The Consultant’s Perspective
Sue Martin discusses art and presentation with art consultant Janet Hill.
Stone Timber and Steel: The Logic of Structure
Becoming proficient in a field can sometimes make life difficult. Like an artist who visits friends and relatives and must keep to herself how bad the paintings in the house are. Something similar happens to John Griswold when he sees houses built with structural elements wholly out of […]
All The World’s a Screen: The Salt Lake City Film Festival
Welcome to the fourth annual Salt Lake City Film Festival, with a film about Mormon Spring Break and Kenny Riche’s new feature Must Come Down.
Critiquing Your Own Paintings
Critiques are interesting animals; some are big and hairy while others are small and cuddly. Like judging in an art competition, they are all dependent on the artistic paradigm of the person doing the critique. Sometimes the best critiques are the simplest ones, like when my wife Teresa […]
1044 Sugarmont Drive: Fairmont Aquatic Center
“The Diver” by Darl Thomas. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map [wpgmza id=”1″ mashup=true mashup_ids=”2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14″ parent_id=”1″] 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake […]
1000 E. 1700 South : Westminster Park
“Children’s Wall” by Justin Juhlin. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map [wpgmza id=”1″ mashup=true mashup_ids=”2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14″ parent_id=”1″] 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake […]
AMF 2012: Metamorphosis Meets Fashion
Art Meets Fashion returns to Salt Lake September 8 with a cocktail of fashion and art to benefit Red Butte Gardens. Promising to be a classic, elegantly-styled event reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour, the 2012 AMF at Red Butte Gardens will have runway shows on the garden pathway […]
Way Wei: New Documentary on Ai Weiwei at the Broadway
Considering its population, China has a disproportionately small amount of international art stars (though we likely all have a sense that will change if the cogs of China’s economic engine continues to churn unimpeded). Maybe that’s because though the increasingly wealthy Chinese can pull off oligarchical money grabs and […]
Justin Wheatley at 15th Street Gallery
by Ehren Clark To everything there is a surface, a façade, an outward appearance. With most of life, the truth of the matter is distorted by the façade, by the physicality, limited by what the eye can see that is only an artificial layer to truth. Justin Wheatley’s […]
2000 East 900 South : Davis Park
“Gambel’s Quail” by Dan Gerhart, 2009. Photo by Gerry Johnson, August 2011. Get Directions In Plain Site With our In Plain Site byline we feature publicly viewable art, both official and street art, throughout the state of Utah. Categories: Art Lake City | In Plain Site | Visual Arts Post navigation Artist […]
Artist Profile: Anton “Tony” Rasmussen
A video profile of Anton “Tony” Rasmussen in conjunction with a 50-year retrospective of his work at the Springville Museum of Art.
Wynter Jones: Her Best Foot Forward
As she prepares for a new solo exhibit at Salt Lake’s A Gallery, it is refreshing to hear her Wynter Jones say, ‘I’m not as pissed off as I used to be.’
Drawing Together: Cassandra Barney & Brian Kershisnik
A look at Cassandra Barney and Brian Kershisnik’s collaborative drawings now up at Kayo Gallery.
The Tip of the Iceberg: Video Work at UMOCA
Not since the construction of City Creek Center has there been such a racket on West Temple. Eight videos in UMOCA’s summer exhibition Cantastoria are creating quite a ruckus in the usually hushed galleries, as a cacophony of chanting, giggling and clicking converges in the subterranean galleries . […]
Limits of Imagination: Gia Whitlock
“Ocean” How does one harness the imagination to the point where it traverses the divide between a free flow of excessive creativity and provocative fine art? Gia Whitlock’s canvases currently on exhibit at Salt Lake’s 15th Street Gallery suggest an answer. A multi-media artist who experiments with materials […]
The Face of Utah Sculpture VIII
Far from the display of challenging aesthetic statements that make up many modern art shows, this one is immediately accessible and, in place of consternation, is more likely to generate feelings of pleasure, fun, and even exhilaration.
Contemporary Art in Rural Utah
The CUAC is evicted and Green River’s Epicenter hosts Richard Saxton’s multi-media project The Majestics.
Christian Jankowski’s Casting Jesus
Images of Christ are abundant in residences worldwide, with various styles and portraits to choose from. But how much do we really think about the inspiration for such images? Because Christian imagery has become standard, viewers seldom think of the contemporary ‘industry’ of religious art. In the documentary […]
