meet HALEE

Growing up wandering the foothills of the mountain she lived on, Halee has always been drawn to nature and the human experience. She spends her free time gardening, wandering the desert in search of nature's treasures, and traveling.  
Finding early on that she had a love for figures, she furthered her art education with a BFA at Utah State University, where she focused on the figure. Then, teaching art at the secondary level, she helped students form their own relationship with the human figure and the art of nature.
She has spent many years focused on the figure, but has never abandoned the elements of nature in her work. Her work has very fluid forms and gestures that easily lend to the human element and the addition of figures. There is much that feels natural and causes the viewer to reflect on nature without having any identifiable natural objects. Her lifelong experience and her love of nature is conveyed in her free flowing forms. She lives and works and wanders from her home in Bountiful, Utah.

Artist Statement

The inspiration

I seek beauty in the land and in my art. The figures I paint express the grace of the human form entwined with the grace of natural forms. Many years spent wandering gardens, mountains, and deserts, ever looking closer, have influenced the organic lines and shapes used in my flowing compositions. There is a balance of beauty and decay in nature. The light that glows in human flesh and makes things grow is also in the dark earth, moving through the dead and dying, regenerating into life again. The colors I choose, while rich and bold in the light, are balanced by dark expressive forms of shadow and decay.  The flesh tones I am drawn to represent a kind of inner glow and are not local skin colors, but color combinations created using thin transparent layers of color opposites. When blended optically, they create a third glowing color that cannot be achieved through mixing opaque colors. This light, glowing through layers of paint and layers of earth, is worth pursuing and I can find endless references to it in the human form and natural world.

2024-2025

January
Blue Nude Migration Group Show,
Visual Art Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
February
Pop Up Art sale, Utah Indigenous fashion Week,
Material, Salt Lake City, Utah
Winter Art Gallery, Daybreak, Utah
March
FIRST PLACE, WOMEN: THE CREATIVE EDGE COmpetition,
ECCLES ART CENTER, OGDEN, UTAH
Friends of Friends #10, Odd Duck Studio, Provo, Utah
April
Elvevation, Art Gala, Eccles Art Center, Ogden, Utah
Reflections of eden, urban arts gallery,
Salt lake city, utah
Salon 100, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah
May
THE BEAUTY UNDERNEATH, ODD DUCK STUDIO, PROVO, UTAH
(CURATED BY HALEE)
300 Plates, art access, Salt lake city, Utah
Statewide Competition, Bountiful Davis art Center,
Bountiful, Utah
July
Freedom Festival Art exhibit, Covey center for the Arts,
Provo, Utah
Art Fair Jackson Hole, Jackson, Wyoming
August
Duo Exhibition, 15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, utah
Duo Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah
Group Abstract Exhibit, Salt Lake Comunity College,
Salt Lake City, utah
Statewide Competition, Eccles Art Center, Ogden, Utah
September
Her Perspective, Ramble Gallery, Buntiful, Utah
(Curated by Halee and Kristin Carver)
October
President's Art SHow, SLCC, Salt Lake City, Utah
Faces, Eccles art Center, Ogden, Utah
November
Group Show, 15th Street Gallery, SAlt Lake City, Utah
BEAUX Arts, Scottdale Artists' School, Scottsdale, ARizona


January 2025
Solo Show, The Bonneville, Ogden Utah
February 2025
Solo Show, Flower Stone Frame and Studio, Riverton Utah

Awards
FIRST PLACE, WOMEN: THE CREATIVE EDGE COmpetition,
ECCLES ART CENTER, OGDEN, UTAH


Publications

15 Bytes, Utah's Art Magazine
Ryan Moffett and Halee Roth
Balance Personal Narrative and
Visual Metaphor in BDAC Exhibit
By Geoff Wichert Aug, 27th, 2024

15 Bytes, Utah's Art Magazine
Abstraction and Reality Coexist
in Unexpected Ways In SLCC Exhibits
By Geoff Wichert Aug, 22nd, 2024

at home

In Utah

I have Been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.
-Everette Ruess

Born and raised in the mountains of Utah, Halee feels most at home when she can see across an open, empty valley or disappear into a desert canyon. With wilderness in any direction, there are many hobbies that keep her outside, but her favorite one is "adventuring" packing up the family and a cooler to drive a desolate road in search of some treasure only mother earth can give.

HALEE ROTH