Bair Gallery
Jan 19-April 4, 2010

Twenty years ago, renowned Montana textile artist Nancy Erickson held her first exhibition at the Holter Museum. Erickson returns with a stunning series of quilted fabric works from 1998 to 2007 that speak to the connection we all have with one another and the land — and what’s left of the wilderness. In all her works, it is the animals that are the seers.

 As a child Nancy spent hours wandering the mountains and foothills of the Absarokees on her family’s ranch. She has lived with her husband, Ron, in the same mountain canyon near Missoula, Montana for 35 years, enjoying the company of cougars, bears and deer. She has been making fabric constructions, quilts, paintings and drawings since the 1960s.

Former director of Humanities Montana Margaret Kingsland provides insight into the evolution of Nancy’s provocative works: Nancy Erickson essay by Margaret Kingsland

For more information on Nancy’s work, go to http://www.nancyerickson.com