Artists

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.

NATHAN SAMUEL FLORENCE {[email protected]} is a Salt Lake City–based artist and filmmaker who paints in oil, often on woven brocade or printed cloth. He describes his paintings as narrative/figurative in that they often portray figures in some gesture or action that seems to spring from a story. He allows the patterns of the cloth to show through the paint to varying degrees which, he says, “relates to the patterns and textures that hold our lives together individually and bind us together culturally.” Nathan’s work can be seen at Modern West Fine Art and at www.nflorencefineart.com.

PAIGE ELIZABETH ANDERSON {[email protected]} graduated with a BFA from Brigham Young University in 2011 and has participated in multiple juried and group exhibitions every year since. Her work seeks to explore how space—whether physical or emotional—is made sacred through repeated events. The use of methodical processes and repetitive forms reference the quotidian routines that make up daily life, the succession of daily rituals that eventually stack up like repeated miracles and create meaning. Methodical processes also underscore the connection her work has to traditional women’s work—like quilting—as well as daily family rituals, ceremony, and pursuing genealogical research. This work is an outgrowth of interest in ancestry and patterns that form through families by exploring the idea that she is but one on a string of genetically-linked individuals. This notion has profound implications: that events give birth to events, changes to changes, and actions to actions. Her work is represented by Meyer Gallery in Park City. She lives and works in Salt Lake City and often enjoys time in the studio with her two daughters at her side.