Nationality American | Known for Painting and Drawing | |
Education MFA Painting, Johnson State College (Johnson, VT) Awards Utah Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship Award | ||
Personal connections jean arnold at tedxnapavalley
Jean Arnold is an American artist working in painting and drawing. Born in Idaho in 1961, she currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Life and work
Arnold has said that her works are inspired by sketches created while riding in cars or on buses. In her biography for Saatchi Art, she writes, "My obsession with my environs compels me to notationally sketch architecture, cars, trees, and urban clutter flowing by. In my drawings and paintings, I invent a new scene and space accumulating and compressing miles of space and time into one image." She has also said that her upbringing in the American West and the "founding mythology is of (its) endless space" informs her work.
Exhibitions
Arnold has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, regionally and nationally. Recent exhibitions include "Driven to Abstraction" (Whitespace, October 2014), Privacy/Secrets: ZBCA Annual Group Show (Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, December 2013), and "Excavations" (Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, September 2012). Her work is also held in the Utah Museum of Fine Art's permanent collection.