Trent Alvey

Lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Artist statement

ALVEY, Trent Thursby (Mount Pleasant UT, 11 Mar 1948 – living, Salt Lake City UT) Education: SLCC AA in graphic design (1978); Westminster College of Salt Lake City (1986) BFA in art and communications with Don Doxey; Helper Art School (sessions in 2006-08); Workshops at Salt Grass Printmakers, U of U (2018, current). Alvey is a contemporary multimedia artist who utilizes painting, sculpture, assemblage, installation, and video & sound in her creative works. According to the artist, “...observing and investigating phenomenon — objects, marks, light, sound, color, form and periodicity. This is how I describe my work.” (Utah Division of Arts & Museums Website). In 1992 her radiantly-lit mixed media Toaster Worship (2000, UMFA Collection) was a part of the Out of the Land exhibition that traveled to The National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. She has exhibited widely throughout the US including BYU MOA, SMA, Finch Lane Gallery, Alice and Rio Galleries, Modern West, BDAC, UMOCA, Benrimon Fine Art in NYC and ShockBoxx Project Gallery in Hermosa Beach and Museum of Eastern Idaho. In 2015, she exhibited a sound installation work titled Our Common Voice, at the Parliament of the World Religions held in SLC. Phillips Gallery, SLC, has represented Alvey’s work for over 20 years. Alvey is the recipient of the 2011 SLC Mayor’s Artist Award and the 2016 Westminster College Distinguished Alumni in the Arts award. In 2013 she was chosen as one of “Utah’s 15 Most...

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