CONTACT INFORMATION

MAUREEN.OHARAURE@UTAH.EDU

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (LECTURER)

DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
375 SOUTH 1530 EAST #161
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84112-0380
ARTIST'S STATEMENT

For the past several years, my paintings have featured animals in imaginary landscapes. I adapted these creatures from historical forms first encountered in my travels, in medieval stonework, manuscripts, and other museum artifacts. Populating scenes with assorted beasts has opened up rich possibilities for narrative and for metaphor, as in 3 recent solo exhibitions exploring themes of war and peace, Paradise and the Fall. Current studio projects involve my collaborator of 20 years, writer (and fellow University of Utah professor) Katharine Coles. We are composing a bestiary of image and text, our response to the Byzantine mosaics of Venice, Ravenna, and Istanbul.

MAJOR (ONE AND TWO-PERSON) EXHIBITIONS
 

2010 Sightseeing, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
2007 Stranger and Stranger, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
2005 A New World Bestiary, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City
2003 Souvenirs, Installation, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
2000 Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
1997 Natural Histories, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
1993 Natural Disasters, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
1991 Pierpont Gallery, Salt Lake City
1989 SPACE, Los Angeles
1989 Soft on Crime, ARC/Raw Space Gallery, Chicago
1988 Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
1987 Matrix Gallery, Sacramento
1987 Gayle Weyher Gallery, Salt Lake City
1986 True Stories, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
1983 SPACE, Los Angeles
1983 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
1981 Arizona State University, Tempe
1980 Meadows Museum, Shreveport
1980 Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
SELECTED GRANTS
 

2008 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
2008 Individual Artist Project Grant, Utah Arts Council
2005 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
2005 Individual Artist Project Grant, Utah Arts Council
2003 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
2002 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
1997 Development Grant, Salt Lake City Arts Council
1992 Individual Artist's Grant, Utah Arts Council
PUBLICATIONS
 

2008 Cover, "New England Review," Middlebury College
2007 "The Sightseer (INDIA)" Artist's book, ed. 46, The Hand in Glove Press
2005 Cover, "Fire Season" novel by Katharine Coles, Juniper Press
2002 "SWOON ~from the Italy sketchbooks~" Artist's book, ed. 35, with poem by Katharine Coles, The Hand in Glove Press
2001 Cover, "The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Poems" Katharine Coles. University of Nevada Press
2000 Cover, "Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism," University of Utah Press
2000 Cover and illustrations, "Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: An Anthology," University of Utah Press
COLLECTIONS
 

Green Library, Special Collections, Stanford University
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Albuquerque
J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections, University of Utah
Weber County Libraries

 

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