For most photographers, finding the right moment to press the shutter is crucial. Dayle Record, whose large, color photographs of the Great Salt Lake, Singular Images: The Lake I Love, are currently on display in Charley Hafen’s cozy, brick-and-glass jewel box of a gallery, handles the critical moment like a painter who first draws her...
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Boomtown
A review of Torben Bernhard and Travis Low's documentary short about Frisco, Utah, screening this week at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
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Steven Fawson Makes a Comeback
A review of Steven Fawson's exhibit of portraits of artist friends at the Gallery at Library Square through March 9.
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Yarn Truck
Remember last year, when yarn-bombing was the thing? People were wrapping trees, signs, bikeracks and other objects in yarn. It culminated in the Random Acts of Art (see our article) yarnbombing at the Utah Arts Festival (see our video post). Well, the other day we were driving in the south part of Salt Lake (not...
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What are you seeing tonight?
Are you heading out to the Salt Lake galleries tonight, and wondering what you should check out? Our February edition of 15 Bytes has a number of articles on shows you can catch tonight, including: The opening reception for 24 x 24 at Alpine Art. Sundance’s New Frontier 12 at UMOCA Cris Baczek at Nox...
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New Arrivals
A few of our local partners recently announced new arrivals. The Leonardo At the beginning of the month The Leonardo announced that Holotype, the large-scale installation that takes up a large chunk of the main floor has been completed. When The Leonardo first opened Holotype was merely a rebar framework spiraling up from a dirt...
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Getting to Work: Mixed Media This Week
The cover story for this month’s edition of Foreign Policy magazine features 13 “out-of-the-box” ideas to save the world economy from some of the smartest people they know. Number 2, from economist Diane Coyle, is to hire everybody. In the long-run she’d like that the private sector be responsible for full-employment, but in the short...
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BIG news for the Kimball Art Center
Local architects respond to the newly announced design for the Kimball Art Center expansion and renovation.
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New Park City Public Art
This month Park City's Public Art Advisory Board installed a new public art piece. "Sheltering Aspens," by Koryn Rolstad, consists of approximately 75 fabricated "trees" and over 1000 "leaves." Koryn is a Seattle based artist who was chosen by an RFQ to create a piece in the entry of the newly renovated Marsac Building...
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Bountiful/Davis Winners
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center has announced the winners of their annual statewide competition, juried this year by Adrian Van Suchtelen. Ruth Menlove’s horse made out of driftwood took first place. Simon Winegar’s oil painting of a bright yellow engine won the second place award. And Scott Terrill’s photograph took third. A list of all the...
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Philip Glass Turns 75
by Geoff Wichert Throughout history, success has often been linked in the popular imagination with unfair choices: Alexander the Great had to choose a brief life and undying fame or a long life in unending obscurity. Talented women have usually had to choose between art and family. In our era, the choice has been money...
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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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