{"id":27239,"date":"2014-12-06T21:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T03:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=27239"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:15:59","slug":"grant-fuhst-brands-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/grant-fuhst-brands-plan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Fuhst’s Plan-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grant Fuhst had an idea. He and his wife love attending Plan-B Theatre in Salt Lake City, so last year he asked the company\u2019s director, Jerry Rapier, if he would be willing to provide season tickets if Fuhst agreed to design the playbills for the company\u2019s 2014-15 season. As it would happen, the artist Plan-B had planned to work with had moved out of town, so hands were shaken, scripts delivered and pencils started sketching.<\/p>\n

Fuhst is a mixed-media artist who has worked in various platforms including comic-books, CD art, film, graphic design, illustration, concept art and several collaborative internet projects. He calls his work \u201cirrational art.\u201d You\u2019ll often find it labeled \u201cfantastic art.\u201d It\u2019s the sort of thing that would be comfortable in a Tim Burton production (which would explain why, when Fuhst was showing his work at Pioneer Theatre Company\u2019s Loge Gallery he was invited to design the playbill for their production of\u00a0Dracula<\/em>). So it\u2019s not the sort of thing you would think of first to illustrate Plan-B\u2019s socially engaged theatre.<\/p>\n

Truth be told, you won\u2019t find any of Fuhst\u2019s trademark ghouls or goblins on the company\u2019s playbills. \u201cWhen I do commercial work, it\u2019s not about my own work,\u201d Fuhst says. \u201cI like the challenge of getting things right for the client.\u201d<\/p>\n

After reading each of the plays, Fuhst began designing art that would work for each piece. \u201cEveryone is totally different depending on what the play is,\u201d he says. For Julie Jensen\u2019s \u201cChristmas with Misfits,\u201d which opens next week, Fuhst went for a look reminiscent of the 1960s stop-action animations like\u00a0Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>. For Melissa Leilani Larson\u2019s play imagining an LDS restoration of polygamy, he used the type of simple icons found on bathroom placards and construction signs. For \u201cMama,\u201d Carleton Bluford\u2019s celebration of motherhood, he blended images of four women. With Matthew Ivan Bennett\u2019s \u201cA\/Version of Events,\u201d a play about grief and loss, Fuhst was able to get closest to his home territory. The image of a stone angel calls to mind a cemetery, but it\u2019s actually a photograph he took of a collection of angels he came across at an inn in Cedar City.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Grant\u2019s style,\u201d says Rapier. \u201cIt really collides well and complements our work.\u201d Plan-B has already engaged him to work on next season\u2019s artwork as well, which will be unveiled as part of Love Utah Give Utah on March 26.<\/p>\n

Fuhst says he took the work on for the love of the company. Now that he\u2019s read the plays, he\u2019s interested to see what the actual productions will be like (though he\u2019s had to keep mum with his wife, who hates spoilers of any kind).<\/p>\n

Though he does commercial illustration on occasion, Fuhst says he wouldn\u2019t want to do it full time. His friends who do are too drained creatively to do their own art. Fuhst is content to work at the Midvale Barnes & Noble during the day, and get a few hours in every night at his Poor Yorick studio. You\u2019ll be able to see his personal artwork, in all its irrationality, at the studio spaces open house in March. Or stop in at\u00a0Silver Queen Fine Art in Park City<\/a>, which represents the artist.<\/p>\n

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