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.
We should come up with a name for this — the one time a year when Salt Lake Gallery Stroll shifts from the third Friday to the first. It happens every December, a pragmatic realization that by the third Friday in December people have tons of holiday gatherings […]
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) announced today that Adam Price, its Executive Director since 2009, will be leaving the museum before the end of the year. Price oversaw the transformation of the institution from the Salt Lake Art Center into the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, […]
Its small size can seem like one of our art community’s drawbacks, but it can also be one of its advantages. Small size means a tight community, and here it doesn’t take long to feel like you know everyone. Or if you don’t actually know them, you get […]
Okay, Black Friday is over, Cyber Monday has passed. And you might not have found something for everyone yet. If there’s an artist on your list, we have a suggestion. We’ll call this Tech Tuesday. It’s all about helping the Utah artists on your list get an online presence. […]
We’re grateful to the following individuals and businesses. They helped us to raise $8135 for our 2012 Fall Fundraiser. Dan Cummings Jorge Rojas Roy Jesperson Greg Sumner Adam Price Judy Shoemaker Steve Sheffield Karen Krieger Anne Becker Waldo Kidd Susan Vogel Joey Behrens Jim Frazer Leslie Thomas Phoenix […]
RECENT MIXED MEDIA ARTICLES 11/7 Neighborhood House highlights community members in new art exhibit http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55200480-78/art-community-gallery-hawkins.html.csp 11/7 Utah Arts & Museums recognizes local graduates of Change Leader Institute http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsburger/55229213-53/arts-utah-leader-communities.html.csp 11/8 SCERA scholarship show celebrates longtime arts educator http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/theatre/scera-scholarship-show-celebrates-longtime-arts-educator/article_247ed7b2-46d3-5844-839b-589886e0967e.html 11/10 International Art Competition for youth gallery will open at LDS […]
Because she grew up with a photographer dad and a stinky darkroom in the closet, Zoë Rodriguez swore she’d never pick up a camera for work. Then, 10 years ago she was propelled into the profession by a project she created called what I thought I saw. “My project allowed […]
When artist Ben Wiemeyer lived in this complex he convinced the landlord to let him and some friends paint the concrete walls in the parking lot behind the building and the walls have been going through periodic transformations ever since. As they appeared in 2018. The walls […]
As we reported in the November edition of 15 Bytes, Simon Blundell recently took over as the 15 Bytes image editor. As you can see in this work, Simon comes to us with both a strong artistic vision and powerful digital skills. His personal work artistic work is […]
One would be hardpressed to think of a bad time to visit Zions National Park. Maybe the height of summer, when the park is hot and filled with tourists? Even then it’s not a terrible way to spend a weekend. Visiting in the fall, when the temps are […]
The more I paint the more I enjoy the very nature of the experience. Someone once told me painting doesn’t get easier, but the results get more rewarding. It’s true and I guess the reason is that to be painting from the heart and soul an artist has […]
Laura Hurtado explores the idea and reality of Land Art in Los Angeles, Lucin and Wendover.
In October 2008 we first reported on Salt Lake’s Bridge Over Barriers, saying the project to transform the underbelly of an I-15 overpass between the Guadalupe and Jackson neighborhoods of Salt Lake into a work of art might take years to complete. Our prediction proved prescient: four years later the […]
by Emily Lyver-Harris Housed in a small room in the Modern and Contemporary gallery of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, salt 6: Emre Hüner plays an unlikely interlocutor to the immense retrospective, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, installed just one floor beneath it. If one of the central threads of Sightlines is to examine […]
If you’ve never voted before, make this the year you do. Tomorrow you can go to your polling stations to cast your ballot for local, state and national elections. But today you can cast your vote for Utah’s Art Magazine. Not every state has an art magazine like […]
Ann Poore sent this to us recently, a snippet from the acclaimed autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame: During the day Lawrence and I would take the usual route to Soho, followed by a “gallery crawl” inspecting the new paintings in each gallery. This was his duty, […]
When she was about five, artist Shalee Cooper says her little sister Chantel had a polka dot shirt, and Shalee and older sister Dawn would tease Chantel, saying, “What’s all that polka dot business?” “Now,” Cooper says, “I can’t get rid of the polka dots. I see them […]
David Pace is a writer, literary critic and arts administrator with work appearing in American Theatre, The Christian Science Monitor, Quarterly West, Dialogue, Sunstone, and Irreantum, among other journals, newspapers and a book with a forthcoming narrative non-fiction piece in Alligator Juniper. He was a stage critic in […]
