Jason Manley at CUAC
Here lies the truth, and that is the secret of the reality of the forest that transcends all, even the forest itself.
Weber State’s Biennial Faculty Show
Two things are soon apparent on entering the Shaw Gallery. The first is that, to paraphrase The Wizard of Oz, we’re not in Utah any more . . .
Practical Abstractions: Ron Russon at Utah Artist Hands
Sometimes what an artist most needs to get going, says artist Ron Russon, “is a kick in the butt.” The Lehi artist graduated from BYU in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Design and was doing well working on books and magazines and commercial […]
Made In Utah: Section One Focuses on Local Filmmakers
While visual arts scenes tend to be local, film is an international industry. With the Section One Expo, local filmmaker Joseph Puente is trying to change that. Along with others in the local film industry, he has worked on many films by independent and Hollywood companies filming […]
St. George’s Split Rock Gallery
This gallery is always in shift because if I weren’t able to bring in elements and things I love and we love as a group, I’d be bored and our clients would be bored.
At Home Or On the Move: Spike Ress’s Studios
His “Art Spirit” van has been transformed into a mobile studio, the envy of many plein air painters throughout the state, who suffer under the rain or from the wind and cold while Ress is comfortably painting ensconced in his warm, dry environment.
Life in El Oltro Lado: Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us, A Memoir
Author Reyna Grande will appear as part of the six-week-long Utah Humanities Book Festival Oct. 25, 2014 at 4 pm at the Salt Lake City Public Library, Auditorium, 210 East 400 South, downtown. Copies of the book will be available for sale and to be signed by the […]
Creative Couplings: RDT’s Portal
Duets abound in Repertory Dance Theatre’s fall season, Portal, in which four choreographers’ voices configure and reconfigure a company in transition (RDT has four new dancers: Jaclyn Brown, Lauren Curley, Dan Higgins and Lacie Scott). The evening is quite a curatorial feat, uniting four diverse pieces that […]
A Life, Any Life, One life: Jeff Metcalf’s Requiem for the Living: A Memoir
reviewed by Lynn K. Kilpatrick Jeff Metcalf will read and discuss his new book Requiem for the Living: A Memoir as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, October 7, 2014 at 7 pm at the Salt Lake City Public Library, 4th Floor Conference Room, 210 East 400 […]
Take a Closer Look: Brandon Cook at Finch Lane Gallery
Take a closer look. These paintings aren’t on canvas. Or linen, panels or boards. These luminous, poetically evocative works by Brandon Cook, which fill Finch Lane Gallery with a sense of hushed wonder, have been painted on sheets of metal. With his exhibit Aeonic, a term that suggests […]
Green River’s Maria Sykes
Maria Sykes has spent most of her life in Alabama and is a southerner at heart. She graduated in 2008 from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Architecture and Interior Architecture. After school, she sought after a place where her design talents and passions could be utilized for […]
Prairie Wind Through Taut-Strung Bailing Wire: David Lee’s Last Call
David Lee will be reading and discussing his work, including the book reviewed below, at four different sites in Utah during October as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival: 10/8 at the SLC Public Library (4th floor) in partnership with City Arts (with poet Gailmarie Pahmeier); […]
Being realistic about the future of painting: Joe Carter at Phillips Gallery
According to Wikipedia: The hippocampus (named after its resemblance to the seahorse, from the Greek hippos meaning “horse” and kampos meaning “sea monster”) is a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation […]
UNCOMMON POEMS: Kimberly Johnson’s “Uncommon Prayer”
Reviewed by Michael Sowder Poet Kimberly Johnson will appear with Meg Day in a reading and discussion of their new books at the Utah Humanities Book Festival, Oct. 1, 2014 at 7 pm. The event is in partnership with City Arts at Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 […]
Ririe Woodbury’s Fall Season
by Samuel Hanson Featuring the work of three male choreographers, Ririe-Woodbury’s season opener had no particular through-line, except perhaps in its attempt to stake a claim for the group on being “contemporary.” The strongest work in the evening, artistic director Daniel Charon’s, was arguably the least au courant, […]
When the portrait doesn’t look like you: SELF_Created at Mestizo
Picasso famously told Gertrude Stein, before embarking on what became one of the most famous portraits of the twentieth century, that she needed to understand that it would not look like her. Picasso taught the world a new way of seeing, though, and his pre-cubist portrait of Stein […]
Utah Chamber Artists: Crossings
After spending the summer touring the churches and cathedrals of Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, the Utah Chamber Artists are ready begin their season at home in Salt Lake City’s cathedral.
Ruth Ann Garner and Valerie Hollstein at One World Gifts
This month beautiful and inspired glass artwork is on exhibition at One World Gifts and Gallery in Sugarhouse. The two exhibiting artists came to this medium as adults with grown children and neither had formal training in it. Ruth Ann Garner took art classes in high school, […]
