New Gallery Representation

I'm happy announce new representation at Evergreen Framing Co. & Gallery. The gallery is located in the Evergreen neighborhood of Salt Lake City, at 3295 S 2000 E . Owner Maj Omana and manager Jodi Steen have created a beautiful space and are clearly invested in the local community and art scene.
http://www.evergreengallery.com/index.html

Art Access Workshop

I will be teaching the process I use in my mixed media work at Art Access on April 17. There are still a couple of slots open if anyone is interested. Go to: http://www.accessart.org/pworkshops.html
for information on the variety of workshops Art Access offers and details on how to sign up.

USU Art Guild Workshop

On March 5th I had the pleasure of presenting my work to the Utah State University Are Guild. The presentation was followed by several hours of creating work.

Art Access Show

The show at Art Access went great! Thanks to all of you who came, and to Ruth, Amanda, and Sheryl for their hard work and support!

15 Bytes

Thanks to Shawn Rossiter for the feature in this months 15 Bytes!

http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/10feb/page3.html

House. Home.

The show is almost here, so I thought I might post a few more images of the work that will be there. To see the rest, you'll just have to go to Art Access and take a look. Or wait until I post those images as well.

The title of the show is "House. Home." The individual works are titled with a word that describes something that affects who we become as we are raised in a house or home and the address of where the house actually is.

Here's the official artist statement:
I have always been interested in architecture. What intrigues me most is the geometry. It is fascinating to see cities and suburbs of harsh lines and shapes stacked and spread into an organic space.

We seek shelter in those shapes. What happens inside of them defines and molds us.

I teach high school. All three grades. After four years I have had over a thousand students. Each day when school is over, they return to their place of shelter.

As I become acquainted with my students, I become acquainted with who they are. They are all incredibly different.

When talking to them, I am careful about what I say. There is no mention of parents until I am sure they have them. No asking for payment of fees until I know they can. No asking about Halloween until I know they celebrate.

Knowing so many young people has often led my mind into tangents about what goes on behind the brick and stucco. There are layers. Not only of paint, but of people.

Those layers affect who each of these people are. They will add their own layers of similitude, rebellion, experience, joy, memory, etc.

My work is about those layers.


Doubt, 129 W 400 N Salt Lake City
35" x 35" mixed media



Play
35" x 35" mixed media



Change, The Avenues, Salt Lake City
35" x 35" mixed media




Identity
35" x 35" mixed media





Anticipation, 8500 W 2700 S, Magna Utah
35" x 35" mixed media




Loss, 8710 W 2700 S, Magna
35" x 35" mixed media




1110 E 3rd Avenue, Salt Lake City
12" x 12" mixed media




918 E Logan Avenue, Salt Lake City
12" x 12" mixed media




800 North, Rose Park
5" x 5" mixed media




11th Avenue, Salt Lake City
5" x 5" mixed media




2972 Merton Way, Magna
5" x 5" mixed media



536 E 11th Avenue, Salt Lake City
5" x 5" mixed media

Next up: Solo show at Art Access, February 19, 2010

Aspiration, 1558 Michigan Avenue, Salt Lake City
35" x 35" mixed media

Origin, 3206 S 9100 W, Magna
35" x 35" mixed media

When Camille and I moved to Salt Lake we quickly became fascinated with the neighborhood. We regularly go on walks just to enjoy the variety of vernacular and styled architecture that each home reflects. We have since found out that Camille's family has long been tied to the Avenues and Capitol Hill neighborhoods, which made them even more interesting. I began to think about the layers of each home. The coats of paint. The changing exteriors. The history that has taken place inside the walls. The interest has spread from our own neighborhood into the burrows of Rose Park and further west into Magna. The work for the Art Access show will explore what has happened and continues to happen inside the homes that make up our immediate micro-societies. Just like the home and its history, the work is built with layers- some that are telling and some that are obscure. The layers come from what I learn as I listen to family stories, stories from people who have lived in this area for decades, and stories from the youth that will soon be adding an additional layer of their own.