{"id":18978,"date":"2005-07-03T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T22:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:25:10","slug":"on-the-spot-dana-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/on-the-spot-dana-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Spot: Dana Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the Spot: Salt Lake City artist Dana Costello<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18979\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/costello.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18979\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18979\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/costello-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Lance Clayton\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/costello-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/costello.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Lance Clayton<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY?<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s quite a pile of books by my bed right now, but I have been focusing on a biography of Remedios Varo called &#8220;Unexpected Journeys.&#8221;WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a mantel, but my living room has about 30 of my own paintings on the walls; a friend of mine says they are like protective talismans but I think it&#8217;s kind of a form of storage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p>IF YOU COULD CHOOSE ANY ARTST TO PAINT OR SCULPT YOUR PORTRAIT WHO WOULD IT BE?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a toss up between Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo. I think I would be more interested in the experience of sitting for either of them than the actual product. Too bad they&#8217;re dead, maybe we can do a seance. John Currin would be my chioce for artists who are alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Spot: Salt Lake City artist Dana Costello WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? There&#8217;s quite a pile of books by my bed right now, but I have been focusing on a biography of Remedios Varo called &#8220;Unexpected Journeys.&#8221;WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? I don&#8217;t have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":18979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1283],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on_the_spot","category-visual_arts","tag-dana-costello"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/costello.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 06:28:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53370,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/53370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}