Gigi Perkins ‘25
“I am seeking to understand on a more personal level the rocks, plants, and water that make up a landscape I love like it were human.”
Desolation Canyon is on the land of the Ute and Timpanogos Peoples.
Hedgehog Cactus
Reduction woodcut prints
8” x 11.5”
The hedgehog cactus is a reduction woodcut piece that draws on fluid shapes and a range of colors that make up the abstract parts of the desert - themes that inspire my work now. I made it in my first printmaking class at CC, and have been hooked on the medium ever since.
River Reflections
Reduction woodcut print
8” x 8”
I have been river guiding in Utah for the last three years. Sometimes you’ll experience moments where you get to just watch the river, and maybe it’s the lighting or sometimes the spot in the canyon, but it’s just spectacular. This river portrait is from one of my favorite camps on the Green River below Desolation Canyon. I wanted to take something simple like “water” and really examine all of its nuances. I want to show the life in the river that is always there but overlooked when we just think of it as water.
Slot Canyon Study
Reduction woodcut print
11” x 15”
There is something so intimate and visceral to me about slot canyons. I think the natural processes which shaped them and created the physical spaces/walls we see now are art themselves. To paint them was similar to taking a portrait.