by Kent Rigby Ken Sanders, though neither an artist nor a gallery owner, has been exhibiting artwork for over thirty years. In the various businesses Sanders has run over the years, including his current venture, Ken Sanders Rare Books, Sanders has developed a variety of exhibitions featuring everything […]
Evergreen has been in the framing and gallery business for almost twenty years, but recently built a new building for the purpose of exhibiting artwork on a more professional scale. Now located on 3295 South and 200 East, owners Maj and Kelly Omana built a larger freestanding building […]
The Salt Lake Gallery Association also welcomes what they call “affiliate members” — arts-related businesses whose exhibit of artwork is not their primary function, but host regular exhibits during business hours and stay open late on Gallery Stroll. Design Firms such as W. Communications have separate spaces where […]
Kent Rigby’s life is busy. Real busy. Rigby is a local sculptor and ceramic artist who works a day job as a licensed architect. In addition, he has served for over ten years as President of the Salt Lake Gallery Association, has been a driving force behind Left Bank […]
A politely put, “good luck” followed by a short little laugh is probably one of the nicer responses you’ll receive after telling someone about your big plans of opening an art gallery. Just like artists, galleries have a difficult time attracting and maintaining a clientele in a smaller […]
On Oct 1, 2003, Left Bank gallery, Utah’s longest running artists’ cooperative, underwent major internal reconstruction and emerged as New Visions Gallery . Heather Wunderlich, past gallery director for Left Bank, says “Left Bank was a great organization that offered an opportunity for emerging artists to get their […]
Utah County artist Stewart Anstead has learned the hard way that nothing in life is free. Like wall space. Like many artists, Anstead took advantage of empty wall space in the building where his studio is located to hang some of his artwork. His fellow tenants were happy […]
The Salt Lake County’s Brown Bag Discussion Series “Art Too! Art Not!” concluded this past month, with the final panel discussion “Controversies in the Salt Lake County Art Collection” held on Friday, October 17th. Dave Ericson and William Seifrit, both of whom were on the committee which helped […]
Assistant Visual Arts Coordinator. Rio Gallery Manager. Art Ops Editor. 15 Bytes Staff Writer. Vice President, Salt Lake Gallery Association. ArtSpeak radio host. All of these sound like incredible jobs for someone interested in working in the art world. These positions however, are all held by one person. […]
You probably have a week to ten days left to see the current exhibitions at participating Salt Lake galleries before the next Gallery Stroll. Here’s Kasey Boone’s World Series take on what there is to see. HOME RUN: If you only have time to make it to one […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? I usually have 2 or 3 (or 4 or 5 or 6) books going at the same time. I actually even finish some of them; others are little more than browsed through (things like money or politics, I would have to be […]
Inside the Vault: Truths & Myths from the Utah State Fine Art Collection The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,100 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and […]
Provo is certainly not the art capital of Utah. Compared to Salt Lake City or Park City, Utah County has almost no commercial art galleries to speak of. So, when David Hawkinson and his wife Florence decided to open a gallery in this quiet college town, they were […]
by Jill MacAllister/photos courtesy UAC Issues that haunt all local artist exhibitions have followed some of Utahs foremost artists to the UVSC Woodbury Art Museum in Orem. The Museum currently showcases the Utah Arts Council’s Utah! 2003: Crafts and Photography, featuring eighty-seven pieces from sixty-one Utah artists. These […]
by Jennifer Davis To take a walk in someone else’s moccasins is a strategy that encourages seeing things from a different point of view or perception. Brian Christensen, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, focuses on perception in his latest series of sculptures, which are now on […]
photos by Steve Coray Standing beneath the life-sized drawing of an Allosaur and her young displayed along one wall of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s Dinosaur Tales Exhibit, the viewer is not only awed by the complete realism and preciseness of this image, but also by the […]
The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,100 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and office buildings throughout Utah and many travel with the Utah Arts Council Traveling […]
by Lisa Scopes Oliver As the seasons start their metamorphosis once again and shades of fall begin coloring the hillsides, an artist’s thoughts turn to contemplate many things: capturing the landscape on canvas, finding alternate venues to display their works, and, possibly most important this fall, deciding which […]
by Dee Moffett DM: You are having two shows almost back to back. You’re about to take down one called Venice & Tuscany at the Halles Gallery and now you’re having a one-man show at Chroma Gallery. But when I look at the works in the two shows I’m surprised by […]
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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