Artists

EMILY FOX KING grew up in Pasco, Washington. As the middle child in a large creative family, from a young age Emily found expression in the visual arts (in a family with seven children one really has to EXPRESS oneself to get any attention!) Her first teacher was her mother, an accomplished artist, Debra Fox. Career highlights include multiple solo exhibitions in her current state of Utah, as well as being included in the Anthropologie 2018 Fall Home Collection. Emily has exhibited nationwide including New York, California, Florida and Nevada and is collected by many, including the Chris and Janae Baird Collection of Contemporary Mormon Art. Much of her work explores notions of femininity, including domestic spaces and feminized objects. Currently she is working with floral imagery. “I think life, motherhood, womanhood, is a mixed bag of beauty, chaos, uncertainty, anger, and resignation, all in one. In the end it’s freaking gorgeousness! That’s what these florals are about” (Interview with Linda Hoffman Kimball, Co-Editor-In-Chief of Segullah.org). While keeping a rigorous studio practice, Emily also teaches painting and drawing at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Follow her on Instagram @emilyfoxking and view her website at emilyfoxking.com.

REBECCA WAGSTAFF {[email protected]} is an artist known for her realist botanic still life paintings in oil. Born in 1962 the eldest of eight children, she grew up in five different western states. She attended Brigham Young University, majoring in fine art. While working at a student job in the Book Repair unit of the library, she developed an interest in the work of Arno Werner, a German-born bookbinder, and moved to New York City where she both worked as a nanny and became Werner’s apprentice in Connecticut on the weekends. Returning to Utah she taught Traditional Hand Bookbinding for the BYU Department of Art where she renewed her acquaintance with artist Clay Wagstaff. They married and moved a few years later to Tropic, Utah—adjacent to Bryce Canyon N.P.—where they currently reside. Clay and Rebecca have two daughters, Hannah died in an accident at age 14. Miriam, an amazing violinist/violist is currently in her first year of college, which means her parents are no longer spending half of their time in northern Utah chauffeuring Miriam to lessons, orchestra, auditions, and performances. So they decided to turn their home in Tropic into a traditional Bed & Breakfast with a small Art Gallery in their living room and enjoy hosting guests from all over the world at RiverStoneInnandGallery.com

Paul spent seven years (1984-91) as senior exhibits designer at the Museum of Church History and Art, then moved to Brigham Young University where he helped plan the Museum of Art and then designed exhibits until his retirement in 2014. His greatest joy was working with other creative people to bring a project to fruition. He also taught undergraduate courses and honors seminars at BYU.

ROBERT DE GROFF {[email protected]} is a Spring City, Utah artist. He is a master mezzotintist, producing immaculate and stunningly complex images in open print editions.

Lane Twitchell is a New York based artist, born in Murray, Utah and raised in Ogden. An early interest in landscape painting has resulted in a working process and style which incorporates intricately cut paper into kaleidoscopic “landscapes” whose richly textured patterns form endlessly iterative combinations of the visual ephemera of the American unconscious, his own personal biography, and something like cosmic narrative contours not unrelated to the Rocky Mountain Mormonism of his upbringing. Lane Twitchell holds a B.F.A. from The University of Utah, which he attended on A Special Departmental Scholarship and an M.F.A. from The School of Visual Arts, New York. He is a two time New York State Foundation for the Arts fellow, in Drawing and Craft; a recipient of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant; and a P.S.1/ MoMA National Studio Grant participant. In 2008 his work was the subject of a regional touring survey curated by Thomas Piche Jr. The artist’s work is included in public collections such as The Baltimore Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art and notable private collections such as Sammlung Goetz, Munich DE, and The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas. His work is viewable at www.lanetwitchell.com.

Born and raised in northern Utah, Anderson earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s of fine arts from Utah State University. As a transgender woman who was raised in an orthodox Mormon home and was married for twenty years to a woman with whom she shares two children, Anderson is—in her own words—“embarking on the second half of her life reinventing nearly every aspect of who she is.”

After 25 years working nationally and internationally as a documentary and fine-art photographer and 10 years as a university lecturer, Anderson earned a master’s in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco.

Maddison Colvin {[email protected]} is a five-year resident of Utah, previously from Washington State. She teaches at Brigham Young University as an adjunct professor and spends her mornings working with 4th-8th graders at Alianza Academy in Salt Lake City. Her work is interested in the intersection of knowledge￾gathering systems represented in the respective fields of science and religion. While these systems’ structures are based on very different types of information (empirical versus phenomenologi￾cal, communicable versus personal), the way these knowledges are used in the mind is a much more loosely structured combination of both. It is this idea of overlapping, of the scientific becoming singular and the religious becoming ordered, that drives this work.

Rebecca Sorge {[email protected]} graduated from Brigham Young University with a BFA in illustration in December of 2013. She currently lives and works in Provo, Utah. “Spring￾ing Up” was part of a series of works inspired by the Book of Mormon, and how this text acts as a compass, map, and manual for our mortal existence. This piece draws from Alma 32:41: “But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto everlasting life.” While not originally intended to be a reference to our Heavenly Mother (“I saw the female figure behind kneeling woman as a more general angel or spirit of nurturing and revelation”) many people have interpreted the piece that way. “I’m glad that they’ve made that connection and feel strongly that our Heavenly Mother is a nurturing and loving influence in our lives.”