Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
The Southern Utah Museum of Art, which opened on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City last year (see here), announced this week that Jessica Farling will be coming to Cedar City on July 1 to begin her new job as museum director/curator.Farling arrives in southern Utah […]
“Deborah Danner” by Tyler Bloomquist Confusion. The title of the 14-portrait exhibit by Tyler Bloomquist sums up the main emotion felt by many people faced with a violent confrontation between civilians and police, particularly when someone is killed. Bloomquist’s main goal with the portrait series is to capture […]
“After the Dance” by Howard Lyon The Springville Museum of Art has announced the prizes for their 93rd annual Spring Salon. The top prizes draw from the three genres of classical painting: figure, still-life and landscape. Howard Lyon, of American Fork, took the first-place prize with a nostalgic […]
Jenna Lineweaver with her painting “Awakening #2.” The Southern Utah Art Guild has announced the winners of its show Turn Up the Heat. The judges for Turn Up the Heat show were nationally known artist Bev Doolittle and her artist husband Jay. The show features 85 pieces of art of all […]
“Rajkumar College” by James Mollison In the late 1980s and 1990s, what has become known as “politically correct” became culturally ubiquitous. United Colors of Benetton, the Italian-based brand that embraced multiculturalism with its advertising campaigns featuring models from around the world, was at the forefront of this cultural […]
Also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain, sleight of hand refers to the manual dexterity used by conjurors and magicians to manipulate commonplace physical objects so that they appear to materialize and dematerialize right before our eyes, making the impossible and remarkable appear normal and ordinary. The painter Jeff Juhlin does something analogous in […]
Susette Billedeaux Gertsch’s new book is both “how-to-do” the basics of painting with acrylics and how-not-to-be-tied-down to the realistic details in nature. It’s refreshing to find a “beginning” painting book that right away gives you permission to be painterly rather than a slave to realism and accurate drawing, […]
You’ve known him as Antonio Salieri and Felix Ungar, as Scapin and as Richard II; he’s also been the directorial hand behind plenty of classics at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and, since 2011, he’s been its co-artistic director. And now he’s leaving. We just don’t know to where. […]
RDT dancers Lauren Curley and Efren Corado Garcia, in Gotheiner’s Dabke. Photo by Ismael Arrieta. In a striking moment from Dabke, Repertory Dance Theatre’s eight performers linked arms, stomping and dipping in rhythm as they wove across the Rose Wagner stage to Ali El Deek’s crooning voice. Outbursts of […]
SLC Bikeways Mural Project by Chris Peterson Despite the recent chilly weather, there are definite signs that Spring is here: the blossoms on the trees, the bikers on the streets, and the new public art going up in our cities. SLC Bikeways Mural Project Salt Lake City-based muralist […]
A report from Utah’s 2017 legislative session You probably know Utah has a state bird (seagull) and a state flower (sego lily), but did you know there’s also a state rock (coal), a state fossil (Allosaurus) and not one but two state vegetables — a historic one (the […]
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Arguably the greatest American photographer, Walker Evans was visually omnivorous and found unprecedented subjects everywhere he looked as he traversed the United States before and after, but most effectively during the Great Depression. Among the most eloquent of his discoveries were the advertising and information signage he spotted […]
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 City, Utah.
John Burton, a California artist based in Carmel, was drawn to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by reading the accounts of his Mormon pioneer ancestors. So it seems fitting that, shortly after converting to the church his family had been absent from for a generation, […]
This past September, after I came home from a weeklong river trip, a friend told me I needed to read Alex Caldiero’s new book, Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance(Saltfront, 2016). The book is a facsimile of a poetic journal Caldiero kept on a six-day trip on […]
The windows of the Canyon Community Center in Springdale, which is cradled in a redrock canyon just outside Zion National Park, look out on a landscape that visually reverberates with the abstracted canyons and flora on display within. In a hand-in-glove match between venue and artwork, the Center […]
Mike Lee, an Artist in Residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, describes himself as a product of two world cultures, having split his childhood between rural Japan and Utah. His work bridges these two separate geographical and cultural regions with reference to an elusive third: the […]
