Unmonumental: the object in the 21st century reviewed by Geoff Wichert Unmonumental is simultaneously the name of a book, a pioneering exhibition at the New Museum’s new home in the Bowery for which it functions as catalog, and a school of sculpture that the book argues is the […]
In our September 2007 edition, we learned that (then mayoral candidate) Ralph Becker is a fan of Jim Jones and H.L.A. Culmer and that he believes “we need to be continually promoting the great Utah art we have;” now, thanks to the Utah Cultural Alliance’s May Culture Bytes, the […]
Photography 2.0: an essay by Jackie Brethen Leishman on the occasion of Pixelism, an exhibition of works by Brett Sykes at the Thanksgiving Point Art Institute Photography is often overlooked in the discussion of fine art. Only recently have some photographs demanded the high prices/notoriety the other art […]
Dismantling Geneva Steel: Photographs by Chris Dunker Essays by Diana Turnbow and Sara J. Northerner Brigham Young University, Museum of Art reviewed by Laurel Hunter Geneva Steel, in Vineyard, Utah, opened in the 1940s to mill steel for use in WW2 war ships. It slowly declined after its […]
Mark England’s “Biography” video by Michael Stack Mark England was one of the first artist’s profiled in the pages of 15 Bytes. At the time, he was visited in his Alpine home, but he has since moved to Salt Lake and now maintains a home and studio in the […]
As part of his Daily Documentary series, Dallas Graham interviewed Salt Lake John O’Connell whose exhibit Image/Object opens May 15 at A Gallery. The University of Utah professor of art talks about his personal story, his art making process, his cultural heritage, teaching art, new strategies in digital art and the upcoming show. Below are […]
Artist Bepe Kafka was kind enough to send this our way: The Orphan Works Act of 2008 is now being considered in the U.S. Congress. "Orphan Works" are any copyrighted work whose author any infringer says he is unable to locate with what the infringer himself decides has […]
“Among the few consolations of what has been called [artist’s] block is the assurance that, so long as one has it, one is, indeed [an artist]. Of course, the longer it goes the more it resembes, and risks being mistaken for, proctologist’s block, real estate agent’s block and […]
Leslie Peterson has been involved in Utah’s cultural community for many years. A graduate of the University of Utah, she worked for Utah Opera in several capacities, most recently as Managing Director; she was also part of the successful Zoo, Arts & Parks Renewal Campaign. In addition to […]
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 […]
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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