POSTED // Feb 13,2009 - The human voice is the most natural instrument; the first device we use to meet our most primal survival needs as well as to relay individuality and emotion.

POSTED // Jan 21,2009 - A new yet familiar gallery space opens with a flourish this month featuring a local powerhouse. The owner of Campo Furniture on Highland Drive, Brian Seethaler, was losing his lease after 12 years. He decided to do something different with the 19,000-square-foot building for its final months after talking to 337 Project founder Adam Price, who introduced him to artist John Bell. Bell’s Size ...

POSTED // Jan 21,2009 - Decades after experiencing an awakening of his sexual identity, Daren Young realized the truth about his artistic identity. The results are showcased in an exhibit that he says is an “evocative, not provocative” attempt to stimulate dialogue about homosexuality. In contrast to some gay-themed art that uses overt sexuality or political statements, HOMO/Evocative is more intimate because...

POSTED // Jan 14,2009 - Musical performers have been a part of the Sundance Film Festival for years, adding to the “festive” atmosphere in Park City. But musical guests aren’t just a soundtrack to the parties, award ceremonies and celeb stalking that accompanies the festival; music is an art form that cross-pollinates with film to make artistic statements of its own, and augments the statements made by ...

POSTED // Jan 7,2009 - Looking at an artist’s body of work, motifs and themes tend to repeat themselves over the course of a career and can create a lexicon of symbols, even a mythos—not exact, but allusive and suggestive. Over his career, David Ruhlman has created an individual style that also draws on influences from religion, history, artistic predecessors and folk art. As a self-taught painter, he has be...

POSTED // Dec 24,2008 - Art and government entities go together like oil paint and water bills—but the largest and most comprehensive collection of Utah artwork is housed in a government edifice. Salt Lake County’s collection of more than 450 original works in paint, photography, pottery and sculpture assembles many of the best-known local artists with some up-and-comers to create a surprisingly eclectic grou...

POSTED // Nov 19,2008 - The story of artwork is the story of the eye and its various travels. A skilled artist will guide the optic sojourner in a deliberate arc, and the works of Sri Whipple also travel through psychological and fantastical realms. That in itself isn’t uncommon, but the way his shapes are perpetually in the process of evolving makes their narrative more compelling. Abstract shapes are becoming fig...

POSTED // Oct 29,2008 - Every building contains volumes of stories, tales that don’t always see the light of day. The staff of City Weekly is keenly aware of that, having moved several years ago to share a building with Sam Weller’s Bookstore, among other tenants. The site is brimming with legends from their decades in the bookstore business—a gathering place for some of the most captivating books, auth...

POSTED // Oct 1,2008 - Art—and artists, for that matter—have traditionally had a hard time finding a place to feel at home, from artists of the Renaissance who struggled with an uneasy relationship with wealthy patronage to Van Gogh who lived in poverty to today’s...

POSTED // Sep 3,2008 - Welcome to the biggest little gallery in Salt Lake City. But if Albert Wang has his way, IAO Projects will be among the broadest—in terms of artwork if not physical space—in the world. Only a few months old, the brainchild of Wang and gallery...