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Saturday 02/20/2010
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Art :: Art Show
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Griff Williams: It Is Not Down in Any Map; True Places Never Are
12:00 PM  Missoula Art Museum
Description:
February 20 – April 28, 2010
Artini: Peaks, March 18, 5:30-9 pm
Artist Reception and Gallery Talk: March 18, 6 pm
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 areas of color.
Art in the American West has a rich tradition informed by the landscape. Williams plays off of the tradition established as a consequence of European influence on American art. From the Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole and Thomas Doughty to the
Western painters C.M. Russell and Frederick Remington, artists have attempted to put down on canvas their romantic interpretations of nature and their visions of a vanishing frontier. However, Williams departs from these traditions, and his attention to craftsmanship and editorial abstraction are characteristics unmistakably his own.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Missoula Art Museum
Address: 335 North Pattee
Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: 728.0447
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