Given that She Was My Brother is written by acclaimed Salt Lake City playwright Julie Jensen, directed by the always insightful Jerry Rapier, and was selected to be Plan-B Theatre’s 20th-anniversery season opener, you enter the Rose Wagner with some anticipation. Then you see Randy Rasmussen’s almost two-story […]
Tomorrow, Saturday October 23rd, Sean Diediker will be hosting a book release party for his new art book, Wax Onion Collaborative. The book is the culmination of the artist’s year-long initiative to harness the power of social media in the creation of his art. Using Facebook as his […]
“In a sense I have become myself . . . .” Trevor Southey in person at U.M.F.A. by Geoff Wichert Trevor Southey, one-time Bad Boy of Utah art, has turned out to be indispensible for anyone wishing to understand why there is—and why there isn’t—a distinctly ‘Mormon’ art. […]
Joseph Brodsky: In the Prison of Latitudes a film by Jan Andrews In 1963, Joseph Brodsky was arrested by the KGB. While most Americans were probably too distracted that year by the arrest in Alabama of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, the ominous news of 80 American […]
From 2006 to 2009 Provo seemed like it might finally coalesce into a thriving art scene of its own,* with a number of non-profit and profit gallery spaces and a successful gallery stroll. One of the driving forces behind this movement was Raquel Smith Callis, who until last […]
It’s time again for the Utah Arts Council’s Statewide Annual Exhibition. Which means we have a lot of work by artists across the entire state not accepted into the show that will need to be picked up by its owner. Undoubtedly only about half those artists will bother […]
by Kandace Steadman Paul Clowes, a highly talented Utah artist, is largely overlooked for his art and illustrations that punctuated publications during the 1930s and 40s. Born in Salt Lake City in July 1903, his artistic talent appeared early. He attended LDS High School, and later studied with […]
by Amanda Finlayson The governor of Utah has direct influence on the state of the arts in Utah, from the appointment of a Utah Arts Council director to state tourism initiatives and arts education funding. I recently met separately with both of Utah’s gubernatorial candidates, Gary Herbert and […]
Aaron Bushnell is a Bountiful artist with a growing reputation due to his expressive handling of paint. While his pastoral landscapes are an easier sell, Bushnell is drawn to more urban settings: freeway passes, refineries, stoplights. In the above interview Bushnell discusses why he searches out these places, […]
Sam Wilson has taught at the University of Utah for over thirty years, so his iconic paintings, densely packed with pop and art-historical figures are familiar to most in Utah’s art community. In this, our first installment of a video interview as artist profile, Carol Fulton sat down […]
While Sperber doesn’t actually belong to any of the now-exhausted camps that have cluttered the landscape of art for the last half-century, she incorporates the raveled threads of their various narratives into a strand she makes by twisting them together, thereby restoring to art the feeling of a unified purpose such as artists and their audiences shared before it disintegrated under the assault of the permanent avant garde….
The performing arts have always enjoyed a strong presence in Utah. We see this with the Utah Symphony, Ballet West, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The visual arts are just as prevalent, but maybe not as visible. Yet visual artists have a way of banding together and breaking […]
To any who believe culture is in the DNA, Kathleen Carricaburu’s experience may serve as an example. When, after years of exploring different mediums, she discovered metal she had an epiphany. “I felt like I had come home,” she says. Carricaburu’s heritage is half Irish and half Basque. […]
To describe Regina Stenberg’s current work, now on exhibit at Finch Lane Gallery, as “drawings of clouds” aptly captures the “what” of her work but not the “how.” To create her contemplative cloudscapes |0| the artist works vertically, with watercolor paper suspended against the wall with a flexible (linoleum) surface […]
by Connie Deianni An interesting and alluring aspect of the work on display at the Bountiful/Davis Art Center’s LeConte Stewart Festival: A Teacher’s Teacher is the absence of people in the paintings by Stewart. Perhaps the well-known regionalist wanted the viewer to place themselves within his world, rumbling down the rutted […]
Because of their ability to create beauty and form, the illusive character of shadows must be observed and understood by the successful landscape painter. Shadows, it could be said, are the essence of form. Without them a landscape is reduced to flat masses, lacking in much interest and […]
After a summer hiatus the Salt Lake City Film Center is once again screening a series of art-related films at the Salt Lake Art Center on the second Friday of the month. On October 8th you’ll have the chance to enter the strange, baroque world of Jack Smith, a revolutionary photographer, filmmaker […]
Economic strife requires many things from people: reconsideration of consumption, conservation of resources, redefining necessity, solidarity amongst individuals, and, perhaps surprisingly, a flourishing of the arts. Inspired by the dance hall marathons of the depression era, Dark Horse/Fallen Shadows hearkens appropriately back to a time where financially desperate times […]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when photography was in its infancy, the questions – What is photography? Documentation or art? – were hotly debated. Photographer Shalee Cooper revisits these questions in her latest series of photographs on display at Rose Wagner Art Center through October. […]
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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