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.
Looking at art is so exciting, and so exhausting. We had to get systematic. There is so much to cover, we had to make a plan and map it out. We still aren’t even halfway through. We saw some interesting stuff, some new to me, some old. Saw […]
Cara Despain, a regular contributor to 15 Bytes, is visiting Art Basel in Miami this week, so we asked her to send us some posts about her experience there: Day one: Art Basel Miami officially opened at the convention center yesterday. We got a somewhat late start, so […]
by Kimberly Rock At the close of Six Sinking Ships and I’m Gone, a solo exhibit featuring his own work, artist and gallery owner Kenny Riches will exit the Utah art scene, leaving his unique mark on the Broadway District and leaving direction of his popular Kayo Gallery to Shilo […]
Chris Miles shares a studio with his mother, Dottie, in Sugar House’s Rockwood Building (which despite the boarded up buildings in the area, still stands and houses over forty local artists). Miles worked in New York as an illustrator before coming back to Utah to shift to fine […]
The December edition of 15 Bytes is due out this Wednesday, but as you might have noticed by now, we don’t usually get the thing out until the evening. So if Wednesday arrives and you feel yourself itching for your dose of art, you might visit the UMFA […]
by Laurel Hunter Why does it make perfect sense for a performance and installation artist from Los Angeles to have an exhibition of paintings in rural Utah? Elizabeth Tremante’s Inside the Landscape, at the Central Utah Art Center through November 14, showcases a series of paintings and drawings that study the natural […]
by Kindra Fehr Those of us who knew Bevan Chipman knew a man who dedicated his life to people. We knew him as the social worker that guided many, as the traveling painter who loved to ask directions if only for the opportunity to engage in conversation with the locals, and […]
Today is the Salt Lake County Art Committee’s Open House at the Salt Lake County Building (2100 South and State). Every year the County government provides money for the purchase of artwork to add to its public collection, begun in 1985. A volunteer committee, made up of artists, […]
by Amanda Finlayson | photos by Laurie Warner JohWhen I sat down to interview John Hughes recently, I didn’t know much about him. I’d been asked to write an artists profile; to highlight his work as an artist and a teacher. His warmth and kindness were evident from our introduction […]
by Laurel Hunter My desk, where I work as a graphic designer, is near a hallway that leads to the front door of our office. People with dogs walk by all day taking breaks. Smokers and dog-owners leave the building while the rest of us sit in meetings and […]
Every month, page 10 of 15 Bytes features Mixed Media, a list of links to articles about the visual arts in Utah that have appeared in the past month. This list is compiled every month by Terrece Beesley, a 15 Bytes volunteer from Layton. Beesley is also a […]
Utah sculptor Jim Rennert has been accepted into the National Sculpture Society’s 2008 Annual Awards Exhibition. Rennert’s “Breakthrough,” a bronze (pictured above), was selected by the jury for inclusion in the show, one of 57 pieces selected from a total of 685 entries. The exhibit will open at the National Sculpture society […]
Salt Lake City artist Ruby Chacon was recently honored as a Hispanic Artist at the Hispanic Heritage Gala Awards, held at Distinctive Catering this past weekend. The awards honor successful hispanics in the community who also serve as role models. Chacon, a Utah Native, recently completed a mural […]
by Robyn Heirtzler Southern Utah artist Jennifer Rasmusson not only makes a living with her paintings, she carries on conversations with them. Her paintings begin with a base of thickened paint to give them depth, followed by an application of colors to erase any sign that the canvas […]
by Laurie Warner Later this month, Phillips Gallery will host an exhibition of new works by Salt Lake City artist Connie Borup. Borup, who is known for her strong sense of design and a warm, earthy palette, creates her works from her SugarHouse studio. While most of the buildings on the block […]
Gretchen Reynolds Driving down from a faculty gathering, to a weekend drawing workshop. Ogden, Utah, to Helper, Utah. Over the pass with a full moon and me with a skylight in my reliable car. I smile most of the way there. I am late and when I pull […]
by amanda moore 15 Bytes sat down with the four major candidates in the Salt Lake City mayoral race to get their views on arts in Salt Lake City. We asked each of them the same set of questions, and although each expressed general support, their answers varied […]
by Zoe Rodriguez I’ve loved Joseph Alleman’s work ever since I came across it three years ago, so I thought I knew what his Logan studio would look like. Super tall ceilings, white walls and big windows… something you’d see in a magazine, I guess. I was dead […]
