Brian Maguire: In the Light of Conscience

Missoula Art Museum 335 North Pattee Street, Missoula, MT, United States

This exhibition unites several recent bodies of work made by Irish artist Brian Maguire—his Aleppo paintings, Arizona series, and ongoing work about migration in Europe and Mexico. Maguire’s work is united by atrocity. As a storyteller, he bears witness to this atrocity, traveling to the locales where injustice has taken place and meeting with eyewitnesses […]

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Marcus Amerman: Indian Country

Missoula Art Museum 335 North Pattee Street, Missoula, MT, United States

This exhibition takes its title from one of Amerman’s (Choctaw) popular ‘photobeadalist’ travel-inspired artworks to declare that the exhibition and, indeed, all of America is Indian Country. Included are sensuous blown- and sand-carved vessels made in collaboration with Tlingit artist Preston Singletary, an assortment of shields made from repurposed hubcaps, and a series of collages […]

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Ellen Ornitz: Burnt Fossils

Missoula Art Museum 335 North Pattee Street, Missoula, MT, United States

Former curator of exhibitions and education at the Emerson Center for Arts and Culture in Bozeman, Ornitz is now a full-time artist. Most well-known as a sculptor, she renewed her practice during the pandemic with this series of ceramic vessels. Created with a primitive fire technique her palette is limited to the color of the […]

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Romey Stuckart: Within and Without

Missoula Art Museum 335 North Pattee Street, Missoula, MT, United States

Rosemary "Romey" Stuckart (1955–2020), like most Westerners, enjoyed access to natural spaces. Born in Oregon and schooled at Gonzaga University in Spokane and the University of Iowa, she moved to northern Idaho in 1987. There, she began to make paintings of the forest in the Cabinet Mountains wilderness adjacent to the towns of Hope and […]

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Andrea Joyce Heimer: Pastime

Missoula Art Museum 335 North Pattee Street, Missoula, MT, United States

Andrea Joyce Heimer was born in Billings, Montana, and lives in Bellingham, Washington. Heimer’s narrative painting and drawing practice investigates the subject of loneliness—largely informed by autobiographical stories such as her own adoption—in order to examine how humans experience feeling alone. Her work has been covered in outlets including Art in America, Wall Street Journal, New […]

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