passion for his new job is immediate and infectious. He had just been named the new, third, director at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art in November when our conversation took place, yet he exuded a natural confidence in this new post – one that […]
A review of Donna Poulton’s biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.
A profile of Hilma Mole Payne, on the occasion of her retrospective at the Springville Museum of Art.
“Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.” – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student […]
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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