{"id":28094,"date":"2015-02-25T03:16:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T09:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=28094"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:48:28","slug":"who-do-you-love-craig-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/who-do-you-love-craig-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Love: Craig Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Craig Cleveland, “butterfly robot hieroglyph solid child rope window (spam haiku #7)” 48″ x 48″ acrylic, latex, vinyl, hardwood<\/p><\/div>\n

Salt Lake City artist Craig Cleveland<\/a>, who studied fine art and design at USU and the Art Institute of Chicago, tells us: \u201cLove is an action. Love is a verb. Love is a noun. Love is. Love is a word, and words and their letterforms have played heavily in my recent body of work called \u2018Spam Haiku: Visual Verses on Consumerism & Other Mythologies.\u2019<\/p>\n

The works in this series, he says \u201care titled and composed from collected \u2018spam e-mail\u2019 subject lines, with the typographic form used as object to generate abstract shapes and spatial relationships. A limited color palette of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) was employed as a reference to the colors used in print media.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally, an \u2018icon of consumption\u2019 was incorporated into each work, a visual metaphor to our consumer-driven culture. The icons were selected for each piece in response to the respective title and subject lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn \u2018butterfly robot hieroglyph solid child rope window (spam haiku #7<\/a>),\u2019 I juxtaposed iconic components of Disney and ancient Egyptian culture. \u2018Mickey\u2019 representative of one way our children are targeted as consumers, and the \u2018Eye of Ra\u2019 reflecting a now-extinct civilization.” This and three other pieces are part of “rePOPulated” on exhibit through March 29th at Denver’s Arvada Center for the Arts. Craig adds, “Perhaps future societies will look back at our manufactured kingdoms with strange fascination.”<\/p>\n

\"Sepulchre-Brad-Greenwell-772ppi\"<\/a>He continues: \u201cIn our extremely talented Utah community, I love the rich painting and visual metaphors of Brad Greenwell. He explores iconic imagery, juxtaposing the classical with contemporary, and the institutional with the commercial. By his own description, Brad is a \u2018self-taught artist,\u2019 interested in perception, the construction of identity, and the play of action vs. awareness. He creates paintings within paintings and beyond. Brad\u2019s work speaks deeply to his philosophical and spiritual perceptions and challenges viewers to explore their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

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  Salt Lake City artist Craig Cleveland, who studied fine art and design at USU and the Art Institute of Chicago, tells us: \u201cLove is an action. Love is a verb. Love is a noun. Love is. Love is a word, and words and their letterforms have played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":28092,"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":[2261,1980],"class_list":["post-28094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-who-do-you-love","tag-brad-greenwell","tag-craig-cleveland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/butterfly-robot-hieroglyph-solid-child-rope-window-Craig-Cleveland-72ppi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 14:23:34","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\/28094","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=28094"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72438,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions\/72438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}