Jodi McIntosh's Profile | Gallery

Jodi McIntosh

Jodi McIntosh began her art career
as owner of a small graphic arts
brokerage agency. Her growing
interest in the business community
encouraged her to further enhance
her skills and she began attending
Mesa State College in the Graphic
Arts Department. Exposure to
various opportunities there found
her shifting her focus from
commercial to fine arts. Her
enthusiasm for archaeology, as was
introduced through the regular
course of study at Mesa State, took
her art in new directions. She
received her Bachelor of Arts, Fine
Art and Associate of Arts, Anthro-
pology degrees in 1993.

This versitile artist works in many media--pastel, oil, watercolor,
acrylic--in both two- and three-dimentional studies. The subjects of
her pieces are varied as are the styles and techniques. Her creative
curiosity is the force that drives her to reach the new and unique.
The ongoing experiment to integrate design elements from prehistoric
to contemporary art is expressed in each piece.

Jodi's archaeological interests brought intensive research into Native
American petroglyph and pictograph sites of the Southwest beginning in
1988. She has been creating her "rock art" and visiting sites in the
Southwest ever since. Although Native American "rock art" is not an
original theme in contemporary works of art, the process Jodi has
developed to simulate the sandstone is excitingly unique. This
process is neither rock nor plaster casts. Each piece is thoroughly
researched; the motifs depicted are precise, to scale replicas of
original panels or sections of panels. Documentation of geographical,
archaeological, historical and cultural data accompanies each piece.

Equally important to Jodi is art education. She is active in teaching
and tutoring students of all ages, at participates in many volunteer
programs to enhance the artistic education of students in Grand Junction
area schools. Jodi also serves as an instructor in the art department at Mesa State College in Grand Junction.

Jodi has works in galleries and private collections
from the East to West Coast and as
far away as Germany. She has works
on permanent display in the Walker
Field Air Terminal and St. Mary's
Rehabilitation Center, in Grand
Junction, CO and Fremont Indian State
Park, Sevier, UT.