{"id":61448,"date":"2021-09-07T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=61448"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:25:35","slug":"the-year-was-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-year-was-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year Was 2001 …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Darryl Erdmann’s Chroma Gallery in 2001<\/p><\/div>\n

The year was 2001: George W. Bush was in the White House;\u00a0Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone\u00a0dominated the box office; people were listening to their music library on the newly released iPod; and Utah’s art magazine was born.<\/p>\n

That summer, at the Sugar House Art Festival, local artist Shawn Rossiter collected the email addresses of 37 people eager to learn more about Utah’s art scene. Then, the Tuesday after Labor Day, the first edition of 15 Bytes was posted online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What was happening in 2001?<\/p>\n

Darryl Erdmann<\/a>\u00a0was transforming his mid-century furniture store into Chroma Gallery, which that first month showed his own work and that of young assemblage\/kinetic sculptor\u00a0Andrew Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Salt Lake City Main Library was still located in its original building (now home to The Leonardo), and the Atrium gallery on the top floor hosted several interesting shows that year: the digital collages of\u00a0Anthony Siciliano<\/a>, the photographs of\u00a0Craig Denton<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0collaborative exhibition of young artists fresh from BYU<\/a>:\u00a0Shawn Bitters, Sunnie Bybee, Janelle Howington, Ashley Knudsen, Jared Latimer, Casey Smith.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hein<\/a>, who was finishing up his degree at the University of Utah, staged his first exhibition off campus at Annette Dunford and Mary Pickett Pierson’s Magpie Gallery, in the Avenues.<\/p>\n

And the\u00a0Utah Arts Council\u2019s annual statewide exhibition<\/a>\u00a0featured the work of 47 Utah artists in sculpture and mixed media.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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