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Latex, Charcoal, Pastel and Encaustic on Canvas

25” L x 1.5” W x 25” H

2018

Poem by the Nishnabotha River by Douglas Max Utter is created with latex paint, charcoal, pastel and encaustic on canvas. The encaustic area of the canvas has been layered over the portrait, adding a very subtle texture to the surface. It was completed in 2018, and is signed on by the artist on the front lower corner of the painting. Douglas’ abstract impressions of the human figure are hauntingly beautiful, relaying the artist’s connection to human emotions and moments in history.

Douglas Max Utter (b 1950) is an award winning Cleveland based artist and writer, whose work has been shown extensively since the mid 1980’s, with over forty one- person shows in Cleveland, New York, Phoenix and Germany. Utter’s work in painting and criticism has been recognized with a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship, three Individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Best Painting Award at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show (1987), and journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club and the Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland. He is the recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award.