Meditations in Paint, featuring Kent Downing, Randall Lake & Ken Spencer at PTC Loge Gallery
February 15 – March 2
Salt Lake City
Life Changes for Sarah Winegar in 2019
Looking back, Sarah Winegar says 2018 was “a year for exploring what role I wanted art to play in my life.” She had opportunities to exhibit and teach, run workshops, get accepted to and refected from shows. The culmination, at least professionally, was a collaborative show at Provo’s […]
Jennifer Tonge: CATAFALQUE & seven syllabic acrostics
READ LOCAL First represents Utah’s most comprehensive collection of celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and memoir. This week we bring you poet Jennifer Tonge. Tonge resides in Salt Lake City and earned an MFA at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and, […]
Rebecca Klundt is Joining the Refugee Benefit Art Sale for 2019
Rebecca Klundt is a Salt Lake City native and graduate from Brigham Young University with a BFA in 2D studio art, an emphasis on painting. And power tools. From a distance Klundt’s works may look like simple 2-D paintings, or maybe collage works, but they are actually created with found […]
Andrew Alba Wants to Rearrange UMOCA in 2019
As a self-taught artist, Andrew Alba says he’s able to create works “outside the constraining expectations that contemporary artists educated within the academy often face.” That hasn’t kept the artist out of official art institutions, however. He’s halfway through a year-long residency at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, […]
Tara Carpenter Estrada is Tied Up in Weaving for 2019
Tara Carpenter Estrada, an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Brigham Young University who received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah, is known mostly for her ceramics and mixed-media art, but she says in 2019 she’ll be diving deeper into textiles. “In […]
Nathanael Read is Looking Forward to a Whale of a Good Year
Nathanael Read’s BFA from the University of Utah is in painting and drawing, but these days you’re most likely to find him hovering around the presses at Saltgrass Printmakers playing with ferric chloride. 2018 was a good year for the printmaker, painter, illustrator and “wanna-be comic book artist,” with […]
Mortality as Inescapably Opaque: Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman
Come inside Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman and you’ll travel through a hall of mirrors. You’ll watch a young woman incorporate the timeless dramas of grief in a sideshow tent, reflecting richer gestures of love and loss in the distant center ring. You’ll see our narrator undone […]
Brian Christensen’s Sublime 2018
Brigham Young University art professor Brian Christensen says the “most seminal experience of epiphany in 2018” happed during the second season of BYU’s Art Advanced Summer Intensive program, which he organized with colleague Collin Bradford. During the program students visited land art sites and engaged the landscape with […]
2018 Was About Honors and Mentors for Casey Childs
When Bill Whitaker died earlier this year, he left behind an impressive roster of talented and accomplished artists he had help to come into their own. Casey Childs is one of them. The Wyoming native studied formally at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming and Brigham Young University, but he says […]
For Bill Kranstover, Two Hands (or Pair of Hands) Are Better Than One
“It’s always been a wonderful experience and great form of communication to talk in an abstract manner and problem solve while laying down paint or putting together sculpture,” says William Kranstover, a Park City artist who has been contributing to the town’s art scene as a sculptor, painter […]
Susan Krueger-Barber’s European Urban Planner’s Geek Fest
“I am constantly trying to better understand—and if need be, reconfigure, subvert, or topple—accepted and repressive systems, ranging from the design of a street to the systemic oppression throughout society,” says Provo artist Susan Krueger-Barber, who holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the School of the […]
Michelle Franzoni Thorley: Finding and Painting Lost Relatives
Michelle Franzoni Thorley, an only child, was raised by “a savvy single mother, whose favorite color is green.” Her father taught her about Mexican culture and art. “I have always felt inspired by the indigenous and Latin art. I love to share my view of the world through […]
Robert Duncan’s Work Lights Up a Small Italian Town for Christmas
To celebrate the holiday season, here is an image of the work of Midway artist Robert Duncan as it appears in the “Town of Light” display in Lovere, Italy. The village selects an artist and projects their work each night on the facades of the historic buildings that […]
Bryan Mark Taylor: Painting on the Great Wall of China
As evidenced by his exhibition of recent works that went up at Anthony’s Fine Art on December 7th, Bryan Mark Taylor travels the world for inspiration. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Taylor studied art at BYU and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and now resides in […]
A Mixed Tally for Jethro Gillespie in 2018
Professionally, the 2018 high water mark for Jethro Gillespie was the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation in Art Education from Concordia University in Montreal – “Rethinking and remaking a high school art foundations curriculum” was the title. His research for it was as much practical as theoretical: […]
Cristall Harper: Dreams Come True
Out of her studio in the Salt Lake City area, Cristall Harper has painted series of vibrant contemporary interpretations of traditional genres like seascapes and florals, but she is best known for her portraits of dogs. She’s looking forward to an exhibition of these canine canvases at Park […]
Laura Hendricks Finds Some Solo Time in Yellowstone
Ask most people about their best times and they’re likely to mention family and friends (if only because it’s the socially acceptable thing to do). Not Laura Hendricks. “The best thing to happen to me in 2018 was a solo trip I took to Yellowstone National Park. I […]
Gilmore Scott Leaves His Mark On His Hometown
Gilmore Scott was just short of finishing his art degree at Utah State University when he began a career as a wildland firefighter. For 9 years he worked with the U.S. Forest service fighting the West’s wildfires, protecting the land he loves. Since 2010, he has returned to […]
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