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On October 19, photographs from a workshop held in Centennial Valley, MT will be unveiled at Artspace Commons. The exhibit, Tutored by the Land, is titled after a quote from Barry Lopez, a well-known author with a love for the environment who calls fieldwork “being tutored by the […]
My first published writings on art were written in Southern California, and published by a magazine in Portland, Oregon. They were written in the LA area because that was where my stained glass studio was, and the city was then a hot place for glass art. My […]
In so many ways our modern societies are enlightened, more civilized in matters of personal liberty than was true in the past. Most of us probably take for granted that the ongoing debate over same-sex marriage marks a watershed in evolving public attitudes. Yet while there has been […]
“Brigadier Thomas L. Kane” by Ortho Fairbanks. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. “The Lions” by Gavin Jack. Restored by Ralphael Plescia. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. “Martha Hughes Cannon” by Laura Lee Stay. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. In Plain Site With our In Plain […]
The history of the glass harmonica is fascinating. The invention of Benjamin Franklin, the instrument was once the rage of two continents. Mozart and Beethoven composed for it, women swooned at its eerie sound, and some towns even banned it as dangerous or immoral. Set in a […]
Whether you are an artist or art lover you have probably asked yourself the question: How did this get in? We sought to answer the question by interviewing two recent jurors of a Utah exhibition.
Talk to most artists and you’ll find their careers have rarely been planned. It’s usually some chance encounter with a certain medium, a specific work of art or a unique teacher, that determines their artistic trajectory. For Kathy Puzey it was a notice for a woodcut workshop in […]
Hikmet Sidney Loe considers seminal artist Nancy Holt in anticipation of a major new exhibit of her works at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Geoff Wichert considers the work of Anna Campbell Bliss on the eve of an exhibit at Salt Lake’s The Leonardo
Land Art has captured the imagination of both art enthusiasts and adventurers alike. While Utah houses two of the most famous land works, Spiral Jetty(1970) and Sun Tunnels (1976), the neighboring states of Nevada and New Mexico also contain notable treasures. As an art historian, I am continually fascinated by Land […]
Ehren Clark takes a considered look at the work of J. Kirk Richards, which is on exhibit this month at the St. George Museum of Art.
Laura Hurtado visits BYU’s new Think Flat exhibit, featuring works by Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami.
Cindy Grigg takes us inside the Violin Making School of America to talk with luthier and composer Peter Prier.
Sue Martin stops in for pancakes with a group of artists who hold informal gatherings and parking lot critiques, showing this month at 15th Street Gallery.
Last year Andrew Roth, a young art student in his last year at the University of Utah, submitted a piece to the Williams Fine Art annual UofU juried exhibition. Not only did he get in, he won a $1000 scholarship. He returns to this year’s exhibit as an […]
Whether she’s painting landscapes of Utah’s Wasatch Front or figures against the broad expanse of the ocean or a field of snow, Patty Kimball embues her paintings with a sense of frozen energy: the paint in her still compositions seem as if they are just on the verge […]
by Caitlin Erickson Lovely Asunder, the first collection of poetry by Danielle Cadena Deulen, a 2011 Utah Book Award finalist, is inquisitive—the first poem, “Interrogation,” is composed entirely in questions. As the book progresses, inquiries move from the concrete: “How did you get here in the wet garden/ […]
Labyrinths of intersecting lines, weaving through each other and breaking apart, accented by amorphous forms meandering through a canvas that seems weighted to the point of breaking. These are the works of Michael Hall now up at Phillips Gallery. These webs of linear intricacy are extraordinary large canvases […]
