Depression Era LeConte Stewart
Ehren Clark takes an alternate look at LeConte Stewart’s Depression era paintings now on exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Art.
Ehren Clark
Ehren Clark studied art history at both the University of Utah and the University of Reading in the UK. For a decade he lived in Salt Lake City and worked as a professional writer until his untimely death in 2017.
Spirit of the Land: LeConte Stewart landscapes at the LDS Church History Museum
Joint exhibits at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Church History Museum present the largest ever assembled collection of works by LeConte Stewart. This month we look at the exhibit of rural landscapes.
Charles Fresquez at House Gallery
A look at House Gallery’s exhibit of Charles Fresquez, which comes down on March 26.
The Poetry of Art: Susan Beck, Bonnie Sucec and Ryan K. Peterson at Finch Lane
Some art is as concrete as the arranged objects it depicts or as prosaic as the theories it attempts to illustrate. But there is another type of art; one that revels in exploration of meaning and metaphor, its abstracted motifs and iconography lacking clear subjects or narrative purpose. […]
Meaning in Form: Paul Vincent Bernard and Sherman Bloom at the Main Library
The natural landscape may be the primary subject for Paul Vincent Bernard and Sherman Bloom’s exhibitions at the Gallery at Library Square, but their abstracted works transcend traditional representations of the genre to investigate essential meanings and structures. Bernard’s series of painted iconic forms, abstracted from geologic elements, […]
Deepening the Canon: Old Master works lend substance and authenticity to LDS Canon
Painted representations of Jesus Christ have been a primary subject of Western art, morphing in style and content according to individual artistic style but also the role of commissioning patrons: Roman Catholic imagery can contrast heavily with the art of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, each having a distinctive […]
Becoming Pablo O’Higgins: New book and UMFA exhibit shed light on one of Utah’s lesser known artistic sons
Becoming Pablo O’Higgins is a study of character that questions identity, integrity, authenticity and ultimately loyalty. This newly released biography by Susan Vogel, published to accompany the exhibit of O’Higgins’ work now at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, gives us a compelling portrayal of Paul Higgins, a young […]
Common to Us All: Why All Art Is In
As Art Access celebrates its twenty-fifth year as a force in Utah’s art community, they could pick no better show than their current one, Outside is In!, to highlight the aim of their exhibition space: as director Ruth Lubbers says, their two galleries are there to “provide a voice to relevant […]
The Closed Circuit
As much as the quality of paint, or the illusion of depth, the relationship between art and viewer is a fundamental element of what we call art. So what happens when an artist denies their viewer this essential relationship, cutting off the dialogue that is the product of […]
No School, No Problem Utah: Red Rock painters in the early 20th century
Conrad Buff (1886-1975), Canyon Land, L2009.40.1, ca. 1935, oil on masonite, collection of Edenhurst Gallery, Palm Desert, Calif. The Continuing Allure: Painters of Utah’s Red Rock brings to us a unique set of artists who, early in the 20th century, used their skill and visionary perspective to seal the magnificence […]
Randall Lake
How does an Orange County boy, a homosexual with a growing reputation as a painter in Paris, become one of Utah’s most known and venerated painters? By obeying the rules. These days, that is exactly what Randall Lake is not doing. Lake grew up in affluent circumstances. In the ’60s […]
Ryan S. Brown at the Covey
The landscapes and portraits of Ryan S. Brown, now on display at the Covey Center for Fine Arts in Provo, are investigations into fundamentals of the natural world and human nature. “Observations from Life,” which ends November 30th, displays Brown’s ability to penetrate to the core of the subject of […]
Bad Dog Rediscovers America: An interview with Michael Moonbird and Victoria Lyons
Bad Dog Rediscovers America is a grassroots arts organization that is flourishing. From its beginning in 1997 in a small, live/work apartment where it served about 30 low-income youths, the organization now has spacious digs in the Artspace City Center building, serves 2,000 students annually with a curriculum that […]
A Return to Grandeur The Hudson River Fellowship at Springville Museum of Art
Katerskille Cove by Ryan S. Brown This month the Springville Museum of Art presents the work of the Hudson River Fellowship, a group of artists devoted to investigating the nature of landscape by revisiting the 150-year-old artistic tradition of the Hudson River School. The exhibit, which includes work by Utah painter Ryan […]
October Edition, House and Home
With the start of the month this week many of you may have been looking — unsuccessfully — for your 15 Bytes. But since the first Wednesday (our normal publication date) falls on the 7th this month, the October edition will not be out until next week. While […]
Holloway’s England: Victorian Art at the BYU MOA
“Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward” by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, 1874 The complexity and rich magnificence of Victorian art comes to the fore at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art’s exhibition of works from the collection of British entrepreneur Thomas Holloway. Amassed between 1881 and 1883 to […]
Weighty Matter: Is the Art of Collage Collapsing?
Ever since the Cubists first started gluing real-life materials, like newspapers, onto their two-dimensional representations of the same materials, collage has become an increasingly dominant art practice. Throughout the 20th century, in movements like Dada, Arte Povera, Fluxus, the post-painterly Abstractionsists and Pop art, collage played an important […]
Fantasy and Fiction: Justin Wheatley and Monika Del Bosque at Palmers Gallery
Are dreams so distinct from memories and are memories so distinct from dreams? Do we not ask ourselves, “Was that a dream?” or conversely, “Was I awake?” This month, Palmers Gallery explores the fantasy of dreams and what may or might not be fiction in memory with an […]
