UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums announced its two Visual Arts Fellowship recipients for 2013: photographers Christopher M. Gauthier and Mark Finch Hedengren. Both artists will receive a $10,000 Fellowship Award. Christopher Gauthier teaches at Utah State University. His work has always been concerned with the […]
In November 2011, 15 Bytes editor (and sometimes artist) Shawn Rossiter was at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City for one of their artist residencies. During his time at The Lab @ The Leo, Rossiter began work on his work without end, a large-scale project based on overlapping […]
Meet the artists of 35×35. One of them gave birth the day before the opening. One is a twin. One is color blind. Can you guess who is who? We didn’t have all of the material we wanted for the opening on Friday night, so this week we’ll […]
Behind all those beautiful people there’s some beautiful artwork. Finch Lane Gallery is saying their count had the crowd for the opening of Artists of Utah’s 35×35 at 600. We think that might be a bit generous, but it was definitely crowded tonight. We know there were at […]
Kathy Adams from the Trib was nice enough to do an article on our 35 x 35 show opening tonight. Kathy Adams? That’s right, she usually writes on dance. But since we’ve got Ashley’s Anderson’s performance piece going on downstairs (a couple of times during the opening) I […]
On March 8, the latest 35 x 35 show will be unveiled. See work 35 local artists, 35 or under. These up-and-coming artists are poised to make a splash in Utah’s art scene. 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, […]
Lauren Gallaspy, who joined the Art & Art History Department Ceramics Area at the University of Utah this year, is one of twenty-five artists across the country who has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. The prestigious award comes with a $25,000 cash award. […]
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center opened its Annual Statewide Competition last night in their new (but temporary) space at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse in Farmington. The 38th annual competition featured 115 pieces created by 81 different artists. The winners, chosen by juror Mikell Stringham of Mondo Fine Art, […]
It’s coming. March 8th. At Finch Lane Gallery. Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibition, a look at thirty-five artists under the age of thirty-five. Video, sculpture, painting, printmaking, ceramics, performance, installation and drawing. In one gallery. Conversing. And here’s the lineup, selected from over 100 entries by Artists of […]
A traveling exhibit of mummies from around the world takes over The Leonardo, the UMFA mounts an exhibit of works depicting the American Indian and LEGOs are the building blocks for sculptures at the Kimball Art Center.
It’s been said that all living things are connected. Mixed media artist Michelle Montrose Larsen, who graduated from Utah State University (USU) in 2011 with a BA in Art Education and minor in English, is exploring these relationships in her upcoming show Cycles Churn and Systems Operate at […]
Greg Stocks, a local painter, has fond memories of his late professor Harrison “Grout” Groutage, who passed away on February 5 at the age of 87. In the mid-80’s, Stocks took a watercolor class from Groutage and found himself in the instructor’s office for a personal critique. “I […]
Get ready, 35X35 is coming! After we closed up our entry form Friday night we realized we had received over 100 entries for our upcoming 35X35 exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery. Our board of directors has their work cut out for them winnowing all the great entries down […]
West Valley artist Frank McEntire is in Ephraim tonight as part of Snow College’s ongoing series of Art Talks. Students and visitors will have the opportunity to hear McEntire talk about his artistic practice, and they’ll be able to view that practice made flesh (or rather metal or […]
It’s 2013 and with new beginnings comes new chances to learn and grow. Local artist Colleen Reynolds is taking the opportunity to use the year ahead as a chance to watch how her art progresses. She has started the Facebook group “Throwdown 2013: Get Your Groove On 100.” […]
What would you do with $10K? Rent a studio for a year? Create a new body of work? Hire a photographer to document all your art? Launch a website? Travel to all those openings your work is featured in but you’re too art-poor to attend? Utah Arts & […]
If you went strolling in Salt Lake last night and instead of checking listings first decided to simply stop by a few of your favorite galleries you may have encountered a surprise or two. For instance, Patrick Moore Gallery in Sugar House was all shuttered up, and the […]
The cover of the January edition of ARTnews magazine features the detail of a painting by an artist who isn’t even mentioned within its pages. Barbara Pollack’s cover story on the new wave of interest in postwar Japanese art mentions plenty of Ushio Shinohara’s compatriots, artists like Jiro Yoshihara, […]
