Artists

CHRIS PURDIE {chrispurdie.com} was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied sculpture at Brigham Young University, receiv￾ing his BFA in 2010. Purdie’s fascination with light and sound, and the relationships between them, began at an early age and in￾spired him with a great passion for art, both musical and visual. His love for performance art flourished thoughout his young years while he played for dozens of bands, and eventually in￾formed his belief that art should have the same interactive, experiential qualities found in live music. Although his work is in physi￾cal media such as paint, wood, and metal, he fancies himself more a sculptor of noise, experience, and community. Through this au￾dio-visual exploration, his work examines perception and cognition as they relate to the formation of identity, all the while seek￾ing to capture the energy found in live musical performance.

Jared Lindsay Clark is a visual artist who mainly constructs installations, sculpture and drawings. During his years at Brigham Young University where he earned a BFA, he found himself drawn to abstraction and mini￾malism. Today we see this through his shown work across the state and country.

Annie Kennedy is an artist whose practice is based around Relational Aesthetics. She explores both the vast scale and the intricate detail of her local community, her backyard and her own life. Using material from all these sources she develops a variety of projects that have included outdoor installations, films and intimate personal work.

JORGE COCCO SANTÁNGELO was born in Argentina in 1936. He is a selftaught artist with international recognition. He calls his style “sacrocubism” because of his sacred subject matter and the clear influence of cubism. As a style, sacrocubism moves the viewer’s attention away from superfluous details—textures of fabric, the accuracy of historical backgrounds, or the impossibility of capturing an exact likeness of Christ—by depicting simple shapes that allow the viewer to focus on the essential and most holy aspects of the sacred events themselves.

CARL CHRISTIAN ANTON CHRISTENSEN (1831–1912) was a Danish-American artist known best for his renderings of historical events of the early LDS Church. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and emigrated to Utah in 1857 after serving three LDS missions in Scandinavia.

STEPHANIE K. NORTHRUP is an artist specializing in oils, acrylics, and other media for fine art and illustration. Her works include Christian LDS-themed art and more.

MINERVA TEICHERT (1888–1976) was an American LDS painter known for her Western and Mormon-themed paintings, including works depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon. In all, she created forty-two murals of the Book of Mormon. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York.

Amy Jorgensen {[email protected]} is a photographer, video and performance artist exploring ideas of the body as author and figure using alternate narrative forms. She was born in Milan, Italy and spent her formative years living in Europe. After studying photography at Columbia College in Chicago, she received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 1997, and an MFA from the University of California San Diego in 2002. Selected exhibitions include Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Museum of Art at BYU, CUAC, Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles, Rio Gallery, Access II, Visual Arts Gallery in La Jolla and Video Space. She is a recipient of multiple fellowships and grants including a GSA grant and an Individual Artist Grant from the Utah Arts Council. In 2013 her work Red Delicious became the first digital video work acquired by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums as part of its permanent collection. She is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Snow College and is the Co-Director and co-founder of Granary Art Center, a non-profit contemporary exhibition and arts outreach space. Her work is included in public and private collections. Jorgensen lives and works remotely in the high plains desert of Utah. She can be reached via www.amyjorgensen.com

Emily C. McPhie’s life revolves around family, faith, and art, and her paintings reflect the tenderness and toil of these things. Her art explores motherhood and avenues for gathering strength, beauty, and wisdom from life. Emily was born and raised in Orem, Utah. She graduated with a BFA from Brigham Young University in 2001. Chandler, Arizona, is now home to Emily, her husband Gavin, and their four children.