{"id":28765,"date":"2015-05-07T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=28765"},"modified":"2018-10-10T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:51:23","slug":"jeff-juhlin-at-a-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/jeff-juhlin-at-a-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Strata of Wax: Jeff Juhlin at A Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGetting to Jeff Juhlin\u2019s studio on Salt Lake City\u2019s west side is an adventure, something of which the artist \u2013 nationally known for his encaustic and mixed-media work\u2014is well aware. \u201cYou were only five minutes late,\u201d he says with a smile. \u201cThe guy who came to see me earlier was over an hour late finding this place.\u201d He points out that he is located in a spot in the city most people never have been to before. \u201cI like being obscure.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a terrific space: tidy, lots of windows, trains, plenty of room to work and hang out, back area for storage of the Baltic birch panels and poplar he uses to make panels for his encaustic pieces, and a printmaking press (another medium of Juhlin\u2019s), as well as places in front to hang some of his work, both for him to look at critically as he paints and for display.<\/p>\n

Encaustic is painting with hot, pigmented beeswax, with layers manipulated and fused to one another by a heat source. They can be continually re-worked, carved, sculpted; and mixed-media artists like Juhlin will embed paper, fabric, beads and other materials into the wax. The optical effects and layering in encaustics, he says, are unlike any other art form and the process dates back to the ancient Egyptians.<\/p>\n

He sells at several galleries across the country, and his Salt Lake City dealer, A Gallery, will have an opening reception for Strata, one of Juhlin\u2019s rare Utah exhibitions, May 15 from 6-9 p.m. during Gallery Stroll.
\nThe first artist to work in and show encaustic work in the state more than a decade ago, Juhlin, 67, worked long and hard to build a national reputation as a painter and mixed-media artist. Encaustic is now his primary medium and probably constitutes 90 percent of his studio practice. He also teaches encaustic at the Kimball Art Center in Park City (where he once gave Toni Youngblood \u2014 see page 1 \u2014 some pointers), at his Salt Lake City studio (he has another in Torrey), and has been an artist in residence for six years at the Hui Art Center in Maui. Juhlin\u2019s work has been featured in several books and can be found in private, corporate and public collections. He holds a bachelor\u2019s in drawing and painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.<\/p>\n