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Prescriptive Fine Art
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art shaped by experimentation, material, and discovery.
The gallery presents distinctive works that explore the intersection of art, science, and human experience — work in which process is visible and outcome is never entirely predetermined.
Currently on View
Ongoing · By appointment
A continuing presentation of new mixed-media paintings and glass, drawn from the artist’s ongoing experiments with chemical agents, heat, and reflective material.
View the worksFeatured Artist
Joel Gardner
Joel Gardner
Featured Artist · Utah
Joel Gardner is a Utah-based contemporary mixed-media artist whose work emerges at the intersection of art, science, and human experience.
Rather than relying solely on traditional painting techniques, he combines paints with chemical agents, heat, glass, and reflective materials to initiate reactions that become part of the composition itself. Materials mix, repel, fracture, flow, and transform — introducing an element of unpredictability that allows each work to evolve organically.
Artist pageFilm
Brand story
Prescriptive Fine Art — brand story
Selected Works
Available & Archive
Press
In the news
“Utah doctor paints through the pandemic with unique methods”
FOX 13 News Utah · Uniquely Utah · March 2025
Artists
Represented & Featured
Prescriptive Fine Art works with a small number of artists whose practices are built on material experiment. The gallery’s programme is intentionally narrow, allowing each body of work to be presented at length.
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Joel Gardner
Featured Artist · Mixed media, glass
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Guest Artists
Presented seasonally · Announced with each exhibition
Artist submissions are reviewed by appointment. Please write to the gallery — details on the Info page.
Joel Gardner
Featured Artist · Utah
Joel Gardner is a Utah-based contemporary mixed-media artist whose work emerges at the intersection of art, science, and human experience.
Gardner’s experimental process is central to his work. Rather than relying solely on traditional painting techniques, he combines paints with chemical agents, heat, glass, reflective materials, and other media to initiate reactions that become part of the composition itself. Materials mix, repel, fracture, flow, and transform — introducing an element of unpredictability that allows each work to evolve organically.
A self-taught artist and lifelong collector of art, Gardner returned to his own creative practice after years devoted to medicine and raising a family. His scientific background now provides an unusual foundation for his artistic exploration, where experimentation and discovery are as important as the finished composition.
At the heart of Gardner’s work is an interest in connection — between science and creativity, order and chaos, the physical and the emotional, and ultimately between the artwork and the person experiencing it. His pieces invite viewers to discover their own images, memories, and meaning within the abstraction.
Gardner’s work has been exhibited in hospitals, juried art festivals, and private collections, and he regularly donates pieces to charities and non-profits as fundraisers. He is the featured artist of Prescriptive Fine Art.
Film
Brand story
Prescriptive Fine Art — brand story
Works
Selected
Works
Joel Gardner
Prices and availability on request. All works are viewed by appointment at the gallery; condition reports and installation images are available to serious enquiries.
Every work is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.
Detail Views
Surface & material
Glass & Functional Work
Tables and surfaces
The same poured process is applied to glass, producing side tables and surfaces. Sizes and palettes are made to order — of particular interest to designers specifying for a room.
Exhibitions
Current · Upcoming · Past
A continuing presentation of new mixed-media paintings and glass. The hang is rotated as new work leaves the studio, and viewings are arranged individually.
View the worksUpcoming
Announced seasonally
The exhibition schedule is announced seasonally. To be notified of openings and new work, please write to the gallery.
Placements
Installation views
Work by the gallery’s artists hangs in hospitals, clinics, and private collections, and is regularly donated to charitable and non-profit organisations as fundraising works. A selection of placements is shown below.
Past
Archive
Work has been selected for juried art festivals, placed in hospitals and clinics, and remains in private collections across Utah and beyond.
Commissions
Interior designers · Collectors · Institutions
Work is commissioned for private residences, clinics, hospitals, and corporate interiors. Scale, palette, and format are developed for the specific wall — including multi-panel works for long spans — and every commission arrives ready to hang with a signed Certificate of Authenticity.
For designers: the gallery works from a brief, a palette, a material sample, or a floorplan. Trade enquiries are welcome, and pieces can be produced to a specified size rather than chosen from stock.
Typical lead time is one to two months from agreement to delivery. Pricing depends on size and the materials requested, and is quoted per commission.
In Situ
A commissioned work in a private residence
Poured surfaces change with the light. A piece chosen for a room in daylight will read differently under lamps at night — something worth considering when siting a work.
A Commission in Progress
Triptych · In the studio
Working the triptych surface — studio footage
How a Commission Works
From brief to wall
- A conversation about the space — wall dimensions, light, palette, and the feeling the room needs.
- Scale and format are agreed, including whether the work reads better as a single canvas or across panels.
- Panels are built, primed, and masked.
- The work is poured. Chemistry, heat, and material decide much of the detail; the composition is directed, not dictated.
- Curing, finishing, and delivery — ready to hang, with a signed Certificate of Authenticity. Allow one to two months overall.
Material Studies
Experiments from the studio
Colour, pooling, repelling agents, heat, and glass — working images rather than finished pieces. These experiments are where commissions begin.
Information
Visit · Contact
Location
Utah
Full address on request
Hours
By appointment only
Seven days
Contact
(734) 646-5504
prescriptivefineart@gmail.com
@prescriptivefineart
Enquiries
Collectors, designers, curators, press
For availability, prices, condition reports, or to arrange a private viewing, please write to the gallery. Enquiries are answered personally.
Or call (734) 646-5504.
Press
Media
Featured artist Joel Gardner was profiled by FOX 13 News Utah in its Uniquely Utah series, March 2025 — “Utah doctor paints through the pandemic with unique methods”.
Press images and artist statements are available on request.