{"id":36074,"date":"2018-01-04T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=36074"},"modified":"2018-09-13T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:10:46","slug":"whats-new-for-susan-jarvis-2018-is-about-loosening-up-with-abstract-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/whats-new-for-susan-jarvis-2018-is-about-loosening-up-with-abstract-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New: For Susan Jarvis, 2018 is About Loosening Up with Abstract Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/susanjarvisstudio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44863\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/susanjarvisstudio.jpg\"  alt=\"Susan Jarvis in her studio.\" width=\"599\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSusan Jarvis has always been an artist. Her first art job, she says, \u201cwas scribbling all over my mother\u2019s white chenille bedspread with ruby red lipstick. I don\u2019t remember it but I\u2019m told that it wasn\u2019t received very well.\u201d She scribbled images of her siblings onto paper and took every possible art class available in school. She was torn between art and music and took years of piano, voice, guitar and banjo lessons before settling on an art major at the University of Utah. Now, art is her day job: She teaches adult art classes and workshops and paints in a studio in the heart of Salt Lake City.In 2018, she tells us, \u201cInstead of painting still life and landscape, my focus will be a series of works about people. I\u2019m preparing for \u201cArt &amp; Soup,\u201d \u201cArt In the Afternoon,\u201d and my first abstract show at 15th Street Gallery. Just a couple of months ago, Lucy Heller of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/15thstreetgallery.com\/\">15th Street Gallery<\/a>\u00a0challenged the realist painter, whose work has become \u201ctighter and tighter over the years\u201d and \u201cappeared stiff and a little clinical\u201d \u2014 in the artists\u2019 eyes, at any rate \u2014 to create some abstract pieces. \u201cI took her up on the dare and . . . it was so liberating to express myself in a wordless, colorful style that I found myself recoiling at the thought of painting another traditional piece. In 2018 I\u2019ll merge both styles into something new . . . not sure what to call it, but it is the breath of fresh air that I needed for this new chapter in my life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/koi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44864\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/koi.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see more of the artist\u2019s work, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/susannjarvis.com\/\">http:\/\/susannjarvis.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Jarvis has always been an artist. Her first art job, she says, \u201cwas scribbling all over my mother\u2019s white chenille bedspread with ruby red lipstick. I don\u2019t remember it but I\u2019m told that it wasn\u2019t received very well.\u201d She scribbled images of her siblings onto paper and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":37376,"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":[2204],"tags":[2232],"class_list":["post-36074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new","tag-susan-jarvis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/susanjarvisstudio-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 14:18:40","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\/36074","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=36074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37406,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074\/revisions\/37406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}