Time and time again in these pages, Geoff Wichert has proven the exception so often that one might think it has become the rule, but from my perspective group exhibitions are still the hardest to write about. Not so much the curated exhibition, centered around a theme—those have […]
Beth Krensky’s solo exhibition, The Trees Will Love You and the Earth Will Hold You, at Material Gallery in South Salt Lake, Utah, is a quietly powerful meditation on belonging, vulnerability, and the healing potential of nature. Through a thoughtful arrangement of sculpture, video, and performance relics, Krensky […]
In 2024, Ryan Hymas helped put Santaquin on the map. The art map. The artist, 11 years sober, transformed a late-19th-century pioneer dwelling into an art extravaganza inside and out. When he first began renting the house on Main Street, it was falling apart and full of cobwebs. […]
Julie Nester and her staff have chosen women as the focus of their current show, the title of which, She Roars in Color, gives a good idea of why. This is not the opening salvo in the next battle of the sexes; rather, it might be in recognition […]
In reference to works of art, “calligraphy” is often used as an adjective. For example, we say a certain artist’s line quality is “calligraphic.” But of course fine hand-lettering is a visual art form in itself, one inclusive of language, but also able to function apart from it. […]
For a gallery that only recently opened, Border & Square, just south of downtown Provo, feels like a classic gallery space. Set in the large open area between a small framing showroom and the back frame shop, the gallery has a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere, big white walls, and […]
Spend a little time with the gifted, itinerant street painters on YouTube and it soon becomes apparent that almost anything can become the support for a painting, from a guitar to a guitar case, or a laptop’s cover, or even an inexpensive, mass market oil painting on canvas. […]
The folks at Craft Lake City, Utah’s Do-It-Yourself festival, can’t have been unaware of the irony: for their latest “Celebration of the Hand” exhibit they’ve curated works executed by a robotic arm. Cheeky buggers. Displayed outdoors on the Museum of Temporary Change’s placards, Emergence features reproductions of 14 […]
Video art has been around for a long time. Performance art even longer. The exhibition (Im)posibilidades, at Ogden Contemporary Arts, is at the center of the Venn diagram of the two. And it’s an interesting place to be. Performance art is in person, live, and ephemeral. Not theatre, […]
Whoever wrote that art is not progressive—that it doesn’t advance as artists learn how to better express themselves and pursue their goals—certainly didn’t look at the way the century of Surrealism has progressed. When, in 1924, André Breton published his Manifesto of Surrealism, he spoke to artists who […]
Every Labor Day weekend, the streets of Payson fill with the smell of fried onions, the sound of marching bands, and the bustle of carnival rides. Onion Days has been the town’s signature celebration since 1925, when Payson’s farmers were famed for the onions they grew in the […]
With an exhibition title that riffs on Andy Warhol’s 1966-1967 Exploding Plastic Inevitable—which featured a series of multimedia events that extended the exhibition beyond the gallery—Exploding Native Inevitable is, similarly, both multimedia and a reference to life beyond the gallery. Curated by artist Brad Kahlhamer and now-retired Director […]
Our stories are our bodies. Our bodies are our legacy… So writes Sarah May, a local artist and community organizer known for her multimedia collaborations with Great Salt Lake. May is a master of ecosystem-assemblages. In the backseat of her car you will usually find a box of […]
Recently, Amy Childress sent us a press release for the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Pre-Qualified Artist Pool. We sent her back a few rapid-fire questions, for a feature we call “On the Spot,” where we get to know better the art professionals filling up our inbox. What […]
Alissa Landefeld is one member of a small-but-mighty segment of the Utah arts scene. Originally from Montana, she started out to be a biologist, earning honors at UVU and traveling the world to connect with other students of the science of life. She found, however, that her urge […]
“Monsoon season” has arrived, which is an odd phrase to write in a desert state, but particularly so during one of the hottest and driest summers on record. It’s the term we use for the mid-to-late summer weather cycle that brings sometimes intense afternoon thunderstorms. It typically runs […]
It all started with a dream she had in her mid-20s. She was seeing herself, middle-aged, spinning wool on an old-school spinning wheel in front of a field of sheep. “At that time I knew nothing about [spinning wool], so I had to figure out what this was […]
Kristina Lynae’s Flesh and Sinew, on view at The Gallery at Library Square through October 10, turns to the human body—deconstructed, recombined, and reimagined—to probe questions of identity, intimacy, and fragmentation in the present day. Born in California in 1999 and based in Salt Lake City, Lynae came […]
Eduardo Alvarez, a Chilean-American artist based in Provo, Utah, studied Fine Arts at Universidad Católica de Chile under Josef Albers’ pupils. Influenced by his global upbringing and Chile’s military regime, his art explores truth and perception. Through dynamic textures, cracks, and colors, Alvarez creates works that balance matter, content, and light. Guided by Christian values, his art invites introspection, encouraging viewers to appreciate beauty, embrace life’s moments, and reflect on the nature of reality.
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