The five sculptures and one video that constitute Parable Bodies, the exhibition by Moses Williams now in the AIR Space at UMOCA, simulate living things using materials that are not alive, such as earth and light. That could be said of most art, of course: but it’s not […]
If you value intelligent theatre that has a bite, don’t miss Bitter Lemon, Plan-B’s marvelous season-ending one-act production in the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre through April 28th. I’d see this riff on Macbeth again in a heartbeat, and surely would get as much joy out of a second […]
The film is set in the quintessential American space: the interior of an automobile. Marlene Kos is seen sitting on the passenger side of the front seat (the “suicide” seat), while the camera views her from behind. This brings to mind “Jo in Wyoming,” a painting by Edward […]
The view is straight down, so that the desert hillocks and washes look like an abstract painting, all contours and curves on a completely flat canvas. Then the view rotates, the viewer seeming to circle down, around the focal point, moving from above the spot to looking at […]
If Afrofuturism’s purpose is to imagine new futures and rewrite past narratives, Chelle Barbour’s collage portraits embrace a surrealist approach to keep those narratives open, vibrant and strange. An exhibition at Ephraim’s Granary Arts, featuring scores of works by the LA-based artist, creates an artistic dialogue that does […]
The casual visitor to Ogden Contemporary Art Center’s current exhibit—the passerby or art aficionado who stops in on any given weekday—will miss an important aspect of Luis Álvaro Sahagún Nuño’s work. It’s the lived experience, the performative aspect—the various healing ceremonies that undergrid the artist’s practice and were […]
4/3 KUER: Yes, the new Salt Lake City airport tunnel will be a shorter walk. It’s also artsy Where in Utah can you be 26 feet underground and 12 feet above water at the same time? The answer is a new tunnel at the Salt Lake City International […]
On first sight, the painting rings like a chime that echoes through the memory of art. The presence nearby of two more works from the same time and place confirms that the painter surely knew of and appreciated the great Mexican muralists, including Diego Rivera (once Mexico’s foremost […]
Long live the SLC Performance Art Festival. In an article published last year—a profile of Salt Lake City artist Kristina Lenzi and the festival she has helmed for more than a decade—we reported that the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival was soon to be homeless. After ten […]
“It’s not as if they’ll have any Goya, or Velázquez,” the couple remarked, chuckling, as they entered the museum. They were at Brigham Young University to view the Museum of Art’s widely-publicized, widely-anticipated blockbuster event of the year, Spain and the Hispanic World—an exhibition billed as hosting “treasures […]
“Apologia” is a technical term that, while related to “apology,” actually means “explanation.” The connection is historical, since an explanation functions like an apology, in clarifying why something is different from what’s expected. On her website, Rebecca Klundt offers an elaborate “apologia” for her work, which she puckishly […]
Given so many bad stories and ill-will in our national conversation these days, it’s easy to overlook those artists who still want to share their by-no-means-universal appreciation, and even gratitude, for the positive works they witness and the good lives they enjoy, but do not presume to feel […]
A stroll to FICE Gallery and Boutique offers the observant visitor a live experience of historical Utah, albeit not so much the “Wild West” of fantasy as the gritty, urban jungle of black-and-white Noir films from the 1930s. This downtown neighborhood is a rare survivor of a lost […]
The wind was howling, but people were talking about the art, not the weather, at Maureen O’Hara Ure’s packed opening on Friday evening at Phillips, her longtime gallery, where she’s presenting the second set of mixed-media panels she began with on-site sketches while traveling through Spain in 2022 […]
The paintings Linnie Brown is currently showing at ‘A’ Gallery bring to mind transparency as a visual fact, but also as a concept. Her layered images more than anything recall the cinematic lap dissolve, in which as one scene fades out, instead of the screen going dark, then […]
The picnic table anchors this installation. It grounds the floating veils and sky-yearning columns that dominate the space, suggesting a narrative without ever explicitly revealing it. In this large-scale, site-specific installation, Gail Grinnell has transformed Weber State University’s Shaw Gallery into a reflective space that resonates with the […]
Her name may be a bit superfluous: surely no one would question that Laura Wilson is sharp as well as Sharp—sharper than many of us who write about her. Calling her recent body of work “Chiasma” revealed her to be acquainted with the latest genetic science, which is […]
Andrew Patteson, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is both an artist and teacher. Originally from Florida, Patteson lived in North Carolina and Ohio, where he earned his MFA. His photographic work, featured in various exhibitions and part of the limited edition portfolio DE|MARCATION, is held in collections including the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Since 2007, he has been teaching at Waterford School, where he co-leads a highly regarded high school photography program.
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