{"id":12828,"date":"2012-08-21T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2016-04-26T18:57:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:57:02","slug":"justin-wheatley-at-15th-street-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/justin-wheatley-at-15th-street-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Wheatley at 15th Street Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Ehren Clark<\/address>\n

\"\"<\/a>To everything there is a surface, a fa\u00e7ade, an outward appearance.\u00a0 With most of life, the truth of the matter is distorted by the fa\u00e7ade, by the physicality, limited by what the eye can see that is only an artificial layer to truth.<\/p>\n

Justin Wheatley’s multi-media works dare to probe beneath the fa\u00e7ade and discover the essential truths of existence.\u00a0 His canvases and sculptures are intricately layered, including subjects such as buildings, homes, and bridges, latticed with abstracted line, shape, color, plane, symbol, and detail.<\/p>\n

In a visual play, Wheatley deconstructs the physicality of the fa\u00e7ade of his subject.\u00a0 It might be an old stone structure that will soon be lost to time, thus deconstructing permanence in lieu of temporal transcendence;\u00a0 it might be a brightly colored and \u201cpoppish\u201d home that conceals all that is real within, thus deconstructing domestic ideals in lieu of secrets and obscurities; or it might be the multi-dimensionality of his abstract layering breaking up the absoluteness of the subject, thus deconstructing both space and time in lieu of a pure reality.<\/p>\n

As his new exhibit of urban-themed collage works demonstrates, Justin Wheatley creates a multifaceted statement that is visually powerful and cognitively complex, weaving an ongoing fabric of existential meaning.<\/p>\n

Wheatley’s new urban-based work is currently at 15th Street Gallery<\/a>. Look for an in-depth look at the work in the upcoming September 2012 edition of 15 Bytes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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