{"id":19679,"date":"2013-03-13T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2023-11-13T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:49:56","slug":"two-photographers-receive-visual-arts-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/two-photographers-receive-visual-arts-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Photographers Receive Visual Arts Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Mark Hedengren of swimming hole, from \u201cCliff Jumper\u201d series<\/p><\/div>\n

The Utah Division of Arts & Museums announced its two Visual Arts Fellowship recipients for 2013: photographers Christopher M. Gauthier and Mark Finch Hedengren. Both artists will receive a $10,000 Fellowship Award.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Christopher Gauthier of wife Jacqui and son, from \u201cEvidence and Artifacts\u201d series<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christopher Gauthier teaches at Utah State University. His work has always been concerned with the environment, and he began focusing on links between the environment and human health and development when his own children were diagnosed with autism. Selections from his \u201cEvidence and Artifacts: Facing Autism\u201d have been exhibited at Johns Hopkins University and for two consecutive years at the U.S. Autism and Asperger Association World Conference. \u201cMy hope is that the portraits will convey a sense of urgency about understanding what is causing the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder to rise so rapidly, and will humanize the statistics in a way that will move people to action,\u201d Gauthier says.<\/p>\n

Mark Finch Hedengren<\/a> lives in Provo and has been working on several photography projects that explore how and why people recreate in nature. He\u2019s done a series on cliff jumpers and tent dwellers and hopes to base his next body of work around the Utah ski resorts.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s juror, Richard Roth, an artist and faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, said, \u201cThe fact that both artists are photographers was not a factor in my selection; the urgency and insightfulness of their missions, however, was deemed highly relevant, necessary to today\u2019s world. Gauthier\u2019s exquisite portraits of autistic individuals serve to personalize those too often seen as statistics. Hedengren\u2019s photographs allow us to see ourselves as joyful and uncanny creatures, beautiful and defiled \u2013 presented with grand virtuosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

You’ll be hearing more about these artists in future editions of 15 Bytes as we will be co-producing a short documentary on each artist with Utah Arts & Museums.<\/p>\n

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