by Brandon Cook
It was almost a decade ago that Charley Snow moved to Helper, the coal mining town located near Price, Utah which is also a bourgeoning arts community. Behind his small, one bedroom home, Snow has erected a quonset hut structure to serve as his studio and work space. The curved ceilings soar high above, and windows, which Snow is still working on installing, provide light, though Snow also chooses to work under spotlights. The studio is split in half, an orderly side with work table, tools and lumber, where Snow stretches and gessoes the canvases numerous artists in the state order from him; and a more chaotic half with bookshelf, stereo, pinhole board easel, paint encrusted palette, q-tips littered floor and an arrangement of images pasted haphazardly to the wall. It is in this latter half that Snow works up the encrusted surfaces of his paintings, that depict landscapes of the area as well as various breed of cattle.
UTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Categories: Studio Space | Visual Arts
