Brad Kramer

Bradley Kramer {[email protected]} received his PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2014. His research interests include religious language, gender performance, and kinship construction. He teaches courses in anthropology, history, and philosophy at Utah Valley University, and is the principal curator at Writ & Vision, a contemporary art gallery in Provo.

Thoughts on Lane Twitchell

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

The German painter Gerhard Richter once wrote: “I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself, and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent).” Lane Twitchell is an artist whose particular skillset produces immense works that are both furiously energized and so stylistically distinctive that one could recognize one of his paintings even if obscured by the most impervious haze the Wasatch Front is capable of generating. By contrast, Lane also sometimes makes pictures that self-consciously eschew “style” with a commitment very likely borne of his first direct encounter with Richter’s work, visiting a Virginia gallery a missionary for his natal religious tradition in the mid 1980s. So Lane works in two very different but not unrelated modes, each tied in its own way to his distinctive creative tools. Lane’s work is ferociously intelligent, frenzied, brimming with ideas, occasionally political, and above all a sheer pleasure to look at.

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International Art Competition

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 1

For more than a decade the LDS Church has organized an International Art Competition, each with its own theme. Variety and diversity figure centrally into the competition and the exhibit that results from it. Submissions…

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Now Let Us Revise

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4

I asked five diverse scholars to answer the question: What would you change in Mormon musical practice? Here are their replies. —Editor 

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