Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
I have a new hero. And she’s a Pop artist. Pop Art is the most—OK, popular—art movement in America, rivaled only by Impressionism. Those French artists looked seriously at modern life as they witnessed its changes: the coming of the steamboat and the railroad, the remodeling of their […]
Lots of restaurants and coffee shops will hang your art on their walls. It doesn’t cost them anything. But Tribe Café & Atelier in Springville goes a step further. They’ll brand your work: not content with just decorating their walls, Tribe has found a way to put artists’ […]
Two striking new murals rise up along the sides of a parking garage in South Salt Lake’s rapidly changing downtown. Unveiled as part of the 2025 edition of South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest, the works are the result of a long-awaited collaboration between Dutch artist Marcus Debie, known […]
Do you remember the excitement of show and tell when you were a child? That giddy feeling of being able to bring your treasure to class and captivate your classmates with stories about your belongings? Maybe someone else in class also had a similar treasure, or you were […]
The phrase “perennial avant-garde” may sound positive, but it’s actually a criticism of one of the primary characteristics of Postmodernism: the need of mainstream artists to continue demolishing the user-friendly accessibility of traditional forms in order to advance the task of making room for a revolutionary new art. […]
It has happened again. In the immediate aftermath of my breakthrough in understanding an artist whose labors in two separate artistic gardens had puzzled me for years (see here), another artist has brought forth a similarly converse second body of art. Robert Füerer is a seasoned world traveler, […]
Best known for his colorful, expressive murals across Utah, Matt Monsoon takes a leap into three-dimensional work with his new public sculpture “What We Build Together,” now installed in the heart of Salt Lake City’s Fairpark neighborhood. Commissioned through the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program, […]
Though there is no set theme for the exhibit, the Spring Salon can create a strong contrast between and among works, causing interesting conversations, whether the pieces are hung near each other or in separate rooms. Hanging Greg Newbold’s “New Year’s Day, Black Rock” and Nick Rees’ “Refinery” […]
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 […]
Tyler Alexander thinks of himself as a bit of a Napoleon. Not the continent-conquering general who rode France’s revolutionary wave to become one of the most fateful figures in European history. Rather, the nephew, an emperor as well, of sorts. He began as the first president of France’s […]
After a hit Broadway musical, the curious presentation of an animated TV show, and a live-action series on plural wives—each more popular than could have been anticipated—it may be hard to believe that there was a recent time when some Latter-day Saints, except when on a mission, didn’t […]
From vibrant concept to monumental installation, Utah artist Abigale Palmer’s newest public art project is a celebration of ambition, growth, and collaboration—perfectly suited for its home in Utah State University’s Carolyn & Kem Gardner Learning & Leadership Building (GLLB). Titled Dare Mighty Things, the six-panel, 25-foot-wide oil painting […]
The visual cultures of the Himalayas are the rock-and-roll of Buddhist art. Wrathful deities wear flaming hair and skull garlands. Tantric divinities intertwine their limbs in sexual embrace. The searing mineral brilliance of cinnabar and azurite compete for the viewer’s attention. And ritual cups made of human craniums […]
I have friends who deny themselves the pleasures of visiting a gallery, so determined are they to avoid the wall signs that they interpret as telling them how to look at the art, how to interpret it, and how to respond. They’re equally determined not to read the […]
There’s more than one reason to head to Sanpete County this Memorial Day weekend. You can visit pioneer-era homes and the studios of present-day artists, at Spring City’s Heritage Days; embrace your inner Viking at Ephraim’s Scandinavian Heritage Festival; or get your blood pumping at world-champion bull riding […]
In the busy symphony of downtown Ogden, a new player has been added to the collective soup of the city’s soundscape. If you ignore the roar of cars, beeping of crosswalks and white noise of discombobulated chatter, and instead follow the low, hypnotizing hum in the air, you’ll […]
There are any number of categories into which the variety of fine and visual artists, and their works, can be divided. There are characteristics of the artists themselves: are they men or women? Are they young and newly fledged (like those in Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibit) or […]
If you’ve exited westbound I-80 at State Street lately, you may have caught sight of a striking row of oversized butterflies seemingly pinned neatly across the facade of a new apartment building. Painted to look like a giant entomology display, the new mural at One Burton is hard […]
