Emerson paint exhibit explores human connection with wilderness
Now on display, the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture hosts new exhibit Light Inside the Body in the Jessie Wilber Gallery. The paint showcase by Emily Mcilroy will be on view until May 1st.
Mcilroy created this series of paintings as an extension of her 2018 Artist Residency at Glacier National Park. These works will ultimately be included in an artist’s book building connections between inner and outer “wildernesses.” The book, through an integration of art and text, will invite audiences to explore the boundaries between themselves and the nonhuman world.
Each piece in this series points to the enmeshment and permeability of environments, minds and bodies. Emerging from a process of layering and often subtraction, they attempt to bridge the enduring with the temporal, the visible with the invisible, the prosaic with the poetic. Looking simultaneously both outward and inward, these works connect the realm of wilderness – its beauty, violence, power and fragility – with our own internal territories.
All Emerson exhibits are free and open the public. Gallery hours are 10am–5pm, Monday through Friday. For more information please visit www.theemerson.org.
Located at 111 S Grand Ave., the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture serves as a primary resource for the arts, arts education, and cultural activities in Southwest Montana. •
