The Human Experience

This July, Meyer Gallery in Park City, Utah, will explore the human figure and spirit with a two-artist show featuring the work of figurative painter Britton Snyder and sculptor Spencer Budd.

As a gymnastics instructor at Brigham Young University, Budd possesses an astute understanding of human anatomy— both in form and movement—which showcases richly in his artwork.

“From the time I first began drawing from a model over 35 years ago, my work has been inspired by the infinite movement and positions of the body,” he says. “A sculpture or drawing will be different with every model, even in the same pose. Observing these unique relationships of form, proportions, angles and masses that define the nature of the individual gestalt energizes me.”

Among the works Budd will exhibit in the show is Celestial Material II, a bronze head shaped as if it were wrapped in fabric—like a mummy—with the “exposed flesh being removed, left void.” Budd elaborates, “This series emphasizes the temporal nature of existence—the physical, visual outer part of the human form is only part of the whole. There is an unseen, spiritual element that underlies and gives form to who we are.”