Jeff Juhlin
Jeff Juhlin
Jeff Juhlin is a nationally recognized artist known for his Encaustic / Mixed Media painting and printmaking work that evokes a meditative and grounded exploration of color, space and mark making. Jeff has been working with Encaustic for over 15 years and completed Residency/Fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Moulin Au Neuf, Auvillar France. He has been an Artist in Residence at the Hui Art Center in Maui, Hawaii during the winter months from 2010-2017. His work is included in numerous national and international exhibitions including recent 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. Juhlin’s work has been featured in several publications including Encaustic With A Textile Sensibility by Daniella Woolf and Encaustic Art in the 21st Century by Anne Lee & Ashley Rooney. He divides his time between his studios in Salt Lake City and Torrey Utah.
Juhlin’s work is about discovery, the hint of possibility. It’s about the layers, the flow and the strata of things substantive, imagined, physical and implicit. Jeff works by accumulating layers of material, images and color that make up the whole of a work, then he goes back in to explore, excavate, expose and obscure. The end result is a non-literal visual form, a translation of that experience and process. “Often we see only the surface of things when in reality there are many layers, artifacts, histories, clues that hint of something curious and magical that might lay beneath the surface waiting to be discovered, excavated, explored and experienced. “
He adds, “ My work seeks to reflect a sense of stillness, space and the visual history of time evident in the western landscape. The work alludes to the raw typography and vast space where I live and work. In this environment, time often reveals itself in the form of rock strata created by erosion, wind and water both building up in over eons of time and wearing away by the elements in a continuous process. Both process and materiality are always important components in my work. Typically I reveal layers of translucent strata composed of pigmented wax, oil, paper, cold wax and other media that are built up and worn away in the storied layers of the creative process.”