After Salt Lake and Park City, it’s time for some Utah County glass with an exhibit of the glasswork of David andJeanne Gomm at the Covey Center in Provo. The husband and wife team are featuring works of stained and sandblasted glass with Lynde Mott, who is showing […]
Chris Miles shares a studio with his mother, Dottie, in Sugar House’s Rockwood Building (which despite the boarded up buildings in the area, still stands and houses over forty local artists). Miles worked in New York as an illustrator before coming back to Utah to shift to fine […]
In our December 2007 edition of 15 bytes, our Artist Profile spotlighted Suzanne Larson, an assemblage sculpture who began experimenting with glass four years ago. When Larson got into glass, she found a large community of glass artists in the state. In addition to Larson’s glass now on […]
2007 has been a good year for Salt Lake City artist Nate Ronniger. In addition to exhibiting at the Bountiful/Davis Art Center and Terzian Galleries in Park City, Ronniger has been recognized for his work with purchases, awards and publication. The Salt Lake County Art Committee purchased his work, […]
Ehren Clark, a regular contributor to 15 Bytes, is curating an exhibit this month in downtown Provo. You’ll be able to see A World Without Art, an exhibit juried from entries by BYU’s Art Club, all this month beginning this Friday, December 7, during the Provo Gallery Stroll. You’ll […]
As a friend and I entered Michael Berry’s gallery for the November Gallery Stroll, my friend turned to me and said, “I’d love to know where these artists get their inspiration and ideas.” And then, there was an answer, right in front of us, Pilar Pobil’s new book, My Kitchen […]
One of the factors that first attracted me to the history of Utah artists and art was the Paris art mission of 1890 to 1892. In one of my early Bob Olpin classes at the U, I selected the intriguing, unique mission as the theme for some research. […]
In our December 2006 edition of 15 Bytes, Tom Alder’s column focused on LeConte Stewart. We illustrated the article with images of a number of the Christmas cards Stewart created each year and sent to family and friends. We’ve decided to continue the artist Christmas card tradition and this year […]
Suzanne Larson loves to be around animals, whether they be made of flesh and blood and wrapped in shell or fur, or constructed from Styrofoam or papier-mâché and wrapped in thrift-store ties and living room drapes. Either way, animals speak to her. As a veterinary technician, the flesh […]
Well, we didn’t make it all the way through; and we took day four to head over to the Rubell Family Collection–contained in an AMAZINGLY SWEET warehouse in the Wynwood art district. The space was huge, the work was great, they had an awesome bookstore, and I just like […]
In his “Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, with Saints Jerome, Paul, and Peter,” Botticelli makes one of the Renaissance’s more subtle claims for the status of art and the artist. After all, of the three men he shows present at the crucifixion, one was not yet born, one had yet […]
We got a little discombobulated in our methodical approach. Didn’t cover as much as we had planned. But we needed a break. As we go, I’m starting to notice a lot of repeats; that is multiple galleries representing the same artist. Which helps pin them down in my […]
Looking at art is so exciting, and so exhausting. We had to get systematic. There is so much to cover, we had to make a plan and map it out. We still aren’t even halfway through. We saw some interesting stuff, some new to me, some old. Saw […]
Cara Despain, a regular contributor to 15 Bytes, is visiting Art Basel in Miami this week, so we asked her to send us some posts about her experience there: Day one: Art Basel Miami officially opened at the convention center yesterday. We got a somewhat late start, so […]
If you want your art to reach a national or international audience, placing it in an art book may be helpful. But which books? Should you publish your own? And how do you get the attention of editors and publishers? That’s what I’ll cover in this column, along […]
by Kimberly Rock At the close of Six Sinking Ships and I’m Gone, a solo exhibit featuring his own work, artist and gallery owner Kenny Riches will exit the Utah art scene, leaving his unique mark on the Broadway District and leaving direction of his popular Kayo Gallery to Shilo […]
Salt Lake City’s Nate Ronniger 2007 has been a good year for Salt Lake City artist Nate Ronniger. In addition to exhibiting at the Bountiful/Davis Art Center and Terzian Galleries in Park City, Ronniger has been recognized for his work with purchases, awards and publication. The Salt Lake County […]
In his “Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, with Saints Jerome, Paul, and Peter,” Botticelli makes one of the Renaissance’s more subtle claims for the status of art and the artist. After all, of the three men he shows present at the crucifixion, one was not yet born, one had yet […]
“Pandora’s Box” by Andrew Junge, 2005, assemblage with neon, 11″ x 21″ x 9″ SF Recycled, the current exhibit in the Salt Lake Art Center’s Main Gallery, features artwork created out of materials from the solid-waste transfer and recycling center in San Francisco. Using old or found objects to create […]
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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