Bands of Light: Matthew Sketch’s FAM(ily)
Matthew Sketch’s FAM(ily) exhibition at UMOCA comprises a series of untitled mixed-media pieces that explore the relationship between light and land.
May 02, 2023
Utah
Environment, Disability, and the Drying of the Great Salt Lake
As Utah faces the evaporation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah artists are finding ways to orient themselves in disaster by considering the relationship between disability and environment.
April 26, 2023
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge Tackles the Bogeyman of Loneliness in Waterman
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge of Salt Lake City grapples with themes of isolation and belonging—in comic book-style works influenced by Korean folk art—in her ongoing Waterman series.
March 30, 2023
The Gallery as Slaughterhouse: Tamara Kostianovsky’s Mesmerizing Flesh at Ogden Contemporary Art
Mesmerizing Flesh, Tamara Kostianovsky’s exhibition of textile sculptures, encapsulates a compelling, if harrowing contradiction between industrial violence and the beauty of corporeal and organic forms.
March 20, 2023
Horacio Rodriguez’s Boombox Benefit Amplifies a Bygone Relic
The Horacio Rodriguez-curated exhibition and auction Boombox Benefit at UMOCA, a multi-artist showcase of ten ceramic pieces patterned from Rodriguez’s 1980s childhood boombox, aids ten different social justice-centric organizations.
March 07, 2023
FeatureUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
“Great” Salt Lake No More: How Utah’s Worsening Drought is Inspiring Artistic Reflection and Activism
The depletion of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a symbol of the state’s worsening water crisis and has, throughout the past few years, inspired a diverse array of artistic responses.
March 03, 2023
ReviewUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Between Life and Land: Material at the Kimball Art Center, Park City
Between Life and Land: Material at Kimball Art Center stuns not by virtue of its star artists, but from those that highlight the wonder and horror of our natural world.
March 03, 2023
ArtistsUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Douglas Tolman
Salt Lake City-based Douglas Tolman's project Where Are you? interrogates map-making and deepens community connections to place.
March 03, 2023
Mesmerizing Flesh with Tamara Kostianovsky
Ogden Contemporary Arts presents Mesmerizing Flesh, a solo exhibition of work by globally recognized textile artist Tamara Kostianovsky.
February 09, 2023
Utah’s New State Flag, To the Disappointment of Some, Won’t Depict the State Fish Wielding the State Firearm
During the Utah state and Salt Lake City flag competitions, residents fall in love with Grant Miller’s dark-horse design heavy on clowning state symbols and imagery.
February 03, 2023
Work in Progress with Wren Ross
Wren Ross, a Park City, Utah, painter and social worker, plumbs our collective unconscious with stirring, uncanny work, where movement becomes a crucible for visual creation.
January 27, 2023
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City examines the perspectives of dozens of artists who offer a broader and more inclusive view of the American West.
January 25, 2023
Fate of Utah’s Outsider Art Site The Christian School Remains In Flux
Salt Lake City’s Christian School, the brainchild of late artist Ralphael Plescia, is in limbo as an arts organization’s preservation efforts are hampered by the recent sale of the property.
January 23, 2023
Under New Leadership, the Springville Museum of Art Remains Essential to Utah Arts and Arts Education
Springville Museum of Art, newly helmed by Emily Larsen, is one of Utah’s oldest visual arts institutions—and a crucial component of the state’s arts education networks.
January 13, 2023
Curator Profile: María del Mar González-González Sparks Conversations About Latinx Art
María del Mar González-González, a Utah-based curator, bolsters artist voices that are too often relegated to the fringes of discussions about Latinx art.
January 04, 2023
The Center Can Not Hold Illustrates the Temporal Nature of Our Cores
The Center Can Not Hold—curated by Hikmet Sidney Loe and featuring works by Anne Mooney, John Sparano, and Hannah Vaughn—explores the varied meanings of holding space through architecture.
January 03, 2023
Local Utah Gift Guide 2022
Our next gift guide travels to Salt Lake City and Provo, where shoppers can score upcycled clothing, wood-burned prints, and gender-affirming underwear.
December 15, 2022
A Reimagined Gallery Celebrates Jimmie F. Jones at Southern Utah Museum of Art
The Southern Utah Museum of Art celebrates the legacy of Utah artist Jimmie F. Jones with a new semi-permanent exhibition space and permanent, interactive touchscreen kiosk.
December 06, 2022
The Sentience of Sediments: Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’s Alchemy of Ochre
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’s Unknown Prospect explores the material possibilities of ochre to showcase the beauty and agency of the Utah landscape and its nonhuman inhabitants.
November 30, 2022
“Pornographic” Mural in Salt Lake City Suburb Causes Confusion, Outrage
Midvale, Utah recently instituted a cultural revitalization project to enhance its downtown. A large mural depicting two nude figures and a ghoulish specter has become the talk of the town. […]
November 17, 2022
A Rift Out West: Salt Lake City’s Arts Community Confronts Issues of Indigenous Representation at Local Gallery Modern West
New Mexico artist Billy Schenck has made a successful career of cowboy-and-Indian pop-art imagery, but a recent exhibition of his work brings present-day debates over representation and authorship into the harshest of spotlights.
November 14, 2022
Salt Lake City Bids Farewell to John Sproul’s Beloved Nox Contemporary
John Sproul, a prominent local artist and owner of Nox Contemporary, will close the gallery following the end of Jared Steffensen’s exhibition Idem, Norms, Dorms Mine on November 4, 2022.
October 25, 2022
In i know you are, but what am i?, Artists Turn Taunts into Self-Empowerment
i know you are, but what am i? at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the figure to launch discussions about identity, fluidity, and body positivity.
October 14, 2022
Step Into Christian Degn’s Dark, Magical Castle
Provo-based artist Christian Degn brings viewers into an abstract, dark, and magical world with pen-and-ink illustrations that grace album covers for well-known metal and ambient bands.
September 30, 2022
New Salt Lake City Gallery Current Work Arrives at a Transitional Time for the Local Art Scene
Current Work, founded by longtime arts advocate Tiffini Porter, raises the contemporary art bar in Salt Lake City. The gallery also fills several sudden gaps in Utah's creative ecosystem.
September 22, 2022
Review: Jorge Rojas: Material Witness at Granary Arts
Jorge Rojas’s retrospective Material Witness at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, showcases a quiet yet still tenacious side of the Salt Lake City-based artist.
September 07, 2022
UMFA’s Air Makes the Invisible Visible
In Air at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, sixteen contemporary artists from around the globe illuminate how air connects us to each other and the planet.
September 07, 2022
Utah’s Expanded Art Budget Increases Opportunities for Artists
The pandemic forced Utah’s arts organizations to get creative with funding sources. The strategy ultimately allowed for more direct aid for individual artists and novel programming.
September 05, 2022
Nancy Rivera’s Laborious Practice Pulls a Thread Between Her Art-Making Process and Her Immigration Experience
Salt Lake City artist Nancy Rivera illustrates the immigrant experience in a series of complex and time-consuming embroideries.
August 30, 2022
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
“This is the Place”: Utah’s Public Art as Religious Mythmaking and Resistance
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
August 26, 2022
