Live Auction 2008
Heather Barron
Going to the Tree-Hugger Ball
Oil
2007
Estimate
$3,700
Guaranteed Price
$4,440
 One day when Heather Barron was taking her son to daycare in Salt Lake City, UT, she passed an art store that had in the window a poster of a painting of two women by Issa Shojaei. That single painting, seen in passing ignited an absolute certainty inside her that she wanted to paint. "And I've been painting my heart out ever since," says Barron, who studied at the Art Center in Salt Lake City and gradually began earning her living through painting. "I want to move people the way that painting moved me." she says.
Susan Blackwood
Along the Yellowstone
Oil
30x40
2007
Estimate
$8,500
Guaranteed Price
$10,200
 Susan Blackwood was born in Chicago, Illinois and comes from six generations of artists. She received her BFA from Northern Illinois University, and then studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Since 1975, Blackwood has taught watercolors in colleges and workshops around the country and overseas. She has also led painting holidays to Europe with her husband, artist Howard Friedland. They both have been featured in the “Master Painters of the World” section of the International Artist Magazine. After thirty-two years as a watercolorist, in 2003 Blackwood switched to oil painting. Her work has been seen in Southwest Art and U.S. Art magazines, as well as in Wildlife Art News. Blackwood’s originals have been exhibited in England, and all over the United States in national shows and galleries. In talking about her paintings she explains, “I have chosen as my subject matter the simple, beautiful, touching moments that are common both in nature and in the life of every person.”
Wendy Chidester
Underwood 11 on White
oil
32x36
2008
Estimate
$3,400
Guaranteed Price
$4,080
 Wendy Chidester lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband, three children and a beagle. She studied art at the University of Utah, graduating with a BFA in 1988. More recently she has been a resident artist at the Helper Workshops in Helper, Utah, with David Dornan and Paul Davis.
She says the following about her still life paintings: “I love to wander through antique shops and junk yards looking for old, worn objects to inspire me to paint. Things that most people pass by as junk make great subject matter for my paintings. These objects become the focal point of much of my artwork. I try to bring new life to old objects and evoke memories of days past in each painting. I enjoy making the painting surface as rich and as interesting as the objects themselves, giving each painting a feeling of age, depth, and beauty.”
Sang Choi
Singing in the Rain
Oil on Canvas
36x48
2008
Estimate
$4,500
Guaranteed Price
$5,400
 Expertly rendered images are a celebration of natural beauty, from magical morning light to a majestic expanse of Western sky. Often reducing details to broad, confident strokes, I bring vitality to my forms with vivid highlights and shadows. Sometimes there is more reality in less information, and I strive to capture more than just the likeness of subjects. With paint, I am not only describing what a thing means, but also developing skills that allow me to express myself in remote destinations of Western landscapes.
Sean Diediker
The Bath
Oil on Linen
30x40
Estimate
$8,500
Guaranteed Price
$10,200
 Sean Diediker is a painter’s painter. His sweeping, faceted brushstrokes and painterly surfaces generate works that reveal the artist’s sensitivity to his medium and attention to the act of painting itself. Diediker assembles bold colors, chiascurro and a cutting-edge sense of design to create a highly original body of work that separates him from his contemporaries. His imagery captures biblical allegories, narratives and concepts and renders them contemporary. Classical iconography, in Diediker’s hands, becomes a thoroughly modern symbolic language that is fresh, visually striking, and germane to our times. “To me,” states Diediker, “they seem to represent timeless ideas and situations. I have made an attempt to take these biblical concepts and, through contemporary subject matter, bring them closer to the viewer.” What the viewer is brought closer to are portraits, still-lives, landscapes and combinations of these forms that are balanced and timeless. All of Diediker’s works are tied together by their solid sense of form and compositional structure. Whatever he paints, the same expressive vision and reaction to subject and medium are present. “I enjoy the whole creative process, taking an idea and constructing a painting around it,” states Diediker, whose father is a general contractor, “I feel paint much in the same way that my father would erect a building. Much thought in planning, careful design, step by step and layer upon layer…until the work is done and standing on its own.” The oldest of four brothers, Diediker is originally from Newbury Park, California. After his formal training in Fine Arts, he has lived and worked in the Rocky Mountains of Utah and has just recently returned from a year-long trek around the world. Travel and environment are important to the artist. “I enjoy using subjects that are tangible to me,” states Diediker, “You might say that my work is directly affected by where I’m living, the people, city, landscape—the things I see every day. I enjoy observing the stimulus and reaction of different human situations. Environment should affect and artist’s work; If it doesn’t, you’re painting decorations.”
