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Born and raised in rural southeastern Colorado, Michael Ome Untiedt maintains a studio in Denver. Traveling extensively, he is known as a painter of the world who sees with a westerner’s eye. Through the color, brush strokes, and symbolic subject matter of his paintings, he attempts to examine the human predicament and its connections to the landscape and history of the American West. He is driven to portray twenty-first-century psychology on a nineteenth-century saddle! Untiedt has participated in numerous shows including the Western Masters Art Show and Sale, Settler’s West Miniatures Show and  Art of the American West Show, the Booth Museum’s Art South of the Sweet Tea Line Show, Master’s of Montana, CM Russell Art Show and Auction, The Russell, The Briscoe Museum Night of the Artists, and the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Auction. He received the 2005 Ralph Tuffy Berg Award at the CM Russell Show in Great Falls, MT, and  2014 Art Committee’s Choice Award at the Briscoe Museum in San Antonio, Best of Show at the 2014 Western Masters Art Show and Sale and The Wells Fargo Gold Award at the 2014 Buffalo Bill Art Show and Auction. In 2016 he was awarded the North Star Award at the Heart of the West Contemporary Western Art Show in Bozeman, Montana.

When Faith Takes a Fast Mount

I wanted to make a statement about today in general, particularly on the political/cultural scene. I am not casting aspersions upon any one person or political group. Rather I wish to have people ponder about the morals of today, do we still hold dear to those beliefs of truth and decency, or have we given way to our fears and deceptions. I think this painting can be interpreted from many angles, depending on the beliefs of the viewer. It is my hope the viewer examines their place within this subject and finds that place where their actions and words strive for a better world.