{"id":57347,"date":"2006-12-06T11:47:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=57347"},"modified":"2021-03-06T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:50:11","slug":"salt-lake-citys-shawn-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/salt-lake-citys-shawn-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake City&#8217;s Shawn Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ShawnPortrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57348\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ShawnPortrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a>Shawn Porter works for the University of Utah art department. He is included in the faculty show at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umfa.utah.edu\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">UMFA<\/a>\u00a0this month.<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0<i>What are you reading lately?<br \/>\n<\/i>Lately I have been reading, (or rather looking at) a book by Rainer Zerbst about the architect Antoni Gaudi. I find his fusion of structure and organic form amazing and attention to detail obsessive. I guess it&#8217;s this attention to detail that I find so interesting and strive for in my own work. Being a craftsman under his direction must have been an incredible yet sometimes painful experience.<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<\/i>2)\u00a0<i>What hangs above your mantel?<br \/>\n<\/i>This year we have taken down the mirror to make room for a wreath, this is a bit unusual for us, we generally have an &#8220;untraditional&#8221; view of the holidays. But tradition is what you make of it I suppose.<i><br \/>\n<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i>3)\u00a0<i>What artist, living or dead, would you choose to paint, sculpt or photograph your portrait?<br \/>\n<\/i>I would like to watch Robert and Shana Parke Harrison paint, sculpt and photograph a construct of what I do for a living, a representation of a multifaceted person by multifaceted artists. Now THAT I would hang over the mantel<i>.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Porter works for the University of Utah art department. He is included in the faculty show at the\u00a0UMFA\u00a0this month. 1)\u00a0What are you reading lately? Lately I have been reading, (or rather looking at) a book by Rainer Zerbst about the architect Antoni Gaudi. I find his fusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":57348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[926],"class_list":["post-57347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on_the_spot","category-visual_arts","tag-shawn-porter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ShawnPortrait.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 08:06:43","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\/57347","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\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57349,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions\/57349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}