From more than 30 years of launching exhibitions, Kevin O’Keefe has learned one thing above all: face-to-face connections matter. “It became clear that getting in front of the right person shortens the time to a decision and dramatically increases business,” he says.
11/18 THE UTAH REVIEW: Intelligent, subdued spiritual feel in The Blue of Distance, show of Madeline Rupard, Drew Rane at Material art gallery For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote […]
Holly Rios began her training at Western Colorado University, studying printmaking and English, until—as she puts it—she “did the art-school thing and dropped out to learn about real life.” The time away didn’t pull her from art so much as widen the lens: work, people, desire, power, and […]
Glass is one of the more remarkable materials found in nature. Spewed from a volcano, molten glass can cool quickly in the air before landing as obsidian, which when broken produces sharp edges that make perfect tools for cultures that lack metals. Dissolved in water, it precipitates out […]
We snapped these images before the last leaves came down. Titled “Victoriam,” this 70-foot mural by Salt Lake City artist Chuck Berrett spans nearly 2,000 square feet, transforming the façade of a former 1968 medical office building into a sweeping field of botanical movement and layered color. The […]
Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.
The 2025 Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah at Springville Museum of Art takes place in a nation and at a time when both those parts of the spectrum of reverence are under attack. So long as a dominant minority of our citizens is determined to ignore both […]
The metal air filters should be your first clue that Carson Cahoon is interested in materials. Six of them, in a row, without comment or adornment, frame one end of his exhibit Dead or Alive, on the basement floor of the SLC Main Library, where Cahoon, a Salt […]
In March of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of what started as 4,000 Black, working-class people and allies from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in a march that swelled to 22,000 and spurred the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, granting Black Americans […]
The President’s Art Show at Salt Lake Community College is essentially a juried, statewide art exhibition. It never fails to bring out a substantial cross-section of recent, high-quality Utah art, along with a large and enthusiastic audience. Its sponsors, the SLCC Art Committee, also challenge all involved by […]
In February 2012, when Cheryl Strayed revealed herself as the writer of Dear Sugar, the wildly popular anonymous internet advice column, her coming out was detailed in a New Yorker interview. This was on the cusp of the publication of Strayed’s memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on […]
A Perspective of Nature, now on view at Alpine Art & Frame in Salt Lake City, brings together four artists—Sarah Ashley Peterson, Laura Hope Mason, Jodi Steen, and Matthew Hassing—whose works channel the restorative power of the natural world into the places we live and gather. At a […]
With university faculty art exhibitions, there is rarely a throughline—a main theme or narrative that ties all the disparate works by different artists together—and the UMFA’s Relative Truths, seems, at first, to be no exception. There are several stated themes—isolation, division, contested histories, cultural anxiety, dismantling of human […]
On Friday, Aug. 22, the seats of UMOCA’s auditorium filled up to witness an evening of dance films curated by Irishia Hubbard Romaine, a dancer-filmmaker who lived in Salt Lake City for 3 years. “Strands of Identity: Excerpt and Guest Artist Screening” presented five works exploring the Black […]
Photographer, researcher, and preservationist Sheila Nadimi has been honored with the Utah Historical Society’s 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of her decades-long project Eagle Village, which documents the site and memory of the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City. The award acknowledges Nadimi’s extraordinary service in preserving […]
It’s a precarious time in America to protest, to speak freely. Whether cancellation, the lawsuit or jail, serious forces are arrayed against the citizen who chooses to walk down the street, fist raised. Into this atmosphere, three Ogden photographers have been pointing their cameras at dissent in public […]
Nine Salt Lake County artists and collectives have been awarded a combined $60,000 through the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA)’s new Assemblage Art Fund — a locally-focused regranting program supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Shalee Cooper had already begun to pack. A few paintings were boxed, ready to be shipped back to the Mandelman/Ribak Foundation, which the gallery had been working with since 2018. After six years at the Bogue Foundry, Modern West’s lease would be up in December. In a changed […]
The folks at Julie Nester Gallery in Park City have a healthy appetite for abstraction, but they tend to make sure it’s about something. The poster child for their Autumn Show, Newport Beach painter Chris Gwaltney’s “Carnival Ride (book reading chairs),” not only includes the title pair of […]
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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