New exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum showcases abstract works by Neal Ambrose Smith artdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Main Gallery show, The First Water Is the Body, takes its title from a poem by Natalie Diaz, which was published in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Postcolonial Love Poem. The exhibition features multi-disciplinary work by Indigenous artists and makers from throughout North America and includes photography, video, sculpture, ceramics, basketry, beadwork, and textiles.
516 Arts explores the passage of time in an exhibition on the chaos and tumult engulfing us.
The two solo shows star works by Corrales resident Neal Ambrose-Smith (Confederated Salish/Kootenai Nation of Montana) and Afton Love of Ojo Caliente.
“Coyote Explains to Max,” 2019, Neal Ambrose-Smith, graphite on paper. (Courtesy of 516 Arts)
Ambrose-Smith combines cartoon imagery with humor to create a complex reflection on an unstable world.
Love offers contrasting imagery in large-scale rock drawings with a geological sense of time across the millennia.
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Ambrose-Smith captures the seismic shifts erupting across the last four years with “The (Present) Tense.” He introduced the show through a large-scale neon sculpture inspired by a sketch of random lines. He placed the work on a 516 wall normally devoted to mammoth murals.