Housed in a historic former bank building in the heart of Park City, Meyer Gallery  has championed several generations of Western art. Founded in the 1960s by Darrell and Gerri Meyer, the couple’s daughter, Susan Meyer, took over the gallery in 1997 and ran the show for nearly three decades. Following her retirement in April, Susan passed the torch to the gallery’s longtime director, Adam Hansen.

“I’m really excited to have this opportunity,” Hansen says. “The gallery has been here since 1965…so it’s quite a legacy. And I’ll be honest, there’s something kind of intimidating about that. I feel like it’s this precious family heirloom that’s being handed down to me.”
Hansen certainly has the requisite experience: He studied painting and art history at the University of Utah, and he has worked at the gallery since 2012. “My goal for the immediate future is to just keep things going. I think we have a solid roster of artists,” Hansen says, noting he doesn’t have any big changes planned and the Meyer name will remain. “We make an effort to feature primarily Utah artists,” he says, and maintain “a good mix of traditional and contemporary painting and sculpture.” 

This summer, Hansen plans to feature Topher Straus’s digital renditions of the striations of light and geology. The gallery will also highlight Mary Sauer’s classical versions of modern figures that interrogate ideas of perfectionism; Colby Sanford’s intimate, quiescent domestic scenes; Shae Warnick’s Audubon-inspired naturalist renderings of birds and flowers; and Jared Rawle’s sprawling Western and ranch landscapes.