Howard Friedland
Out to Pasture
Oil on Linen
24x30
2007
Estimate
$6,000
Guaranteed Price
$7,200
 Howard Friedland was born in the Bronx in New York and studied at Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in Greenwich Village. He has painted, exhibited and taught extensively in the West, as well as internationally. Oil Painters of America inducted Friedland as a Signature Member in 2003. Friedland is a regular participant in the CM Russell Art Auction.
His work has been featured in American Artist and International Artists magazines. In regards to his work, he explains, “The challenge for me is always to see the world with fresh eyes and respond spontaneously to the beauty before me.” Friedland
now resides in Bozeman, Montana with his wife, artist Susan Blackwood.
Susan Gallacher
Green Valley
Oil
20x24
2007
Estimate
$2,700
Guaranteed Price
$3,240
 Gallacher is best known for her paintings of the Utah landscape, especially for her rural depictions in and around her country home in Spring City, Utah. Collectors of her work are especially fond of scenes that include farm animals in their rural settings out in the fields or next to country homes. As a plein air painter (painting outside on location) she is very well known for her work and has won several awards. Her paintings are highly regarded and collectable. She exhibits extensively and has returned recently from a successful show in Palm Springs, California.
She began painting as a young teenager studying with local instructors and later at the University of Utah.
In 1984, she established Kings Cottage Gallery and Art Academy in Salt Lake City, where she continues to maintain her private studio, direct and teach. Her academy provides an environment for students in figurative study, still life and landscape. She organizes and promotes classes and workshops for other artists and herself in Salt Lake and in Spring City.
Lynn Geesaman
Parc de Sceaux, France
Chromogenic
19x19
2004
Estimate
$3,500
Guaranteed Price
$4,200
 Since the invention of the camera, photographers have been drawn to European cities, capturing the surrounding landscape. Whether focusing on the sculpted bushes in Versailles, the perfectly aligned trees in Damme, Belgium or the luscious vegetation of Giverny, artists continue to travel to Europe, capturing the details and grandness of parks and gardens that have been preserved for centuries.
American photographer Lynn Geesaman first started traveling to France and Belgium in 1987, when she realized the gardens she most sought were outside the United States. Based in Minneapolis, Geesaman learned photography when she was 33 years old in an effort to take pictures of her children. Working as a math teacher in middle school, Geesaman's hobby quickly became a full time career, as she developed her own way of seeing and style of printing. A pivotal photographic assignment led her to photograph in a public garden, which she used to find intimidating. Although she found Minneapolis stimulating, she realized her favorite gardens/parks were from another century -- places that remained untouched by human decadence or industrial intrusion.
Lynn Geesaman quickly gained national recognition for her striking black and white photographs. Void of people, her images reveal the solitude and refinement found in nature. Her pictures vibrate with a glistening light, inviting viewers to meander through the poplars in France, the canals in Belgium and the cypress trees in Italy. These are quiet places where the only disturbance is the occasional rustle of the leaves or the sounds of our own thoughts. Geesaman photographs during daylight hours, when the sun catches the tip of the leaves and the wind barely makes a sound. Her shimmering images continue to invite the viewer into a dream world where the imagination runs free.
Stanley C. Hughes
Pale Sky
Mixed Media
12.5x17
2007
Estimate
$3,000
Guaranteed Price
$3,600
 Stanley C. Hughes has been a full-time professional artist for over thirty years. He has won over fifty awards of excellence and merit, including the “Jurors’ Best” in Show at the CM Russell Art Auction and the “Best of Show” and “Artists’ Choice Award” at the Bosque Conservatory Art Show in Texas. Hughes work has been featured in Southwest Art and The Artist’s magazine. His work is included in permanent collections of both corporations and museums throughout the United States. Hughes paintings are done in mixed media on 100% cotton fiberboard. He uses a combination of pen and ink, watercolor and colored pencil overlaid with oil pastel.
Brian Kirshisnick
Acrobat with Observers
Oil
20x30
2006
Estimate
$4,500
Guaranteed Price
$5,400
 I paint because I love it. It is difficult to describe the pleasure of it, partly because, like anything worthwhile, it is not all pleasant--though I suppose that figures into the pleasure as well. My painting emerges from a kind of hope beyond reason that things will work out--both in life and in individual paintings.
