If you’ve enjoyed Brian Staker’s fluid and insightful prose in the arts pages of the City Weekly, you’ll probably be surprised to learn that in person his conversation can be, well, awkward. Out in public Staker suffers from social phobia, but behind the veil of the written word he […]
photos by Fabiola Labra David Letterman once said if it weren’t for all the coffee he drank, he’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. When your identity depends on the coffee you drink, coffee suddenly means more than a simple jump-start to your system – and where you get […]
Karl Momen, the creator of the “Tree of Utah” sculpture on I-80 highway near Wendover, was diagnosed with a virulent form of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and admitted to hospital in Sweden just days before the opening of an important retrospective exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy of […]
Every day the mass media has a new indicator to tell you in which direction the economy is headed. The only problem is — that direction seems to change every day, and in some news cycles is going in both directions at once. We don’t have any numbers […]
“The exhibition began with an empty space — one of the best in Salt Lake City. Artspace Forum Gallery offered Artists of Utah the opportunity to create a unique exhibition featuring Utah artists 35 or under … Despite the fact that the exhibition took place during the busy […]
a photo essay by Van Chu A flash of purple or blue stands out against the beige paint, wood pannelling and ubiquitous clay in Cristin Zimmer’s studio space at the University of Utah. Zimmer, who is working towards an MFA, has a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art […]
“Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, 1874 The complexity and rich magnificence of Victorian art comes to the fore at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art’s exhibition of works from the collection of British entrepreneur Thomas Holloway. Amassed between 1881 and 1883 to […]
Salt Lake City artist Dave Doman is in a coma following a terrible skateboarding accident in California. Doman’s mother, Charlotte, is providing daily updates on his condition through her Facebook page. For those of you who would like more information, you are invited to friend her at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1599801608&ref=ts. […]
Gaell Lindstrom, well-known Utah artist and teacher, passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Born Gale William Lindstrom in Salt Lake in 1919, the artist studied under LeConte Stewart at the University of Utah and earned an M.F.A. degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts. […]
Gavin Sheehan braved the heat on Friday to check out this month’s Gallery Stroll; what he brought back from the event was an interview with artist Todd Powelson who is showing at Dexterity Salon. The series of work on display, called “Dreams for Schmidty,” was originally published monthly […]
This week the Board of Directors of Artists of Utah juried the upcoming 35×35 exhibition, which will open at Finch Lane Gallery September 18. 35×35 features thirty-five Utah artists under the age of thirty-five. Here’s the list: Cris BaczekMyranda BairAshley Knudsen BakerJoey BehrensCameron BentleyErin BerrettNamon BillsLinnie BrownAaron BushnellVan […]
Utah artist Frederick Brayman passed away on Sunday, August 16. “Visual artist, poet, musician and antiestablishmentarian, Frederick Brayman, passed away on August 16th, 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born March 26th, 1943 in Seattle, Washington to Alice and Marshall Brayman. Funeral services will be held […]
Park City artist Corinne Humphrey’s book The Tao of Rudy was recently recognized with two awards. The Tao of Rudy pairs Utah artist Corinne Humphrey’s whimsical paintings with real rescued dog Rudy’s positive messages about love, life and making your way in the world. The Tao of Rudy […]
Gavin Sheehan recently interviewed Teresa Flowers on his blog. "Its difficult to measure the impact of any single person within our art community. Whether it be their body of work, the causes they support, projects they undertake, or any number of labors whether it be visual or social. […]
Ever since the Cubists first started gluing real-life materials, like newspapers, onto their two-dimensional representations of the same materials, collage has become an increasingly dominant art practice. Throughout the 20th century, in movements like Dada, Arte Povera, Fluxus, the post-painterly Abstractionsists and Pop art, collage played an important […]
Gavin Sheehan, whose blog, Gavin’s Undergound, has made its way over to City Weekly, went down to Art Access for this month’s Gallery Stroll to interview Anthony Siciliano and Zane Lancaster about their current shows there. Read the interviews at: http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-1294-july-gallery-stroll-anthony-siciliano-zane-lancast.html
The Tribune recently published a multi-media story about the architecture of early 20th-century Mormon chapels in Salt Lake City. Produced by Al Hartmann, the story contains an audio interview with Paul Anderson, curator of special exhibitions at the BYU Museum of Art, and photographs by Hartmann. Those of […]
by Analisa Coats Bacall Painting’s simultaneous appeal to both opticality and tactility is the source of the medium’s seductiveness, it might be wagered. This duality is also the most absorbing aspect of I’ll Pretend Not to Hate You, a prodigious new series of paintings from Zane Lancaster on display at Art […]
The best religious art of any time, like the important work in any subject matter, challenges its audience. The naked, physically powerful saints of Michelangelo shocked the Renaissance congregation, while the 1st to 2nd century transformation of Jesus from bearded elder teacher to youthful shepherd helped the early […]
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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