Jerry Hardesty

Jerry Hardesty was born and raised in Osawatomie, Kansas. In addition to being an Artist, he is a former teacher and also a Trainer and Manager in Corporate America.

Hardesty is an Abstract Expressionist Painter. His current work is based on experimentation with color and texture as it relates to various themes, including emotions, jazz, street art and found abstracts. Blending saturated colors and applying resin are his favorite techniques along with incor- porating unique surfaces to produce textural depth and movement in his paintings.

Hardesty relishes his alone time in the studio and likes to paint to the sounds of raspy sax and repetitive percussive beats of jazz.

Hardesty has a Bachelor of Arts degree and has studied with a number of local artists. Nonetheless, he believes he is primarily self-taught. He paints in both acrylic and oil. Each layer is a response to the previous layer.

Hardesty resides in Salt Lake City with his wife. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.

Bachelor of Arts, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas

2018 Producer & Host for Podcast, "The Artist's Voice"
2018 Juror, High School and Middle School Art Shows, Sandy, Utah
2018 "Truth and Consequences," (Group Show), Art Access, Salt Lake City, Utah
2017 Group Show at Art at the Main, Salt Lake City, Utah
2017 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017 ACS Gallery, Group Show, Chicago, Illinois
2017 "Doublespeak," (Solo Show) at The City Library's Marmalade Branch"
2017 President's Art Show, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2017 Steinfeld Warehouse Community Arts Center, Tucson, Arizona
2017 "An Evolving Visual Feast," (Group Show), John Alan Nyberg Projects, Tucson, Arizona
2017 "Muse" Exhibition, Alpine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
2017 300 Plates, Art Access, Salt Lake City, Utah
2016 Honoring Utah Artists: 12x12, Alpine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
2016 300 Plates, Art Access, Salt Lake City, Utah
2016 Honorarium, Adobe Art Show, Adobe Headquarters, Lehi, Utah
2016 Adobe Art Show, Adobe Headquarters, Lehi, Utah
2015 18th Annual Zions Bank Artists' Reception, Salt Lake City, Utah
2015 The Green Room, Salt Lake Acting Company during the run of the play "Blackberry Winter," a play about Alzheimer's, My painting, the seven-panel pai...