Art Galleries in Moab

Moab sits at the heart of the Colorado Plateau canyon country - surrounded by Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and the Colorado and Green Rivers - and its art scene is shaped entirely by the landscape that has made it one of the most photographed places on earth. The galleries along Main Street show work rooted in the red rock desert: landscape painting, photography, and ceramics that take the color and form of the surrounding canyon country as their primary subject. Moab's gallery district is modest in scale relative to the town's tourist traffic, but the quality of the landscape work on offer reflects the fact that working artists have chosen Moab for the same reason landscape photographers have: no place in the American West offers this particular combination of color, form, and geological drama.