BIOGRAPHY
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Grace McJack is a contemporary artist based in Boise, Idaho, known for exploring themes of perception, reality, and the human experience through her acrylic paintings. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah. Her work investigates the fluid nature of reality, reflecting on how individual experience, emotion, bias, history, and context shape the world we inhabit.
Grace’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and are included in both public and private collections across the United States, spanning Idaho, Utah, California, and New Jersey. Through the limited use abstraction and fragmentation, she invites contemplation of the complexities of the human experience, exploring the idea that truth is often less universal than we assume.
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EDUCATION
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University of Utah
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art | Emphasis in Painting and Drawing
Salt Lake City, UT
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EXHIBITIONS
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2025 | Clusters | Idaho Art Gallery
Meridian, ID
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2025 | Spirit of the West | Idaho Art Gallery
Meridian, ID
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2025 | ***Shadows of Radiance | Boise Contemporary Theater
Boise, ID​​
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2024 | The Art of Giving | Idaho Art Gallery
Saint Alphonsus Festival of Trees | Boise, ID
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2024 | Tea Time | Gittins Gallery
University of Utah
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2024 | Annual Juried Exhibition | Gittins Gallery
University of Utah
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2023 | 20% Alizarin 5% Ultramarine | KT Gallery
Helper, UT
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2023 | Spring Show | Greenroom Gallery
Salt Lake Acting Company | Salt Lake City, UT
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2023 | Annual Juried Exhibition | Gittins Gallery
University of Utah
***solo exhibition​
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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I often grapple with the fleeting nature of the present and the intricate relationship we have with our own reality. While we may move through this life side by side, each of us inhabits a world shaped by our own perceptions. What we see, feel, and understand is filtered through a lens that is uniquely ours, colored by emotion, bias, history, and context. In this way, reality is not fixed, but fractal.
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My work explores this tension. The fact that we share time and space, yet experience them so differently. Using abstraction and fragmentation, I paint from my own perspective, acknowledging its subjectivity while inviting viewers to consider their own. Each piece becomes a quiet inquiry on the ways perception shapes meaning, and how truth is often less universal than we assume.
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Though memory plays a role, my primary interest lies in perception: how we construct our realities in real-time, and how even a shared moment can splinter into countless interpretations. I work primarily in acrylic on panel, layering form and color in a way that reflects both clarity and ambiguity, mirroring how our minds both grasp and distort what’s in front of us. Ultimately, my paintings are less about what is remembered and more about what is experienced, and how seeing is never neutral, but always personal.
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