Helena artist Barry Hood’s exhibition Flow explores the interaction of alchemy and accident. His exquisite poured molten glass, sand castings, and etchings echo natural images, forms and forces. Grounded in Montana landscape, Barry’s artwork celebrates simplicity and purity, vast spaces, and  the natural flow of life.

Above: Barry Hood, Bow River Reserve, cast glass, braided horsehair and leather, and metals, 2010.

Barry Hood: Flow is part of the Holter’s Earth, Wood, Fire, and Ice  series that features five overlapping exhibitions celebrating Montana.

Visit the Holter Store to purchase a copy of the accompanying catalogue BARRY HOOD with essays by Rick Newby and Brandon Reintjes.

The landscape of Montana cannot be captured on a single canvas or by a single artistic style. In Montana Landscape: The Eye of the Beholder, the Holter Museum brings together a sweeping range of works by approximately 70 regional artists responding to our shared landscape. Together they demonstrate that Montana’s landscape is large enough to hold contradictory points of view.

To read a review in the Independent Record’s Your Time, go to http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_663ff0fa-840e-11df-a1dd-001cc4c03286.html

Works by the following artists:

Jean ALBUS  + Anne APPLEBY  + Lela AUTIO  + James BASON + Elizabeth BASS +  Kevin BELL  + Susan BLACKWOOD  + Kathy BONNEMA-LESLIE  +Christopher BOYER  + Freeman BUTTS + Janie CAMP  + Pam CAUGHEY  + Russell CHATHAM +  Shirley CLEARY  + Andy CLINE  +  Sandra DAL POGGETTO  + Dudley DANA  + Gen DEWEESE + Len ECKEL  + Josh ELLIOT  + Edd ENDERS  + Thomas ENGLISH  +  Katherine FEHLIG  + Hadley FERGUSON  + Howard FRIEDLAND  + Charles FULCHER  + Tom GILLEON  + Kristi HAGER  + Michael HAYKIN  + Suzy HOLT  + Jerry INMAN  + Peter KEEFER  + Louise LA MONTAGNE  + Dale LIVEZEY  + T.J. LYNDE  + Nancy MACDONALD  + Bobbie MCKIBBIN  + Dave MENSING  + Caleb MEYER  + Leslie Van Stavern MILLAR  + Davi NELSON  + Carol NOVOTNE  + Nick OBERLING  + Bill OHRMANN  + Bruce PARK + Nan PARSONS  + PARVIN  + Richard PENCE  + Bob PHINNEY  + Jim POOR  + Carol POPPENGA  + Rex REIKE  +  Karen RICE   + Robert ROYHL  + Greg SCHEIBEL + Aaron SCHUERR  + W. Steve SELTZER  + Edgar SMITH  + Laurie STEVENS  + Janet SULLIVAN  + C. David SWANSON  + Francis SWITZER  + Linda TIPPETTS  + Doug TURMAN  + Ron UKRAINETZ  + Michael Ome UNTIEDT  + Willem VOLKERSZ  + Jeff WALKER +  Laura Way WATHEN  + David WILSON

Above: Michael Ome Untiedt, Randall and Edward Intend Shooting the Bull, oil on canvas, 2010

Montana Landscape is part of the Holter’s Earth, Wood, Fire, and Ice series
that features five overlapping exhibitions celebrating Montana.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by the following:

Scott Mainwaring
and Susan Benedict

and Holter members

Sherman Gallery
July 1 – October 10, 2010
Reception: Thursday, July 8, 5:30-8pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, July 10

This major exhibition of studio woodworking and furniture highlights the innate beauty of wood—whether in the form of a sculpture, rocking chair or teapot (yes, a teapot!). The exhibition combines the studio furniture-making skills of Montana and Northwest master craftsmen with the work of renowned international and national sculptors and turners.

Join us Saturday, July 10 for a gallery talk by Gary Rogowski, Director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio and Contributing Editor for Fine Woodworking Magazine.

Above: Ron Gerton, Desert Dancer, spalted maple burl and bronze, 2002

Outside the Box is part of the Holter’s Earth, Wood, Fire and Ice series that features five overlapping exhibitions celebrating Montana.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by the following:

 and Holter members. To read a review in the Independent Record’s YourTime, go to: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_bb8e4026-898a-11df-82c1-001cc4c002e0.html

To make my unique hand-painted solar plate etchings, I combine contemporary non-toxic solar plate etching methods with laborious hand inking, wiping and hand-pulling though an old-fashioned cranked etching press. I then isolate the damp inked impression with rabbit skin glue and painstakingly paint on top of it with oils. The edition sizes are very small, and each painted etching is one-of-a kind.

Millikan Gallery
May 7-Oct 15
Reception: Fri, May 7

This photographic exhibition pairs historic photos of glaciers in Glacier National Park with contemporary images. The pairs have striking visual effect, showing obvious glacial recession and landscape change. USGS researcher/photographer Dan Fagre blends the science of climate change research and repeat photography comparison with the aesthetic of landscape photography. Glacier: Losing a Legacy coincides with the centennial of Glacier National Park that will be celebrated throughout Montana.