For many contemporary artists, the space between lived reality and digital reality is becoming increasingly blurred and perhaps more ethically complex. For Allison Joy McKinney, these distinct realities merge. To understand the world more deeply, McKinney captures images of objects, people, and moments—sometimes seemingly fleeting—and reimagines them digitally. […]
There are a couple of things that won’t make sense at first glance. What does London have to do with wildlife? What’s a Utah artist doing there? And isn’t that painting a landscape? Start with the announcement: Salt Lake City-based painter Nadia Cross has been named a finalist […]
The downstairs gallery at Bountiful Davis Art Center hosts the staff group show — a fitting metaphor for what lies beneath the institution above. Paintings, pottery, sculptures, mixed media. Self-taught and art-school trained. The variety is a showcase of the different approaches that make this fine center of […]
Another year, another Springville Salon, another chance to reflect on the art scene in Utah. As the recently closed Salon 100 show at Springville demonstrated, the Salon has a storied past. Perhaps most importantly, its more than 100-year history illustrates Utah’s ongoing commitment to the arts, even during […]
Every two years, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center hosts the Wasatch Camera Club’s Utah Travels exhibition. The title is a bit misleading, since while many of the high quality photographs have been taken, as implied, in some of Utah’s most photogenic places, “Utah travels” could just as well […]
The first question that came to mind when we heard Kingsbury Hall was planning a renovation was, “What about the murals?” UtahPresents and the University of Utah announced last month the allocation of $3 million in state funding for interior renovations at Kingsbury Hall, the 1,900-seat historic theater […]
I arrived in Provo, UT, on an unseasonably warm May afternoon to photograph Everett Thorpe’s New Deal-era mural “Early and Modern Provo,” which hangs near the entrance to the J. Will Robinson Federal Building. To my surprise, the two guards at the entrance told me the Thorpe mural […]
Springville seems like it’s had an antipathy (or is it fear, or maybe indifference?) to murals, ever since they painted over the Gordon Cope mural in the 1940s. Home to the first and one of the biggest art museums in Utah, with sculptures installed all over town, Utah’s […]
What the patriarchy has fabricated for women often stretches and pulls her in every direction. Be a mom, but have a career, but have hobbies, but be a good lover so you can be a good mother. Yet womanhood also uniquely holds the power to nurture life from […]
A few years ago, artists began making work that sounded the alarm about the state of the Earth. It was a bold effort, but one came away from it—if in fact one didn’t approach it in the first place—with the realization that no work of art, or even […]
“Open wide the floodgates / wash away extractors from the shore. / may we never again measure / this body by economic value. / may we count our blessings / by the flaps of wings. / may we be the ancestors who stepped / in the path of […]
On May 4th, the Box Elder County Commission held a special meeting at the county fairgrounds in Tremonton—moved there because so many people were expected to show up. Which they did. When the commissioners took their seats, they were met with an eruption of shouting and booing. After […]
The Salt Lake City Arts Council has thrown down the gauntlet. They say that at nearly 2,000 feet, Strut is the longest continuous public artwork in Utah. The piece by Seattle-based duo Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan (Haddad|Drugan) runs along the south side of the 400 South […]
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums (UA&M) has announced the 2026 Utah Artist Fellowship recipients. Five fellows have been selected in the program’s Literary Arts and Performing Arts (Music) disciplines, and eight fellows have been selected in the combined discipline of Visual Arts & Design. The fellows, […]
5/31 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: A very American controversy on the art world’s biggest stage — with a Utah-born sculptor at the center If a few thousand people see a gallery show in New York City, it’s considered a tremendous success. The Venice Biennale, which typically runs from […]
Surely one of the necessary attributes of any artist’s studio ought to be security, on several levels. Picasso’s million dollar studio, in a couple of French chateaus, included numerous spaces, each behind a locked door, and he enjoyed waving around a giant ring of keys as he unlocked […]
The works that enter public collections carry a particular kind of weight. More than purchases, they are selections, each one a small claim about what matters, what endures, and who belongs in the story of a community’s artistic life. Once acquired, these works take on a life that […]
On the way to a creative life, many eager students are given advice approximately based on their interests. An avid reader might be urged to become a writer, though in truth there are numerous perfectly good and potentially more appropriate vocations for readers. One who draws compulsively may […]
In the midst of our rapidly evolving, instant-gratification society with constant distractions, I believe we’ve lost our way. —Nina Miller These days, when so much public commentary is clearly calculated to avoid offending our litigious oligarchs, we may well find ourselves searching the national conversation for evidence such […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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