Professor Michael Hirshon was just featured in Magnifying, a series dedicated to showcasing the talent of our students, faculty, and staff to help you learn more about the remarkable individuals within our creative community here at the College of Fine Arts. Read the feature below: Michael Hirshon is a freelance illustrator and assistant professor of Illustration in…
Read MoreCongratulations to Art History MA alum Alexander Stanfield for his recent appointment as West Coast Editor in the US at New Art Examiner! Stanfield earned both his BA (2014) and MA (2018) in Art History from the University of Utah, concentrating in Early Modern European Art and Material Culture. His newest article on the Gauguin…
Read MoreXi Zhang: Dream Dust Milkshake February 14 - April 12 Exhibition Community Reception | February 28 | 6pm-8pmKimball Art Center 1401 Kearns Blvd, Park City, UT Xi Zhang’s recent paintings explore what it is to be human—to grow and evolve, to navigate relationships, and, often, to struggle. Placing his protagonists amid dream-like landscapes, reality becomes…
Read MoreObjects of Desire & Disgust ART 4720 | Color Photography From the very beginning photographs were employed to induce desire and promote the spectacle of commodities. Throughout this semester long collaborative project, the included artists examined the relationships between human desire, visual representation, and the relationship to photography. The ideas explored include desire as validation…
Read MoreWritten on the Wind by Wendy Wischer, Professor of Sculpture Intermedia, is part of Nature All Around Us, a special exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, October 19th 2019 – May 25th, 2020. Filled with immersive dioramas, hands-on interactives, and live animals, Nature All Around Us engages all your senses in discovering…
Read MoreProfessor Ed Bateman was recently featured on KSL News, watch the video below! "Bateman started taking actual carte de visite photos and adding elements from his imagination. The result was a series entitled “Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny” (a reference to philosopher Marshall McLuhan) – carte de visite pictures of a cowboy robot, a young…
Read MoreCongratulations to Kim Martinez's Taft-Nicholson Painting Residency class for putting together an amazing exhibition in Gittins Gallery! In this class, held at the University of Utah's Taft Nicholson Center in Montana, artists were given the opportunity to spend a week learning to paint the landscape while being fully immersed in it. The intensive residency included…
Read MoreThank you everyone who came out for the Howard Clark Exhibition reception last week, and a very special thanks to Howard Clark for his continued support of our Painting and Drawing students! Emeri Fetzer, communications specialist for the College of Fine Arts, penned a feature on the exhibition and artists for the The Finer Points…
Read MoreThe Department of Art & Art History is pleased to welcome Dr. Virginia Solomon (B.A. Stanford University, 2004, Studio Art and Feminist Studies; M.A. 2007, Ph.D. 2013, Art History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California) as the 2019-20 Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History. Dr. Solomon’s research interests include contemporary art, curation, gender studies,…
Read MoreThanks to all who came out to support our students for the 2019 Annual Student Art Exhibition! The show will be on view in Gittins Gallery until May 3. Don't miss it! Reception Photos Exhibition Photos Award Winners Anita Hawkins - After Rothko - Best in Show & Faculty Awards Nikita Nenashev - Rolapp Award…
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