EXHIBITIONS ON MAIN
2025/2026
Eddy Ekpo
“Born in Nigeria, now rooted in Utah, USA, Eddy Ekpo is a multifaceted artist who navigates the complexities of psyche, culture, identity, and social justice.
Through a fusion of traditional and digital mediums, he creates immersive plots that reflect his personal journey, amplify marginalized voices, and inspire transformative conversations.
With each piece, he aims to capture the beauty in our chaos, the still in the madness, the unnoticed in the mundane, and embracing the intricate tapestry of the human experience.”
Abstract digital artwork featuring mountains, a setting sun, colorful swirling sky, and text at the bottom expressing appreciation for building stories with rhythm, nuances, and colors.
A surreal digital artwork featuring a woman with a fish head, surrounded by tropical plants, a street lamp, an eye with makeup, and abstract geometric shapes in the background.
Digital artwork of three women with tropical leaves and Monarch butterflies, abstract background, newspaper, and the phrase 'Door to the American Dream'.
Abstract digital artwork of a woman with braided hair, wearing large earrings, surrounded by geometric shapes, bubbles, and a colorful hummingbird, with vibrant, overlapping colors and patterns.
Abstract, geometric illustration of a man's face, with different facial features overlapping in a layered style, set against a yellow background with red circles and patterned sections.
Emily Fox King
Education:
MFA, Brigham Young University, 2010
BA, Western Washington University, 2007
Emily Fox King is an award-winning oil painter celebrated for her vibrant floral and still-life compositions. Her work intertwines beauty and depth, delving into themes of femininity, motherhood, and domesticity. Raised in Washington, Emily spent her childhood riding horses and filling her school books with sketches of them. She later earned a BA in painting, followed by an MFA in printmaking and drawing.
Emily's art has been exhibited widely in Utah and across the U.S., in locations including New York, California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada. Her pieces are part of several prestigious collections, such as the Springville Museum of Art and the Chris and Janae Baird Collection of Contemporary Mormon Art. She also collaborates with national retailers like Anthropologie and HomeGoods.
HannNAH CARR
I've always considered myself a storyteller. I love silly or dramatic or fantastical stories of course, but my favorite stories are the mundane ones. I've always been much more interested in the stories of where people come from or what they love to do in their free time or even just what they ate for breakfast than stories of action or adventure. I love drawing big scenes with lots of different people because I can tell so many of these little stories all at once.
I really love depicting a wide variety of people because I think it's really beautiful how diverse humanity can be and I think it's really important to make everyone feel seen, especially those who don't tend to be represented as much in art and media, such as People of Color, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities. Everyone's story deserves to be told even if it's "boring".
In addition to my love of storytelling, I also love children's books. I have my own growing collection of books and am at the library nearly once a week finding more to read. I love how simple and fun these stories are. A good picture book really taps in to the unique way a child experiences the world. I find a lot of inspiration in the artwork and themes of children's books. I too try to create art that is uplifting and has that special appeal to children. There's just something so wonderful about creating something that people so young can see themselves in. I've found that the older I've gotten and the more engrossed I've become in the things I love (particularly art and children's literature), the more childlike I've become too.
Every day, I'm getting more creative and silly and I love that the work I do isn't even work at all, it's play! I think it's the most awesome thing in the world that I'm an artist and I know that my younger self would agree. My hope is that my artwork inspires others to have fun just like I do and to be a little kinder to themselves and others.
NICK PEDERSEN
Nick Pedersen received his BFA in Photography from the University of Utah, and his MFA in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Nick's work combines his own photography, digital collage, and printmaking techniques to create elaborate, photorealistic images focusing on environmental issues. His artwork has been shown in galleries across the country and internationally, including the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Paradigm Gallery, Antler Gallery, and UMOCA. He has published two artist books featuring his long-term personal projects Sumeru and Ultima, and his work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Create Magazine, Juxtapoz, and Hi-Fructose.
Many of his images have been recognized with awards from the International Photography Awards, the Future Art Awards, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the Photoshop Guru Award. As an educator he teaches workshops on photomontage and digital collage, and has lectured at Pratt Institute, NYU Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Utah. Nick has also completed artist residencies at the Banff Center in Canada, the Gullkistan Creative Residency in Iceland, the Taft-Nicholson Center in Montana, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art to work on his environmental projects.
Through an intricate combination of photography, digital collage, and printmaking, my work explores environmental issues of the Anthropocene, an age of human impact on the natural world. From climate change and more extreme weather events to loss of habitat, biodiversity, and species extinctions, our planet is quickly approaching a strange and unpredictable future. In response, my work plays off of older forms of beauty in art making, referencing sublime landscape paintings, animal studies and still lifes, fanciful wallpaper, and textiles.
My images appropriate these picturesque styles and idealized nature imagery to create elaborate juxtapositions with subversive elements from modern civilization. A main theme in much of my work is “beautiful decay,” creating large-scale pieces that reveal a satirically, post-apocalyptic vision of the not-too-distant future. My projects focus on concepts like the reclamation of nature and rewilding the modern world, creating a contemplative series of narrative imagery and art installations that question the legacy that humanity will be handing down to future generations.
