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      • March 2022: CCSD Student Show
      • April 2022: Trees
      • May 2022: Behind Our Masks: A Featured Exhibition by Daniel Florin Tomiaga Lerwick
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      • General Exhibit Entry Form
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        • January 2021: AVA's 19th Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2021: Still Life Exhibition
        • February 2021: From Pen to Pencil
        • March 2021: CCSD Elementary Student Show
        • April 2021: Photography Exhibition
        • May 2021: CCSD Senior Student Show
        • June 2021: Mixed Media
        • July 2021: Drawing & Painting Exhibit
        • July 2021: Three Loose Screws
        • August 2021: Chasing Light
        • October 2021: Symbiosis
        • November 2021: Cartoons
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        • June 2020: Larger than Life
        • July 2020: Man's Best Friend
        • July 2020: Drawing & Painting
        • August 2020: Abstract Invitational
        • September 2020: Mark Wigner
        • September 2020: Watercolor Exhibition
        • October 2020: Haunted
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Luke Anderson

I have spent my entire life in the West, but I didn’t always have an appreciation for the places and spaces around which I grew up. My formative years weren’t particularly Western – I didn’t attend many rodeos, I wasn’t an avid outdoorsman, and didn’t own a pair of cowboy boots until I was in my 20s. It wasn’t until I started my environmental studies program in college that I really started to actively pay attention to the landscapes and cultures around me and how they are interconnected. The West is now a cornerstone to my identity. 

My paintings are the primary way in which I discover and try to understand the region where I live. Most of my work is built on themes of human perception, the boundaries and possibilities of our senses, and the importance of memory, both individual and collective, and how it shapes cultural understandings of place. I like to use common Western imagery and symbolism to create conceptual works that are Western in aesthetic but employ themes that are widely applicable to the American experience. I feel compelled as an artist to express how this absolutely one-of-a-kind place has the ability to profoundly impact all those who exist within it, whether they are aware of it or not.



Luke Anderson
is a self-taught oil painter originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming and now living and working in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Awards and Honors: “Best in Show” at 2019 Bash & Ball Auction at Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming. “Best Oil Painting” at 2020 Western Spirit Art Show & Sale at Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Honorable Mention at 2020 Annual Salon at Springville Art Museum in Springville, Utah

Selected Publications: Featured on Horizons western art podcast https://western.gallery/horizons/

Selected Exhibitions: Wyoming Capitol Governors’ Arts Exhibition 2017, Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum Western Spirit Show 2017-2020, Coors Western Art Show 2020-2021, Springville Art Museum Annual Salon 2020

Galleries: Deselms Fine Art, Cheyenne, Wyoming and Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman/Livingston, Montana


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Chasing the Frontier
Oil on Canvas
12" x 16"
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AVA Community Art Center

509 W. 2nd St.
Gillette, WY 82716
​(307) 682-9133


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10 - 4  Saturday
Closed  Sunday - Monday
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