{"id":27870,"date":"2015-02-10T03:35:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=27870"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:48:14","slug":"who-do-you-love-mark-slusser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/who-do-you-love-mark-slusser\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Love: Mark Slusser"},"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

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Mark Slusser, Ascension of Saint Eulalia, 30″ x 40″, oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Owner of Slusser Gallery in downtown Salt Lake City, Mark Slusser earned his BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah in 2005. He is a well-traveled artist who frequently paints the Utah landscape, as well as the Monterey, Calif., coast. He has long been interested in the resurgence of the American Realist Movement. Mark often paints his figurative and still life paintings in a realistic style.<\/p>\n

“I painted a narrative piece depicting St. Eulalia at the moment of her death,” he says. “As the story is often told, Eulalia’s soul flew from her mouth in the form of a dove to heaven. The style of my piece, “Ascension of Saint Eulalia,” was inspired by one of my favorite paintings, “Return of the Sun,”\u00a0 by Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum. His painting creates a feeling of universal humanity that encompasses both imperfection and normality, but with an emotional impact that is unforgettable,” Slusser says.<\/p>\n

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Odd Nerdrum, Return of the Sun, 41″ x 62″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.   Owner of Slusser Gallery in downtown Salt Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":27871,"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":[69,2238],"tags":[2241,2242],"class_list":["post-27870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-who-do-you-love","tag-mark-slusser","tag-odd-nerdrum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Eulalia1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 14:35:09","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\/27870","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27870"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72437,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870\/revisions\/72437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}