Jeff Juhlin
Artist Statement
Dreaming the Landscape
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 are in the breathtaking
red rock country just outside of Capitol Reef National Park. This incredible
landscape has influenced my work for the past two decades. For me, the
southwest gives me a sense of place I don’t feel in other environments. The
geology, the light, the colors and vast space are always present in some
form in my work and speak of deep time and the layering of change in that
harsh environment. This recent body of work speaks to these influences. I
have reimagined these landscape-based works incorporating some
recognizable imagery along with abstraction to make a specific reference to
the landscapes of southern Utah and the southwest. In this series titled
“Dreaming the Landscape a Contemporary View” I use acrylic or oil paint
creating a sky space on the panel. I then add Asian papers that are stained
usually and somewhat translucent. The stained paper is collaged over the
panel creating abstract layers of relationships that reflect my sense of this
landscape.
Artist Bio
Jeff Juhlin has worked in Sculpture, painting and printmaking for over
50 years. He is primarily known for his Mixed Media landscape-based
abstractions that reflect 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 publications including 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, Sun Valley and Laguna Beach.
Jeff divides his time between his studios in Salt Lake City and Torrey
Utah.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Shifting Ground, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2015 New Strata, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 New Encaustic Work, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2007 Serious Delirium, New Encaustic work, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2004 Recent Encaustic and Sculpture, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2003 The Guardian Series, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
1986 Recent Paintings, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Museums / Art Centers
2014 Relevant, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2013 Relevant, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2012 Relevant, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2012 One of a Kind / New Monotypes by Juhlin/Stedham, Kimball Arts Ctr Park City, UT
2011 Relevant, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah ( Group)
2011 Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
2011 Consequential Fusion, Morro Bay Art Center, CA (Group)
2009 Working with Wax, Invitational, (Group) Bedford Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
2001 Accent, Sculpture and Wall Reliefs, Bountiful Davis Art Center, UT (3 person)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Juxtapositions Group Show, The Painting Center, New York City, NY
2016 Best of space Gallery, Space Gallery Denver, CO
2016 Artist Choice, Ellsworth Gallery Santa Fe, NM
2015 Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2015 On the Brink group invitational, Ellsworth Gallery , Santa Fe, NM
2014 Sightlines Jeff Juhlin / Erin Dineen, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Natural Surroundings Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Utah Abstract Rio Gallery, Utah Arts Counsel, Salt Lake City, UT
2014 30 x 30, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 One Anniversary Show, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa, Fe
2013 Serendipitous Abstractions, 3 person, Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2013 Terra Firma Jeff Juhlin/ Yinne Melious, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2012 Land, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 Summer Solstice, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2010 Prime Cuts, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 225 F Encaustic Encounters, Invitational, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC
2009 Luminescence, Dialog Gallery, Roanoke, VA (3 person)
2009 New Encaustic Work, Jeff Juhlin & Jane Guthridge, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 Metamorphosis Contemporary Encaustic, Hayden Art Center, Lincoln, NE
2008 3rd Annual Encaustic Invitational”, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2007 Sticks & Stones, Nature Abstracted Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA
2007 New Directions in Wax, Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA
2007 Surface Tension, Recent Encausitc Craddock Terry Gallery, Lynchburg, VA
2006 Utah Sculpture, statewide sculpture invitational, Salt Lake City, UT
2005 Featured Sculptors, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
2005 Encaustic & Steel, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2003 Recent Sculpture and Monotypes, Paulina Miller Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2003 Utah Contemporary Sculpture, Forum Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2002 Cultural Olympiad, Delores Chase Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2001 Under Pressure, 3 printmakers, Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA
2001 Under Pressure, 4 printmakers, Glendenning Gallery, Utah Arts Council
2001 Recent Steel Sculpture, MetroArts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (2 person)
Public Art Projects
1998 Art Parts, Installation, Festival of the Lake, Madison, WI
1996 Anagram, Steel Sculpture, Day Riverside Library, Salt Lake City, UT
1993 Fire Station #13, One % for art Commission, Salt Lake City, UT
1991 Fire Station #7, One % for Art Commission, Salt Lake City, UT
1991 Emerging Circle Sherwood Park, One % for Art Commission, Salt Lake City, UT
1986 Greenbelt Park, One % for Art Commission, Salt Lake City, UT
1986 Hand Wall, Westminster Park, One % for Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Selected Permanent Collections
City Center Regency, Salt Lake City, UT
Moulin A Nef, Auvillar, France
Salt Lake County Complex, collection
Salt Lake City, permanent collection
St. Julian’s Hotel, Boulder, CO
State of Utah, permanent collection American Art Resources, Houston, TX
Awards
2011-17 Visiting Artist Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center, Maui Hawaii
2010 Fellowship Residency, Moulin a’ Nef Auvillar France
2008 Fellowship Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Virginia
2001 Individual artist grant, Utah Arts Council
1996 Utah 96, Jurors Award, Statewide Exhibition, Springville
1996 Utah 96, Selected Traveling Exhibit
1986 Individual Grant Salt Lake City Arts Council
1979 Utah 79, Cash Award, statewide exhibition, University of Utah Museum of Fine Art
Publications
Encaustic 2015 by Ashley Rooney, Schiffer Publishing 2015
Embracing Encaustic e book 3rd edition Linda Robertson 2015
Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility by Daniella Woolf 2010
Artist Profile: 15 Bytes : On-line arts journal June 2011
2009, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone NC
2008, Third annual Encaustic Invitational Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson AZ
Metamorphosis, Contemporary Statements in Encaustic, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE
Featured Artist: Embracing Encaustic by Linda and William Womack
2nd Edition, Hive Publishing, Portland Oregon 2008
Activities
Member: Salt Lake City Arts Council Design Board, 2010- 2016
Co-Curator: Fuse Utah Artists Working in Encaustic, Kimball Art Center. Park City, Utah 2011
Selection Committee for Art, Utah Museum of Natural History 2011
Teaching
Hui Art Center, Maui Hawaii,
Sweet Briar College, VA.
Dialog Studios, Roanoke VA,
Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
Torrey Studio, Torrey, UT
