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ART SUMMARY

Over twenty years experience as an independent professional artist, with awards and numerous exhibitions on state, regional and national levels. Produced work in a wide range of sizes and media, including several large public commissions. Work is primarily non-objective; often combined with images and concepts from natural, scientific and religious sources. Recent work has concentrated on applying acrylic paint to shaped wood relief panels; often in a multi-part, re-arrangeable format.

AWARDS/HONORS

“Artists and Communities: America Creates for the Millennium”, directory of approved public artists,

National Endowment for the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, 1999 & 2000.

“Artist of the Day”, Utah Arts Festival, 1991 & 1996.

“Traveling Exhibition Program” award, Utah Arts Council, 1986, 1988, 1990 & 1996.

Visual Arts Fellowship in Painting ($5,000 award), Utah Arts Council, 1987.

First Place, Astronomical Art Competition, Salt Lake Astronomical Society, 1985.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frank McEntire, “Art in the Public Interest”, Salt Lake Magazine, July/August 1999, pp. 39-42.

Vern Swanson, “The Contemporary Scene”, Utah Painting & Sculpture, 1997, p.211, plate 133.

Ann Poore and Steven Rosen, The Reality of Abstraction: Painting in Utah 1946-1996, April 1996.

Frank McEntire, “Changing Shapes”, Salt Lake Tribune, April 30, 1995, pp. E1, 4.

Henry Hopkins & Sherrill Sandberg, A View of Nine, April 1992.

Jerry Schefcik, “Allen Bishop”, A View of Four, April 1990, pp.12-15.

United States Chess Federation, Chess Life, December 1989, cover art.

Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought, Summer 1988, cover art & pp.14, 60, 97, 112, 143, 154, 156.

Western Humanities Review, 1986, Vol. XLI #2, cover art.

EDUCATION

1982 Master of Fine Arts University of Denver Painting, Drawing, Prints.

1978 Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Utah Painting, Drawing, Film.

SELECTED PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2001 Evolve, acrylic on shaped wood relief panels – 3 pieces, each 7’6”x16’. Budget: $51,000

Widtsoe Hall / Science Learning Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT.

Commissioned by the Utah Arts Council - Public Art Program, Salt Lake City, UT.

Trilogy expresses three major facets of evolution: cosmological, geological and biological.

2001 Home Sweet Habitat, acrylic on wood and plastic panels, display approx. 6’x12’x10’. Budget: $10,000

Commissioned by Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Interactive exterior installation and sliding panel game displaying habitat components for black-billed magpie.

2000 Mountain Motion, acrylic on 9 shaped wood relief panels, 7’x24’. Budget: $38,000

South Towne Exposition Center, Sandy, UT.

Commissioned by Salt Lake County Community and Support Services Department, Salt Lake City, UT.

Abstracted representation of Wasatch front geology.

2000 Utah Geoform, acrylic on 22 shaped wood relief panels, 20’x20’. Budget: $45,000

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

Commissioned by Salt Lake County Community and Support Services Department, Salt Lake City, UT.

Abstracted representation of Utah landforms and geology.

1999 Heal the Children, acrylic on 2 shaped wood relief murals; each 4’7”x10’. Budget: $20,000

The Children with Special Health Care Needs Clinic, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

Commissioned by the Utah Arts Council - Public Art Program, Salt Lake City, UT.

A collaborative expression of healing based on children’s art and ideas.

1999 Ballpark Station for new light rail system (as part of a collaborative design team). Budget: $80,000

200 West 1300 South, Salt Lake City, UT.

Commissioned by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the Utah Department of Transportation.

Developed colored concrete paver pattern as part of a community oriented design.

1996 Energies, acrylic on shaped wood relief, 48”x72”. Budget: $5,000

Lifetime Activities Center, main conference room, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT.

Commissioned by the Utah Arts Council - Public Art Program, Salt Lake City, UT.

An abstracted depiction of three human figures engaged in activities common at the center.

