{"id":27853,"date":"2015-02-05T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T20:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=27853"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:18:35","slug":"who-do-you-love-jeffrey-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/who-do-you-love-jeffrey-hale\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Love: Jeffrey Hale"},"content":{"rendered":"

For February we\u2019re asking Utah artists about a specific piece of art or artist living or dead, local or global, that has sparked their curiosity or influenced their work. We\u2019ll be running some of their responses throughout the month.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>
\nWell known for his abstracted portraiture, Jeffrey Hale<\/a> tells us: \u201cI blend in. I have lived in the Salt Lake area virtually my entire life with a stint in the deeper parts of southern Louisiana. I was introduced to oil painting by Marjorie McClure [1997-98] and managed to glean some core skills in drawing and painting at the University of Utah [2001-03]. Tony Smith, John Erickson, John O\u2019Connell, Maureen O\u2019Hara Ure are some who shaped me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, it was my early introduction to art and the freedom I had to paint raw and emotionally that led me to choose the path of the self-taught artist. Research is at the center of my studio work.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Graham (Ivan Gratianovich Dombrowsky, 1886-1961) has influenced Hale\u2019s work. \u201cThis past year I turned to his painting entitled \u2018Two Sisters.\u2019 It had intrigued me for way too long,\u201d he says. \u201cI decided to find two sisters and paint my version.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hale explains that Graham was influential in the New York art scene and curated the first public exposure for Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough influenced heavily by the cubists, his European contemporaries, my love for Graham\u2019s work comes from its spiritual nature: he was interested in African sculpture and primitive art and felt that through \u2018its abstractions of the forms of the natural world it revealed the inner truth of its subject.\u2019 Graham thought abstract painting could achieve the same expressive effect and felt the work of Picasso best embodied this,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, too, seek to express my abstractions of the natural world and hope to find some inner truth. Most of all, Graham\u2019s fearless approach to painting exactly what he was moved to paint inspires me in being that lone wolf without a posse,\u201d says Hale.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two Sisters, John D. Graham, 1944<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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