Organization Spotlight: Salt Lake The UMFA’s Young Benefactors While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
photos by Lisa Trent The holidays are already in full swing at Every Blooming Thing, a shop that not only boasts unique gifts and artistic floral arrangements, but has a respectable inventory of original paintings as well. They feature artists: such as Aaron Stills, Steve Lawrence Peterson, Colleen Howe, […]
Part I: Alice Merril Horne’s Flower Power Alice Merrill Horne loved flowers, and she knew how to use them: as decor, as subjects for her paintings, and as tools for political persuasion. Though Horne is best known for her work as an advocate for Utah art, she was […]
While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York was dubbed, its founders surely thought the title […]
by Andy Marvick An intriguing group of new oil paintings and related pieces fill the main rooms of the Braithwaite Fine Art Gallery beginning November 6th. They are the recent work of Fiona Phillips, a member of SUU’s adjunct faculty in art who completed her Master of Fine […]
a photo essay by Christine Baczek
Our June 2008 edition of 15 Bytes used the occassion of an exhibition of her works at Park City’s Phoenix Gallery to interview Olivia (Holly) Mae Pendergast about her trip to Malawi. Recently the artist posted a video about her experience on Youtube and we’ve brought it to […]
During Salt Lake’s Gallery Stroll, Gavin Sheehan stopped in at Signed and Numbered, where Jethro Gillespie is currently showing his work. The Junior High teacher and new father talks about his paintings and prints and teaching teenagers in public schools. For the interview go to Gavin’s Underground at: http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2008/10/21/3542228.aspx
We’ll start the Notes for Bob and Bill feature with a few corrections on our recent article on Louise Richards Farnsworth. We hope to soon be publish a full biographical sketch of the artist, culled from material discovered since the publication of our Alder’s Accounts article. But first […]
Last week, Gavin Sheehan interviewed Michelle Kurtz, aka Circlegirl, who has been marking her iconic stick figures on found surfaces across Salt Lake City. For the interview go to Gavin’s Underground at: http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2008/10/13/3535660.aspx
The Object Moved by Its Own Success: Alex Gross and Sandy Smith at CUAC by Geoff Wichert “These artists are masters of their materials; their work is clear where they want it to be clear.”—Adam Bateman, founding curator of CUAC’s contemporary program. Marcel Duchamp provocatively said that the […]
We are be introducing a new recurring feature, both in the pages of 15 Bytes and in our blog, Extra! Extra! Notes for Bob and Bill, named for the late Bob Olpin and Bill Seifrit, will be articles, notes, observations, questions and comments regarding Utah Art History. We invite […]
We have some photos from the opening of The Urban Gallery, the 337 Project’s newest transformation of the Urban landscape. Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon was in attendance for the unveiling on Friday, October 3. You can check out The Urban Gallery at Neighborhood House (1050 W. […]
You are cordially invited to a milestone in the creation of the Bridge Over Barriers (see our October edition) project, this Saturday, Oct. 11, from noon til 2 pm at 642 W. 300 N. Governor Huntsman will be on hand to celebrate the newest portion of the installation.
When he first stumbled across Dave Doman’s work online, Dallas Graham was immediatley struck — by the monsters, bold lines and organic, breathing letters. “What I wouldn’t give to see this guy’s sketchbook…” he thought to himself. So earlier this month he called up Doman and asked him […]
Last week the Salt Lake Tribune’s Julie Checkoway broke the story about the two presidential candidates platforms regarding the arts. As Checkoway reports, "artists and art-related nonprofits generate about $166.2 billion in revenue per year and $12.6 billion in annual taxes." Obama has for a long time hadhe […]
It may take years to finish, but one thing is for sure, BOB will be big — 22,000 square feet, to be precise. When completed, the Bridge Over Barriers, a tile mosaic being created under the 300 North I-15 overpass, will be one of the largest public art […]
Joan Woodbury, a Cedar City native, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and studied as the first Fulbright Scholar in dance with Mary Wigman in Berlin, Germany. She is a retired professor of modern dance from the University of Utah, where she taught for 47 years. […]
Someone once said that, “pottery is as old as the human soul.” The need to carry and store the most fundamental items necessary to sustain life has dictated the need for containers. At the outset of human history, the most fundamental containers were pots, as evidenced in the […]
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.
To discover more artists, visit our Utah Artists Directory
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