1996 Leonardo on Wheels, acrylic on plastic relief panels, each 35”x30” or 28”x24”. Budget: $8,000

Commissioned by the Utah Science Center Authority, Salt Lake City, UT.

14 hexagonal logo panels depict exhibit clusters in traveling science and arts principles exhibition: sound, light, motion, balance, energy, structures & patterns, and the universe.

1993 Probe, acrylic on 5 shaped wood relief panels (vertical installation), 25’x5’. Budget: $33,000

Southern Utah University Science Center atrium, Cedar City, UT.

Commissioned by the Utah Arts Council - Public Art Program, Salt Lake City, UT.

Panels represent scientific investigation in physics, chemistry, biology, geology and astronomy.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003 “Allen Bishop”, South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Salt Lake City, UT

2001 “Uncommon Organisms”, Moab Arts and Recreation Center, Moab, UT

1998 “Emergence”, Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1997 “Natural Constructs”, Donna Beam Art Gallery, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

1995 “Laws of Nature”, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1990 “Allen Bishop”, Fellowship Exhibit, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1990 “Altered Shapes”, Harris Fine Art Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

1986 “Ylem Continuance”, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX

1983 “Spirit Matter”, Lowman Center, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 “Faculty Exhibition”, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2003 “Director’s Choice”, Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph, MO

2002 “Utah Art, Utah Artists”, Cultural Olympiad, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

2000 “Utopia, Dystopia, Apocalypse: Images for a New Millennium”, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1999 “Y2Khaos”, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV

1997 “American Print Survey”, University of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX

1996 “Reality of Abstraction: Painting in Utah 1946-1996”, Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT

1990 “A View of Four”, Fellowship exhibit, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

1985 “New Art in the West”, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983 “9th International Miniature Print Exhibition”, Pratt Graphics Center, New York City, NY

REPRESENTATION

Phillips Gallery, 444 East 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

SELECTED TEACHING HISTORY

Ten years experience in art education at the university, secondary and elementary levels. Student populations have included producing studio artists, graduate and undergraduate art majors, elementary and secondary students and teachers, accelerated, special education, at risk and Spanish speaking children and youth. Capable of assimilating new ideas quickly and applying them effectively in the classroom. Committed to developing creative potential in all students.

Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT (2003-present) History of Art

Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT (2002-present) Survey of Art, Painting

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (1992-1999) Painting, Color Theory, Drawing

Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT (1986-1994) Painting, Art Appreciation

Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX (1983) Painting, Art Appreciation

University of Denver, Denver, CO (1981) Drawing, Silk Screen

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

Over 40 short term (2 weeks - 6 months) residencies (1987-present) with emphasis on: a) providing a quality creative experience for students; and b) helping teachers develop excellence in art education.

2004 Museum of Utah Art and History, Salt Lake City, UT. Supervised 16 high school juniors and seniors as apprentice artists who were paid to design and paint an 8’x32’ mural.

2001 Cathedral of the Madeleine Choir School, Salt Lake City, UT. Fourth through eighth grade students learned visual elements and principles of design and drawing, then applied them in several art pieces.

2000 West Bountiful Elementary, West Bountiful, UT. Elementary students designed and painted twenty 4’x8' murals for permanent school installation.

1999 Spring City Elementary, Spring City, UT. Kindergarten through sixth graders drew imaginative inventions and learned basic color theory; then designed and painted twelve 4’x8' murals for permanent installation.

1998 Wasatch Youth Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Detained high school students created various projects in learning basics of design, drawing and painting, culminating in two permanently installed murals.

1996 Neighborhood Housing Services, Salt Lake City, UT. At-risk teenagers learned basic drawing and design, then designed, drew and painted a 15’x80' permanent exterior mural.

1996 Copper Hills High School, West Jordan, UT. Advanced students created assemblages, then collaborated on a relief mural for permanent installation. In-service focused on designing integrated curricula.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT

Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake County Fine Art Collection, Salt Lake City, UT

Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

United States Chess Federation, New Windsor, NY

Utah State Fine Art Collection, Salt Lake City, UT