Douglas Max Utter (born December 8, 1950) is an American

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. His paintings have been displayed in more than 150 exhibitions since the 1990s, including thirty one-person shows in

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. These exhibits have been reviewed in '' Art in America'', ''

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'', and many other publications. In 1987 he was awarded the grand prize for painting at the

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's May Show and has received

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Fellowships in 1993, 1995 and 2001, and by the Artists Fellowship, Inc of New York in 2004. As a writer he has been honored by the Cleveland Press Club and the Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland. Utter is a founding editor of ''Angle Magazine / A Journal of Arts and Culture'', and is currently managing editor of Artefakt Magazine. His critiques and essays on the arts have been published in ''

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''. Utter is the son of noted American biochemist Merton F. Utter, and was educated in part at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

. He has taught painting and drawing courses at the

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, and the

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. He has two children: Christopher Utter and Elizabeth Hyler. About his recent exhibit "Asymptotes", he says: Utter has contributed to the book about friend and colleague Stephen Kasner, ''Stephen Kasner WORKS: 1993–2006''.

References

External links

Douglas Max Utter
Official website

05.01.2008 Cleveland, OH

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