{"id":64251,"date":"2022-07-01T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=64251"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:53:33","slug":"trent-call-says-every-wall-presents-its-own-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/trent-call-says-every-wall-presents-its-own-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Call Says Every Wall Presents Its Own Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not all walls are created equal. Ask any mural artist. Some are relatively smooth, others worn rough with age. Some are broad and accessible. Others are tall or out-of-reach.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Trent Call<\/a> has painted just about every type. His works have been going up on walls in the Salt Lake City area for more than a decade. There’s the Acme Co. mural, high up on a wall so it’s visible from the 600 North overpass. A couple of more recent walls, The Bewilder Brewing Co. (445 South 400 West) and Jazz History (112 South Main Street) murals, a large but accessible, both for the artist and viewers.<\/h4>\n

For the Midvale Main Street Mural Festival<\/a> held in June, Call was presented with one of the more challenging walls. “The sidewalk and power lines were kind of annoying. I just squeezed between them and tried to make the composition work above the brick line.” Call’s comics-style boxes, eye and hand emerge from the brick line as if they are floating behind it. Look once and you might think you’re only seeing part of it behind a brick wall. “I was going for something a bit more abstract. Bringing a bit of color and bounce to an alley with a prominent dumpster placement.”<\/h4>\n

Call’s work looks across to the parking lot of Old Town Tavern, where the area’s original mural celebrates the town’s history of mining, farming and a certain type of night life. That mural has now been joined by a score of new ones due to the Mural Festival, the initiative of All Caps Gallery<\/a>, located across the highway on the other side of Midvale.<\/h4>\n
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“Every wall is its own challenge,” Call says. “It\u2019s nice getting out of the studio, climb some ladders and use up some paint.”<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Trent Call’s works are currently at WOW Atelier<\/a> and 15th Street Gallery<\/a>, both in Salt Lake City.<\/div>\n
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During the month of June we’re featuring articles on several murals and muralists in Utah. You can discover several for yourself by visiting our Art Lake City map.<\/em><\/p>\n

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