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Phil Barlow: Artist Profile
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Phil Barlow: Artist Profile

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Philip Barlow doesn’t want to be pigeonholed, boxed in as this kind of painter or that kind. The 80-years-young artist says he keeps “one foot in the box and the other outside – exploring the unexplored.” That’s why, in his exhibit this month at Phillips Gallery, you’ll see a few...

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Sam Wilson: At play among the masterworks
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Sam Wilson: At play among the masterworks

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
  A new Sam Wilson isn’t just the most recent example of the same thing, like a comedian’s latest joke or a hack writer’s newest story. While the qualities that bring his fans coming back are still here—the wit, the gentle teasing of art’s academic side, the superb drawing, the...

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Traci O'Very Covey & Denis Phillips in Ogden
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Traci O’Very Covey & Denis Phillips in Ogden

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
You probably know Traci O’Very Covey’s work from the year’s she did design work for the Utah Opera; and Denis Phillips is one of the better known artists in the state. In this new exhibit, at Ogden’s Gallery at the Station, both artists exhibit new bodies of works that may come...

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Getting Religion at Kayo Gallery
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Getting Religion at Kayo Gallery

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
If the two devoutly-to-be-wished consummations are magnificent visuals and the ability to render visible wonders that would otherwise be invisible, the holy grail (so to speak) of religious art combines the two in works that bestride the realms of realism and imagination. This month, two very different ways to this...

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David Kranes: Dramaturgy of Space
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David Kranes: Dramaturgy of Space

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • 1 Comment
David Kranes will tell you he’s driven. Since his arrival in Utah from his home in New England in 1967, he has taught students at the University of Utah Creative Writing Program, directed the Sundance Playwright’s Lab, written 7 novels and now, with his recently released The Legend’s Daughter (Torrey House Press)...

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Janell James' Studio Space
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Janell James’ Studio Space

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Salt Lake artist Janell James has been busy this spring. In April she started showing with Coda Gallery in Park City and 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake (where she’s currently part of a group exhibit), and this month she’s headed to Santa Fe with a 10-foot trailer full of...

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Centennial Valley Arts Celebration
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Centennial Valley Arts Celebration

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
This fall Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes is partnering with the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Education Center for a Celebration of the Arts in remote Centennial Valley, Montana. Featuring a workshop with our Hints & Tips columnist John Hughes, the celebration is open to artists working in any...

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Tony Smith Rides Again
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Tony Smith Rides Again

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Legend has it . . . Tony Smith would arrive at class with a pan of white paint and a roller, ready to cover up all the portions of a student’s paintings he didn’t like. He would throw a student’s materials into the hallway, yelling “Get Out! I don’t want...

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Death in the Present: Katharine Cole's The Earth Is Not Flat
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Death in the Present: Katharine Cole’s The Earth Is Not Flat

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Katharine Coles couldn’t trust her senses. On a grant from the National Science Foundation, she boarded a ship to cross the infamous Drake Passage, the world’s roughest crossing, to live in Antarctica. For the celebrated writer, it was a hunt for poetry and instability, a dislocation from ordinary life. But...

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Organizing Your Plein Air Gear
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Organizing Your Plein Air Gear

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Summer’s coming so it’s time to get your plein air gear together. John Hughes gives you hints (and photographs to match) on how to organize your gear to make the best of your time in the field. Read the article in the May 2013 edition of 15 Bytes.

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Albert Fallick-Wang at the SLC Photo Collective
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Albert Fallick-Wang at the SLC Photo Collective

by 15 Bytes on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
Albert Fallick-Wang’s photographic work will be on exhibit this month at the SLC Photo Collective. For this exhibit, though, he hasn’t touched a camera. Using screenshots of Google Earth and Google Street Views, Fallick-Wang explores the way we see and perceive the world. Read Ehren Clark’s review in the May...

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PechaKucha rides again
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PechaKucha rides again

by 15 Bytes on May 20, 2013 • No Comments
PechaKucha Night is here again and will be held (again) at the State Room, 638 S. State St., on June 6. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door but there are rarely tickets left at the door unless you buy them from a scalper and then they...

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Where to Go to Hear and See
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Where to Go to Hear and See

by Geoff Wichert on May 19, 2013 • No Comments
The librarian on the City Library’s fourth floor proffered a warning: there hadn’t been enough space to hang everything in the correct order. She referred to the thirteen poems by Lynn Kilpatrick and fifteen drawings by John Sproul that together comprise To Be Unnamed. Probably everyone has an opinion on which works of art look...

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Work to Do, in Art and Dance: Provo Sites and the BYU Museum of Art
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Work to Do, in Art and Dance: Provo Sites and the BYU Museum of Art

by 15 Bytes on May 15, 2013 • No Comments
The opening of Work To Do, an exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art that features the work of Trent Alvey, Pam Bowman, Jann Haworth & Amy Jorgensen, will also feature dances by choreographers created specifically for the space.

