2024

What a busy year! Starting with the 40-year retrospective of my work; ABSURDLY FAMILIAR, which ran for three months at UVU’s new Museum of Art in Orem and ending with my current London solo exhibition, MUNCHIES, at Eleven Fine Art, where I have exhibited for nearly 20 years.

I also enjoyed my 10th trip to London with the University of Utah's GoLearn program in October, taking the group through landmark exhibits of the works of Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Monet and many others at the National Gallery of Art, Tate Modern and Courtauld Gallery. We continued the new tradition of visiting the National Portrait Gallery, where my portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (part of the larger "Work in Progress" collaged mural) has been on display since the NPG's reopening in 2023.

The Courtyard of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - looking toward St. Paul's Cathedral

I returned to post-Olympics Paris for the first time in 15 years, revisiting many favorite spots while enjoying the opportunity to see works from Rome's Borghese Collection on view at Musée Jacquemart-Andre. It was inspiring to see the progress made in restoring The Cathedral of Notre-Dame over the past five years, then happening upon a violin sextet concert at La Sainte-Chapelle, one of my favorite buildings in the world.

This summer I was honored to have my 2019 triptych Secrets of the Great Salt Lake included in Materializing Mormonism, Trajectories in Contemporary LDS Art at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona.

Secrets of the Great Salt Lake - back home with the Tuminez -Tolk's after a year of being on tour.

Throughout the year I worked on a special commission for my friend of nearly forty years, Ken Shelley. It is another triptych, specially designed for the library/screening room in his Salt Lake City home. Eye on London builds on a London panorama and includes scenes from California, New York, Mexico, and Salt Lake City - all where Ken has lived. It also references Ken’s history as an Olympic figure skater. This painting was particularly meaningful given our shared love of the UK and theatre, California origins, and years spent in New York.

The "sweetest" painting I did all year has to be this life-sized tribute to a pastry called a "Nutroll" from a closed bakery in Grand Junction. My second cousins wanted to surprise their parents; being part of this family memory was wonderful.

RIP "Nutroll" from Grand Junction, CO

As 2024 comes to a close, I am grateful to the many people who made all these projects (and more) possible!

MUNCHIES continues at London's Eleven Fine Art in Twickenham through January 18, 2025.