{"id":27460,"date":"2015-01-06T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=27460"},"modified":"2018-11-25T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T21:03:42","slug":"whats-new-kent-christensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/whats-new-kent-christensen\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New: Kent Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27462 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Christensen.August.2014\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014-900x672.jpg 900w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many Utah artists paint deserts; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentchristensen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kent Christensen<\/a> mostly paints desserts. And 2015 begins with his work showing in four places simultaneously: At London\u2019s gallery Eleven, The Leonardo, the BYU &#8211; Harris Fine Arts Center\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary exhibit and Springville\u2019s Spiritual and Religious show. His work also can be seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camillaelphick.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camilla Elphick\u2019s<\/a> pricey but fun and festive women\u2019s shoes \u2013 made in Milan for both her 2014 and 2015 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>For 2015 he says,\u00a0 \u201cI plan on taking advantage of more landscape painting opportunities in New York and elsewhere later this year. Landscape has often figured into my work, but to have the luxury of painting outdoors for its own sake is something I haven\u2019t done regularly since the 90\u2019s. It is pure therapy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy studio work continues to develop around simple shape-oriented paintings based on Buddhist tantric art. I\u2019m currently working on a new body of \u201cTantric Candy Porn\u201d which is part of my larger on-going project: \u201cSecrets of the Great Salt Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Utah artists paint deserts; Kent Christensen mostly paints desserts. And 2015 begins with his work showing in four places simultaneously: At London\u2019s gallery Eleven, The Leonardo, the BYU &#8211; Harris Fine Arts Center\u2019s 50th anniversary exhibit and Springville\u2019s Spiritual and Religious show. His work also can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":27462,"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":[69,14,2204],"tags":[754],"class_list":["post-27460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-visual_arts","category-whats-new","tag-kent-christensen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kent-Christensen.August.2014.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 20:38:27","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\/27460","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\/1601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40271,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460\/revisions\/40271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}