I am a religious man and painting has become for me a splendidly unscripted and at times even playful kind of worship. I think (I hope) what is happening inside of me as I paint is a greater importance than are the actual paintings. People respond to my paintings, certainly not all of them, but enough. That's a wonderfully useful thing too, for me, because, though I don't think much about it in the studio, my work is not really completed without an audience, a viewer. If that is you, thank you. You don't even have to like the work to participate in that part.
Jack Koonce
A Clear Blue Couple
Oil
36x30
2008
Estimate
$8,100
Guaranteed Price
$9,720
 Jack Koonce studied and taught art and biology at the high school and college level prior to embarking upon a full-time career as an artist. Koonce’s work has been shown in dozens of museums and galleries nationwide. He is currently a member of the Society of Animal Artists, the Worldwide Nature Artists Group, and the Oil Painters of America. Koonce works in oils to express his love of the Western landscape and its wildlife. Living today on the Eastern edge of Idaho, he still finds spiritual and artistic inspiration in his rugged backyard. He says, “Sometimes now I see wildlife and I’ll paint them where and how they stand, but more appealing to my sensibilities is to compile from years of observation the scene, the gestures, the mood… bringing them together in an imaginative whole.”
Jacqui Larson
Night Parade
Mixed Media
33x30
2007
Estimate
$3,000
Guaranteed Price
$3,600
 Jacqui Larsen is a painter and mixed-media artist who has exhibited her work widely. Highlights include Women Beyond Borders, an internationally traveling exhibition based at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, MT; Metaphorically Speaking, BYU Museum of Art, UT; Ancient Fragments in a New Light, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago; What’s Lost, What’s Found, Art Access Gallery, UT; and many One Person exhibitions throughout Utah.
Larsen is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and honors, including two Utah Visual Arts Fellowships (1996 and 2006), and a Lieutenant Governor’s Award. Notably, her work was selected for The De-Constructed West, a Four-State Fellowship Exhibition at the Millenium Arts Center in Washington, DC.
Jacqui Larsen has taught at Northwest College in Houston, Houston Community College and at Brigham Young University, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Art Access Utah. Her work is in many public and private collections. Larsen is represented by David Ericson Fine Art in Salt Lake City. She lives in Springville, Utah with the poet Lance Larsen and their four children.
Chase Leslie
Gravity
Oil
42x42
2008
Estimate
$4,000
Guaranteed Price
$4,800
 A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Chase Leslie received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah specializing in figurative painting and portraiture. Recently, Chase has been exploring abstraction. Her love of color, form and paint is energetically expressed on the surface of her canvas. Color fields and dynamic mark making are combined to create paintings that have both beautiful quality and visual depth.
David Levinthal
Wild West
Polaroid
24x20
1988
Estimate
$12,500
Guaranteed Price
$15,000
 The Wild West series, begun in 1986 is inspired by the romance and grandeur of 1950’s Western television and film; these extraordinary photographs encapsulate the American pioneer spirit of the Old West. In The Wild West, Levinthal arranges figurines into stereotypical poses to portray the rugged individualism of the Western hero. The blurred photographs, rich in color, use the iconic toy figurines to create an illusion of reality and motion. The hazy illusions illustrate the blur of fact, fiction and perception surrounding the cultural myths of the American West.
"Having worked with toys and other objects of popular culture as the subject matter for my artwork for over 25 years, I have always found these objects not to be benign toys merely for play, but rather an active and profound means for the socialization of society", comments Levinthal.
Levinthal has been photographing toys in various staged scenarios since1972. Around that time, he collaborated with fellow classmate and future Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau, as the two staged and documented their recreation of the Germans’ 1941 invasion of Russia. This experiment not only turned into a series of exhibitions and the 1977 book “Hitler Moves East”, but also set the stage for a career creating photographs that use toy figures to explore iconic imagery.
The Wild West exhibition at Julie Nester Gallery will include 12 photographs; many of the photographs are the last available from the original 1986 shoot. Levinthal primarily photographs with a Polaroid 20x24 Land Camera, one of five constructed in 1977-78. Polaroid will soon stop making film for this camera, which will mark the end of the line for this camera and will increase the uniqueness of Levinthal’s photographs produced with the 20x24 camera.
