Artist Statement As a devoted landscape painter who seeks to bring representational art-making into modernity, I acutely examine the human effect on landscape and the diversity of reaching between man-made establishments and nature. Enticed by the interaction between buildings, fences, foliage, lines of communication, and the open road, the literal and implied connections of these motifs in my work convey a sense of Americana and environmental disruption. I’m fascinated at how telephone poles reflect a Christian cross, and how they line streets as symbols of colonization, communication, and deforestation. Focusing on domesticated land brings my work into the current conversation on infrastructure, climate change, and physical socioeconomic barriers. I am influenced by painters who seek to record proof of life more than they do the grandiose. To be a great painter is to dance with the pigment and brush with attention and intention. Artists like Lilian Garcia Roig, David Hockney, Stanley Lewis, Vincent Van Gogh, and Cecily Brown deeply influence my thoughts about composition, flow, and how to apply medium. Using large brushes, cups of acrylic and oil paint, and my bare hands, I made these works in several sessions of painting all over Northern Utah with efficiency and attention to detail. In the spirited animation only observational painting can bring, this work embodies my ideals as an artist. Flowing gestures, diverse mark-making, and representations of industrialized space are woven together in this body of work. With the mountains receding in the background of these plein air paintings, the viewer’s focus turns to the man-made structures in each piece. I hope to encourage the viewer to feel uneasy, nostalgic, and fascinated by the cornered landscapes that are now made common in our society. Persistently, we fill this country with endless houses and businesses until the America romaicized by Pioneers and defended by Native Peoples is all but erased. We live in a paved paradise, robbed by colonization and industry of the peace this land once had. Although aesthetic beauty remains in each painting, the dusky gloom surrounding our sprawling towns should be the resonating feature. These works proove of a slow death between man’s connection to their place in natural order.
Lily Petersen resume 703-231-3336 [email protected] @lilys.p.fineart
EDUCATION
2024 BFA Drawing and Painting, Utah State University, Logan, UT
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Summer Gallery Walk, Featured Artists at Eccles Artist’s Gallery, Logan UT
2024 Highlights, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan UT
2024 Spring Gallery Walk, Featured Artist at Thatcher-Young Mansion& The Cache Bar, Logan, UT
2024 Leftovers, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan UT
2024 Carve, Print, Fold, Bind, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan UT
2024 Impact Art Exhibit, Third Place, Norra Eccles Harrison Museum of Art,Logan, UT
2024 Leftovers, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, UT
2024 Unleaded, Capstone Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, UT
2024 Falling Action, solo exhibition, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, UT
2024 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU,
2023 Guerrilla Grrrl Now, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, Logan, UT
2023 Fall Salon Presented Artist, Logan Fine Art Gallery, Logan, UT
2023 Blue & Gesture, Three Person Exhibition, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Artists’ Walk, The Alley, Sponsored by Needhams family, Logan UT
2023 Latinx Student Exhibition, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Debussy in Sight and Sound, Russell Wanlass Performance Hall, USU,
2023 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU,
2023 Impact Art Exhibition, Impact Commons, USU, Logan, UT
2022-23 Featured Artist, Eccles Artist’s Gallery, Logan, UT
2022 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Gallerie
2022 Fall Salon Presented Artist, Logan Fine Art Gallery, Logan, UT
2021 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries,
2021 Overt, Collaborative Two-Person Exhibition, Art & Design Main Hall,
2021-24 Mural Competition Exhibition Winner, USU Quad, Logan, UT
2021 Utah Pride Story Garden Featured Artist, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Fall Salon Presented Artist, Logan Fine Art Gallery, Logan, UT
