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Colour Maisch: Artist Profile
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Colour Maisch: Artist Profile

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • 1 Comment
 “I’ve found with a lot of these things,” Maisch says, gesturing across the studio, “that in my own life, they’re talismans, these ways of creating-I don’t want to say sacred, but these… wishful… moments. Or ways of imbuing little bits of magic into things.” Maisch is able to infuse even...

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Work to Do @ BYU: Jann Haworth, Trent Alvey, Amy Jorgensen, Pam Bowman
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Work to Do @ BYU: Jann Haworth, Trent Alvey, Amy Jorgensen, Pam Bowman

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • 1 Comment
 And it should be clear that these four women do not constitute a homogenous perspective. They each come from different backgrounds, are involved in different life experiences. Their work is different, distinct, all its own.  Yet, when seen as a collective, certain themes emerge. One is a emphasis on softness:...

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John Sproul and Lynn Kilpatrick @ City Library
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John Sproul and Lynn Kilpatrick @ City Library

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
 Art doesn’t ask questions: people do. So when Salt Lake Community College professor Lynn Kipatrick first saw the ‘blind’ drawings by John Sproul that form the visual half of their joint show at the City Library, questions came to mind as part of her response. Fortunately, Kilpatrick is among the...

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Daughters of Mudson 2013
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Daughters of Mudson 2013

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
 Daughters of Mudson may sound more like the name of a weird band than the name of an annual dance performance. And you may or may not have been to Salt Lake’s Masonic Temple this spring to see the works-in-progress show called Mudson, put on by loveDANCEmore. Either way, the...

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Sunny Talyor @ BYU
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Sunny Talyor @ BYU

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • 1 Comment
BYU professor of art Sunny Belliston Taylor likes shapes. For the past decade she has built an increasingly sophisticated body of work that explores the “objecthood” of painting. Her abstracted paintings make overt references to their own structure, to the boundaries of the panel’s dimensions, the geometric building blocks of...

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Kent Christensen Retrospective
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Kent Christensen Retrospective

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
 You may not find your favorite Coke product in the Temple’s cafeteria anytime soon (yup, a cafeteria, it’s in the basement), but spend some time at this exhibit and you’ll find yourself imagining a perspiring bottle of the caramel colored stuff floating angelically above its spires. A retrospective exhibition of...

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Levi Jackson and Joshua Winegar @ CUAC
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Levi Jackson and Joshua Winegar @ CUAC

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
Through the process of light, both Winegar and Jackson direct our gaze to embodied landscapes where human forms are cloaked or only implied. Both artists encompass the history of the Western United States and the cultural ideas that formed how we now view the environment and its stewardship. Through different...

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Tom Bettin @ Phillips Gallery
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Tom Bettin @ Phillips Gallery

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
It might be easiest to call Tom Bettin a painter, but his studio practice is just as dependent on printmaking, sophisticated forms of collage and other multi-media approaches, making it difficult to define just “what kind of art” Bettin makes.  Whatever the mechanics, it is art that transcends rules and...

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Chauncey Secrist @ Finch Lane
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Chauncey Secrist @ Finch Lane

by 15 Bytes on Jun 5, 2013 • No Comments
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty,” said Edmund Burke in his seminal “Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.” Burke might have appreciated the work of Chauncey Secrist as few are able:  for it is easy to look at Secrist’s work...

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Liberty Blake @ The Leonardo
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Liberty Blake @ The Leonardo

by 15 Bytes on Jun 5, 2013 • No Comments
The Lab @ The Leonardo is a multi-use space: it hosts impromptu as well as formal art workshops for the museum’s visitors; and since each month a new artist moves their studio into the space and creates work on site, allowing visitors to watch an artist work in their natural...

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Your references, please? Judy Csotsits and Rogelio Manzo at White Space in Ogden
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Your references, please? Judy Csotsits and Rogelio Manzo at White Space in Ogden

by Geoff Wichert on Jun 17, 2013 • No Comments
The new Whitespace gallery, across Wall Avenue from the Union Station in Ogden, opened with an impressive array of artworks emphasizing noteworthy materials rather than familiar names or genres. For instance, photographer Koh Sang Woo knows that documentary photographs are old news; his digitally manipulated color images, like “Farenheit,” generate neon dreams in which what...

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North of Eden: New Work by Plein Air Artist Hadley Rampton
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North of Eden: New Work by Plein Air Artist Hadley Rampton

by David G. Pace on Jun 12, 2013 • No Comments
  The drive from Salt Lake up to Eden can take you over Trappers Loop near Snowbasin Ski Resort and is an inspiring prelude to the equally inspiring plein air oils and watercolors exhibit by Hadley Rampton now through July 6 at the Free Spirit Spa & Yoga Center. That’s right, the spa located in...

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Get Your Artwork Shot: This Weekend at 7x7 Creative
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Get Your Artwork Shot: This Weekend at 7×7 Creative

by 15 Bytes on Jun 11, 2013 • 1 Comment
WHAT: Get your work shot by a professional photography studio WHERE: 7×7 Creative, 682 South 700 East (above Ward and Child: The Garden Store) in Salt Lake City. WHEN: Saturday, June 15, 10am-1pm WHO: Artists of Utah, in collaboration with 7×7 Creative HOW MUCH: $30 donation to Artists of Utah includes 5 images and an...

