Phillips Gallery

05/21/2026

Hunter Jackson built his first darkroom in 1970 and pursued the art of photography over the next 20 years. In 1991 his photos were exhibited in NYC, juried by Richard Avedon; then life intervened with four children and a career in biotech, but his love of the single, still image remained. He has used the medium to help him understand his world and the evanescent tendrils of connection to it. “I don’t set out to photograph anything in particular and, in fact, take few photographs. Someone said about Andre Kertesz, ‘He fishes for photographs. Instead of running to find them, he waits patiently for them to bite.’ Kertesz was a fisherman almost without peer, but those words have the ring of truth to me. I click the shutter instinctually, when I feel a nibble. I never know immediately if what’s in the camera is worth anything. Like in the old days when a print would emerge under a red light, the first glimpse of an image says, ‘move on’ more often than ‘look deeper.’ If the latter, it may take patience – months, sometimes even years, before we connect. By the time we’re done, I like to think, as the painter John Wood might say, they’re not about something, they are something.”

To see more of Hunter Jackson's work, please pay us a visit. You may also see his pieces on our website at Phillips Gallery Artists Gallery. This exhibit, along with Craig Law on our Main Floor and Nikita Nenashev and Caroline Roberts in our Dibble Gallery, remains on display through June 12th.

05/06/2026

"Laughter is the release valve on the pressure cooker of life." — Wavy Gravy

As global headlines grow increasingly heavy, the weight of it all can feel unbearable. It is exactly during times like these when we need humor most. Laughter reduces stress, improves one's immune system, betters our interactions with others and brightens our overall view of ourselves and the world around us.

Additionally, humor can be one of the greatest tools of resistance. It isn’t about ignoring the gravity of war or political division; it’s about surviving it. Historically, satire has flourished in the trenches. HA! The Art of Humor brings together ten artists—David Crown, Steve Dayton, Meri DeCaria, Larry Elsner, Corinne Geertsen, Denis Phillips, Gini Pringle, Gerald Purdy, Harry Taylor, and Tony Smith to remind us that the most human thing we can do is find the punchline. Come for the art; stay for the delight.

To see more pieces featured in Ha! The Art of Humor, please pay us a visit. You may also see work on our website at https://www.phillips-gallery.com/New_Site/humor_group_show_2026.html. This exhibit, along with John Wood and Cuong Ta on our Main Floor remains on display through May 8th, just three more days!

04/29/2026

Cuong Ta is a modern renaissance man; a math teacher and ceramics artist with degrees in Rhetoric (UC Berkeley) and Public Policy (University of Michigan). Ethnically Chinese, he was born and raised in Saigon until his family escaped as refugees on one of the last flights out of Vietnam and ended up in Southern California. His creative pursuits have likewise been peripatetic, from writing short fiction to weaving, jewelry making and creating his own comic book superheroes. It was ceramics, however, that truly captured his heart. He describes his first lessons in clay as a spiritual process where he felt as if he was channeling a former life as a potter. He quickly excelled in the medium and created a successful career as a Bay Area artist, all while continuing full-time as a math teacher and department chair in local independent high schools. Cuong Ta maintains a studio in Oakland and lives in Emeryville with his husband, artist John Wood.

To see more of Cuong Ta's work, please pay us a visit. You may also see his pieces on our website at https://www.phillips-gallery.com/New_Site/cuong_ta_2026.html.This exhibit, along with John Wood on our Main Floor and Ha! The Art of Humor in our Dibble Gallery, remains on display through May 8th.

04/22/2026

John Wood has lived and worked in the Bay Area for more than 20 years, but his connections to Utah go back to his youth. After graduating from Highland High School, he attended Weber State University and earned his BFA in Painting from the University of Utah. He went on to graduate studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he received his MFA in Painting. He then taught for several years as head of the Fine Arts Department at Judge Memorial High School. During that time he worked with students on mural projects in several Salt Lake elementary and middle schools. His absorbing, abstract imagery is the culmination of a lifetime of work incorporating the human form and landscape as starting points in developing his images, which then progress to integrate his inner thoughts and feelings. Trusting that the process will lead him, he is much more interested in the emotional and sensual qualities that emerge rather than in any recognizable form. He lives in Emeryville with his husband, artist Cuong Ta.

To see more of John Wood's work. Please pay us a visit. You may see his pieces online at https://www.phillips-gallery.com/New_Site/john_wood_2026.html. This exhibit remains on display through May 8th.

04/02/2026

04/02/2026

Josanne Glass was born in Maine and raised in Northern California. She settled in Utah as an adult and worked as a human resource professional for nearly 30 years, ending her career as vice president for an international firm. After retirement, her lifelong passion for fiber led her to weaving on a manual floor loom. Years later, she attended painting sessions with well-known and honored Utah artist, Bonnie Sucec, going to her studio on a weekly basis - a study and practice that lasted five years. Her current work, however, employs techniques that are largely self-taught developed through years of experimentation. For this exhibit she has included whimsical felt sculpture, a new avenue she is pursuing.
To see more of Josanne Glass's work, please pay us a visit. You may also see her work on our website at https://www.phillips-gallery.com/New_Site/josanneglass_2026.html.This exhibit, with Paul Vincent Bernard on our Main Floor and Michelle Macfarlane in our Dibble Gallery, remains on display through April 10th.

03/26/2026

Thank you Artist's of Utah's 15 Bytes and Genevieve Vahl for this review of our current Main Floor Exhibition.

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Josanne Glass and Paul Vincent Bernard’s works are nestled among each other on the walls of Phillips Gallery this month, bringing out their best qualities through contrast. Bernard’s anxious, restl…

12/11/2025

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11/12/2025

Nancy Vorm served as a member of the Duneland Weaver’s Guild in Northwest Indiana before relocating to the Wasatch Front. In 2009, she received a bachelor’s degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah. Vorm has mainly been known for her encaustic work (painting with wax). However, for her current œuvre, she has shifted focus, to the materiality of acrylic paint. “My new work continues to build a history from the explorative process itself. To uncover the possibilities of combining and manipulating diverse media, color and mark-making methods to create non-objective art.”

Vorm has participated in numerous juried shows in Utah, California, and New York. Her work was chosen by the U.S. State Department for an exhibit in its embassy in Taiwan. She was also commissioned by the University of Utah Hospital’s Infinity Chapel, to create four large encaustic pieces. Vorm works full time as a studio artist and instructor in her downtown SLC studio.

To see more of Vorm's work, please pay us a visit. You may also view her work on our website at https://www.phillips-gallery.com/New_Site/nancy_vorm_oct_2025.html. This exhibit, along with Oonju Chun, Cordell Taylor and Meri Decaria on our Main Floor, ends this Friday, November 14th. We hope to see you before then!