Artists Seeking Face of Christ in Utah

KSL NEWS
By Carole Mikita

"Image of Crucified Christ" by Jeffrey Hein

UTAH - Making a statement about faith through art. That's what a group of Latter-day Saint artists hopes to do with the building of a temple in Rome. In honor of the occasion, they have come together with a current art exhibit. The exhibit at the Church Museum of History and Art was created by a group of Latter-day Saints who were commissioned to create artwork under the title "Seek My Face" -- the face of Christ, in paintings and sculptures that showcase talent and faith. Gary Smith's painting is of the Savior emerging out of the universe. "I kept seeing ‘seek my face' in the scriptures and in Psalms and all over and I thought, ‘That's an intriguing thing,'" he said. "That's what artists painting religious works, particularly New Testament Christ paintings, are doing: seeking the face of Christ to get to a true or at least what they feel is a true image of Christ. And every artist has their own interpretation of that, but that's what we're trying to do is seek that face and put it into some kind of context we feel good about." [link]

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