“Most serious artists have experienced the surprise situation. The artist tries to express an idea, and it just doesn’t jell. He may work for hours, days, weeks. Then, just as he reaches an impasse, the whole thing comes into focus, the work appears on the canvas or paper […]
Nestled in a secluded corner of the Heber Valley is Gloria Montgomery’s home. Her studio is located in a large section of the house, an arrangement which she loves for its convenience and seclusion. Warm light filters in from several large windows, creating ideal working conditions. The walls […]
by Allen Bishop Small Acts of Devotion– Frank McEntire’s recent assemblages and paintings – is the featured exhibit through November 15 at David Ericson Fine Art in Salt Lake City. From the looks of this show, it is quite clear that he continues to roll, and gathers no […]
In her 1995 Masters thesis, Salt Lake City artist Diana Garff Gardiner quotes American watercolorist Charles Hawthorne: “Better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.” Gardiner takes this advice to heart as she finds […]
I won’t say he’s the best we’ve got (I’ve gotten flack for doing that in the past). But he may be the best we have up this month. Max Grundy has made me fall in love with Gallery Stroll all over again. Grundy’s show at the Unknown Gallery […]
I am currently reading the book 1491, by journalist Charles C. Mann, which examines current research into life in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans. One of the main theses of the book is that the continents were much more densely populated with more advanced civilizations […]
by Vera Bachman As we crowd around the shady side of a patio table at Cocoa Caffé to discuss the upcoming group show at Kayo Gallery, Sri Whipple calls for revolution. It is Saturday morning, and soon it is apparent that I am dealing with a bunch of […]
When a couple begins collecting art seriously, it is always a team effort. Collecting art is a time (and money) consuming process, and the effect it has on a couple’s home — and consequently their lives — can be significant. Dean and Bonnie Stephens have worked well […]
A Gallery is big – on sculpture. The new group sculpture show at A Gallery features many of the area’s finest sculptors. Represented in this knock-out exhibit are artists David Adams, Brian Berman, Laurie Burns, Brian Christensen, Anne Gregerson, John Haley III, Deborah Jong, Nnamdi Okonkwo, Ed Pogue, […]
It was July 4th and Lee Cowan and his family were at their home in Los Angeles when a driver in a drive-by shooting crashed his vehicle into their front lawn, bleeding from a gunshot wound in his neck. That was the day the Cowans decided to leave […]
Don’t let the red sandstone façade intimidate you. Martine’s Café Tapas, located at 22 East and 100 South (in the old Utah Commercial and Savings Bank Building built in 1889), although just as classy on the inside, is warm and inviting even to the most casually-dressed visitor. […]
If you’ve ever driven west from Salt Lake to Wendover you’ve seen it: Karl Momen’s “Tree of Utah.” Momen’s sculpture, along with Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” and Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” make Utah a destination place for international aficionados of land art. But while the “Spiral Jetty” and […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’m enjoying a stack of new poems given to me by Utah’s Poet Laureate, Ken Brewer. Some of the by-the-bed books I’m chewing on, listed here as lifted from the stack, include: -Craig Childs’ The Secret Knowledge of Water (just a few pages […]
Jeffrey Hein photographs by Manju Varghese | text by Joyce Cheun Walk in this classic brick building located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, and you will find an elegant steel staircase in the center that broadly opens upward. Climb to the top floor, and you […]
In Doctrine and Covenants, a kind of L.D.S. handbook, Joseph Smith enjoins his followers on venerable theological grounds to practice moderation in all things. Those good people, responding out of impulses set even deeper in human nature, have striven ever since to do twice what he asked of […]
The Rio Gallery at the Rio Grande Depot exists within a huge cavernous space. One might wonder how it could possibly be used as a successful gallery. However, the staff of the Utah Arts Council Visual Arts Program somehow manages to hang very successful fine art exhibits in […]
In his elegantly written and accessible read, “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa,” Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for the New York Times, explores the creative process as it is revealed in the lives of artists and non-artists alike. Kimmelman brings a critic’s […]
The UVSC Woodbury Art Museum’s current sculpture exhibition, “Regions of the Mind: Exploring conceptual domains in contemporary sculpture,” explores the artistic pluralism that is contemporary sculpture. The installation of the nine sculptors’ work reflects this pluralism, giving each artist’s work its own alcove, chamber, or cell of the […]
Some sculptors treat language as just another malleable substance, no different from wax or bronze. BYU Sculpture Professor Brian Christensen has chosen to call the dozen new works on display at the Central Utah Art Center Body and Time. Here “and” stands in for a word we lack: […]
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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