Articles tagged with: Montana
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Kevin Red Star
Missoula Art Museum
April 2 – August 27, 2010
Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is pleased to present Kevin Red Star, a celebrated artist in our region. Red Star draws from his Crow tradition and culture for his subjects, both historical and modern.
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Marilyn Lysohir: Good Girls 1968
March 5 – May 30, 2010
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
Good Girls 1968 is an installation that consists of over 160 ceramic portraits of young women with whom Marilyn Lysohir graduated from high school. The installation involved reconnecting through hours on the phone with many of the girls captured in the portraits. Lysohir is a renowned ceramicist and although Good Girls 1968 is grounded and created from one person’s point of view, this exhibition transcends the personal and discovers its impact while touching the audience’s cultural memory and reminiscences.
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Griff Williams: It Is Not Down in Any Map; True Places Never Are
Missoula Art Museum
February 20 – April 28, 2010
Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is pleased to host a homecoming for this native Montana artist. The recently created enamel and resin paintings present an elaborate blend of visual references, using the landscape as the foundation for his pictorial space. The imagery alludes to the glorified natural landscapes depicted in turn of the century photographic postcards. In a process oriented approach, representations of these landmarks are abstracted and distilled into essential …
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Donna Loos: Silhouette Series
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
December 4, 2009 – March 28, 2010
MAM is proud to present this exciting body of work produced by Missoula artist Donna Loos. She states of the series,
“I tried to keep a blank mind and to paint unconsciously or subconsciously, or rather, to paint the negative space around a shape. I left the shape dark, and then studied the composition for awhile, looking for shapes as I would look for shapes in a summer cloud. Later I understood that I had painted my autobiography.”
Loos …
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Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on my Mind
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
October 2 – December 31, 2009
