{"id":99606,"date":"2025-11-15T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=99606"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:54:48","slug":"chuck-berretts-new-mural-rises-with-new-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/chuck-berretts-new-mural-rises-with-new-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Berrett’s New Mural Rises With New Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chuck Berrett\u2019s Victoriam mural flows down the east fa\u00e7ade of the newly converted affordable-housing building at 1060 South 100 East, its layered botanicals climbing between the vertical window bays. Image by Shawn Rossiter.<\/p><\/div>\n

We snapped these images before the last leaves came down.<\/h4>\n

Titled “Victoriam,” this 70-foot mural by Salt Lake City artist Chuck Berrett spans nearly 2,000 square feet, transforming the fa\u00e7ade of a former 1968 medical office building into a sweeping field of botanical movement and layered color. The building itself has recently been reborn as 88 units of affordable housing, adding new life\u2014and now new art\u2014to the east side of SLC.<\/h4>\n

Berrett\u2019s mural unfurls across multiple stories like a vertical garden: broad, ribboning strokes meet delicately rendered petals and leaves, creating a dynamic blend of abstraction and florals that shifts with the light throughout the day. Public art rising alongside more accessible housing? That\u2019s a victory we can get behind.<\/h4>\n

The mural also offers an entry point into Berrett\u2019s wider practice. A Salt Lake City\u2013based painter and muralist, Berrett works across an unusually broad range of styles\u2014photorealism, geometric abstraction, surrealism, expressive botanicals\u2014but always with a strong sense of rhythm and movement. After several years refining his craft in New York\u2019s Lower East Side, where he produced paintings and assisted in studio and design work, he returned to Utah and increasingly shifted toward large-scale public art. Since 2012 he has completed murals across the country, but in recent years his Utah projects have become especially visible: florals that wrap building corners, dance-infused murals in Springville, and now this expansive bloom across a newly reimagined residential building.<\/h4>\n
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A wider view of the Victoriam mural shows the full span of the former 1968 medical office building\u2014now transformed into housing\u2014as Berrett\u2019s expansive floral forms stretch from rooftop to ground level. Image by Shawn Rossiter.<\/p><\/div>\n

Victory Heights Apartments\u2014located at 1060 South 100 East\u2014is part of a growing trend shaping Salt Lake City and other communities along the Wasatch Front: the adaptive reuse of older commercial properties into much-needed housing. With office vacancies up and construction costs high, developers and city agencies have become increasingly interested in converting underused medical, office, and institutional buildings into apartments. The approach is faster and more sustainable than starting from scratch, and it places residents in walkable, transit-served neighborhoods rather than pushing new development farther out.<\/h4>\n

In that context, “Victoriam” does more than decorate a fa\u00e7ade\u2014it signals the renewal of a building, a neighborhood, and a shift in how Salt Lake grows. Art and housing rising together: a reminder that reinvention, when done thoughtfully, can have a beauty all its own.<\/h4>\n

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We snapped these images before the last leaves came down. Titled “Victoriam,” this 70-foot mural by Salt Lake City artist Chuck Berrett spans nearly 2,000 square feet, transforming the fa\u00e7ade of a former 1968 medical office building into a sweeping field of botanical movement and layered color. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1587,"featured_media":99608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[45,14],"tags":[4561],"class_list":["post-99606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in_plain_site","category-visual_arts","tag-chuck-berrett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1980_2-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-04 12:54:11","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\/99606","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\/1587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99610,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99606\/revisions\/99610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}