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 […]
Are dreams so distinct from memories and are memories so distinct from dreams? Do we not ask ourselves, “Was that a dream?” or conversely, “Was I awake?” This month, Palmers Gallery explores the fantasy of dreams and what may or might not be fiction in memory with an […]
The Salt Lake Art Center is hosting a Community BBQ this evening (July 1) in conjunction with the opening of their new exhibit All American: Defining Ourselves in a Time of Change. The Community BBQ is from 4 – 7 pm and will also include a Gallery Talk […]
Frank McEntire is one of Utah’s most prominent artists. Though he is also well known for his ancillary activities — directing the Utah Arts Council, curating a number of museum exhibitions and writing art criticism for the Salt Lake Tribune for a number of years — McEntire has […]
A signature style and a catchy name to put on the signature are helpful when trying to make it as an artist. I can tell when Vladimir Ashkenazy is playing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 because he does such a superior job. His name, though, doesn’t exactly roll off my […]
After weeks of rainy weather the clouds finally broke this weekend to pour sunshine down on the parking lot of Salt Lake’s Neighborhood House, where individual artists and teams of artists faced off in an 18-hour long competition to create original works of art on the facility’s nine […]
Every artist dreams of finding his/her “voice” – that unique way of expressing that thing that drives them to create art. Salt Lake City artist Cary Griffiths has found a voice that is as musical as it is colorfully visual. In a style reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, he drips acrylic […]
Pity the poor art photographer. No other medium has been so thoroughly victimized by its own success. Invented by visual artists in the early 1800s as a shortcut to getting an image on the page, photography and its offspring—motion pictures, video, infrared and X-rays among others—have become the […]
by Michelle Wimber With times as rough as they are few may be considering starting an art collection. Even when times are good one might think collecting art is only for the rich and well-connected. But there is hope for the average person. I love art, but being a […]
Ben Wiemeyer likes to work big. For many years “big” meant graffiti art thrown up on the sides of buildings, the aspect of his work that usually generates interest in local media outlets. But Wiemeyer, a University- trained artist, also likes to work big when exploring aesthetic issues in […]
A little extra salt in the landscape is the last thing the Caineville Wash area needs. The land there is already overly saline and erosion by off-wheelers in the area threatens to increase the runoff of salt into the streams and ground water. Recently, though, Levi Jackson, a […]
A profile of Salt Lake artist Connie Borup on the occasion of her solo exhibit at Phillips Gallery.
The Classical and Romantic are often convenient labels applied to certain discourses of the cultural arts. When hearing the terms “classical” and “romantic,” those who recall something of their university days will think of definite periods of time: the Romantics — in art, music and literature — of […]
The specs are simple: take a wide-mouth canning jar—Kerr, Mason, or Ball brands are preferred, to create a sense of uniformity—and put whatever you like inside, which immediately takes that notion of uniformity and turns it on its head. That’s the basic recipe behind what mixed-media artist […]
The Visual Art Institute’s new GARFO Gallery opens this weekend with an exhibition entitled 1982: let’s start here. The Gallery has been carved out of empty space in Sugarhouse’s Garfield School by VAI staff Kenny Riches and Cara Despain. The Visual Art Institute has been in the Garfield […]
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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