The Missoula Art Museum (MAM), founded in 1975, is one of the leading contemporary art museums in the Intermountain West. One of MAM’s recent exhibitions featured Entanglements by Eric Carlson, an archaeologist and archaeological illustrator. The exhibition included 15 complex, large scale paintings exploring the entanglements of living organisms and processes of change.
According to the artist’s statement:
“These paintings are in motion, alive, energized by the creatures who inhabit them.
The work depicts durations, not snapshots or moments stuck in time. The worlds released from stasis flow into one another, passing through permeable boundaries of flora and fauna.
…The paintings direct attention to our nation’s valued natural spaced and the importance of direct engagement with them. The simple process of sitting, sketching, seeing, and remembering in these natural settings honors the places and the creatures who reside there, and who continue to build entangled worlds.”
Shown below are some of the paintings from this exhibit.
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