Mitch Baird’s paintings offer two distinct, pleasurable viewing experiences. See them from 10 feet away and they appear as wondrously realistic scenes of the Western landscapes he passionately loves. Come nearer, however, so a single scene like Bluffs of Navajo Sandstone almost fills your field...
Natalie Featherston delightfully tricks the eye multiple times in her trompe l’oeil paintings, which often involve creating more than one work of art. Look, for example, at Anywhere But Here, which appears to be a slightly crumpled, whimsical child’s collage of a UFO visit to...
Eugene Tapahe’s ravishingly beautiful photographs achieve far more than merely pleasing the viewer’s eye with scenes of Indigenous women wearing ceremonial regalia posing serenely in sacred sites. The ever-growing body of works in his Jingle Dance Project — begun in the early days of the...
Jennifer Pulchinski creates what might best be described as large-scale three-dimension-al drawings composed with lengths of fallen barbed wire. The sculptor tracks down her materials, and her inspiration, by wandering the rangelands and mountain slopes — with permission of landowners, of course — beyond her...
Heather Burton portrays horses with a painterly realism that captures their spirits as vividly as their physicality. Consider Azteca, featuring a breed of the same name that is considered Mexico’s national horse, often trained for elaborate dancing exhibitions and prized for its fine musculature and...
In her work, Beth Loftin celebrates the people and places of the Great Plains where she grew up and lives today. Loftin’s paintings evoke times past and endow them with vibrant new life through her richly saturated palette. “I think my style might best be...
Regard a painting by Laurie Lee for even a moment, and a stirring soundtrack from the era of classic Western films might come to mind. Highway to the Sun, destined for this September’s Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale in Cody, Wyoming, could well conjure...
Paul Lewing, whose glazed ceramic tile art has long been appreciated in private residential settings such as home bathrooms and kitchens, debuts as a public artist this September 25 through 30. That’s when, during homecoming weekend for his alma mater, the University of Montana in...
Tyrel Johnson might best be described as a poet in bronze, using sculpture to express deep, complex meanings through art. His Undivided Love, for example, captures the deep human-equine bond by portraying a young woman and a horse, each leaning into the other across a...
Topher Straus has found a simultaneously bold and surprisingly nuanced new medium by which to capture the radiance so often possessed by iconic landscapes of the West — from the Maroon Bells that tower over Aspen, to the volcanic cone of Maui’s Haleakala, the craggy...