Lindsay Huss, an artist represented in the 2023-2025 Salt Lake City Pre-Qualified Artist Pool, is a graduate of Weber State University with a degree in Visual Arts. After a decade-long teaching career, she transitioned to art full-time. Her work, a captivating blend of realism and abstraction, delves into themes of self, community, and placemaking. Recognized with numerous accolades, including the Indie Ogden Award for Best Ogden Artist and the Ogden Mayor’s Award for Visual Arts, Huss remains an active figure in the Ogden art scene, contributing to several murals in the Nine Rails Creative District and throughout Utah.

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Doug Snow, a Salt Lake City native, studied at Columbia University and earned his BFA and MFA degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and when he returned to Utah, joined the faculty in the University of Utah’s Department of Art. He served as the department chair from 1957-63 and brought modern and contemporary influences to the U’s Art Department. Doug Snow was one of the state’s leading and most significant abstractionist painters.

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Angelo Caravaglia began sculpting as a child, in Erie, Pennsylvania. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he studied at Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts in Michigan and received a Fulbright Grant to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy. He won several awards, including the Dr. Francis Onorati Award for bronze casting and a Maxwell Gallery grant to work in Florence. In 1956, he joined the University of Utah’s Art Department, which was led at the time by renowned portraitist Alvin Gittins, bringing modernism to Utah alongside V. Douglas Snow. Caravaglia demonstrated mastery of a variety of 3D materials, including wood, bronze, stone, wire, terracotta, and found objects.

 

 

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Colette Hosmer is an internationally renowned sculptor who creates and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a contemporary naturalist who is celebrated globally for her monumental outdoor sculptures and site-specific work utilizing organic materials.

Born in 1946, Hosmer grew up in a small town in rural North Dakota. She studied art at the University of North Dakota and at Linn Benton College. Hosmer served as the director of both Shidoni Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Neurotechnologies Institute in San Francisco, California. Though she had been a practicing artist for decades, Hosmer began her full time career in the arts at the age of 44. Since then Hosmer’s work has been exhibited in prestigious museums throughout the world. Her work is among the permanent collections of Salt lake City!, City of Xiamen, China Tianjin, China; City of Yanqing, China; University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; The Albuquerque Museum – Albuquerque, NM: The Eitlejorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN and Contemporary Artspace – Potsdam, Germany. Private collections include Richard Dreyfus, Michael Keaton and the estate of Carrie Fisher. Museum, university and international exhibitions include: the China National Museum of Fine Arts; the National Museum for Women of the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA; The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and The Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China.

The artist was the focus of a Voice of American documentary film, entitled “Colette Hosmer, A True Original,” and her contributions to her community’s art sphere have been so profound that the Santa Fe mayor proclaimed June 5, 2009, “Colette Hosmer Day” in her honor.
ARTnews, Art & Auction, Sculpture Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Sculpture Magazine China and Potsdamer Stadtkurier, Germany are only a few that have featured the artist and her work.

Between 2000-2012 she accomplished 10 international residencies in China. She is currently writing a book covering her experiences abroad, and the influence of her travels and experiences on her artwork.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“For nature, as we know, is at once without and within us. Art is the mirror at the interface.” -Antoine Bourdelle, French Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1861 –1929

I was romanced by art from an early age, but the natural sciences presented tough competition for my choice of vocation. Eventually, I found myself making art by utilizing reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and earth that I’d collected and processed. Through my work, I came to discover that humankind was reflected in these elemental materials — that I was being offered a glimpse into the mysteries that connect one thing to another.

We are of the earth and separate from it only by illusion, yet we humans increasingly isolate ourselves from the rest of life. An understanding of life as overlapping environments is disappearing, and instead of recognizing ourselves as part of the landscape, we stand apart and view the world around us as “other”. Albert Einstein observed, “A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest. This delusion is a kind of prison for us.”

Art, because it emerges from this universal center, frees us from our delusion. Art puts “man” back into the equation.

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I make inside-out portraits of people I am surrounded by to understand myself and the world around me. My work represents my shifting identity as an immigrant, woman, or hybrid in a globalized world with a strong influence on Social Media. I make paintings, drawings, installations, and public art, influenced by surrealism and animation.

My recent work series ‘Waterman the Stranger (2018-2019)’ is about a person like me who struggles to shape identity and stay in a state of flux in a new place or new circumstances. I started by asking – ‘if I mimic what an ideal life looks like in a new place, will I blend in well?’ In this series, I deal with alienation because of pursuing the self-defined ideal life. I illustrate myself as shifting water that repels, absorbs, reflects, and fails to show the figure’s struggle to find a place within its environment. The backgrounds reflect ‘a better life’ in Utah that I imagined. This series started from my struggle of settling in Utah after moving from New York.

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Jiyoun Lee-Lodge is a Korean-born, Salt Lake City, Utah based artist. Selected exhibition venues include Utah Museum of Contemporary Museum, Gallery Korea, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Recession Art, Gallery Ho, PizzaArte, ArtGate, Maum, Arario, the Bowery Club, Clinton Project, New York; ArtMora, New York, New Jersey, and Seoul, South Korea; 437CO gallery, Colorado; Rio Gallery, Urban Arts Gallery, Draw Inc, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Utah and more. She curated ‘Hybrid Life Form’ at Franklin St (Project Space) in NY, and her recent installation projects include an ArtShop Project at Gateway and The Block Main Street Kiosk Project, Utah. She recently completed the public art ‘The Arrival’ that is the commission by the NYC Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools at PS 144 addition, Queens. Jiyoun is the recipient of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Artist-in-residence program, Ahl Foundation Visual Arts Award, Manhattan Graphics Center Workspace Fellowship, New York, ArtMora Residency Program, New York, and Teaching fellowship at Brooklyn College. Jiyoun also won Small Matters show at Mesa University, CO, Statewide Annual at Utah Division of Arts and Museums. She was one of the finalists of NYC Urban Canvas as well. Jiyoun received an MFA in Studio Art from Brooklyn College, New York.

 

http://www.jiyounlee.com/ 

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Michael M. Murdock is a self-taught artist, illustrator, and muralist from Salt Lake City, Utah. His mixed-media artwork often consists of painting on reclaimed wood made with found materials. The subject matter often contains elements of humor, solitude, and trying to find ones own special place in the universe. He draws inspiration from his home state of Utah, discarded objects, skateboarding, magic, folklore, life, death, outer space, and everything in between. His work consciously aims to fall somewhere between fine art and a knock-knock joke. He also has a hard time referring to himself in third person.

https://www.mmmurdock.com/

Chuck Landvatter was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He holds a BS in Interpersonal Communications from the University of Utah (2008), and an MFA in Drawing & Painting from Utah State University (2013). For nearly a decade, Chuck has taught art and design in various capacities including assistant professor, at USU, Weber State, and SAU. Chuck’s work is informed by his experiences growing up in the Intermountain West, often involves the figure, and is executed with a hybrid approach involving traditional techniques, contemporary design, illustration, and graffiti.