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Website Workshop at 7x7 Creative
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Website Workshop at 7×7 Creative

by 15 Bytes on Jun 11, 2013 • No Comments
WHAT: Create your own website using free WordPress software WHERE: 7×7 Creative, 682 South 700 East (above Ward and Child: The Garden Store) in Salt Lake City. WHEN: Saturday, June 15, noon-4 pm. WHO: Artists of Utah, in collaboration with 7×7 Creative HOW MUCH: $100 fee. Participants are responsible for the costs of domain name...

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SUITE at Sugar Space Gives Women Choreographers a Defining Space
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SUITE at Sugar Space Gives Women Choreographers a Defining Space

by Sarah Thompson on Jun 7, 2013 • No Comments
Along with loveDANCEmore’s Mudson, Sugar Space has become a “go-to” venue for seeing alternative, experimental, and non-professional dance, along with dance film. SUITE: Women Defining Space is another fine example. Given that the number of female dancers in Utah far exceeds that of male dancers, one could legitimately ask what the rationale of a “women...

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Lance Larsen's Genius Loci
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Lance Larsen’s Genius Loci

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
In the wake of a spate of articles and rebuttals on the “death” and usefulness of poetry, on its accessibility, and other catalysts of infighting amongst schools of poets, Lance Larsen’s new collection, Genius Loci, came as welcome relief. Many of Larsen’s poems transcend such specialization and erudition. They are a reminder of what drew...

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Collaborative Art at the Utah Arts Festival
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Collaborative Art at the Utah Arts Festival

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments
  Dancers do it. Musicians do it. Even writers do it (we’re thinking of Wu Ming). So why not artists? This month, Artists of Utah is celebrating the art of collaboration with a special event at The Leonardo during the Utah Arts Festival that explores what happens when artists bring their individual skills, talents and...

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15 Bytes Dance Editor
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15 Bytes Dance Editor

by 15 Bytes on Jun 6, 2013 • 1 Comment
Embracing the collaborative spirit, we’ve decided to share resources and bring loveDANCEmore’s dance reviews to 15 BYTES while also offering a new pool of objective and thorough writers to what loveDANCEmore offers. You’ll find that some content, like performance reviews, will appear in both publications. Other articles, like the artist profiles we like to run...

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Whitespace in Ogden
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Whitespace in Ogden

by 15 Bytes on Jun 4, 2013 • 1 Comment
This Friday is the first of the month, which means it’s Ogden and Provo’s turn for their gallery walks. For Ogden, it’s also the Ogden Arts Festival, June 7 & 8, a free event with artist booths, kids activities, live music and a plein air exhibit and competition. While you’re up there, whether for the...

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New Hires: Arts & Museums, Ririe-Woodbury and Salt Lake Magazine
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New Hires: Arts & Museums, Ririe-Woodbury and Salt Lake Magazine

by 15 Bytes on Jun 3, 2013 • No Comments
On Wednesday, the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts announced that after a nationwide search they have selected Lynette Hiskey as the new director of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. “Lynnette has the experience to connect with and strengthen arts, museums, and cultural organizations that are key to the local economies of many...

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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Larry Menlove
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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Larry Menlove

by David G. Pace on Jun 2, 2013 • No Comments
This is our fourth Sunday Blog Read, a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Former Utah Poet Laureate Kate Coles was our inaugural offering in March, followed by poet Michael McLane, short story writer Darrell Spencer and, this month, fiction writer Larry Menlove. It’s a chance to read excerpts from...

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15 Bytes Reader Survey Results
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15 Bytes Reader Survey Results

by 15 Bytes on May 29, 2013 • No Comments
If you’re reading this, you’re probably among the 47.9% of our readers who, according to our recent 15 Bytes Reader Survey, were aware that 15 Bytes has a blog (see question #7 below). The “blog” is what we call this portion of our site — the (mostly) daily content we publish on Utah’s art world....

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17th C Mexican Nun Inspires a new Poetry Contest
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17th C Mexican Nun Inspires a new Poetry Contest

by David G. Pace on May 28, 2013 • No Comments
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H. (1651-95), a 17th Century Mexican nun, was one of the most brilliant intellectuals, poets and playwrights of her time and beyond. And earlier this month Artes de Mexico en Utah and the Utah Humanities Council launched the Sor Juana Prize, a statewide prize for original writing in Spanish. This...

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Expecting the Unexpected: Richard M. Garland's By Memory
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Expecting the Unexpected: Richard M. Garland’s By Memory

by Geoff Wichert on May 27, 2013 • 1 Comment
Watercolor is perhaps the most versatile paint medium, its range running from the most ephemeral, barely perceptible stain all the way to the intensity and illusionism of oils, with an infinite register of effects between. While it would be absurd to say there are only two ways to watercolor, it is possible to identify assorted...

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Adobe Youth Voices Live: Young Digital Artists Showcased in Salt Lake
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Adobe Youth Voices Live: Young Digital Artists Showcased in Salt Lake

by Haylee Wilkes on May 26, 2013 • 2 Comments
Adobe has impressively taken the push to give kids a chance to stimulate their creative minds to a whole new level. Their nonprofit organization, Adobe Youth Voices, provides schools and kids with cutting-edge media tools all over the world. With these tools, the students slip into a digital coma and are taken over by the...

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