http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8381-1-visual-art.html By Brian Staker

The theme of the sixth-annual Mountain West Arts Conference, held May 3 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City, was “mapping.”]]> By Brian Staker

The whole is larger than the sum of its parts. That’s one of the main tenets of Gestalt psychology—and it also summarizes the artwork of Margaret Tarampi.]]> By Ehren Clark

When Snoop Dogg had the gas tank in his Snoop DeVille filled with water instead of gasoline by a prankster, he was not happy.]]> By Brian Staker

John Bell has the postmodern blues: the struggle to create meaning through art in an age when not only the traditionally meaningful is drowned out ...]]> By Ehren Clark

Since 1965, Phillips Gallery has featured hundreds of artists—and seven of the best, all of who are now deceased, are the subject of the current show, Reminiscing.]]> By Brian Staker

“Sustainable” probably isn’t the first word you think of in tandem with art. In fact, most genres of art are, on some level ...]]> By Ehren Clark

For artist Christine Baczek, when it comes to her exhibition of photographs at Nox Contemporary, it’s personal.]]> By Brian Staker

In the digital age, there’s been a backlash in the arts by artists striving to hold on to older forms, genres and media, whether it’s film photography, live theater or the spoken word.]]> By Brian Staker

The start of a new year brings with it new possibilities for life as well as art, and among those are the visions of artists on display at local galleries.]]> By Ehren Clark

Art can imitate life, and life can imitate art—and in the aggressive and vibrant abstract paintings by Dave Thomas ...]]> By Brian Staker

Personal and public history often maintain a curious, even distant relationship in an artist’s work. But in the work of some truly visionary artists, the two fuse and illuminate each other, and possibly create a third entity that is something different entirely. The work of Chicago mixed-media artist Tony Fitzpatrick uses the iconography of early comics and other symbols from his childhood to create a panoramic picture of Chicago—and America as a whole.]]> By Ehren Clark

Too often, dreams and aspirations must be set aside for practicality and security, or practicality and security are sacrificed for the pursuit of dreams and aspirations.]]> By Brian Staker

Site-specific artworks have developed in different ways since the term originated in the 1970s, but rarely has it taken a new view on location itself as in the works of Kim Schoenstadt. ]]> By Brian Staker

Our society has made seemingly everything into an object, but nothing more so than the human being itself.]]> By Brian Staker

It’s the end of an era for local nonprofit arts organization Arts Access. Executive director Ruth Lubbers is retiring this month ...]]> By Austen Diamond

Smiling and full of charm, Ricardo de Sousa Costa hardly shows the weariness of barely sleeping the nights preceding the Park City Kimball Arts Festival Gala. ]]> By Brian Staker

Works of art have always taken a journey to arrive before your eyes, a transformative process that somehow carries the artist along with them.]]> By Brian Staker

Animals, wild and domesticated, are frequently depicted in fine art. They are anthropomorphized and they are portrayed as symbolic children, symbols of danger and brute force or archetypes of the natural world in general. ]]> By Brian Staker

Entering a space filled with Frank McEntire’s artwork—whether in his West Valley City studio or at an exhibit of his new works at Nox Contemporary gallery ...]]> By Brian Staker

Amid other forms of celebrating the outdoors during summer, artwork gets its due with a plethora of arts festivals and fairs all over the state.]]>