ALLEN BISHOP

Bishop, Allen Craig (1953-), of the Salt Lake City area, is one of the more exciting and innovative artists of late-twentieth-century Utah. He is the painter and designer of rather wonderfully bright yet subtly colored and nonobjective, shaped and separated canvases and panels of a formal yet joyous persuasion that, when arranged in a certain way, are at once startling and engaging, his work is finding its way into numerous collections. Bishop's formal training has been equally as rich and varied as his art. Don Olsen (q.v.) exerted an early influence on Bishop at Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah. He studied further at Dixie College in St. George, Utah (A.A., 1975), before earning his B.F.A. at the University of Utah (1978) and his M.F.A. from the University of Denver (1982). Bishop's artworks are called "permutable paintings."

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 24.