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Pilar Pobil's Studio Space by Shawn Stradley
Pilar's Studio is as colorful as her life and home. She lives in the Avenues of Salt Lake, and her studio is inside the old garage, located at the back of her beautiful garden, beyond the wisteria trellis. The entrance is through a brick-paved back patio. The walls are basic white, but almost all of the additional components have been painted bright colors: yellow, magenta and blue. The space is clean and well organized, but there are surfaces where the accrutements of creativity have piled up. Up above a large skylight illuminates the space. Peaceful, beautiful, and energized, Pilar's Studio is a wonderful quiet urban space developed by the artist, as the artist's, for the work of creation.
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Feature: On The Spot
Cedar City's Brian Hoover
Cedar City artist and professor Brian Hoover on the spot.
1) What are you reading lately?
Nothing too heady. I am currently re-reading one of my favorite books Little Big by John Crowley. For me, it's a magical book full of strange, wonderful, often disturbing and inspiring imagery. It's a read for those with an escapist mentality like myself. The book is also delightfully written. It's full of many very loooong descriptive sentences that read like poetry and require a re-reading just for the fun of it.
2) What hangs above your mantel?
Because my walls serve as temporary storage for my own work ...as things are constantly coming and going... work is always being moved from one room to another. Currently however, I have a Wayne Kimball lithograph and one of Susan Harris' lidded funerary tripods ( with armadillos) as centerpieces in the living room.
3) What artist, living or dead, would you choose to paint, sculpt or photograph your portrait?
That's a tough one. My first impulse would be to choose one of my 19th century Symbolist heroes or a contemporary artist like Julie Heffernan, just for the shear surprise of what they would come up with. But for more self-serving reasons I'd have to choose Adolph-William Bouguereau. In my opinion, there is no one else before or after him that can seamlessly transform paint into living flesh so well. I would choose him just to watch him paint.
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15 Bytes: About Us Our Contributors
Ed Bateman, a Salt Lake artist, received his MFA from the University of Utah and teaches there in the Arts Technology program. His biggest surprise of late is the discovery that the tools that he thought would direct his thinking to the future have led him to contemplate the art of the past.
Emily Chaney, after graduating in 2002 from the University of Utah with a Fine Arts degree, began writing for 15 Bytes as a way to stay connected to the Utah arts community. She has worked for the Utah Symphony & Opera and is now the Gallery Manager for the Terzian Galleries on Park City's Main Street. When Chaney is not painting, she enjoys hiking behind her house in Park City on the Pinebrook trails.
Brian Christensen, a native of San Diego, is a sculptor who currently teaches sculpture at Brigham Young University and continues to exhibit art and publish articles locally and internationally. He is married with two children.
Kindra Fehr earned a BFA in drawing/painting from the University of Utah, has studied at the Lacoste School of the Arts in France and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She works out of her studio in Sugarhouse and co-instructs the KidsmART program at the Salt Lake Art Center.
Shawn Stradley is a published poet and photographer and director of Palmer Gallery Fine Art in Salt Lake City.
Geoff Wichert is a professor of Art History at Snow College, as well as a glass and multi-media artist. He has been writing about glass for 25 years in publications in Italy, Germany, New York, Missouri, Portland, Japan, and Australia. .
15 Bytes is published monthly by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization located in Salt Lake City Utah. The opinions expressed in these articles are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of 15 Bytes or Artists of Utah.
Editor: Shawn Rossiter
Assitant Editor: Laura Durham
You can contact 15 Bytes at artistsofutah@netzero.net
Our editions are published monthly on the first Wednesday of the month. Our deadline for submissions is the last Wednesday of the preceeding month. We do not publish an edition in August or January.
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