Utah Valley University
Philosophy and Humanities
Review of Connie Borup's 2014 exhibition 'Waterscapes' at Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Op-Ed Letter to The Salt Lake Tribune on the subject of contemporary Mormon photographer, Katrina Barker Anderson and the role of museums in educating the public on Body Art.
Satirical reflections on a Utah County monument and eyesore.
Review of 'Utah Ties' 2014 exhibition at Salt Lake City's 'Central Utah Art Center' (CUAC).
Critical review of UMOCA exhibition: Church vs. State in Salt Lake City, UT. As featured in Catalyst Magazine, April 2015.
This paper explores the role of found objects in works by Contemporary Utah artists Annie Kennedy, Emily Fox, Alex Stevens and Jason Metcalf. Examples reflect both critical and laudatory approaches to intersections between Mormonism and... more
This paper explores a durational performance undertaken during the spring and summer of 2015 by Utah artist and CUAC director Adam Bateman.
This paper offers an iconographic critique of a proposed war memorial in Cape Breton, New Brunswick.
This essay explores the durational performance of Utah artist, Adam Bateman.
This is a review of an exhibition by Rodriego Valenzuela at Central Utah Art Center (CUAC), July 2015.
This essay examines the miniature paintings of Chicago landscape painter, Michael Dubina. In particular, the symbolic extensions of the works' format, as applied to commonplace matchbooks, as well as its relationship with the artistic... more
This paper reviews a 2014 exhibition by Conrad Bakker at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bakker's installation replicated (in wood and paint) the book collection of Land Art pioneer Robert Smithson.
This essay reviews the exhibition 'No Place Like Home: Selections from the Sue and John Wieland Collection of Contemporary Art.' The show, curated by Jeff Lambson, includes works of contemporary art which ruminate on the theme of Home.... more
Review of a celebration of Dada's centenary which took place in Salt Lake City at Wellers Book Works in February 2016. Works by Christian Asplund, Alex Caldiero, Gordon Hultberg, Jesse Parent, Mattson McFarland and many more are reviewed.
This paper surveys the refugee subject in Andre Aciman's 2011 book 'Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere.' Not only does the memoir offer new perspectives on the refugee experience, it introduces new coping mechanisms that can be invented. In so... more
This paper reviews an exhibition by artist Cara Despain which took place at CUAC (Central Utah Art Center) from April 15th to June 5th, 2016.