Between Symbols and Stories: A Mid-Career Retrospective by Megan Knobloch Geilman

Megan Knobloch Geilman splits her time between Utah and Southern California — and St. George is the natural meeting point between her two worlds. We are honored to be hosting her first solo exhibition here at the St. George Museum of Art.

Geilman's work has been celebrated across the state, shown at the Springville Museum of Art, the Church History Museum, and galleries throughout Utah, earning prestigious recognitions and a purchase award along the way.

Her digital compositions draw from centuries of visual tradition: the scales of judgment, the mourning posture of a pietà, the veiled face of a queen. Geilman gathers these symbols and places them in new contexts, weaving in Egyptian funerary rites, Dutch Golden Age painting, Japanese kintsugi, and more — asking what familiar images carry, what they hide, and what they might still have left to say. Each work takes months, sometimes years, to complete.

The stories she reaches for are specific: the history, doctrine, and social questions related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By placing these narratives alongside other visual and cultural traditions, meaning travels across time and heritage, each thread enriching the ones beside it.

This exhibition is also a milestone — a first look back at a body of work still very much in progress, moving with patience and rigor. To move through it is to follow a conversation Geilman is always having with the history of art. Each label includes one of the many art historical references woven into her work, an invitation to look more closely and follow the thread yourself.

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