Pygmalion Productions opened its 2024/2025 season Friday with Tender Hooks, Julie Jensen’s sad, funny and (under Fran Pruyn’s uber-talented direction) completely captivating play that centers on LaPriel, a nervous, 60-something widowed piano teacher (perfectly played by Jensie Anderson) who buys Postum by the case, devoutly reads the Doctrine […]
Entering the gallery, I am greeted by five wooden pedestals of varying heights, each supporting dried lavender. The subtle fragrance permeates the air, though not as strongly as I might have expected, relying more on the memory of its scent. It immediately pulls me inward, evoking a sense […]
“I could do that in five minutes.” It’s a common refrain, frequently and flippantly said, usually while looking at a Pollock-esque paint splatter worth an amount north of your mortgage, but, really, it’s said of any kind of modern art. Which is unfair, because “modern art” can mean […]
When June Harwood moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1950s, she found a fertile environment for her own artistic interests in the Hard-Edge movement then taking shape. She became friends with several artists, including Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, who were developing a new, reduced, classic style […]
6th and 6th Studios: Seven Artists and Live Music If you missed luscious works like these by Sri Whipple at the Poor Yorick Open Studios, you’ve got another chance as 6th and 6th Studios in Salt Lake City open their doors to the public Friday evening, Oct. 4, […]
He lived every second of his life for acclaim while pretending it was merely this unexpected, unwanted byproduct of his oh-so-authentic and eccentric cutting-edge art. Like he would produce that art whether or not he got the veneration. Bollocks. Everything he did he did to be adored. That’s […]
The first question you may ask yourself is, Why? Why stick a piece of chewed bubble gum onto a brightly-painted Volkswagen Bug in downtown Provo, Utah? Surely, not to be transgressive: the owners have encouraged you to. Nor likely out of necessity—that is, a big wad of gum […]
Most of “The Sound of Many Books” is taken up by the wall of tomes: going on five shelves of them, no two the same, the gaps between them like missing teeth that testify to regular use. This is an avid reader’s library. Who that reader may be […]
Walking into Allen and Alan Fine Art—(or ‘A’ Gallery, as it’s generally known)—it’s clear you’re stepping into a space that reveres artwork. Past the desk, on the left, two large-scale paintings by Jennifer Rasmusson draw you in with a subtle yet dignified seduction. The space, lit by natural […]
Writing for 15 Bytes, the temptation is always to go straight to the art. In the case of the current show at Art Access, that might mean Allianys Pupo Restrepo’s “Royalty Playing Cards”—decks of classic playing cards that have been digitally printed. The actual decks are laid out […]
How long does Connie Borup tinker with her drawing, shifting and rearranging it, erasing and starting over? Or is it possible that she is lucky enough to find these graceful, elegant lines already composed by nature’s calligraphy? Borup’s recent work, currently on display at Phillips Gallery, continues her […]
Poor Yorick Studios: Salon d’Automne Open Studio Event On Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 4 to 10 PM, Poor Yorick Studios in South Salt Lake will open its doors for their semi-annual open studio event, Salon d’Automne. Featuring the work of over 40 Utah artists, this lively celebration […]
Not unlike the historical epoch from which it emerged, What Falls Away is a novel that looks back in anger, while it looks ahead with hope. As in our lives, the anger is aimed at a greedy, patriarchal order that refuses to yield power, while the hope is […]
Downstairs at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Making a Scene highlights a burgeoning West Coast art scene, charting developments in abstraction and surrealism in the 1940s and 1950s (see our review here). Upstairs, two shows focusing on Los Angeles show us what happened next. Alongside the […]
Mythili Prakash and her ensemble performed She is Auspicious on the evening of September 8 at the Jeanne Wagner Theatre, under the auspices of Utah Presents and Nitya Nritya Foundation. To the terms “avant-garde,” “bold,” and “original” used to describe Mythili Prakash’s production, I would add “candid” and […]
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company opened its 2024-2025 season with an evening full of tension, humor, elegance, and exuberance, featuring two world premieres and a dynamic exploration of human emotion. The evening begins with The Bunker, choreographed by Laja Field and Martin Durov. Set against an original score by Durov, […]
If you visited the Utah Shakespeare Festival this summer you may know how crowded with art the Southern Utah Museum of Art has been. The venue is usually packed — constructed as part of the architectural trend where designing an art museum focused more on creating an interesting […]
It’s well known that sensations like flavors, odors, and sights tend to be unpleasant on first encounter—a mechanism that protects individuals from unknown dangers—but that with further experience they may come to seem neutral, even positively delightful. Captured in a single image, the phenomenon might take the form […]
Nolan Flynn’s is one of the studios you’ll be able to visit this weekend during the 10th annual Avenues Open Studios: Off the Grid (see below). “While working through my pieces they begin as a sketch or painting calisthenic,” Flynn says. “It is important for a consistent awareness […]
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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