Cris Baczek’s Development
A review of three bodies of work by Salt Lake artist Cris Baczek, including motion-activated cyanotypes, large-scale proof sheets and found images from the archives of the UMFA.
Alpine Art’s 24 x 24
A look at Alpine Art’s upcoming 24 x 24 exhibit, a group exhibition of photographs documenting the first twenty-four hours of 2012.
New Frontier 12
A review of Sundance’s new media exhibition New Frontier 12 at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
J. Leo Hafen
A group of vegans, among them artists, teachers and musicians, heads to the hills for communal living where they develop a unique practice of partner sharing. Northern California in the 1960s? No, Juab County, Utah in 1918.
Hidden Voices: Women Printmaking
Woodbury Art Museum presents an exhibition of women printmkakers from their community outreach program, Hidden Voices.
Creative Chit Chat: PechaKucha SLC
Ann Poore takes a look at PechaKucha, Salt Lake’s nights of creative chit cat where presenters get 20 slides, 20 seconds and a mic.
God is Great? Fahimeh Amiri & Loné Vilnius at Finch Lane Gallery
In Fahimeh Amiri’s “Reaching for Liberty,” Darius the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, is seated on his throne in Persepolis, the center of Persian power. He is represented in monumental scale, in the abstracted two-dimensional side view profile of much of the art of the ancient Near East, rendered […]
A Winter Scene
Snow scenes have a natural appeal, to artists and patrons alike. But as John Hughes explains in this month’s Hints ‘n’ Tips article, when working with snow, some artists see too much white.
Philip Glass Turns 75
Throughout history, success has often been linked in the popular imagination with unfair choices: Alexander the Great had to choose a brief life and undying fame or a long life in unending obscurity. Talented women have usually had to choose between art and family. In our era, the […]
Backstage with Another Language
This weekend we visited the studio/theater of Another Language Performing Arts Company on the campus of the University of Utah where Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic are busy getting ready for the 2.0 version of their telematic cinema performance Duel*Ality.
We are preparing a video profile of the creative
Can you name these artists?
We recently came across this almost twenty-year-old photograph from an exhibition of nine finalists for the Utah Arts Council Fellowship grant. Can you name the nine artists? We’ll give you a hint: one of them is this month’s Artist Profile and he mentions this exhibition in his video […]
Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers, the Marva and John Warnock Visiting Artist in Residency, will be giving a free, public lecture tonight (Wednesday, January 25) at 7:00 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Bowers combines her passions for art and activism through a variety […]
Take a Look
We have started to catalog images from our staff photographers for our new Art Lake City app. We have challenged our photographers to always be on the look out for any piece of artwork in their neighborhoods and to document it. This will become our database of images […]
EVOLUTION (MEGAPLEX): Part of New Frontier 12 at UMOCA
Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to […]
Chauncey Secrist: 15 Years, One Night
In conversations local artist Chauncey Secrist conveys a thoughtful intensity that ranges from playful to philosophical. His latest exhibit at Guthrie Studios is a reflection of that. On display is 15 years worth of work but the show has remained untitled because he feels it’s too soon in […]
Art Lake City
In the December edition of 15 Bytes we announced Art Lake City, Matt and Laura Chiodo shot an entire photo essay to begin our project, this was one of the photographs that they took. Can you guess where it was taken?!?! There is plenty of art to see on […]
Joe Ostraff: Works Well With Others
In 2010, Brigham Young University Joe Ostraff professor received a Visual Art Fellowship from the Utah Arts Council. It was his second time. The first time, in 1993, he won for a group of paintings done with his children. He’s been looking for collaborative opportunities ever since. […]
Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff
Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery.
