An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
The latest installment in our review of novels set in the art world, Shawn Rossiter reviews a novel by Argentine author Cesar Aira.
Passages: Sam Wellers, Library Sale & Utah Book Award
Over eighty years after they first began, Sam Weller’s Bookstore is still in business and in the process of moving to their new 10,000 square foot location at Trolley Square Mall. They’ll be leaving their long-time space at the historic David Keith Building on Salt Lake’s Main Street […]
Morphing Leonardo: Artists’ Residencies at the New Museum
By Ann Poore “Great things take a long time,” muses Jann Haworth, director of artist residencies at Salt Lake City’s new art and science museum, “and Leonardo was no stranger to taking a long time over things.” She has been involved for six years now and acknowledges that […]
Camilla Taylor Comes Back to Utah
Camilla Taylor, a native of Provo and graduate of the University of Utah, is back in town this week with a solo exhibit and printmaking workshop at Saltgrass Printmakers, as well as an appearance (of her work) at Art Meets Fashion. Taylor is a printmaker by trade and […]
Beth Krensky, Kristina Lenzi, Holly Gornik and other Mixed Media
It struck us as odd the first time we saw 15 Bytes used as a reference source (in a Master’s Thesis we came across in the mid naughts); but it really shouldn’t have, since we’ve become the main source for information on Utah art. Now we see references […]
Soft Violence: Tyler Spurgeon’s Deficient
“Newton” In Deficient, his current exhibit at Nox Contemporary, Tyler Spurgeon presents a series of semi-abstract paintings that probes the question of “who or what determines an individual’s value” in relation to a “societally imposed sense of inadequacy,” and does so in a frank and compelling way that challenges […]
Artist Profile: Shilo Jackson
“What do Salvador Dali, Alice in Wonderland, the Mona Lisa, and fortunes from cookies have in common? For one thing, they are among the ephemera collected by Shilo Jackson to be used in various combinations someday in a painting. That day is here as Jackson finishes some 30 […]
Robin Denevan: Is and Is Not
A review of new waterscapes by Robin Denevan at Julie Nester Gallery.
Andrew Kosorok: 99 Names of God
“Victorious 08 (Al-‘Aziz)” Andrew Kosorok is an extraordinarily gifted artist and teacher whose passion and talent with glass and design, and his zeal for authentic personal spiritual enlightenment and truth, are essentially linked and manifest in all of his artwork. Kosorok’s current display of work at West Valley’s […]
Toni Youngblood: Calligraffiti
A review of Toni Youngblood’s Calligraffiti exhibition at Charley Hafen Gallery.
Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake
by Rebecca Durham For me, talking about chamber music is almost as inspiring as listening to chamber music — especially with those who are passionate about it. I had the opportunity to spend a delightful hour with a group of dedicated individuals who demonstrate not only their love […]
Death and Violins: Gerald Elias’ Danse Macabre
A review of Gerald Elias’ Danse Macabre mystery novel.
Jerry Hardesty’s Kickstarter Experiment
Renaissance artists had the Catholic church and wealthy patrons to fund their art projects. Jerry Hardesty has nearly 5,000 Facebook friends and the Kickstarter community. Who needs a patron with millions when the Internet allows easy access to thousands of people who just might want to invest as […]
PasteUps: Swinj Productions, Urban Art and SL Art Center’s First Fridays
photos by Will Thompson The Salt Lake Art Center is going rogue. Starting this month, they are moving their exhibition receptions to the first Friday of the month. They will still be open late on third Fridays during Salt Lake’s Gallery Stroll, but from now on they will be opening a […]
In Memoriam: Pat Denner
On September 25th, 2011 Utah artist and illustrator Pat Denner passed away at the age of 87. Denner was a fixture along Salt Lake’s Broadway district, where he was immediately recognizable in his fedora hat and yellow cadillac. Denner’s is not a household name, but you’ve seen his […]
Art Meets Fashion
Galleries come and go. Others reinvent themselves. (A)perture has done something in between. In 2008 Heidi Gress and Anne Cummings-Anderson opened Aperture Gallery in Sugarhouse. The not-for profit space, an extension of their public relations and marketing firm of the same name, was designed to provide a […]
Crossing Borders: Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Women Artists in Mexico
A documentary on Tina Modotti, femme fatale of Mexico in the 1920s, and a discussion on 20th Century Mexican Women Artists – at Salt Lake’s Main Library, Thursday.
Jim Rennert: Playing With Fire
If you went up to Park City’s Fashion Stroll on Friday you might have seen Jim Rennert’s sculptures in Meyer Gallery. Rennert is becoming increasingly well-known for his “Suits,” series, which combines his business background with his enthusiasm for sports to explore the competitive nature of business. In […]
Gerald Elias at Kings English
Local author Gerald Elias will be at Kings English Bookstore Tuesday night to read from and sign his third murder mystery, Death and the Maiden. Elias will be more familiar to the arts community as a violinist, associate concertmaster for the Utah Symphony and professor of music at […]
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