Prints ride high and low as installation
Montana’s Big Sky Country puts me into a state of euphoria whenever I drive its mountainous plateaus and sculpted vistas. Helena, the state capitol, abounds with artistic energy, like Missoula. […]
Category Archives: Inspiration
Abstracting weather in Montana
A whirlwind field trip through western Montana this past week. Visited friends, galleries and museums. Apparent Continent / Original Weather was on exhibit at the Paris-Gibson Square Museum in Great Falls, […]
A joyous art opening
I’m sitting at my favorite Ellensburg coffee shop this morning, savoring the memories of last night’s art talk and opening reception. What joy! Atop the lift this week, immersed in […]
THE OTHER DICK AND JANE
Ellensburg, WA is midway between Moscow, ID and Seattle, WA. It’s always our favorite stop on trips to the Big City. I arrived here this afternoon to begin installing an […]
Making artistic play of wind
Too much feasting of Google images! I was about to shut down my computer when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw this: The Wind Playground. Clearly a joy […]
Towering wind art at the sea
During another frenzied browse of Google images, I stumbled onto this work of French conceptual artist Daniel Buren. It was created for the Beaufort 03 Contemporary Art by the Sea […]
Making art of natural phenomena
Surely, I opened myself a Pandora’s box, when browsing for art about wind currents. Consider this mind-bending merger of art and science—Wind Map. How it demonstrates the vast artistic potential of technology. […]
Modern Ancestral, Australian Aboriginal Art
Ancestral Modern. Diametrically opposed terms? Not so … at least not with respect to the exhibit of Australian Aboriginal Art at the Seattle Art Museum. A first-of-its-kind for the West Coast, it […]
Chihuly’s Garden and Glass, mirror of creation
Imagine … every conceivable variation of reds, yellows, blues, purple, oranges and greens swirling inside dozens of ruffled spheroids, wildly clustered, floating in space. Just the way I imagine creation. […]
Patrick Dougherty and Survival of the Beautiful
I’m reading an amazing book that I haven’t finished, but that’s not going to keep me from writing a post about it. It’s simply good to hold back on praise—though […]
Micro-macro, Linda Fleming’s intricate maquettes
I first saw the work of Linda Fleming last year during a site visit at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. She was among two dozen artists invited to participate in the […]
Study of fluidity, Andy Goldsworthy’s Stone River
Surprise, surprise. Andy Goldsworthy at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University. I couldn’t believe my luck. I’ve long been a fan of his work, but this is the first time […]
Sequencing with Richard Serra
Two days ago, San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art. Yesterday, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Today, the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University. That’s some serious art binging! It […]
Repulsively seductive, Petah Coyne’s surreal assemblage
A surprise always, always, awaits me at museums. Anticipating the unknown is juicy! Quite often, it’s not a major exhibit that catches me by surprise so much as a single piece. […]
Art exhibits in San Jose plus surprising inspiration
Yesterday … the first of of what I’ve planned as a three-day field trip, while hubby is at conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto. I grabbed the train to […]
Scarred striations, the sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard
Working on Interstitial straight through without a lunch break got old. After my first week at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, I discovered more work gets done, better, faster, after […]
Art de tour: Montana Triennial 2012
Eclectic. Invigorating. Dynamic. Uplifting. I could go on and on. The Montana Triennial: 2012 pulls out all the stops showing off the best of the best contemporary art across the state. […]
We, as disguised, are they
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises. Carl Jung Journeys along the Sepik River is on exhibit at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. The stunning collection […]
Beaded bug tours the world
I drove from Laramie to Denver to fetch Kenton today—he insisted on flying from Idaho to see my museum installation firsthand. A dazzling work of public art awaited at the […]
Summer art camps, not just play
Art is busting out all over here! Watching kids unleash their creative energy has been an extra perk of installing work at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. Day after […]
Gerri Sayler Artist 