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Ask a Fine Art Consultant
December 31st, 2019
Our Gallery MAR Manager and Fine Art Consultants answer clients’ most frequently asked questions.
Netflix’s Interior Design Masters
December 29th, 2019
By Veronica Vale : These frosty winter days call for a new Netflix series to binge, and the BBC’s Interior Design Masters delivers. The show begins with 10 aspiring interior designers, competing to win a career-defining interior design commercial contract (and not to worry – no spoilers here!).
Cristall Harper, the Water Witch
December 17th, 2019
After a well deserved break from her heavy load of Christmas commissions, Cristall is excited to return to her studio in happy abandon and make more magic.
Wild Interiors: The Work of Patrick St. Clair
December 16th, 2019
By Veronica Vale : In recent years, St. Clair’s work focuses less on the figure and more on the exploration of interior spaces. He explains how this transition has opened up his process: “I wanted to make work that was as much about light, color, and form as the idea behind it. Making interior paintings with signifiers (paintings, guitars, records, etc.) still allows for an identity or human presence in the painting… [but] in a more organic way now.”
The Sketchbook Diaries: Shawna Moore
December 9th, 2019
By Veronica Vale : Montana- based encaustic artist Shawna Moore began using sketchbooks “as a way to chronicle thoughts and practice drawing” when she began architecture school in 1983. Since then, she’s used sketchbooks “to keep the creative wheel moving forward when out of the studio.” Occasionally, her sketches serve as studies for future paintings, but more often, they serve as visual diaries of her travels.
Among the Trees Exhibition for Bridgette Meinhold
December 7th, 2019
By Victoria Slagel, Fine Art Consultant Friday, November 29th marked the start of our winter season in the gallery with a snow storm and incredible artwork by our own Park City artist, Bridgette Meinhold. “Among the Trees” explores and celebrates the nature of forests, through layers of wax and paint, Meinhold expresses her love […]
Vacation, Art I Ever Wanted
November 26th, 2019
By Veronica Vale : There’s an art to buying art on vacation, so we turned to our local experts – a few of our favorite Park City interior designers – for their guidance and tips.
Jonathan Julien at UMOCA
November 18th, 2019
Jonathan Julien, local Utahan and Gallery MAR artist, is currently featured at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). The show is titled “Abstraction is Just a Word, but I Use It.” The selected pieces are from Julien’s series: “Collaboration with Pico de Gallo, and feature painting and collage elements from a charismatic fruit vendor’s hand-written signs.
Yoga is Art!
November 17th, 2019
By Victoria Slagel, Fine Art Consultant and Spiritual Warrior A creative life is fully embraced through total surrender and allowing the collective consciousness to flow through you. May it be through a paint brush, welding bronze or steel, a fresh linen canvas, or a large empty room, art is life. I finished by second […]
Full Circle
November 15th, 2019
By Veronica Vale : If this year’s Milan Design Week showed us anything, it’s that circles and rounded forms are having a major moment in the world of interior design. Here we’ve curated a few of our most soothing circular works of art to add a touch of grace and unity to your home.