Todd Oberndorfer is a proud Ogdenite. A graduate of Weber State University (BFA, 2D Design), he holds the Visual Arts Chair on the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee and sits on the Ogden Contemporary Arts Advisory Committee. In 2010, he co-founded The Banyan Collective, a media company working […]
They’re clearly plants, though unlike any we see here in Utah. The tallest one looks like a tree, but with something like a handful of twisted fingers at the top. Closer to the viewer, something pink looks like a Fourth of July firework: a single stem like the […]
This Friday, Park City’s Gallery MAR opens an exhibition celebrating 15 years of business with a show that focuses on the gallery’s roster: all 30 artists will be represented by works that measure 15 x 15 inches. All that work wouldn’t come together without the vision of the […]
There are a lot of whale bones in the AIR. (That’s the gallery at UMOCA where their Artists In Residence cap their experience with a one-person show.) There are also a number of red herrings, which can happen when an artist tries to do something unconventional. In Razorbacks, […]
“Painting really is a way of life, seeing and survival for me,” says Toronto-based artist Fathima Mohiuddin, who paints under the name Fatspatrol and who visited Utah recently to complete one of the new murals in South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest. Working on a large scale is something […]
“Domestic Remiss” is the title of a work by Kylie Millward that appeared in Space Maker, a 2021, pandemic-inspired exhibit at UMFA that, as 15 Bytes reported at the time, was drawn “from work by faculty within the University of Utah’s Department of Art and Art History to […]
Nathan Florence converses much the way he paints: in-depth with lots of color; layered with nuance but an abundance of honesty; moments of intensity with an overall cheerfulness. He is a fun interview. But try chatting with Florence about his work and you will immediately be turned down […]
Caro Nilsson has a professional background in architecture, but the Salt Lake City artist embraced art full-time after a painting residency in early 2021. Painting murals — a process of collaborating with the built environment — seemed a logical marriage of the two practices. In 2022, she completed […]
The Statue of Liberty is to America what the Mona Lisa is to France: the nation’s best known work of art, one that people come from all over the world to see and appreciate. The history of Mona Lisa, however, is the story of a small painting that […]
5/15 Chie Fueki Awarded Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting UMOCA and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation have announced that the New York-based artist Chie Fueki has been awarded the 2023 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki […]
Charity Hamidullah is a multi-disciplinary artist from Rochester, New York who has worked in the Atlanta community since 2011. “Growing up in a multicultural household my principles were built on love and diversity. Since my youth, I have been inspired by the connection of love,” she says. […]
Over six years and with the help of dozens of artists from within and outside Utah, South Salt Lake’s The Mural Fest has planted murals all over the concrete garden of its downtown area and adjacent creative zone. At this point you could start walking from anywhere within […]
Here’s a question each of us should ask ourselves: what is my legacy likely to be? Lately, each generation or era gets assigned an identity — the Greatest, the Boomers, the Millennials — each of which might signify something. But what is the relation between a generational impact […]
Taxonomy is a fundamental human activity … the behavior that enables thinking. It separates humans from the rest of the earth’s animal population. The science of distinguishing and classifying is what enables us not only to identify and react to the myriad things we encounter every day, but […]
When she returned after the war, Elaine Michelsen brought home some strange ideas. Unknown, foreign, from outside. Ideas suggested in pictorial form, alluded to in spoken word. Gathered from somewhere in the the wide world, she brought them to her Rocky Mountain home in Salt Lake City, Utah. […]
Elizabeth Sanchez’s exhibition Así se Acaba el Mundo/This is How the World Ends invites individual reflection toward the constant endings and beginnings of life. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Sanchez moved to Utah in 2003 to study painting at Brigham Young University. She received her BFA in Studio Arts […]
On a field of gravel stretching, by all appearances, to the horizon, torn and crumpled $100 bills lie scattered around rusting, broken-bladed iron scissors. It’s not the fun and games we normally associate with the phrase “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” but it is watercolorist Mariko Kowalski’s comment on the […]
Maynard Dixon captured the dry heat of our desert landscape in dusty yellows and browns, but he could also remind us of quieter nights and bright skies with an array of blues and greens. Each painting of earth, sky, or being is a graphic depiction of shapes created […]
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the 15 Utah artists in design, performing, and visual arts that have been awarded $5,000 fellowships to recognize their individual artistic excellence and support their professional careers. The fellowship provides unrestricted cash awards based on review by prominent arts […]
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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