{"id":19038,"date":"2005-09-03T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T22:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=19038"},"modified":"2020-04-04T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T01:18:11","slug":"on-the-spot-brad-slaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/on-the-spot-brad-slaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Spot: Brad Slaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradslaugh.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Brad Slaugh<\/a> On the Spot . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/slaugh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19039 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/slaugh-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"slaugh\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/slaugh-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/slaugh-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/slaugh.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>1) What are you reading lately?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker faithfully and four separate half-read books promiscuously:<\/p>\n<p><i>Everything and More: a History of Infinity<\/i> by David Foster Wallace (bogged down in the math)<\/p>\n<p><i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/i> by Dave Eggers (a bit too glib, I think)<\/p>\n<p><i>The Moral Animal <\/i>by Robert Wright (for the second time)<\/p>\n<p><i>The Raw and the Cooked by Jim Harrison<\/i> (been almost done for about three months)<\/p>\n<p><b>2)What hangs above your mantel?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even own a mantel but recent local acquisitions are a Jared Gillette portrait, a Stefanie Dykes Tree of Life woodcut, and a small piece of Peruvian folk art, by an artist whose name I can&#8217;t read, depicting a bunch of skeletons getting completely tanked in a bottle-lined bar.<\/p>\n<p><b>3) If you could choose any artist (living or dead) to paint or sculpt your portrait, who would it be and why?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alice Neel, because Egon Shiele and Chaim Soutine were just too unpleasant to spend long periods of time with, and Paula Rego might require the wearing of a tutu, though I&#8217;m not worthy to unloose any of their shoe&#8217;s latchets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City artist Brad Slaugh On the Spot . . . 1) What are you reading lately? The New Yorker faithfully and four separate half-read books promiscuously: Everything and More: a History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace (bogged down in the math) A Heartbreaking Work of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":19039,"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":[697],"class_list":["post-19038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on_the_spot","category-visual_arts","tag-brad-slaugh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/slaugh.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 14:39:41","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\/19038","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=19038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53445,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19038\/revisions\/53445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}