Biography

Kyle Utter’s paintings depict constructed spaces, places that are invented but are spatially convincing through the way perspective and light are rendered. Utter populates these spaces with objects, letters, and signs drawn from observation, imagination, or found imagery. He employs a variety of disparate painting materials, tools, and methods of visual description on a single painting surface — from impasto oil paint to acrylic airbrush. This amalgamation creates a view of a fragmented world that reflects perception as a pieced-together construct.

Within Utter’s works, naturalistic rendering and gestural abstraction coexist on the same painting surface. The viewer becomes acutely aware that the paintings exist as both objects and images. As soon as the viewer is drawn into the pictorial space, they engage with Utter’s artwork.