Utah Gallery spotlights published in 15 Bytes, featuring galleries from Logan to St. George.
Shalee Cooper had already begun to pack. A few paintings were boxed, ready to be shipped back to the Mandelman/Ribak Foundation, which the gallery had been working with since 2018. After six years at the Bogue Foundry, Modern West’s lease would be up in December. In a changed […]
At the entrance to Saltgrass Printmakers’ Salt Lake City studio, a sinuous form winds across the wall. The dozens of two-foot-square woodcuts, each carved by a different artist and fitted edge to edge, form the Year of the Snake Exquisite Corpse, a sprawling, collaborative print project conceived by […]
For most artists at Poor Yorick Studios, the semi-annual open studio event (see here) may be the only time they put their space in order—some tidying, sweeping, patching, maybe a coat of paint. But just days after welcoming the September crowds, Andrew Rice is once again cleaning up. […]
Waiting to surprise you along the heart of historic Main Street in the former coal mining town of Helper, Utah, the Helper Mini is proving that even small spaces can spark creative conversations. At just 14 inches square—the size of one of those neighborhood “libraries”— this micro-gallery has, […]
After more than a decade as a hub for contemporary art in central Utah, Granary Arts has closed its physical space in Ephraim and announced it will continue operations through a virtual, project-based model. “As we move away from our origin story and this place we have called […]
It’s the year of the “skier’s subway.” 1965. Park City, Utah. Most of the silver mines are closed, the red light district is shuttered and teetering shacks of weathered wood dot the hills. But a federal loan granted two years before has helped finance the installation of a […]
The Tiny Art Show is back. Again. After an eviction, a Kickstarter campaign, excellent location scouting and some fabulous fine carpentry, the art project that says go little or go home has a new permanent space in downtown Provo. Ever since McKay Lenker Bayer decided to satisfy a college […]
Originally opening its first glassblowing hotshop and showroom nine years ago in Park City’s Iron Horse District, Red Flower Studios now has a second location with a gallery space in the rapidly developing Granary District of Salt Lake City. The new location hosts glassblowing classes and workshops, facilitated […]
As we scan Utah’s artistic landscape, sometimes with apprehension and sometimes with hope—depending on whether we are noting the venues that are closing or those that are opening—we should remember to look for and note the many non-traditional venues supporting the arts in the state: libraries, cafes, bookstores. […]
A Weber State University art grad who lives in Provo with his wife and two young children, Tyler Alexander has been working in the Utah County art world for several years—as a studio assistant to both Kirk Richards and Colby Sanford, and most recently as a gallery assistant […]
It’s always worthwhile to keep an eye out for new places to see art, but lately in Utah it’s become vital. Independent galleries come and go, but lately our public galleries have become endangered. The Rio and Alice, each in its own way a wonderful place to see […]
A college town home to more than 35,000 students, Provo has never been short of exciting initiatives. But due to that same demographic—cash-strapped and transient—few last for very long; which can make it hard to create a gallery scene. At the moment, however, Provo seems to be thriving, […]
Four Lemons, a charming shoppe (I’ve always wanted to write ‘shoppe’) that opened Oct. 4 at 4850 South Highland Drive, is an upscale Pier 1 imports-type store for home interior DIYers. Subtitled “Art Within Reach,” it’s 7,000 square-feet filled with really nice, decidedly eclectic decor you can work […]
Diana Alberghini told her bosses it was time to get rid of the prints. “We have really elevated furniture in here, so we need elevated art,” she told them. And that’s how Forsey’s Fine Furniture, a family-owned business that’s been around since 1951, became a gallery space. Forsey’s […]
Utah’s newest and smallest gallery opened in Helper this past weekend. The size of a mailbox, the gallery is located on the west side Helper’s Main Street. The Helper Mini is the brain child of Kevin K. Perry, a designer and artist who has been active in the […]
Bountiful may not be known as a mecca for fine art, but Ramble Gallery is hoping to change that. On Main Street, at the edge of Bountiful’s Historic District, and a short 4-minute walk from the Bountiful Davis Art Center, Quin Boardman, Dave Trevino and Brodie Poll have […]
Museums have a feeling of permanence about them, which they try to impart to the contemporary art they’ve recently started showing. Good luck with that. Galleries, meanwhile, come and go, their fates mostly linked to the individual directors who start them, give them character, and close them down […]
Despite the threat of winter storms this past weekend, Moonglass Antiques, in conjunction with Provo’s Oddduck Studio, unveiled Moonglass Gallery on State Street in Orem. A cozy venue unexpectedly nestled in the back of Moonglass Antiques, Utah County’s newest gallery space invites patrons to warm themselves in a […]