Carolyn Lord
Utah
watercolor
22x30
2002
Estimate
$3,600
Guaranteed Price
$4,320
 Carolyn resides in Livermore, California. Her primary media has been watercolor. Her painting approach has evolved to include; loose brushy style, wet-into-wet, carefully fitted abstract shapes or large sculpted forms. With these different approaches she can respond to weather, light, as well as subject matter. A Plein Air artist by training, she has painted throughout the world in addition to the western United States. Her greatest body of work is of her home town; the landscape, architecture, and gardens.
“My paintings can be subtle, direct, or whimsical whatever I feel is important to share”. Her watercolors are recognizable with their varied compositions, color, light, and dark.
Carolyn participates in many of the national watercolor competitions and exhibitions. She is a member of the California Art Club and the National Watercolor Society. Carolyn participates in Plein Air painting events in Carmel, San Luis Obispo, Laguna Beach, and Maynard Dixon Country Exhibitions in Utah.
Carolyn teaches art in Oakland at the Pacific Boychoir Academy.
John McCormick
Water Signs
Oil on Panel
48x48x48
2006
Estimate
$12,000
Guaranteed Price
$14,400
My painting style draws on both eastern and western traditions. I am interested in the division of space, spatial illusion and the flattening of space, and the use of traditional medium and materials in a muted tonal pallet. The compositional direction of each painting is informed by geometric principals and a synthesis of eastern and western thought. Stylistically, the work is informed by many of the 19th century landscape painters like Inness and Ryder and the Hudson River School, as well as the moderns like Rothko and Diebenkorn. Yet the paintings are artifice, mimetic constructs, not a particular place, but rather a state of mind where one is delivered to both a sensual and contemplative experience. Interest in the landscape means something different to the culture in each new epoch and in our time, the “idea of landscape” is culturally viable because we have concerns about the depletion of natural resources and our physical/spiritual disconnectedness from nature. In his book “Landscape and Memory,” Simon Schama said, “The resilience of landscape imagery speaks to the recognition that landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of our imagination projected onto earth, water and woods. My recent paintings continue to address my concerns regarding spiritual/environmental/psychological issues and our vanishing landscape. The rendering of earth and water in the form of wetlands, rivers, streams, lakes and oceans is a constant reminder of the “idea of landscape” as a cultural bellwether that continually informs us. This John McCormick represented courtesy of Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT.
Michael Mcrae
Spoons
Photograph
48x60
2008
Estimate
$2,500
Guaranteed Price
$3,000
 Photographer Michael McRae lives and works in Park City Utah. As a profesional photographer for the last twenty five years his work has evolved from commercial to fine art. Using old and new school techniques Michael has developed a unique style that is evident in his photographs. This allows him to make large scale, ultra fine detailed prints. While size does matter, the ability to see light and shape is the driving component behind his work.
Michael Mcrae
Forks
Photograph
48x60
2008
Estimate
$2,500
Guaranteed Price
$3,000
Charles Muench
Winter Sunset
Oil on Linen
16x20
2008
Estimate
$3,200
Guaranteed Price
$3,840
 Charles Muench received a BFA from San Jose State University in California. After graduating, he attended classes at the Art Students League in New York, and then moved to Madrid, Spain where he attended classes at the Circulo Bellas Artes. Muench has been featured in several national publications such as Plein Air, Southwest Art, and International Artist. His work has been honored with the “Collector’s Choice Award” at the 2005 Maynard Dixon Country Invitational, “Best in Show” at the 2005 Crystal Cove Alliance Invitational, as well as the “Gold Medal Award” at the San Luis Obispo Plein Air Event in 2002. Muench is a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America and an Artists Member of the California Art Club.
Richard Misrach
American Liner, Bonneville Salt Flats
Chromogenic
20x24
1992/97
Estimate
$5,000
Guaranteed Price
$6,000
 For more than twenty years, Richard Misrach has been photographing the American desert, revealing a complex landscape that is as captivating as it is mysterious. Through his numerous cantos's [groups of pictures] Misrach has created one of the most extensive projects in contemporary photography.
For most people, the desert defines itself as a place where little happens, except the occasional glimpse of tumbleweed blowing across the sand. There are no movie theaters, coffee shops, malls or cars. There are no visible towns for miles and few noises, except the sound of your own breathing. In Misrach's desert, the land vibrates with underground nuclear testing and the sky illuminates with radiation seeping into the atmosphere, creating fantastic colors at every glance.
