Blonde Grizzly award

We got an award from City Weekly for Blonde Grizzly. These are the Best of Utah awards. We are so excited about the award and so grateful people love our gallery and what we are doing with out little business.

Best Alternative Gallery
Blonde Grizzly
Opening in an old photography studio in 2010, Caleb and Hillary Barney started up the clothing shop/art gallery as a forum for alternative and pop-culture artwork that probably wouldn’t see the light of day in normal gallery settings. Since then, they’ve seen massive success from their line of affordable T-shirts, hosted packed crowds for their open-gallery nights and brought new life to their small section of 400 South.

Utah Jazz show - Gallery Stroll

Friday was our February gallery stroll. We had a Utah Jazz themed group show. We were busy all night long and the biggest hit was the t-shirts we had printed. Our friend Doug designed them. Two weeks ago Jerry Sloan resigned as the Utah Jazz coach. It's a historical event, so we did these shirts based on what had happened...a tribute to Jerry Sloan.

Gallery Stroll - Dan Christofferson

Our show at the gallery this month was a solo show. Dan Christofferson was the artist. He is amazing and I have been excited for this show ever since he said he would do it. We saw his stuff at a Gallery Stroll before Caleb and I were married. We had gone to the gallery stroll with my sister Melanie. He had a set of 3 prints. We all loved them, but none of us could afford the whole set. So we each got one in the set. When Caleb and I got married...I thought it would be nice to have the whole set. I had Dan's business card and contacted him to see if he happened to have another one of the one I was missing in the set. I was so excited to hear he had one. So now we have the whole set. That set of prints gets a lot of compliments at our house and we have loved having them.

Larua Durham of 15 bytes magazine did a little write up on the show. Here is what the article said: click here to read the full article

Currently, Dan Christofferson’s work occupies the gallery walls in a show called The Terrible Gentle Man. The artist describes the majority of his work as “getting at the guts of a person.” Christofferson explains: “It’s an attempt at pinpointing some vague emotional state that may be sort of hard to verbalize or easily share with people. Lately I’m obsessed with what makes us who we are down to our most brutal selves.”

The artist has human behavior distilled down to three elements: 1) things that make us happy, 2) things that make us sad or upset, and 3) things we can’t control. These different elements are represented visually with corresponding colors, shapes and symbols.

Christofferson describes The Terrible Gentle Man as the personification of who we are underneath our shells when we’re filled with these three basic groups; each of us in different combinations. The image of the Russian nesting doll or “Matryoshka” is a simple but beautiful symbol to call attention to the different layers we all possess. He hopes to push the viewer to examine what makes up the layers underneath our individual “shells.”







Dan's sister and mom


Our friends Kaitlyn, Cory, Braxton and Lonnie



The show was a huge success and we couldn't be more thrilled with how it turned out.

Alex Pardee's Vertigo

Last weekend, we decided to drive to LA for Alex Pardee's art show opening at Corey Helford Gallery. We headed out on Friday night (Caleb, me and our friend Doug) and stayed at Whiskey Pete's in Primm Valley. Then headed to LA on Saturday. We met up with friends in LA and headed to the show.

me, Caleb, Sean, Tara, Darren, Nikki & Doug


the line was all the way around the corner the whole night. They had to shut down at 10pm (Culver City curfew) and not everyone got in.




This was my favorite piece.

Alex, Caleb & me

the molar bear sculpture

some props for the show.

The show was amazing. I am so glad we were able to go. We had a great time. It was a short trip, but completely worth it.

Play Nice art show at Blonde Grizzly

Kalvin Lazarte of Play Nice did our December show at Blonde Grizzly. He painted these fun monsters on the walls.



Mindy, Cali & her sister Tee came to the show.

Amber & I

Classic Monster Show at Blonde Grizzly

The show for October at the store was a group show. We gave everyone the theme of classic monsters and had them do whatever they wanted. We had such a great turn out at the gallery stroll and the pieces we got in were amazing!

It's always so fun to do the events at the store because we get to see so many friends & family that we don't get to see all of the time.

Ben & Andrea


Caleb & his double chin (haha) & Ben


Me & Cali (mindy's sweet little girl) and Melanie & Henry


Mel, Oliver, Ben & Henry


Here is what the store looked like the whole night



The artists who participated were: Robert Bowen, Vic Back, Candace Jean, Trent Call, Sri Whipple, Erin Potter, Nick Potter, Dave Borba, Alex Hinton, Erin Campbell, CW, Mark Yamamoto, Emily Wood, Brad Greenwell, Kat Martin, Austen Stanton, Jared Snow, H.P. Lovecraft NYC, Nica Rockwood, RomyLuvsCorina, J.J. Shelton, Dan Christofferson, Kit Nordfelt, Travis Nikolai, Ruel Brown, Cindy Ferguson, Brandon Dayton, and more!

Here are some of the artists with their pieces

Vic Back


Austen Stanton


Dan Christofferson


Emily Hart-Wood


Erin Campbell


Kat Martin


Sri Whipple


Cindy Ferguson


Dave Borba


Trent Call


Monica Rockwood

Cindy's paper cutting class

Cindy taught a paper cutting class at the store last week. We had a lot of fun and it was good to our friend Lori (haven't seen her in ages).

Blonde Grizzly Gallery Stroll - Cindy Ferguson

Cindy is a friend of mine from working at Making Memories. She does Paper Cutting on the side and is amazing. We invited her to do a show at the gallery. It turned out amazing.

We were down to the wire on time. Thanks to everyone who helped make the show happen. It was a great time.


Caleb, Hillary & Cindy





I apologize for the next pictures below. We took them at the very end of the night so the lighting is sort of terrible.



We had some t-shirts made of one of Cindy's designs and sell them at the store. Here is her t-shirt design.