{"id":17911,"date":"2000-12-24T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2000-12-25T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2021-01-23T15:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:43:33","slug":"chad-crane-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/chad-crane-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Head<\/a>Chad Crane teaches drawing and painting at Copper Hills High.\u00a0 He received a BFA from Utah State and an MFA from the University of Utah.\u00a0 He has participated in numerous local juried and group exhibitions including The 9 Muses,<\/i> an interdisciplinary show involving the collaboration of nine poets and nine artists.\u00a0 He curated and participated in the 24 Hour Show<\/i> at Kayo Gallery. He was invited to participate in the 300 Plates Fund Raiser<\/i> at Art Access.\u00a0 Five of his pieces were accepted in Fontbonne University’s Small Works Exhibition<\/i> in St. Louis.\u00a0 A large piece was accepted in Twisted Spurs,<\/i> a national competition of artworks that put a twist on traditional Western paining, and he participated in the Sketch Book Project<\/i> that traveled to various locations throughout the country. \u00a0More recently, he exhibited a body of work, Familiar Territory<\/i>, at Art Access, collaborated with Zane Lancaster on We\u2019ll Need to See Some Credentials<\/i> at Kayo Gallery, and participated in E Pluribus Unum exhibited at U of U.<\/p>\n

Artist Statement<\/h3>\n

These works are about me\u2014not a surprise.\u00a0 To most artists I know, everything usually is.\u00a0 Though clearly not self-portraits, these mixed media drawings are portraits of my mental scape\u2014indirect and intuitive representations of my inner psyche.<\/p>\n

I chopped up and repurposed old drawings, prints, paintings, outdated instruction manuals, paper dolls and various other collage materials.\u00a0 Since the works are narrative based, I found cut-outs allowed for more diverse plot options.\u00a0 Painting the images seemed to fix the characters too permanently to one linear path.\u00a0 The layered collage approach implies some immediacy and fluidity to the story\u2014<\/p>\n

like the ending can be altered by simply shifting the pieces, which I did many times.<\/p>\n

I borrowed popular archetypes from a variety of myths, fables and legends.\u00a0 Most of these characters, like the werewolf, are so ubiquitous and clich\u00e9d they have no origin, like stray dogs wandering a vague but familiar city.\u00a0 They are, therefore, easily appropriated and made my own.<\/p>\n

The re-mixing of these characters results in a fable-like narrative that instantly strikes close to home\u2014a story you have read before; however, the narratives found in these new works derive from subconscious impulses and attractions.\u00a0 The story lines are too personal and absurd to be familiar.\u00a0 This conceptual contradiction creates a sense of discord or wonderment within the viewer, encouraging closer more reflective interpretation of the images.<\/p>\n

This might seem like a ploy, a cheap artistic trick to suck you in and dump all my struggles and fears in your face.\u00a0 But that\u2019s what these paintings are really about: coping with rejection, addressing feelings of stagnation, trying to negotiate the demands of being a father, a husband, an artist, a teacher.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t think it is a trick.\u00a0 This is just what I do with struggles and fears.\u00a0 If I sneak my subconscious thoughts out the backdoor and disguise them with a little sarcasm and humor, they don\u2019t seem to bother anybody\u2014even myself.<\/p>\n

The show is titled \u201cLooking in the Last Place I Always Look\u201d because that is how I find and re-find myself, through a hide-and-seek game of introspection\u2014<\/p>\n

discovery and denial, acceptance and excuses.\u00a0 Everything I find can only be found by looking where I usually find nothing.<\/p>\n

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Token Asian girl has it up to here with her one bed and bath on Sesame Street and makes a break for it riding bareback on Loch Ness across the Atlantic” 11 x 14 mixed layers of drawing and painting cutouts<\/p><\/div>\n

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Howl with Laughter\/Howl with Pain” 8 x 10″ mixed layers of drawing and painting cutouts<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not Making Mother Proud” 8 x 10″ mixed layers of drawing and painting cutouts with string<\/p><\/div>\n

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Werewolf offers sincere apology for the way he has been acting lately and outlines several compelling reasons why the pack should give him a second chance” 20 x 20″ mixed layers of drawing and painting cutouts<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Local school teacher slumps into depression one Sunday night in January, so he calls up former roommate and confidant, Abominable Snowman, and together they romp through a winter wonderland until both collapse laughing and crying in the snow” 16 x 20″ mixed layers of drawing and painting cutouts<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chad Crane teaches drawing and painting at Copper Hills High.\u00a0 He received a BFA from Utah State and an MFA from the University of Utah.\u00a0 He has participated in numerous local juried and group exhibitions including The 9 Muses, an interdisciplinary show involving the collaboration of nine poets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":18222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[139,135,112],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multi-media","category-painting","category-utah-artists-c","tag-chad-crane"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/1999\/02\/Image-11-e1360559832860.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 23:43:25","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\/17911","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=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56115,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/56115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}