The Sundance Film Festival opens today in Park City and that means that for the duration of the 10 day festival many of Park City’s visual arts venues will be hijacked by the glitterati (and those courting the glitterati). Julie Nester Gallery, located off well-trod Main Street, maintains its […]
by Kimberly Rock It’s picturesque: winter in Park City , Utah. Bedazzled holiday trees softly shine through swirling snow. Through thick crowds of sun-kissed skiers, delicious scents beckon from restaurants and warm coffee bars. And the Park City galleries, with their rich array of media, styles, and artists, […]
Sometimes an installation gets an unexpected boost from nature: so it was in the outdoor sculpture garden at the Central Utah Art Center this week. One of the rare sumptuously beautiful works of art with critical credibility, Roscoe Wilson’s Waste Not, Want Not (see our December issue) saw […]
Annette Everett of Saint George was honored with “Best of Show” for her sculpture, “Duet, Mary & Martha” by a jury of Master Signature Members of American Women Artists (AWA), a non-profit organization dedicated to the inspiration, celebration and encouragement of women in the arts. The piece was awarded […]
Those of you living or working near downtown Salt Lake may have been wondering what the fireworks were all about last Friday. They were part of the celebration of the reopening of the Utah State Capitol. The fireworks followed a PRIVATE rededication ceremony and preceded a PRIVATE reception, just […]
The Salt Lake Art Center announced Thursday that local artist Annie Kennedy has been appointed the new Curator of Education for the Center. Kennedy, who holds an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York, comes to the Center after having served as the Director of Education and […]
A native of American Fork, Utah who grew up in southwestern Montana,Colleen Howe studied painting at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. Howe works in paint and pastel and is known equally for her skills as an instructor and her talent as an artist.Unexpected Harmony, an exhibit […]
A spacious loft in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City is the launching ground for the colorful mixed-media art of Willamarie Huelskamp. The only non-resident in the Broadway lofts, Huelskamp has been here for the past eight years. The loft gives the artist room for her vision […]
White. Pure, innocent, cleansing, good, virtuous, virgin, whole, positive, light, new, reviving, awakening. White is the fullness of the spectrum of color, the element we do not see in the vicissitudes of the rainbow, in the vicissitudes of life. It is all encompassing yet invisible. At this time […]
It would be far too simplistic to say there are two types of people – those who set goals and plan for their life/work successes, and those who simply sit back and watch life unfold and hope for the best. But if those descriptions represent two ends […]
The sleek font and strictly vocalic content of the marquee above one of Salt Lake’s newest galleries has more than one gallery goer scratching their head. The IAO Gallery(pronounced ahy-oh) opened in June 2007 at the corner of 200 South and 500 West in the Artspace Bridge Project’s space formerly occupied by […]
When I heard that a new book about Bonnie Posselli was available, I jumped at the chance to write a review. I remember taking a weeklong painting class from Posselli several years ago where we were challenged to paint en plein-air every day. This was my first experience painting out […]
Gallery Stroll Turns Two This Month To most of you in Salt Lake it might come as a surprise when I tell you that the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll is two years old this month. “Surely,” you’ll say, “Gallery Stroll has been around longer than that. My grandma […]
The conversation from which culture emerges takes form in many mediums: pictures, objects, actions, and always among the most important mediums is language. From a subtle hum to a plangent song, words carry some of the most useful cargo our fragile vessels can contain. The primary virtue of […]
Jason Metcalf With so many artists and so many mediums in today’s art world, to make it an artist needs to find big shoes and have feet large enough to fill them. A young artist is hard pressed to find his or her way through artistic channels to […]
On a recent visit to the Brigham Young University campus, I was charmed by one of the exhibits in the Harris Fine Arts Center. In the large open space of the Center’s atrium, students from the University’s fine arts program regularly exhibit their work. Being as they are […]
Is it better to make a New Years Resolution and not achieve it or to simply not make any and so avoid disappointment? We thought about making a resolution to get 15 Bytes out when we say we will — the first Wednesday of the month — but […]
At the start of the New Year, we are sitting down to assess the past year and plan for the following. As part of that process, we are looking at some of our numbers for 2007, and since this Artists of Utah thing is a community venture we […]
In Sunday’s paper, the staff at the Salt Lake Tribune took a look back at 2007 to rate the biggest visual arts events of the year. Though the big-name institutions like BYU’s MoA and the UMFA were mentioned, it was a local lawyer and graphic designer who decided […]
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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