{"id":42123,"date":"2018-12-28T19:26:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=42123"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:35:50","slug":"for-bill-kranstover-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/for-bill-kranstover-two\/","title":{"rendered":"For Bill Kranstover, Two Hands (or Pair of Hands) Are Better Than One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42125\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s always been a wonderful experience and great form of communication to talk in an abstract manner and problem solve while laying down paint or putting together sculpture,\u201d says William Kranstover, a Park City artist who has been contributing to the town\u2019s art scene as a sculptor, painter and teacher for years (he has earned the Meritorious Service Award for art in his community).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42124\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/William-Kranstover.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kranstover works out of the small town of Peoa, where almost a\u00a0decade ago he converted the Peoa Cash Store on State Road 32 into a studio, with the help of his daughter Malia Denali. In his recent work he has been adding multimedia elements to his acrylic paintings, using posters, newspapers and puzzle pieces.\u00a0 \u201cPainting more proficiently with both hands\u00a0rates real high,\u201d he says of this past year. It keeps the work loose and surprises keep coming through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the year,\u00a0however, was having his daughter come home to paint and sculpt with him in the Peoa studio.<\/p>\n<p>Check out his work at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjkart.com\/\">https:\/\/www.wjkart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best Of (2018) was curated by Emily Larsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a wonderful experience and great form of communication to talk in an abstract manner and problem solve while laying down paint or putting together sculpture,\u201d says William Kranstover, a Park City artist who has been contributing to the town\u2019s art scene as a sculptor, painter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":42125,"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":[3164,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-of","category-visual_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kranstover_denali.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 09:26:36","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\/42123","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\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42158,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42123\/revisions\/42158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}