Modern West Debuts New Space with Unbound: Art of the West
Modern West opens a new chapter with Unbound: Art of the West, the first exhibition staged in the gallery’s new space at 242 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City.
When Sound Becomes Structure: The Layered Languages of Gonzalo and Susana Silva
In a new multimedia exhibition, Buenos Aires–based siblings Gonzalo Javier Silva and Susana Isabel Silva examine sound as a cultural technology through a body of work that is varied yet cohesive.
UMOCA’s “Altered States” Depicts a Vivid, Far-Out American West
At the turn of the 20th century, the American West came vividly into focus in the public imagination, shaped by a flourishing body of romantic representation circulated through poetry, illustration, travel writing, and popular media.
Never Leave the Art Room at 6th and 6th Studios in the Granary District
There’s a particular energy that begins in art, drama, or band rooms. These are the places where people first learn that making things can be a way of life rather than something to outgrow.
Derek Dyer and the Imagination Economy of Salt Lake City
Some of the most visible arts experiences in Salt Lake City share more than spectacle or scale. They are part of a longer arc of creative entrepreneurship shaped by Derek Dyer.
Ryan Harrington is Building a Quiet Architecture of Influence
Ryan Harrington is a Utah artist and community organizer whose disciplined, design-driven practice and long-term commitment to showing up for other artists have made him a quiet but essential connective force in the state’s creative ecosystem.
A Geometry of Balance in Dan Evans’ Cut-Paper Abstractions at Finch Lane
Dan Evans’ work pares imagery down to its structural essentials, using clarity and reduction to hold attention where recognition falls away.
Holly Rios Turns Printmaking Into a Conversation on Seeing and Being Seen
Rios’s new exhibition uses collage, text, and quietly uncanny imagery to explore how women learn to see themselves, inviting a slower, more attentive kind of looking.
The Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) Finds Sanctuary in the Temple
Built in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the restored B’nai Israel Temple brings a long-overlooked chapter of the city’s history back into view.
At Alpine Art, Four Painters Translate Nature’s Calm into Contemporary Design
These paintings draw light, air, and color from quiet horizons, offering a sense of visual relief without sentimentality.
Evidence of an Alien Universe — Elmer Presslee at God Hates Robots
Presslee constructs a parallel visual universe from cult-horror detritus and pulp sci-fi residue, less an exhibition than a leaked transmission.
Meow Wolf Gives Inner Children a Shopper’s Wonderland at Omega Mart
Corporate parody, myth-building, and sensory overload collapse into a fully weaponized funhouse disguised as a grocery store.
Sundance Film Review: The Runner
A genre-bending film that dissolves the boundary between what is watched and what is lived.
David Rios Ferreira & Denae Shanidiin: Transcending Time and Space
Circular collage portals and ritual-driven media create a space where absence behaves like a living force.
Jesse Meredith: So That We May Fear Not
A calm, unsettling documentation of militia culture that exposes masculinity and patriotism as constructed myth.
Rethinking Rural / Urban Dichotomies
Green River’s artist-run outpost challenges assumptions about where cultural innovation survives.
Box of Myth — Modern West
Three artists manufacture personal myth using symbol, confrontation, and abrupt imagery.
Imitation Games — Ben Steele at Modern West Fine Art
Art-historical homage and parody collide in a tightly controlled exercise in visual imitation.
Urban Nature in Flux — “Ditchbank”
A reminder that there is no untouched nature — only hybrid terrain under constant negotiation.
Animation in the Spotlight — Under the Influence
Comics and cartoons treated as legitimate psychological record rather than guilty pleasure.
Diving Into the Abstract — J. Vehar Evanoff
Large-scale canvases work in murky tonal fields where form repeatedly threatens to dissolve.