| Artist | Halee Roth | Resides | United States |
| Website | haleerothart.com | Medium | Oil |
| Follow the Artist | haleejroth@gmail.com | ||
| Themes | Contemporary Realism Realism Romantic Nature Art Nouveau Classical Life and Light, Death and Decay Beauty and Hope Motion Narrative Drama Expressive Fantasy Modernism |
About the artist
Halee Roth lives in Utah, USA, where she works in her studio surrounded by gardens and mountains. She loves nature and people. With a goal to cultivate hope in the human spirit, her artwork is a pursuit of beauty and the power within each of us. She received her BFA from Utah State University in painting and drawing with an emphasis on the figure and art education. She then taught art at the secondary level, everything from ceramics and sculpture to drawing and art history. She attributes her bold use of color to studying art abroad in Germany, where she fell in love with German Expressionism, and time spent living in India before graduation. She is devoted to the human form. Her award-winning style stems from years painting large-scale abstracts in ink and personal study of technique, both contemporary and historical–some artists she studied in person while living in the Washington, DC area. Her art can be seen in galleries nationally and private collections worldwide.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
As a contemporary realist, Halee Roth seeks to represent the figure as it would appear in space. She definitely takes artistic liberty to place the figure in a type of fantasy or fantastical natural space. This creates a kind of narrative with nature that, when combined with idealized color relationships, tends to feel romanticized. This romantic ideal is accentuated by the movement in the dramatic poses of the figures which are definitely influenced by her love of Art Nouveau.
The theme of Halee’s current work is life and light, decay, and a glimmer of hope. The contrasts of light and dark, pure and muddled, growth and decay, beauty and ugliness, are part of the human experience and she believes these contrasts are what make a piece feel complete. Like any good story about hope, you need some dark for the light to shine brighter. It is also fitting that nature finds new life in the decay of life already lived. “My dark expressive line work mimics sparse vegetation, adds contrast to the beauty of the figure, and directs the composition adding to the feeling of triumph over some darkness”.
Time and place are irrelevant to her pieces. The idea that it could be any time combined with the abstract nature of the environment means it could also be any place which makes the artwork more relatable. This also allows the Expressionist nature of the intense colors and loose strokes to take importance over the exact narrative. Halee also uses nudes because they are no longer confined by period wardrobe. She uses drapery for compositional means. It can add just the color pop she needed without compromising the timeless beauty of the figure. “The use of draped figures can feel classical, which is just fine given that my process of layering transparent colors is very traditional”.
Press
Halee’s paintings have been featured in notable magazines and online sources including Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Utah’s Art Magazine, and Voyage Utah Magazine.
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Education
2007
Bachelor of Fine Art, Emphasis Painting and Drawing, Utah State University, Utah, United States
Awards
2025
Honorable Mention, Spring Salon, Statewide Competition, Springville Museum Of Art, Springville, UT. United States
2024
First Place, Women, The Creative Edge Competition, Eccles Art Gallery, Ogden, UT. United States
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
The Human Spirit, A Gallery Allen + Alan Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
Self-Titled Show, Flowerstone Frame and Art Studio, Riverton, UT. United States
2024
Self-Titled Show, 15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Love in the Abstract, Allan and Allen Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah. United States
Symphony, The Vendue Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina. United States
2025
Spring Salon, Statewide Competition, Springville Museum Of Art, Springville, UT. United States
Honoring Minerva, Ramble Gallery, Bountiful, UT. United States
Her Perspective, curated by Halee Roth ad Kristin Carver, Ramble Gallery, Bountiful, UT. United States
Nude, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Online Exhibition, Almenara art Prize 2025
Sonder, The Vendue Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Group Show, “A” Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
2024
Duo Exhibition, Experience, Process, Discover, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT. United States
Beaux Arts, Scottsdale Artists’ School, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Reflections of Eden, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
Salon 100, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT. United States
Statewide Competition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT. United States
Freedom Festival Art Exhibit, Covey Center for the Arts, Provo, UT. United States
The Beauty Underneath, curated by Halee Roth, Odd Duck Studio, Provo, UT. United States
Statewide Competition, Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT. United States
President’s Art Show, SLCC, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
Blue Nude Migration, Visual Art Institute, Salt Lake City, United States
Holiday Exhibition, 15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. United States
Faces, Eccles art Center, Ogden, UT. United States
