The Salt Lake Art Center announced this week that their search for a new executive director (see February edition) is at an end. Heather Ferrell, who has most recently served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas, has accepted the position and […]
Since the first ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENTS (March 2008) focused on the very “material” question of Damien Hirst’s platinum-and-diamond skull entitled “For the Love of God,” I figured something completely “immaterial” and “virtual” made sense for the second installment of this feature. I find fascinating the mutability of the fine […]
The twentieth century saw a number of mediums long relegated to the status of crafts recognized as capable of producing fine art. While Martin Puryear and Andy Goldsworthy were proving that just about any material could generate a satisfying aesthetic response, in the hands of sculptors like metal […]
by Kelly Brooks Kathleen Peterson has lived in the Virgin Islands, Malaysia and Hawaii and traveled throughout southeast Asia and Central America. She now makes her home in Sanpete County, where she and her husband have a farm in Spring City. Her studio, located in her home, is a […]
A good idea is not enough. And while blood, sweat and tears go a long way, sometimes it takes a case of serendipity — and the willingness to embrace it — to make something happen. Take Spiro Arts as an example. Spiro Arts, a 501 (c) 3 arts […]
In business, we are told, location (and its close-cousin, presentation) is everything. The business of selling or presenting art is no different. Rich, recession-proof patrons will fly a thousand miles and spend unseemly amounts of money to purchase art in meccas like New York or Los Angeles, even […]
The Wrestling Scene in ‘As You Like It’; Daniel Maclise, 1855 The narrative is familiar to most. In the latter half of the 19th century, many French artists reacted to what they saw as an academic system irrelevant to their tumultuous society by forging ahead into new directions and […]
photos by Shalee Cooper In downtown Salt Lake, at Sam Weller’s book store, past the temptation of eye candy and the brilliantly installed Coffee Garden lies a gem of an exhibition currently on view on the Mezzanine. Artist Richard Zimmerman has taken modern forms – the shopping bag and […]
In Olpin/Seifrit/Swanson’s Utah Art, nestled between LeConte Stewart’s 1937 masterpiece, “Private Car,” and Lee Greene Richards’ well-known, “Dreaming of Zion,” is a painting entitled “Utah Hills, East of Springville.” This gem of a landscape was created by one of Utah’s most revered landscape and portrait artists, Gordon Nicholson Cope […]
by Lane Bachman When we hear of the subject of landscape in art, most of us tend to visualize the beauty of nature or a simple sunset over rolling hills. This isn’t the case in the work of Lenka Konopasek or Charles E. Uibel, two artists exhibiting their work […]
by Megan Holm “This is what I am and this is what I do: the land and the desert.” Those are the words Cache Valley illustrator-turned-artist John Berry uses to sum up how he feels about his art, which portrays the sparse, light-infused desert-scapes of Nevada and Utah. Berry made the […]
With a gaping hole in its heart now, Sugar House is less of a draw these days than it was in the recent past when galleries, furniture & curio shops and plenty of caffeine distribution centers pulled in a variety of demographics. The demolition of the 21st South […]
At the Utah Cultural Alliance’s April Culture Bytes, a panel of fundraising experts from the community discussed Successful Silent Auctions and Planning Ettiquette. Local artist Steve Sheffield, who has served on the boards of Art Access and Community Nursing Services (Art & Soup) and helped with their fundraising […]
On Tuesday we mentioned Julie Checkoway, new features writer for the Salt Lake Tribune, who was kind enough to write an article on Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes. Checkoway has worn a number of hats in her career. She was director for the Creative Writing program at […]
With healthcare costs rising and the promise of so-called “healthcare reform” only a vague plank in political platforms, what’s a self-employed artist to do? That was to be the sole focus of this month’s column, but then I was faced with the intriguing question of how to insure […]
Videos of the destruction of the 337 Project building have popped up on the web on the past couple of weeks. Here’s a timelapse video of the destruction posted on YouTube by The Dada Factory. And here’s a link to a slower, close-up shot of the destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHoA4AdInbA
The Salt Lake Tribune has a new reporter for the visual arts in Utah. Since Christy Karras left the paper more than a year ago, Culture Vulture Brandon Griggs added visual arts coverage to his already full plate. Recently, however, the Tribune hired Julie Checkoway, a novelist, radio […]
One might call Mike John Kelly a Post-neo-conceptualist-abstract-expressionist. Kelly’s multidimensional abstract canvases are explorations of his personal philosophy, learning and experience and are a road to self-discovery.At 33, the Salt Lake-based artist has had a long and profound journey, unraveling the inner-workings of himself and the inner-workings of […]
Our February edition of 15 Bytes featured an article on the Salt Lake Art Center’s search for a new director; a search that is moving forward with possible candidates for the position being identified by the Art Center. One such candidate is Heather Ferrell, current Executive Director and […]
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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