UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE
Published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, 15 BYTES has been UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE since 2001.
Our monthly edition is published on the first Wednesday of every month and we follow that up with daily bytes posts on this site. You'll find links to artistsofutah's other programming to the right.
Joe Ostraff: Works Well With Others

Joe Ostraff: Works Well With Others

In 2010, Brigham Young University Joe Ostraff professor received a Visual Art Fellowship from the Utah Arts Council. It was his second time. The first time, in 1993, he won for a group of paintings done with his children. He’s been looking for collaborative opportunities ever since. In this video...

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Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff

Deborah Hake Brinkerhoff

Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake's Phillips Gallery.

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Agency Randomness Chaos: A Sound Installation

Agency Randomness Chaos: A Sound Installation

A review of Georgia and Rob Buchert's sound installation at BYU's Gallery 303.

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Jennifer Barton, Sunny Taylor, J.T. Harwood & Carolyn Guild

Jennifer Barton, Sunny Taylor, J.T. Harwood & Carolyn Guild

Reviews of exhibitions in Springville by Jennifer Barton, Sunny Taylor, J.T. Harwood and Carolyn Guild.

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Nancy Boskoff

Nancy Boskoff

Laura Durham sits down with Nancy Boskoff as she retires from the Salt Lake Arts Council.

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Donna Poulton’s Reuben Kirkham: Pioneer Artist

Donna Poulton’s Reuben Kirkham: Pioneer Artist

A review of Donna Poulton's biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.

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Book Arts Program

Book Arts Program

These days most words and images are thrown around as ones and zeros on a computer screen. That’s how publish our magazine. But some people still take them time to make the physical objects we know of as books. The people at the Marriott Library’s Book Arts program and Red...

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How and why to register copyrights in your work

How and why to register copyrights in your work

Consider this: The  Constitution of the United States specifically reserves for the Federal Government the ability to protect copyright. The right to bear arms, the rights of freedom of speech and religion, the right to a trial by jury, to due process and the protection from unreasonable search and seizure...

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Al Denyer's Gold Rush

Al Denyer’s Gold Rush

In this video interview University of Utah professor Al Denyer discusses her new body of work inspired by the Arctic.

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Latest Daily Bytes
Can you name these artists?

Can you name these artists?

We recently came across this almost twenty-year-old photograph from an exhibition of nine finalists for the Utah Arts Council Fellowship grant. Can you name the nine artists? We’ll give you a hint: one of them is this month’s Artist Profile and he mentions this exhibition in his video interview. The first person to correctly name...

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Andrea Bowers

Andrea Bowers

Andrea Bowers, the Marva and John Warnock Visiting Artist in Residency, will be giving a free, public lecture tonight (Wednesday, January 25) at 7:00 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Bowers combines her passions for art and activism through a variety of media, including two pieces acquired by...

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Take a Look

Take a Look

We have started to catalog images from our staff photographers for our new Art Lake City app. We have challenged our photographers to always be on the look out for any piece of artwork in their neighborhoods and to document it. This will become our database of images for you to view on our up...

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EVOLUTION (MEGAPLEX):  Part of New Frontier 12 at UMOCA

EVOLUTION (MEGAPLEX): Part of New Frontier 12 at UMOCA

by Geoff Wichert Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to overcome the passivity of...

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Chauncey Secrist: 15 Years, One Night

Chauncey Secrist: 15 Years, One Night

by Dale Thompson In conversations local artist Chauncey Secrist conveys a thoughtful intensity that ranges from playful to philosophical. His latest exhibit at Guthrie Studios is a reflection of that. On display is 15 years worth of work but the show has remained untitled because he feels it’s too soon in his career to do...

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Art Lake City

Art Lake City

In the December edition of 15 Bytes we announced Art Lake City, Matt and Laura Chiodo shot an entire photo essay to begin our project, this was one of the photographs that they took. Can you guess where it was taken?!?! There is plenty of art to see on the streets of Salt Lake, from official...

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Celebrating MLK Day?

Celebrating MLK Day?

The Leonardo is open today, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with their civil rights exhibit This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Spiral Jetty Caretakers & Other Mixed Media

Spiral Jetty Caretakers & Other Mixed Media

Dia Art Foundation recently named two local organizations as stewards of the Spiral Jetty: Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. What does this mean for Robert Smithson’s famous work? Find out at “The Future of Spiral Jetty: Community and Collaboration Panel Discussion.” It will be held at...

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Fahimeh Amiri at Finch Lane Gallery

Fahimeh Amiri at Finch Lane Gallery

In Fahimeh Amiri’s “Reaching for Liberty,” Darius the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, is seated on his throne in Persepolis, the center of Persian power. He is represented in monumental scale, in the abstracted two-dimensional side view profile of much of the art of the ancient Near East, rendered not with illusionistic depth, but...

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What I Thought I Saw Book Release

Three years ago, Art Access hosted the  what I thought I saw exhibit, which featured ten pairs of photographic and written portraits of individuals with intriguing, though not readily apparent, stories. It was the beginning of a book project designed to challenge “the way we look at things because maybe we just don’t know.” That...

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Mark Magleby

Mark Magleby

Earlier this week BYU professor of art Mark Magleby took over at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Last month Hikmet Loe sat down with Magleby to discuss the current state of the museum and his plans for the future. Read the article in the January 2012 edition of 15 Bytes.

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Hilma Mole Payne

Hilma Mole Payne

A profile of Hilma Mole Payne, on the occasion of her retrospective at the Springville Museum of Art.

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