Whether photographing a flooded town, a desert fire, an abandoned nuclear test site or the colors on the horizon emanating from a small town miles away, Richard Misrach draws the viewer into his world through his mastery of color. Ranging from beautiful lakes to secret military bunkers to speed racing on the Utah salt flats, Misrach's work chronicles mans involvement in the desert, while always paying homage to the intrinsic beauty provided by nature. It's through beauty that Misrach's social concerns are most revealed. By pulling the viewer into a glowing light or calm body of water, he presents situations which leave us asking questions about the American desert -- a desert which continues to heal and revive itself regardless of mans actions.
Richard Misrach's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is included in most museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York], Museum of Modern Art [New York], Center National d'Art at de Culture Georges Pompidou [Paris], National Museum of American Art [Washington, DC] and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art [Japan].
Tom Ross
The End of Their Shortest Day
Acrylic
Estimate
$5,500
Guaranteed Price
$8,400
 Thom Ross has had a life long interest in American History and the “folk hero” who is a product of that history and has long been the motivating force behind his work. His desire is to produce a work of art that requires the viewer to re-examine either what he knows about history or what he thinks he knows about history. His other objective in re-working so much of our past history into his work, is his deep desire to “update” with bright colors, abstract forms, and a contemporary style of painting of figures and events from a past dim and often misunderstood past. With his love of history, comes and enjoyment in story telling and he can easily capture an audience’s attention with his passion and unique perspective. Ross displays his work in numerous galleries through out the United States, and lectures at colleges on the “Wild West” where he combines a unique and passionate presentation of art and history. His art has been used as the cover image for many historical books on the “Old West” and recently, he released his own first book.
Alexander Selytin
Indian Headdress
Oil
30x40
2007
Estimate
$6,000
Guaranteed Price
$7,200
Alexander was born in the small town of Zolotuchino, not far from Moscow, to the family of an Engineer who loved art and encouraged his son to pursue an artistic career.
Alexander was fascinated with painting from an early age. He left his first master pieces on fences, the walls of his parent’s apartment, and on the pages of his school books. After high school he decided to dedicate his life to painting. In 1978 he attended Art School in Zeleznogorsk and after four years of academic training, graduated with honors and received an Art Teacher’s Diploma.
He started his professional career by teaching at school and working for various institutions as a commissioned painter. Later he entered the most prestigious Art School in the USSR, The Academy of Fine Arts. Many of his works have been selected for exhibitions in the USSR, Europe and the U.S.
When in 1990 he moved to the United States, he started getting recognition for his work. He was motivated by the Native American culture and in his unique way, he started working on subjects related with this matter. His still life of Indian moccasins and Indian headdresses has been his main interest, as well as Anazassi pottery. This interest of Native American culture makes him move to the western United States, where he has his studio and has been working for the last 15 years.
His work is in many private collections, as well as the permanent collection of the Springville Museum of Art and the Huntsman’s Medical Center. He currently exhibits his work in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Virginia, Connecticut, Wyoming, California, New York, Hawaii and Mexico.
Andrzej Skorut
Tranquil Meadow
2007
oil
50x60
Estimate
$14,500
Guaranteed Price
$16,920
 Andrzej Skorut, a native of Krakow, Poland and Utah resident since 1987, is one of Utah’s most successful artists. His work is shown in galleries from New York to California, and his landscapes have been featured in numerous art magazines. In a recent article in the national publication, Art Connoisseur, he was cited as one of the artists to watch.
Skorut seeks to “lull viewers into a calm, contemplative mood and enrich their experience with a sense of openness and space”. His ease and love of working with paint is very apparent in his work.
This landscape, Rustic Pasture, is a great opportunity to own a piece by an artist whose work continues to increase in value. Skorut is represented in Utah by The Torrey Gallery.
Andrew Smith
Typewroller
Mixed Media
35x32x20
2008
Estimate
$7,750
Guaranteed Price
$9,300
 Andrew Smith is one of Utah's most promising young artists. His intricate sculptures, which meld industrial motifs with organic elements, present works of fascination and fancy. His art seems to be a rediscovery of life’s simplicities. Smith’s sculpture has quickly gained national attention through various exhibits and commissioned works. In 2007 he was approached by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to exhibit his work in the show “Art of Invention, Invention of Art”, located at the United States Patent and Trademark Office Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. The largest work in the show is titled “Driving Force” and is a forty foot long kinetic sculpture that incorporates a series of large brightly colored wheels and shapes, all powered by a single motor.
