Wayne Thiebaud is an American icon who paints icons of America. He is famous for his lush and colorful ice creams, pies, cupcakes, a famous and charming Mickey Mouse and many other timeless American imagery. Thiebaud has always managed to capture the American establishment and its spirit, through […]
As part of his Daily Documentary series, Dallas Graham interviewed Salt Lake Valley artist Steven Stradley, who is showing this month with Holly Mae Pendergast at Kayo Gallery and as part of the State Street Project at Gallery OneTen in Provo. Below are images by Graham as well as a segment of the interview. For the […]
Modernism brought about a re-examination of all aspects of life, including music, architecture, literature and art. As a movement, it also gave birth to the flâneur, a term derived from the French verb “to stroll.” Coined by 19th-century poet and art critic, Charles Baudelaire, the flâneur was seen as […]
by Annabelle Numaguchi It is rare that you walk into a dark room and think “light.” The luminosity of the black-walled installation featuring Bruce Boyd’s Obsessions of an Ex-Vandalexhibit hits you full force. In part, it’s the lighting and in part, it’s the amount of white on his two-toned images. […]
Ten years ago this month, Salt Lake City artist Shawn Rossiter caused a minor stir (and probably one or two fender benders) in his Sugar House neighborhood when he hung a 4′ x 8′ abstract painting in primary colors in front of his house on 13th East. He […]
Erin Westenksow Berrett’s studio, located in her Holladay home, is bathed in a golden light, a warmth reflected in her still-life paintings depicting shoes, pastries, globes, and egg cartons. Take a look at Kim Silcox’s photo essay of the space.
This Saturday, April 5, a ten-month wait is over. Eager viewers will watch as bulldozers level the graffiti-covered, installation-filled building on Salt Lake’s 400 East that became famous last year as the 337 Project. The brainchild of Adam and Dessi Price, the 337 Project turned a rundown building into […]
photos by Kelly Brooks Painter, filmmaker, free-lance graphic artist, educator, and Director of the Central Utah Art Center, Jared Latimer can often be found huddled over a laptop in his limestone–walled basement office at the Art Center, a few blocks from Snow College in the Sanpete County town of Ephraim. He may […]
While Meri DeCaria is well-known in Utah as the Director/Curator of Salt Lake City’s Phillips Gallery and also as President of the Salt Lake Gallery Association. she is equally recognized for her work as a visual artist. Producing art in an age where social commentary and complex, visually difficult imagery are […]
KUER has published an audio clip of a news story by Jennifer Napier-Pierce on the 337 Project, including interviews with artist Tessa Lindsay, Adam and Dessi Price and councilman Simon Sorensen. You can find the clip here. Our own story on the 337 Project can be found on […]
Utah’s Justin Taylor was recently recognized by the Portrait Society of America. His piece, “What to Make of It” (24 x 24 oil on canvas) was chosen, from among 1200 entrants, as 20 finalists for the Society’s conference in Philadelphia this April. Taylor, a native of Las Vegas, […]
We’re hard at work on the April edition of 15 Bytes, crossing our fingers that we’ll get back into our tradition of actually publishing it on the first Wednesday of the month (even if at 11:59 pm). We feel a responsibility to work hard on this project because […]
Park City’s Kimball Art Center announced this week that Pam Crowe-Weisberg has stepped down from her position as Executive Director. In announcing this change, the Kimball’s Board of Directors noted that Crowe-Weisberg has served in the position for the past four years, during which time the Kimball “introduced […]
In the March edition of 15 Bytes, Sue Martin provided some tax tips for artists. One of her tips, involving artists donating their work to non-profits raised some questions among our readers. Because Sue wrote that artists should have the receiving organization give them a receipt for the value of their […]
The Art of Small Things by John Mack Reviewed by Laurel Hunter It is no small thing to read through this book. Every time I picked up The Art of Small Things, I became totally absorbed in the beautiful color photographs that illustrate the book – the objects […]
When curators or academicians talk one-on-one with artists, the result is sometimes an exercise in futility, as two different temperaments use two different vocabularies. But as a witness to several artists talking with one another . . . it’s an organic swirl of artists’ names from past and […]
An artist asked me recently if it’s true that artists are often targeted by the IRS for audit, and, if so, what can you do to avoid an audit. Good question, I thought, so I asked my own tax accountant, Karen Summerhays of The Summerhays Group, for some […]
Wendover from Salt Lake City is a trip. A trip that takes an hour and a half, a trip punctuated by several mountain ranges before the flat, white expanse of Bonneville Salt Flats. Usually this trip is made with eyes closed, waiting for the relief that comes with […]
People are taking notice of Jen Suflita, a young Salt Lake City-based painter and printmaker. Describing her current exhibit at the Finch Lane Gallery on page 8 of this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, Geoff Wichert, wrote that “Jennifer Suflita makes portraits that strive to capture both the enduring […]
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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