Kyle Utter

In addition to Clare Kambhu’s solo exhibition currently on view at Satchel Projects, her work is included in two other concurrent shows: In the Light of Your Shadow at the @tomayko.foundation in Pittsburgh, curated by @velazquezalyssa (closes tomorrow)
 Back and Forth, a two-person show of collaborative paintings by Clare Kambhu and Kyle Utter at Weyers-Sampson Gallery in Western PA. Up through March 27. Kambhu’s work was also recently featured in a three-person show at the Allegheny College Art Galleries. The exhibition included a selection of Kambhu’s larger-scale works. 
Image 1: Slower Please
2026
Oil on panel
40 x 30 inches Image 2: Lunch 2025 oil on panel 24 x 36 inches Images 3 and 4: In the Light of Your Shadow installation view Image 5: Kambhu & Utter Grow 2026 acrylic on panel 20 x 16 inches Images 6 and 7: Allegheny College installation view Congratulations Clare! Clare Kambhu: Manual Entry continues through April 2

Thank you for coming out! It was a really fun opening and I had a lovely time! If you missed the opening, the show will be open till January 29th by appointment only. Please DM me to come by. Press Release: “So long as culture was explained as originating from...the use of long, hard objects for sticking, bashing, and killing, I never thought that I had, or wanted, any particular share in it...If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag...later on you take it out and eat it or share it...if to do that is human...then I am a human being after all.” In Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”, she outlines the idea that human culture did not begin with the creation of tools/weapons, but with the need for something to hold things. She says that if we focused on our origins as gatherers, not hunters, everything would be different. I have always been gathering materials, arranging them, conversing with them and using them to see and understand the world. I paint on found objects because they have history imbedded in them. I walk slowly and I take my time getting places, collecting objects and images as I go. When I paint on an object I think about what it has seen, and what I have seen that may be similar. Le Guin finishes her essay by stating that a novel is at its best a bag. I believe that a painting is also a bag. “A book holds words. Words hold things...A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.”  @sweetlorrainegallery

“Frivolity as value, seriousness as play.” In his Gideon’s Bakery interview, Kyle Utter considers painting’s resistance to utility, its strange position in a world of total instrumentalization. Through reflections on Marx, Jameson, and psychoanalysis, he threads together a practice of risk, belated comprehension, and painterly world-building. Read the full conversation at gideonsbakery.net — a sharp, layered look at the politics, poetics, and processes of contemporary painting. #KyleUtter #GideonsBakery #PaintingAndTheory #ContemporaryPainting #StudioPractice #seriousplay

A couple pics of the piece, 3:40, in the show up at @garnerartscenter 3:40 2024 60 x 96 inches oil on canvas

Couldn’t be more excited about whats to come and wanted to share this amazing life touchstone. This program was my first fellowship I received after graduating my MFA at SAIC. Having met an incredible group of people who are now my life long cohort has really been a blessing and a beautiful welcome to NYC after Chicago. While we lacked physical space for us to gather we still managed to digitally stay in touch and build our relationship. To have had the opportunity to make work for this exhibition is truly a culmination of the work I started in 2020. After SAIC I lingered on making meaning through photographs and have slowly been scratching at the surface beyond what it can be and how texture, layer and dimension can create assemblages that speak to the perpetual sense of becoming and belonging one can experience all at once. Through installation I create possibilities and portals. Mirrors of a landscape that feels impossible to locate but deep down everyone has their own and different peeks valleys and rivers. Ultimately what does it mean to become a landscape of possibility ? While its been challenging for many reasons working on these pieces has been transformative not solely in the practice but spiritually, physically, emotionally, and metaphysically. I have been tried and tested but truly my obsession and dedication has carried me through. These pieces speak to the human body and instances of when labor and capitalism tried to really end you. They speak along side saturn return, my growth as a person, my philosophies and what can happen if you hold onto hope. Maybe the work can offer perspective and a portal into another future. At the end of the day “otro mundo es possible” another world is possible and many more worlds are possible beyond and through the human experience. Maybe its hope that we must hold onto to pivot into other dimensions of existence. In sum I’m super excited to share space with these amazing talented beautiful individuals who have become part of my life’s cohort and I wish to see you all there dancing, giggling, and being/feeling inspired~ 🌹💖 Immense gratitude to Eileen for her work ✨

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to “Second Hand”! Thank you Sammy, Weihui, Bob and Will for all your support and work! The gallery will be open 1-5pm on Sundays; 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, and 4/7. I will be there every Sunday and I look forward to seeing you there! Thank you!!! @bobs_gallery1r @sammy_bennett1 @weihui_lu @will.kaplan @madkingbob @will.kaplan

What a wonderful exhibition @bronxmuseum featuring 1/2 of the 53 Artist In The Marketplace (AIM) artists who took part in the residency 2020-2023 and now have the opportunity to be part of a show that shines a light on their unique/individual practices. Many of the artists were born outside of the US but share their global perspectives on colonialism while calling New York home. 1. Miguel Braceli, (b. 1983, Carabobo, Venezuela, lives in Brooklyn, NY) 2. Luis A. Gutierrez (b. 1990, Cali, Colombia, lives in Queens, NY) 3. Peter Hoffmeister, Bricks installation view 4. Saba Farhoudniq (b. 1987, Tehran, Iran, lives in New York, NY) 5. Ami Park (b. 1991, Seoul, Korea, lives in Queens, NY) 6. Kim Dacred (b. 1986, Bronx, NY, lives in Harlem, NY) 7. Fred Schmidt-Arenales (b. 1991, Boulder, Colorado, lives in Brooklyn, NY) in collaboration with Maia Chao (b. 1991, Providence, RI, lives in Philadelphia, PA) 8. Kyle Utter. (B. 1988, Chicago, IL, lives in Queens, NY) #aim #aimbronxmuseum #artistinthemarketplace #bronxmuseumofart #nyuarts

