You may already be familiar with McKay Lenker Bayer, or at least with her creative mind. She’s the one who decided you should get on your hands and knees with a magnifying glass to look at really small versions of art. What began as a class assignment, and […]
At the beginning of this century, webcams began to revolutionize the way we could experience the world: from our computer screens, at any given moment we could see what was happening at various points in the world. The view could be mundane or majestic, all depending on where […]
Shiya Zeng exhibits unfamiliar magic around the perimeter of what I like to call the Sunset Gallery, at Finch Lane. Then, to show just how magical it is, she contrasts it with a relatively mundane counterpoint that appears to restore her audience to Salt Lake City, though to […]
At the Springville Art Museum’s 2023 Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah exhibition, among the hundreds of excellent works that found their way into what must be one of the largest exhibitions of recent art anywhere, one piece that stood out was by an artist unknown to me. […]
It’s appropriate—and one suspects not by chance—that Bunnie Reiss’ mural for the 2024 South Salt Lake Mural Fest faces the parking lot of Bjorn’s Brew (though it’s actually painted on the side of Elite Auto Sales, 2161 S. State Street). The mural’s themes of nature and animal companionship […]
Salt Lake City artist Trevor Dahl has had a busy year. First, there was his participation in Artists of Utah’s 35×35 show, then his two-person exhibition at FICE Gallery in March, and now his new mural, which just went up at South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest. His mural, […]
A late spring storm descended on northern Utah just as the foothills of the Wasatch Front were bursting into bright green and gardens all along the urban corridor were in full bloom. Chuck Berrett’s new mural wrapping three walls of the Cozy Coffee Lounge in South Salt Lake […]
The South Salt Lake skyline has been beautifully enhanced by a striking new mural that pays homage to cultural diversity and natural beauty. Created by Beau Graff, a Senegalese street artist, the mural features a powerful bust of a woman in a vibrant blue headscarf and earthy-toned jewelry, […]
Utah artist Jessica Wiarda has brought a captivating new mural to the South Salt Lake Mural Fest, strategically placed along the S Line (475 E. S Line Corridor). The mural bursts with energy, capturing dynamic imagery that celebrates her Hopi heritage from her matrilineal side. In Wiarda’s signature […]
Created in April, 2024, as part of South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest, this vibrant mural trumpets its joy alongside the State Street on ramp to I-80 east. Created by Egypt, originally from Los Angeles and now based in Arizona, this mural encapsulates the artist’s signature approach to portraiture […]
Ernesto Maranje, a mural artist celebrated for his unique ability to blend natural and mechanical elements, has created another captivating piece on the side of an apartment building in South Salt Lake. This mural features a large, detailed portrayal of a moose, intertwined with elements that showcase Maranje’s […]
4/25 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: The Desert’s Living Skin: A Collaborative Effort to Bring Biocrust Into the Museum Entering the gallery space initiates a tangible contact with the desert’s living skin—that is, the biocrust. At UMOCA, a portion of the biocrust, a community of organisms—lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria—that form a carpet-like crust […]
If the only John Wood painting in the gallery was “Shared Experience,” a casual viewer could be excused for thinking him a landscape painter in the Impressionist School. This panel, which is almost twice as wide as it is tall, seems to show a body of water, a […]
The five sculptures and one video that constitute Parable Bodies, the exhibition by Moses Williams now in the AIR Space at UMOCA, simulate living things using materials that are not alive, such as earth and light. That could be said of most art, of course: but it’s not […]
If you value intelligent theatre that has a bite, don’t miss Bitter Lemon, Plan-B’s marvelous season-ending one-act production in the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre through April 28th. I’d see this riff on Macbeth again in a heartbeat, and surely would get as much joy out of a second […]
The film is set in the quintessential American space: the interior of an automobile. Marlene Kos is seen sitting on the passenger side of the front seat (the “suicide” seat), while the camera views her from behind. This brings to mind “Jo in Wyoming,” a painting by Edward […]
The view is straight down, so that the desert hillocks and washes look like an abstract painting, all contours and curves on a completely flat canvas. Then the view rotates, the viewer seeming to circle down, around the focal point, moving from above the spot to looking at […]
Andrew Patteson, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is both an artist and teacher. Originally from Florida, Patteson lived in North Carolina and Ohio, where he earned his MFA. His photographic work, featured in various exhibitions and part of the limited edition portfolio DE|MARCATION, is held in collections including the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Since 2007, he has been teaching at Waterford School, where he co-leads a highly regarded high school photography program.
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