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So it is for Jerry W. Fuhriman, native to the high-mountain country of Northern Utah but drawn inexorably to the Desert Southwest and its bold, isolated landscapes.
I love the power and solitude of slickrock country.
With rock as canvas and stone tools as brush, ancient cultures created what today we call petroglyphs, immovable media of historic expression carved hundred, even thousands, of years ago. These etchings communicated from one generation to the next the myths and stories, the cultural values and abstract ideas of prehistoric residents of the Desert Southwest.
For more than 30 years Fuhriman has explored the area’s remote plateaus and river canyons, scrambling up rocks and creeping along ledges, gaining an ever-expanding sense of the power of place. By observing rock art in its permanent gallery and sensing the subtle changes from shifts in light and weather, Fuhriman is able to create the rock surfaces upon which he then paints his interpretation of the ancient art.
I like to paint where ancient artists worked.
Painted with a spirit of tromp l’oiel, Fuhriman’s watercolor petroglyphs connect us to the past and lend understanding and balance to our own rapidly changing landscape. His powerful paintings bring petroglyphs to light, helping us to value and preserve these artistic trails to our past.
Fuhriman’s award-winning paintings, found in numerous private and public collections in the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia, are both serious and playful, covering a wide range of subjects from pastoral landscapes of his native valley to bold panoramas of the Desert Southwest. He has recently painted in Spain, Portugal and Italy. More often, expect Fuhriman to be painting alone in a slickrock canyon of Southern Utah or a high plateau of Northern New Mexico.
I’ll paint all day, then I’ll look down and there’s a rabbit sitting beside me.
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