For the past several years, my paintings have featured animals in imaginary landscapes. I adapt creatures from medieval art and architecture I encounter in my travels overseas, when I fill sketchbooks with scenes from frescoes, stonework and manuscripts. Red Butte Press recently published Stranger and Stranger, a letterpress bestiary composed of my creatures alongside the works of my long-time collaborator, and fellow University of Utah professor, the poet Katharine Coles. Under my imprint The Hand in Glove Press, I have published three artist’s books. The newest volume, Seeing and Believing, A Traveler’s Sketchbook, began with a 2014 trip focused on central France’s Romanesque sites; my next project, on hold due to pandemic travel restrictions, will take me to Spain in search for stimuli.
My show, Elsewhere, paintings on panel, opens at Salt Lake City’s Phillips Gallery, March 18 and will remain on view through April 8.
MAJOR (ONE AND TWO-PERSON) EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 Elsewhere, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2019 Art History, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2016 Love & Work, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2012 Here Be Monsters, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 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
- 1999 Fever, Phillips 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 Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Kansas City
- 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
- 1981 Arts Place, Portland
- 1980 Meadows Museum, Shreveport
- 1980 Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
SELECTED GRANTS
- 2019 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
- 2014 CFA Creative Research Award, University of Utah
- 2012 CFA Creative Research Award, University of Utah
- 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
- 2018 Stranger and Stranger, letterpress book with Katharine Coles, Red Butte Press
- 2016 Seeing and Believing: A Traveler’s Sketchbook, offset color, The Hand in Glove Press
- 2007 The Sightseer, (INDIA), letterpress book, hand-colored, The Hand in Glove Press
- 2002 SWOON, letterpress book, some in edition hand-colored, The Hand in Glove Press
COVERS
- 2008 New England Review, Middlebury College
- 2007 Quarterly West (Also 2001, 1994)
- 2005 Fire Season novel by Katharine Coles, Juniper Press
- 2001 The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Poems” Katharine Coles. University of Nevada Press
- 2000 Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism, University of Utah Press
- 2000 Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: An Anthology, University of Utah Press
SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
- Green Library, Special Collections, Stanford University
- Fenwick Library, Special Collections, George Mason University
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts
- Salt Lake County Art Collection
- The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
- Fidelity Investments
- Utah State Department of Health
- J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections, University of Utah
- Weber County Libraries
- Utah State Collection of Fine Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
- MAUREEN.OHARAURE@UTAH.EDU
- PROFESSOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
375 SOUTH 1530 EAST #161
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84112-0380
801.581.7050
