{"id":102924,"date":"2000-03-13T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2000-03-13T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=102924"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:05:38","slug":"brad-teare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/brad-teare\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Teare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-102925\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare-350x353.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare-350x353.png 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare-1017x1024.png 1017w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare-768x774.png 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare.png 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradteare.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brad Teare<\/span><\/span> <\/a>is a Providence, Utah\u2013based painter and former illustrator whose richly textured landscapes explore the expressive possibilities of thick paint and color. After a successful illustration career creating work for publishers including <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The New York Times<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Random House<\/span><\/span>, Teare turned his focus to painting the Western landscape. Influenced by seeing the original works of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Vincent van Gogh<\/span><\/span> at the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/span><\/span>, he developed an experimental approach emphasizing tactile surfaces, palette knife application, and vibrant color. His investigations into texture led to his widely followed \u201cThick Paint\u201d blog and YouTube channel, where he shares techniques involving oil, acrylic, and unconventional texturing materials. Teare\u2019s work has been featured in residencies, museums, and exhibitions throughout the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Teare is a Providence, Utah\u2013based painter and former illustrator whose richly textured landscapes explore the expressive possibilities of thick paint and color. After a successful illustration career creating work for publishers including The New York Times and Random House, Teare turned his focus to painting the Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":102925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,128],"tags":[2846],"class_list":["post-102924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","category-utah-artists-t","tag-brad-teare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bradteare.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 06:17:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102926,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924\/revisions\/102926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}