Remembering Ursula Brodauf
We remember the recently deceased sculptor Ursula Brodauf.
Lenka Konopasek Speaks at the SL Art Center
The argument could be made that Salt Lake multi-media artist Lenka Konopasek stands astride two contrasting, major approaches to art, with one foot firmly in each, all the while subscribing to neither. Born and raised amid the European postwar experiment with figurative abstraction—Bohemia is one of the places […]
Fibonacci Visits the Desert and LA Artists Come to Utah to Get Fruity: Mixed Media This Week
5/16 Lamplight show highlights beauty in the shadows. http://clippertoday.com/view/full_story/13294316/article-Lamplight-show-highlights-beauty-in-the-shadows?instance=secondary_stories_left_column 5/17 Art exhibit to connect Utahns with our fallen fruits. Don’t be surprised if you’re befuddled on hearing about the Fallen Fruit Collective’s upcoming exhibit at the Salt Lake Art Center. Something deceptively simple-sounding sweeps you into profound artistic […]
Your Art Is As Lonely As This Cow
If you’re an artist who has ever had a piece in the Rio Gallery or if you’ve traveled your work with the Utah Arts Council’s Traveling Exhibition Program, you may be in a show right now that you don’t know about. The Rio Gallery is putting up a […]
Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out Bus Tours
The Salt Lake Art Center’s Yard Art Extravaganza and Competition, Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out, started last weekend as maps to over 50 lawn sculptures throughout the Salt Lake Valley was published. Tomorrow, Saturday May 21, the Art Center will be providing bus tours for the event. […]
Urban Masquerade Mural: 300 S. 500 West
Urban Masquerade was painted on the eastern wall of a Utah Division of Arts and Museums office building on 500 West in 2011. The mural’s genesis was “power figure” masks made by young Youth City kids in an art class. Kim Martinez translated the masks into a multi-faceted mural design and she […]
Utah Chamber Artists receive Award
We’ve received word that Utah Chamber Artists has been awarded Chorus America’s prestigious Dale Warland Singers Commission Award. The ensemble receives a $5,000.00 cash prize – offered by the American Composer’s Forum – which will go directly to British composer Tarik O’Regan. O’Regan, will compose a 10 minute work for […]
Stacked Scriptures, Ogden River Art, and Trouble at the Fork: Mixed Media This Week
5/4 BYU exhibit skirts controversy. Artist sculpts sacred Mormon scriptures and other LDS-themed books into a thought-provoking work. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51742275-81/books-art-bateman-museum.html.csp 5/4 Ogden spends big to get a ‘significant’ public artwork Ogdenites soon will be able to watch as the city’s most expensive piece of public art is created to […]
Chasing the Light
Ever since the early eighties, when I began studying plein air painting in a serious way, I have been cautioned not to “chase the light” when painting on location; but as in everything, in art there are no hard rules, only a lot of sound advice based on […]
Beth Krensky
A profile of the artist on the occasion of her exhibit at Finch Lane Gallery.
Park City Film Music Festival
by Edward Reichel Everyone loves movies. And that fascination for the cinema is reflected in the number of festivals and award shows worldwide. Every year we pay particular attention to who wins best actor or actress, best director and best movie, whether it’s at the Academy Awards, Cannes […]
Wayne County Art
Spring has sprung in Wayne County, and not a moment too soon. The weather is still iffy, of course, but the town of Torrey is waking up. The Chuckwagon Store & Deli is open, the four restaurants that close during the winter are now serving, our two art […]
Lenka Konopasek: Drawing the Light In
Lenka Konopasek brings in some light to the Salt Lake Art Center’s Main Gallery.
Liberty Wells In Plain Site
In this month’s photo essay photographer Kelly Green walks the streets of Salt Lake’s Liberty Wells Community to see what art is in plain site.
Community Art: Greater Than The Sum of Its Parts
A look at Community art: murals, random acts of art and EttaGrace Black Theatre
Accessing Contemporary Art
A discussion with three Utah curators on the dialogue that is contemporary art.
Hikmet Sidney Loe
A profile of Art Historian Hikmet Loe, author of an upcoming book about Robert Smithson.
Fairview Museum of History & Art
Carol Fulton takes us on a tour of one of Utah’s most eclectic collections of art and artifacts.
What We’re Working On
The most exciting art event of the past month, the one that drew the largest, broadest, and most enthusiastic crowd of Utah art lovers—young and old, amateurs and pros, from those who can’t stop making art to those who just love to look—wasn’t the opening of an […]
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