POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - With some of the exhibits and performances in the area recently [see “Sound Ideas,” Aug. 23, City Weekly], local art seems to be undergoing some uncanny transformations. If you didn’t know better, you might think you were viewing the...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - The name of one of Salt Lake’s newest art galleries says it all. The creators of the works embellishing the walls at the Unknown Gallery aren’t members of the glitterati, such as it is, of our town’s comparatively modest art scene. If...

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Multimedia art—combining visual works with sound—isn’t a new medium. But using sound to actually imprint images on the visual plane is a technique that hasn’t been attempted much before. The new genre of “sound art”...

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Artists express their individuality in different ways. Sometimes they need to pull out a dictionary to do it. Phoenix resident Camilla Taylor found she had to move away from native Salt Lake City to redefine her artistic identity, though she still maintains...

POSTED // Aug 15,2007 - Salt Lake City galleries and studios have been fortunate enough to host exhibitions and residencies in the past. But how often do we encounter a practitioner who has helped develop a whole new process of creating art? The “drypoint lithography”...

POSTED // Jun 29,2007 - With a travel itinerary as comprehensive as Lebanese artist Marwan Nahle’s, it comes as no surprise that his work plays like a globe-spanning travelogue. What is more remarkable is the destination at which he has arrived.nnBorn in 1965 in Beirut,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - HIV is such a complicated issue, I wanted to explore it from different sides,” explains University of Utah art professor Kim Martinez. “People think everyone gets it the same way, but everyone’s experience with it is different. It’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Emerging artist Jonathan Weisblatt has the best of both worlds: The airy, open space of the loft that is his studio/living space is an area worthy of a SoHo painter but without the New York rent. While Weisblatt has studied around the world including...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There’s an air of expectancy behind the doors of this building, seemingly just one in a series of warehouses on the west side of 700 South. Yet even early in the afternoon—relatively quiet due to Bohemian artists’ hours—Poor Yorick...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If you’ve gone to shows at Kilby Court over the years and casually grabbed a flier or two on your way out, you may not have realized at the time that you were acquiring a work of art. But then, these aren’t your ordinary rock show fliers....