Smith has built a reputation on creating objects of curiosity, including many Rolling Ball Sculptures. Yet he retains the ability to create sculptures in a small scale. It is this wide range that has exposed Andrew to so many different types of projects and experiences in his career as an artist. Some of his works include elements such as a water cylinder with a pod like shape rising and falling as it fills with air, or sculptures that launch smoke rings across the room, or even a “tornado in a can”. People often ask if he draws out detailed plans or sketches before beginning a piece. Usually, he doesn’t. His works seem to grow as they are being built, in a “form follows function” sort of way, involving a lot of trial and error. Young and old alike are continuously drawn to his work which has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles and media reports.
Smith was born and raised in Highland, Utah, the son of Dennis Smith, a well-known and highly respected sculptor and painter. Growing up in this environment gave him a wide exposure to the world of art. After attending art classes at Utah Valley State College, Andrew began to seriously pursue his interest in sculpture. Dennis describes his son's work as a "celebration of curiosity." As Andrew explains, "I like to incorporate moving elements into my sculptures, something that will draw people in and make them wonder how it works. I want to encourage people to step into a new frame of mind where they can see forms and shapes in places they normally wouldn't."
Ron Staker
Teton Morning
Oil
22x28
2007
Estimate
$3,200
Guaranteed Price
$3,840
 My interest in Art developed at an early age and earned me a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. My approach to painting is to suggest detail and remain vague rather than creating a literal or detailed interpretation of my subject. I like to use strong color and bold brush strokes together with the natural shapes that occur in nature. I have spent all of my life in the great Rocky Mountains and my research into the colorful history of the West has provided an abundance of reference material for painting its wildlife, landscapes and the proud Native American. Through my painting, I hope to stir thoughts and emotions in the viewer because that is my true passion in life.
Susan Swartz
Park City, UT
Array of Colors
Oil
24x36
Estimate
$6,000
Guaranteed Price
$7,200
My paintings are landscapes and nature scenes that are profoundly abstract. I choose to paint life and the environment because I desire to examine the different forms of nature and our emotional associations with it. But that’s not how it started out; I used to work from photographs and painted photorealistic work. Now, my work is evolving toward abstraction inspired by nature.
I paint completely from imagination. I usually start with an idea, allow it to grow and then let my creativity drive me; mostly I paint from my heart and go where it leads me.
Color inspires me, also layering. My paintings have many layers, like an onion. When you stand in front of one you see something different than when you are 15 feet away. I am also continually challenging myself, trying out new ideas and using new materials, pushing the envelope and keeping myself fresh.
Through my work, I try to elicit an emotion, evoke a feeling. I want people to get lost in my art, find joy in it and seek meaning for themselves.
Susan will be having an upcoming solo exhibition, “Nature’s Revelations” January through March 2008 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City.
Justin Taylor
Curious
Oil
21x26
2007
Estimate
$2,400
Guaranteed Price
$2,880
 Justin was born in 1976, and raised in Las Vegas, NV. In 2006 Justin completed a BFA from Brigham Young University. It was during this time of formal training that Justin developed adeptness for drawing and painting the human figure. Justin currently teaches part time at the Utah Valley University and Brigham Young University. When not teaching, Justin paints full time. Justin also is involved with the new Hein Academy of art, located in Provo, Utah. www.justintaylorart.com
Trent Thursby Alvey
Giving and Receiving
Mixed Media
48x60
Estimate
$5,600
Guaranteed Price
$6,720
 Trent Thurbsy Alvey received BFA degrees in Fine Art and Communications at Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 1986 where she studied painting with Don Doxey. Thursby is a mixed-media artist who uses painting, sculpture, light and sound techniques in the creation of works that have been called both pop and contemporary. Thursby has exhibited in significant one-person and group shows including Out of the Land, which traveled to The National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Toaster Worship, Thursby’s sculptural piece included in this national exhibit, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Art at the University of Utah for their permanent collection. Trent has been included in both editions of Artists of Utah written by Robert S. Olpin, William C, Seifrit and Vern Swenson. Trent was chosen as one of the twenty Utah artists to be part of the Women beyond Borders exhibit at Art Access Gallery during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Utah.
Thursby has had solo exhibits at the Salt Lake City Library, the Phillips gallery and the Kimball Art Center.
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