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2022, 24 Caine Scholars for Excellence Art & Design, Caine College of the Arts, USU
2022, 24 Caine College Ambassador, Caine College of the Arts, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Calvin Fletcher Scholarship, Caine College of the Arts, USU, Logan, UT
2020-23 Dean’s List, Caine College of the Arts USU, Logan, UT
2022 Second Place, Cache Valley Art Faire, Logan, UT
2022 Honorable Mention, Cache Valley Plein Air Competition, Logan, UT
2022 Hansen Entrepreneur Support Scholarship, Huntsman School of Business,
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
2023 President, The Mighty Drawing and Painting Guild, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Board Member, Art & Design Student Advisory, USU, Logan, UT
2022 Arts Council Member, USUSA, USU, Logan, UT
ARTISTIC EMPLOYMENT
2023-24 Personal & Studio Assistant, Jane Catlin, Hyde Park, UT
2023 Gallery Docent, Tippetts & Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, UT
2022-24 Painting Studio Assistant, USU, Logan, UT
2022 Framing Consultant, Al’s Trophies and Frames, Logan, UT
2022 Gallery Assistant, Creativity Unbound K-8, Arts are Core, USU, Logan, UT
EDUCATION
2024 BFA Drawing and Painting, Utah State University, Logan, UT
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Summer Gallery Walk, Featured Artists at Eccles Artist’s Gallery, Logan UT
2024 Highlights, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan UT
2024 Spring Gallery Walk, Featured Artist at Thatcher-Young Mansion& The Cache Bar, Logan, UT
2024 Leftovers, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan UT
2024 Carve, Print, Fold, Bind, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan UT
2024 Impact Art Exhibit, Third Place, Norra Eccles Harrison Museum of Art,Logan, UT
2024 Leftovers, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, UT
2024 Unleaded, Capstone Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, UT
2024 Falling Action, solo exhibition, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, UT
2024 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU,
2023 Guerrilla Grrrl Now, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, Logan, UT
2023 Fall Salon Presented Artist, Logan Fine Art Gallery, Logan, UT
2023 Blue & Gesture, Three Person Exhibition, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Artists’ Walk, The Alley, Sponsored by Needhams family, Logan UT
2023 Latinx Student Exhibition, Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Debussy in Sight and Sound, Russell Wanlass Performance Hall, USU,
2023 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, USU,
2023 Impact Art Exhibition, Impact Commons, USU, Logan, UT
2022-23 Featured Artist, Eccles Artist’s Gallery, Logan, UT
2022 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Gallerie
2022 Fall Salon Presented Artist, Logan Fine Art Gallery, Logan, UT
2021 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries,
2021 Overt, Collaborative Two-Person Exhibition, Art & Design Main Hall,
2021-24 Mural Competition Exhibition Winner, USU Quad, Logan, UT
2021 Utah Pride Story Garden Featured Artist, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Fall Salon Presented Artist, Logan Fine Art Gallery, Logan, UT
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2022, 24 Caine Scholars for Excellence Art & Design, Caine College of the Arts, USU
2022, 24 Caine College Ambassador, Caine College of the Arts, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Calvin Fletcher Scholarship, Caine College of the Arts, USU, Logan, UT
2020-23 Dean’s List, Caine College of the Arts USU, Logan, UT
2022 Second Place, Cache Valley Art Faire, Logan, UT
2022 Honorable Mention, Cache Valley Plein Air Competition, Logan, UT
2022 Hansen Entrepreneur Support Scholarship, Huntsman School of Business,
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
2023 President, The Mighty Drawing and Painting Guild, USU, Logan, UT
2023 Board Member, Art & Design Student Advisory, USU, Logan, UT
2022 Arts Council Member, USUSA, USU, Logan, UT
ARTISTIC EMPLOYMENT
2023-24 Personal & Studio Assistant, Jane Catlin, Hyde Park, UT
2023 Gallery Docent, Tippetts & Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, UT
2022-24 Painting Studio Assistant, USU, Logan, UT
2022 Framing Consultant, Al’s Trophies and Frames, Logan, UT
2022 Gallery Assistant, Creativity Unbound K-8, Arts are Core, USU, Logan, UT
Lillian Ricks, ceramics
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