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David Meikle was born
and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1987, he was the state winner
in Art in the Deseret News Sterling Scholar Competition for high
school students in Utah. He attended the University of Utah on a
four-year scholarship and received his BFA in Graphic Design and
Illustration in 1994. In 2006, he finished his MFA from the University
of Utah, where he was the recipient of the Alvin Gittins scholarship.
He has worked for fifteen years as a graphic designer and illustrator
for the Marketing and Communications Department at the University
of Utah. His work for the University has received awards from the
New York Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine, the Utah Advertising
Federation, the Art Directors Club of Salt Lake, and the Salt Lake
Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic |
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David’s focus on oil painting in the last few years has yielded
much success. In 2006 he won the jurors’ first place award
at the 82nd Annual Spring Salon at the Springville Museum of Art
(out of 1000 entries). His paintings have been included in the Spring
Salon every year since 1998. David was also invited by the Springville
Museum of Art to submit a painting to its 150-year survey of Utah
Artists titled Utah Art, Utah Artists as part of the Cultural Olympiad
during the 2002 Winter Games. In the summer of 2004, he exhibited
at the Rose Wagner Dance Theatre and the 3W Gallery, both located
in downtown Salt Lake City. His work was recently included in the
books Painters of the Wasatch Mountains and Painters of Utah’s
Canyons and Deserts (his painting was on the back cover). In 2007,
he had a painting included in the exhibition Out West: The Great
American Landscape that was seen in Washington D.C. and China. In
the autumn, David had a solo show of over thirty paintings at the
Kimball Art Center in Park City and a two-person exhibition at the
Art Access Gallery in downtown Salt Lake City. His work can currently
be found at Clayton Williams Fine Art and Evergreen Gallery in Salt
Lake City. David’s paintings are included in the permanent
collections of the Springville Museum of Art and Salt Lake County,
as well as many private and corporate collections. He recently finished
a 10’ x 23’ mural for an indoor plaza in down town Salt
Lake City and in 2011 he was named by the Springville Museum of Art
as one of Utah’s 100 “Most Honored” artists.
David
is happily married to Lacy Egbert and has four children (Daniel,
Amelia, Samuel and William).
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