Aug. 16: Bountiful Davis Art Center Unveils Four Captivating Exhibitions The Bountiful Davis Art Center (BDAC) invites art enthusiasts to explore four new exhibitions, each offering a unique perspective on personal and collective experiences. From August 16 to September 21, 2024, visitors can engage with the introspective works […]
Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is a dreamy venue for an exhibition, practically perfect in every way for Susan Makov’s dazzling 31-piece Tree Language, up through Aug. 26. The July opening was crowded and buzzing so the artist will give a talk and answer queries about her haunting […]
If you never thought to burn down your father’s house, or to murder him in his sleep—included here as a free psychic bonus—Michael Gills’ collection of 11 stories, accurately labeled “short,” may not be for you. If you were so fortunate as to grow up in a perfectly […]
There’s a general rule at 15 Bytes: the art we write about should be on public display somewhere at the same time. For living artists, that usually means we’re writing about something made in the past year or two, freshly hung on a gallery wall. In the case […]
All over the world, the story of art begins with Nature: for example, through images of living creatures painted on exposed rock faces. Later, when we moved indoors, art brought the natural world along, to complete a dwelling’s interior space. Artists can preserve the ephemeral, as Connie Borup […]
It’s almost like Frank Huff, Jr. dares you to dismiss his work. Or part of it. Take, for instance, his painting of a nondescript parking lot. Why bother? It’s not some social commentary, à la Joni Mitchell, paving paradise and all that. There’s no real judgment here. It’s […]
“I think that if a song isn’t about something, it ought to be an instrumental.” With that advice, spoken often in concert, the great American jazz poet and performer Gil Scott-Heron, author of “Winter in America,” “Johannesburg,” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” never failed to bring […]
At some time in the early years of my life, my artist father and my mother left their studio in Paris, France, where they had lived for many years on the Left Bank among all the artists of those days and where I was born on Bastille Day, the independence day of France. My mother and I went to England where her two maiden sisters lived and operated a little delicatessen store. My father came on to the U.S. to visit his sister, who he hadn’t seen since a small boy. It was a year or more before my mother and I came to the U.S. also, after he had opened a little studio in the small town of Carthage, MO, where his sister lived. That is how I came to know the Ozarks as a small boy.
Early in the new millennium, a couple of inauspicious things occurred locally. Shawn Rossiter, a linguist turned painter, decided to start something he felt Utah needed: an arts magazine. 15 Bytes struggled for a few years, then hit its stride in 2005. Same applies to glass master Dan […]
Jason Jones has created a captivating mural for Midvale’s Los Muros on Main festival. Located on the back of Nowhere Tattoo (7624 S Main Street, Midvale), the mural features a dynamic scene where a green tentacled creature holds an orange popsicle in one of its tentacles, while a […]
7/9 PARK RECORD: John Bukaty adds more than color to the Park City Song Summit Renowned visual artist John Bukaty takes his role as the Park City Song Summit Artist in Residence seriously. “For the most part, I’m there to serve art for the musicians,” he said. “I’m […]
If you plan on scheduling a tour of the Salt Lake County art collection, be prepared. Kate Ithurralde’s enthusiasm for the largest publicly available collection of Utah art is infectious. She can dive deep into an individual work or range comfortably across the expanse of the collection, knitting […]
“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere.” With those words, Aleksandar Hemon introduces readers to the voice of a cipher, the mystery man at the center his novel The Lazarus Project. This might also be a […]
In a painting titled “I Will Hold You Above the Treetops,” a parent standing on the crest of a ridge embraces and lifts a child. A viewer might casually assume this is a father, but on closer approach, the pair could just as well be a mother and […]
It’s unlikely anyone has tried to count the number of art students who begin their practice by drawing or painting people, though it’s possible a majority do. Then again, one of 15 Bytes better writers, Hannah Sandorf Davis, was able to track how art schools typically respond when […]
The prestigious Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition has announced its winners for 2024. After advancing through five rigorous rounds, three exceptional pianists have been named the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists. The winners are: Gold Medalist: Youl Sun, who also received the Audience Choice Prize and Student […]
A mural created for the 2024 Los Muros on Main festival by Daisuke Okamoto offers a visual narrative that intertwines local symbolism with universal themes of identity and renewal. Painted on the south side of the building at 7584 S Main Street, “Into the Elk” features a majestic […]
Many siblings see their artwork hanging side by side, but that’s usually on their parents’ fridge. For James and John Rees, it’s at the Utah Valley University Museum of Art. Born Into This is a small show featuring recent works by James and John. Rather than centering around […]
At first glance, it seems the key to poignant feeling in art is simplicity. Surely Randee Levine’s “Empty Vessels,” one of 18 mixed-media impressions now at Phillips, could hardly be more simple or more striking. Two monochrome items of tableware, perhaps a cruet and a small bowl or […]
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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