{"id":6235,"date":"2011-09-12T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2011-09-12T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:34:06","slug":"john-bell-dinner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/john-bell-dinner-party\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bell: Dinner Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistjohnbell.com\" target=\"_new\">John Bell<\/a> has had a  busy\u00a0summer, from hosting a dinner  party in the streets of\u00a0L.A.&#8217;s Chinatown to a live performance painting  during\u00a0Denver&#8217;s First\u00a0Friday art walk\u00a0and\u00a0full circle back to Salt Lake  City (where, in between his artistic activities he was nice enough to design a new 15 Bytes logo and print up our tee shirts &#8211; get yours <a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/15-bytes-tees\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On July 29th Bell hosted an unusual dinner party in the\u00a0streets of L.A.&#8217;s Chinatown where 18 people participated in creating a piece of art. The performance was part of an exhibit of Utah artists curated by Micol Hebron at Jancar Gallery. Here&#8217;s the video of the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27654982\">John Bell: Perform Chinatown 2011<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/chrislaughter\">The Video Mouse<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On September 23rd &amp; 24th Bell will continue his dinner-oriented work when he  and\u00a0fellow artist\u00a0Craig Cleveland\u00a0roll out the canvas to  create a large scale gestural, abstract painting of dinner guests in a participatory invitation-only event (<a href=\"mailto:byinvitationonlyslcut@hotmail.com\">click here<\/a> to reserve a spot).<\/p>\n<p>And on Saturday, October 15th he&#8217;ll join 24 other Utah artists in the third installment of Art Meets Fashion, which presents a multi-genre art exhibition\u00a0titled &#8216;Deconstructing Venus,&#8217; curated by AMF co-founders Anne Cummings-Anderson and Heidi Gress (you&#8217;ll learn more in our October edition).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bell has had a busy\u00a0summer, from hosting a dinner party in the streets of\u00a0L.A.&#8217;s Chinatown to a live performance painting during\u00a0Denver&#8217;s First\u00a0Friday art walk\u00a0and\u00a0full circle back to Salt Lake City (where, in between his artistic activities he was nice enough to design a new 15 Bytes logo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6238,"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":[38],"tags":[268,582],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings","tag-john-bell","tag-performance-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screen-shot-2011-09-12-at-9.23.40-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 19:00:22","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\/6235","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}