Jeff Juhlin

Jeff Juhlin is a mixed media artist working in painting, printmaking and collage. Jeff is primarily known for his Mixed Media landscape-based abstractions inspired by his studio in the southern Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park. His work reflects a sense of stillness, space and the history of time evident in the western desert landscape where he lives and works. Jeff has completed Residency/Fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst VA and Moulin Au Neuf, in Auvillar France. He has been a Visiting Artist at the Hui Art Center in Maui, Hawaii and taught at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, UT and the Sun Valley Arts Center in Idaho. His work is included in numerous national and international exhibitions including exhibits in France and Korea. Born in Salt Lake City, Juhlin studied at the University of Utah and the Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has served on the Salt Lake City Design Board and is a founder of the annual Wasatch Open Studios Tour in Salt Lake City. Jeff has also completed several public art projects in Salt Lake City. His work has been featured in several on -line and book publications including 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah on-line magazine, Encaustic With A Textile Sensibility by Daniella Woolf and Encaustic Art in the 21st Century by Anne Lee & Ashley Rooney. He is represented in galleries in Salt Lake City, Denver, Santa Fe and Sun Valley, ID. Jeff divides his time between his studios in Salt Lake City and Torrey Utah.

Artist Statement

I live in the Great Basin in the high arid desert on the Kaiparowits Plateau in Southern Utah. My home and studio in Torrey, Utah is located in the breathtaking red rock country just outside Capitol Reef National Park. This incredible landscape has influenced my work for the past two decades. The raw typography, geology, light, and color in this vast space are often present in my work and speak of deep time and the layering of change in that harsh environment. In recent work including the Landlines and Dreaming the Landscape series I have reimagined the landscape reflecting both emotion and memory, expressing my experience of this environment. Both process and materiality are important components in my work. I typically use oil, cold wax and stained Asian papers to create a collaged image of my imagined landscape often incorporating various natural pigments like Red and Yellow Ochre in the work that can be found in nearby geology. My artistic interest does not concern itself with current trends and is purposely non narrative or political. My hope is that the work transcends those considerations and takes the viewer into a world of imagination, peace and calm.