Light is doing a lot of work in Gwen Davis-Barrios‘ exhibit at Border and Square. And it’s not the flattering kind. Headlights, streetlamps, the ambient glow of a building—her scenes are lit the way the world is at certain hours. Partial light. Temporary light. The kind that picks […]
The exhibition of John Hafen’s work at the Springville Museum of Art is quietly beautiful: pastoral landscapes float in soft tonal harmonies; fields, trees, and distant hills seem to belong to a quieter century. The paintings are assured and accomplished, the work of an artist clearly in command […]
Artists often enter school with raw talent and leave with newly sharpened skills, expected to begin careers—sometimes before they’ve lived long enough to know what they want to say. That possibility nagged at Ben Childress. After a year at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, he […]
Sometimes your neighbor is just lazy. Halloween ends, the pumpkins collapse, and a plastic skeleton is forgotten in the yard. But take a closer look, because sometimes something else may be going on. In the Liberty Wells neighborhood of Salt Lake City, a skeleton family has settled into […]
For years, Jenna von Benedikt painted wherever she could find room—on the kitchen counter, at the table, between preparing lunch and dinner as four young children raced through the house at the speed of light. She carved out creative time in fragments. “Was it an hour? Was it […]
When the painter John Sproul lost a beloved friend, he found a way to visually represent both the other man’s presence in life and the intensely personal experience of his loss. He produced at least 30 images in this innovative visual language, expressing both “emotional turbulence and its […]
Imagination sits at the center of creativity. It also fuels our dreams. Utah-based artist Melissa Tshikamba explores both in her exhibition at the Orem Library Hall Gallery. With a BFA from BYU, Tshikamba—a name that combines two female ancestral names from the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic […]
The coos of the birds from their nests at the Tracy Aviary echo into the warmly lit entry gallery at Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, now showing Denise Kaafi’s Polynesian fashion garments flaunted with feathers and shells, fusing modern visions with her traditional roots. The ‘Ilisapesi […]
3/6 Salt Lake City Weekly: 180-page portrait collection featuring over 500 Pride participants to benefit Utah Pride Center A new portrait project celebrating Utah’s LGBTQ+ community has grown into a major publication effort: a 180-page book featuring more than 500 participants photographed during Utah Pride celebrations. The project […]
One way of looking at art has always been as a luxury item. Hence the precious metal castings and finest-stone sculptures, the gold-leaf frames, and such personal adornments as jewelry and splendid accessories. Then, in the 20th century, other options emerged. In part, that was a result of […]
4 Common Corners is a fiber arts collective whose members come together to celebrate the beauty of the Southwest. Over time, their exhibitions have celebrated such signature local elements as Rocks, Cottonwoods, and Things Abandoned. Their current showing, now in the Edna Runswick Taylor Foyer, at the East […]
Walking into the airy Julie Nester Gallery in Park City right now, you’ll encounter a scene of monochromatic calm assembled from a frenzy of material play. In Mending Joy, Elodie Blanchard transforms scraps of fabric and clothing into layered tapestries, freestanding textile urns, and basketball-player-tall stuffed trees that invite […]
At a moment when American political rhetoric once again toys with territorial ambition and “friendly takeovers,” Ogden Contemporary Arts presents an exhibition that reminds viewers that the last age of U.S. imperial expansion never truly ended. In Reclamation at Ogden Contemporary Arts, three Filipine artists explore the legacy […]
“Path Into Pines” demonstrates at least two of the ways Utah painter Anne Becker plays with her medium. On the one hand, her material choice, “oil and cold wax,” might be described as neither fish nor fowl: it isn’t straight oil, nor is it encaustic: it has characteristics […]
On view through June 21, 2026, Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts brings together more than three decades of the artist’s practice in an exhibition that approaches storytelling not as illustration, but as structure. Drawn from the collections of the Jordan […]
What happens to a successful artistic collaboration when it ends in the death of one of its members? In the midst of their lives, after their children were grown, and with years of opportunity to make splendid works of art before them, Marcee and Ric Blackerby suddenly faced […]
Once upon a time, art was all about content. Hard as it may be to believe, for the longest time technique didn’t really enter into it. The dubious may want to check out an early exception: public sculpture in ancient Rome, where eventually two forms existed side-by-side. One, […]
Doug Smith is a Utah native whose credentials include degrees from both the U of U and BYU. While his design work and painting are familiar to people in at least 22 states, he shows consistently at Salt Lake City’s 15th Street Gallery, which is well known for […]
Coming back to Utah after the pandemic allowed Emily Hawkins to embark on a new path—an MFA at Brigham Young University. Twenty years after receiving a BFA in photography from the University of Utah, the mother of four has found her voice and broadened her media to incorporate printmaking, […]
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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