Trent Gudmundsen

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The artist's mostly-figurative paintings balance traditional elements and themes with a very contemporary approach, often simplifying parts of the painting down to just graphic blocks of color, and other times by subduing and "de-constructing" the edges of figures until they almost meld with the background.

Trent Gudmundsen grew up in a small Utah farming community where he began oil painting at the age of 14. He later attended college on a full-tuition art scholarship. Upon finding that his own goals differed from the opportunities available there, he left early to paint on his own.

Trent's work has now been recognized with top awards on a national level. Trent and his wife Lorajean and their 5 children live and make art near the Utah-Idaho border.