{"id":37125,"date":"2018-02-26T16:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37125"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:00:17","slug":"kent-christensen-hieronymus-bosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/kent-christensen-hieronymus-bosch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Christensen + Hieronymus Bosch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sundance artist Kent Christensen takes human obsession seriously: Like food, especially food, with an emphasis on dessert. And typically, that is what he paints.<\/p>\n

He recalls growing up \u201cin the orange, lemon, and avocado groves of Southern California, where I acquired a fondness for orange crate labels, pop culture, and local fast food.\u201d Reared in the Mormon Church, he says, \u201cwith its strict prohibitions against perceived vices such as coffee, tea, alcohol, and tobacco, I gained an appreciation for the Mormon culture\u2019s zealous overindulgence in the substitute vice of sugar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christensen says his work is \u201ca praise of Western cultural folly that cuts both ways: comforting and familiar nostalgia, in the form of food or religion, is never too far from greed, obsession, indulgence, and narcissism \u2013 especially in these times of protracted recovery from financial collapse and unsettling political and populist dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is working on a large compositional interpretation of Bosch\u2019s big triptych \u201cGarden of Earthly Delights\u201d in the Prado titled \u201c Secrets of the Great Salt Lake.\u201d The Bosch, Christensen says, is \u201cone of my all-time favorite paintings, and informs my tendency toward the surreal.\u201d He sent us the color study but figures it will take another year to get the larger oil done.<\/p>\n

Represented by Eleven Fine Art in London, Christensen is an associate professor in the art departments at the University of Utah and Utah Valley University. His gallery recently sold three of his paintings to the swanky Hotel Crillon on Place de la Concorde in Paris. One is of red Utah Jell-O.<\/p>\n

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Christensen will show the color study of \u201cSecrets of the Great Salt Lake\u201d and an 11\u201d x 14\u201d (actual size) master copy of Wayne Thiebaud\u2019s 1994 \u201cThree Donuts\u201d in \u201cEmulations,\u201d a show of master work copies and original works by artists Brian Kershisnik, J. Kirk Richards, Susan Kruger-Barber, Faith Kershisnik, Lee Bennion and Fidalis Buehler at\u00a0Writ &\u00a0Vision<\/a>, Provo, through March. Opening reception March 2, 6 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sundance artist Kent Christensen takes human obsession seriously: Like food, especially food, with an emphasis on dessert. And typically, that is what he paints. He recalls growing up \u201cin the orange, lemon, and avocado groves of Southern California, where I acquired a fondness for orange crate labels, pop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37126,"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":[2238],"tags":[754],"class_list":["post-37125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-do-you-love","tag-kent-christensen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kent_christensen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 04:13:06","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\/37125","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37660,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125\/revisions\/37660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}