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J. Kirk Richards' Cristo Series at the Utah Biennial
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J. Kirk Richards’ Cristo Series at the Utah Biennial

by Ehren Clark on May 14, 2013 • No Comments
Mondo Utah, the inaugural Utah Biennial that opened at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art last week, is all about Utah’s traditional parallel types, says museum Senior Curator of Exhibitions Aaron Moulton — the distinctive genres like landscape or outsider art that interact to form the state’s cultural puzzle. This intersection of genres can create...

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Anne Cullimore Decker in The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County
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Anne Cullimore Decker in The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County

by 15 Bytes on May 13, 2013 • No Comments
Wives, widows, forbidden love and family secrets…and all in Utah County. Whether you’re intrigued or wondering if this simply describes your family, the world premier of The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County is a play you’re not going to want to miss. Written by Miguel Santana and directed by Alexandra Harbold, this...

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Tandy Beal's Here After Here
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Tandy Beal’s Here After Here

by Sarah Thompson on May 13, 2013 • No Comments
Tandy Beal’s HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity aims to engage the audience in a conversation about death.  However, the performance is so full of the joy of life, music, movement and creativity that at times death is left in the wings, although still close enough to remind the audience to appreciate all that’s being...

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ONE FATHER'S APPREHENSION: Interview with memoirist Maximilian Werner
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ONE FATHER’S APPREHENSION: Interview with memoirist Maximilian Werner

by Geoff Wichert on May 9, 2013 • No Comments
Maximilian Werner will read from and sign copies of his memoir Gravity Hill at the King’s English Bookshop 1511 S. 1500 E. Salt Lake City Friday May 10, 2013, 7 pm. Maximilian Werner’s memoir Gravity Hill contains stories nested inside other stories. In its framing tale, we meet Max about five years ago, a young...

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Views of the West at David Ericson Fine Art
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Views of the West at David Ericson Fine Art

by Ehren Clark on May 8, 2013 • No Comments
David Ericson says each of the three artists in his current show, “paint what they see and paint what they experience.” Views of the West, up through May 17, provides ample representation from these three contemporary landscape artists — G. Russell Case, Michael Workman and George Handrahan — demonstrating both their passion for the wilds...

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UMFA acquisitions, work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Lawrence Weiner
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UMFA acquisitions, work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Lawrence Weiner

by 15 Bytes on May 6, 2013 • 1 Comment
When Frank Sanguinetti, former director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, introduced the public to the museum’s new building in 2001, a few scratched their heads. The “guava” color of the walls might take some getting used to, they seemed to mumble. In the upper galleries, where paintings and sculpture took up much of...

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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Darrell Spencer
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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Darrell Spencer

by David G. Pace on May 4, 2013 • No Comments
Each month we post for your reading enjoyment literary works-in-progress…works soon-to-be-published…or works recently released. The Sunday Blog Read is a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of writers with a Utah connection. And we’re pretty confident you’ll be inspired. So…curl up on the couch with your favorite cup-a-joe and enjoy! * * * Darrell...

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A Tale of Two Readings
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A Tale of Two Readings

by David G. Pace on May 4, 2013 • No Comments
Literary readings are curious animals. They’re the writers’ primary public event to see and be seen, hear and be heard. But what are they really? Theater? A discussion? Celebrity sighting? Two readings in April, one following the other, became a study in contrasts for me. The first, the annual release of sine cera, a DiverseCity...

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A Night with the Family
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A Night with the Family

by Dale Thompson on May 2, 2013 • No Comments
For many, Christmas comes with a concentrated dose of dysfunctional family “fun.” Anyone who didn’t get theirs this year can find it at A Night with the Family, Matthew Ivan Bennett’s new play being staged by Pygmalion Productions. The comedy takes us back to the holiday with an energetic performance that audiences will either find a hilarious...

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NOW: Charlotte Boye-Christensen & Nathan Webster's New Project
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NOW: Charlotte Boye-Christensen & Nathan Webster’s New Project

by Shawn Rossiter on May 1, 2013 • No Comments
  The applause is still echoing from the Rose Wagner Arts Center. Saturday night, Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen concluded her 11-year run with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and the audience let their appreciation be heard. Dancer Jo Blake, who is also leaving the company, received just as warm a send-off. Turns out, you won’t have...

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HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity
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HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity

by Sarah Thompson on Apr 29, 2013 • No Comments
What happens after we die?  Are we reincarnated either physically or spiritually?  Do some of us go to Heaven and some to Hell?  Are we reunited personally with a deity or absorbed impersonally into an absolute?  Or is death simply the end, with nothing at all awaiting? If these questions intrigue or trouble you, you...

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Listening to Stone: Catherine Fischer at work in the UMFA basement
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Listening to Stone: Catherine Fischer at work in the UMFA basement

by Dale Thompson on Apr 29, 2013 • No Comments
Anyone who has attended the Utah Symphony over the past two years knows how Thierry Fischer has helped changed the artistic landscape of the state. What most don’t realize, however, is what his wife has done for that same landscape. The Fischers live in Geneva, Switzerland and spend 12 weeks of each season in Salt...

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