{"id":66824,"date":"2023-02-09T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=66824"},"modified":"2023-02-12T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T19:01:40","slug":"since-age-ten-shauntel-clements-has-been-inspired-by-maynard-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/since-age-ten-shauntel-clements-has-been-inspired-by-maynard-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Since Age Ten, Shauntel Clements Has Been Inspired by Maynard Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Museums, hikes, restaurants \u2014\u00a0 parents expose their children to a variety of experiences, never knowing what might stick. Shauntel Clements’ parents couldn’t have known that, when they stopped to tour the Maynard Dixon home, the experience would remain with their 10 year-old daughter, and inspire her artistic career. “Throughout the years afterwards, I would always remember the day that we toured [Dixon’s] home, and would recognize his name every time I saw one of his paintings in a museum,” Clements says of that formative experience.<\/p>\n

Clements would go on to receive scholarships to study art, first at Snow College and then at Utah Valley University, where she earned her bachelors in 2021. <\/span>While studying at Utah Valley University, Clements began to study Dixon’s paintings more closely, including an Independent Study course that concentrated on the artist. She says she “gravitated towards [his] beautiful, desolate, landscape paintings.”<\/p>\n

When after graduation she moved with her husband to Monticello, in the southeast corner of the state, she felt a further connection to Dixon. “The scenery in this area closely resembles the scenes in his paintings; from the red rocks and plateaus, to the monumental cloud formations billowing up through the sky.”<\/p>\n

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Clements’ “170 Views” will soon be on view at the Canyonlands Regional Airport<\/p><\/div>\n

She is focusing on painting full-time while being a stay-at-home mother. “I find my inspiration when I\u2019m out in nature hiking, camping, or going on long car rides across Utah\u2019s dry deserts,” she says. Clements has exhibited several times in Moab, her work was featured in UVU’s 2022 publication Utopia: A State of Abstraction<\/em> and a large painting will soon be displayed at the Canyonlands Regional Airport.<\/p>\n

And she’s still keeping her eye on Dixon’s work, most recently at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art’s exhibition Maynard Dixon: Searching for a Home<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Installation view of Maynard Dixon: Finding a Home, BYU Museum of Art, photo by Shawn Rossiter<\/p><\/div>\n

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You can view more of the artist’s work at www.shauntelclements.com<\/a> and on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Museums, hikes, restaurants \u2014\u00a0 parents expose their children to a variety of experiences, never knowing what might stick. Shauntel Clements’ parents couldn’t have known that, when they stopped to tour the Maynard Dixon home, the experience would remain with their 10 year-old daughter, and inspire her artistic career. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":66825,"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":[14,2238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual_arts","category-who-do-you-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_5371-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 08:25:53","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\/66824","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\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66828,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824\/revisions\/66828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}