Delighted to share! 🙏🏼❤️💫via @bronxmuseum ・・・ Part One of ‘Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial’ has picked up some great press since opening a month ago at @bronxmuseum ! Swipe through the slideshow for some headlines then head to the link in our bio for the articles 🔗 Slide 1: Press clip of writer @rheanayyar.art ’s exhibition review for @hyperallergic . Nayyar shared nuanced insights into the works currently on view, including this quote from AIM Fellow @tfredsa about their work ‘Waste Scenes,’ a video installation made in collaboration with artist @maia.pologies : “The ‘neo-liberal vision of the good life’ has to be codified and transmitted via various forms of media before people will participate.” Slide 2: Press clip of @natashaguralmaiello ’s exhibition review for @forbes . Gural’s well-written piece spotlights a few particular artworks including AIM Fellow @miguelbraceli ’s ‘Here Lies a Flag,’ describing how it “unearths and resurrects the past civilizations that maintained the land before the arrival of colonial settlers.” Slide 3: Film still of @news12 ’s segment covering the exhibition with reporter @brittanycadet.tv edited by Natalie Hernandez. The segment features interviews with several AIM Fellows including @mayajeffereis , who speaks about how her family’s history of immigration from Japan to Hawai’i informed her work ‘Passages II.’ #BronxMuseum #AIMbiennial #RheaNyyar #Hyperallergic #WalterCruz #FredSchmidtArenales #MaiaChao #NatalieGural #Forbes #MiguelBraceli #News12 #mayajeffereis @kim_bo915 @syd_abady @iam__ami_ @mizziverse @visually_conscious

Part One of ‘Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial’ has picked up some great press since opening a month ago at @bronxmuseum ! Swipe through the slideshow for some headlines then head to the link in our bio for the articles 🔗 Slide 1: Press clip of writer @rheanayyar.art ’s exhibition review for @hyperallergic . Nayyar shared nuanced insights into the works currently on view, including this quote from AIM Fellow @tfredsa about their work ‘Waste Scenes,’ a video installation made in collaboration with artist @maia.pologies : “The ‘neo-liberal vision of the good life’ has to be codified and transmitted via various forms of media before people will participate.” Slide 2: Press clip of @natashaguralmaiello ’s exhibition review for @forbes . Gural’s well-written piece spotlights a few particular artworks including AIM Fellow @miguelbraceli ’s ‘Here Lies a Flag,’ describing how it “unearths and resurrects the past civilizations that maintained the land before the arrival of colonial settlers.” Slide 3: Film still of @news12 ’s segment covering the exhibition with reporter @brittanycadet.tv edited by Natalie Hernandez. The segment features interviews with several AIM Fellows including @mayajeffereis , who speaks about how her family’s history of immigration from Japan to Hawai’i informed her work ‘Passages II.’ #BronxMuseum #AIMbiennial #RheaNyyar #Hyperallergic #WalterCruz #FredSchmidtArenales #MaiaChao #NatalieGural #Forbes #MiguelBraceli #News12 #mayajeffereis

In 2020, I was fortunate enough to be selected for the Bronx Museum AIM fellowship. During the program, I had the pleasure of meeting kind and talented individuals. Initially planned for six months, the fellowship was extended due to the pandemic and lasted over a year. Through this experience, I was able to build strong and long-lasting friendships. We finally have the opportunity to showcase our work together at The @bronxmuseum for the AIM Biennial, which was divided into two parts. Here, I share the work of some of my fellow artists from the 2020 cohort. In alphabetical order: Chris Cook @visually_conscious Saba Farhoudnia @sabafarhoudnia Yelaine Rodriguez @yelaineartspace Kyle Utter @kyleutter

Exciting News from ArtAsForm! We’re thrilled to announce our series of video interviews is back! Get ready to dive deep into the minds and studios of these fanatics artists 🎨✨ Mark your calendars! 🗓️ The series kicks off soon: 1️⃣ Maximilian Thuemler - Feb 22 @maximilianthuemler 2️⃣ Luciana Pinchiero - Mar 7 @lucianapinchiero 3️⃣ Debbi Kenote - Mar 21 @debbikenote 4️⃣ Faustine Badrichani - Apr 4 @faustinebadrichani.art 5️⃣ Kyle Utter - Apr 18 @kyleutter 6️⃣ Lauren Cohen - May 30 @laurencohenstudio 7️⃣Kate Rusek - June 13 @thekaterusek #ArtAsForm #ArtistInterviews #ContemporaryArt #ArtInspiration #MaximilianThuemler #LucianaPinchiero #DebbiKenote #FaustineBadrichani #KyleUtter #KateRusek #LaurenCohen

Sketchbook pages from 2010. 3 years before my 1st smartphone/post on IG. Sheesh