Paint exhibit ‘To Make a Prairie’ on display at Old Main

Old Main Gallery & Framing is pleased to feature the work of Morgan Irons for a solo exhibition, “To Make a Prairie,” during the month of December. An opening reception will take place on Friday, Dec. 7th from 5–7pm. This event is open to the public.
To make a prairie (1855)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
“A couple of years ago I painted a small vignette of a solitary woman standing with a shovel in a vast, flat field. While technically unambitious and hastily painted, this image, in all its brevity was my first successful painting. ‘Field Waltz’ became a marker for the direction my work would take since. My inaugural solo exhibition ‘To Make a Prairie’ is an expanse on that scene.
The show is a collection of quiet figures in the landscape, timeless in theme and palette. With their visual austerity, each painting is designed for a noted emotional resonance. Inspired greatly by realist artists such as Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth, these paintings mark a compulsion for delineating the vertical of the individual against the horizon of the landscape. I believe there can be found the iconography of the mother and child, or of the father, the farmer and the boy. They are a tribute to the power of story found in the landscape of the West, a stage for narratives of life, death, and what happens in between.” – Morgan Irons
Old Main Gallery & Framing is located at 129 E Main St. in Downtown Bozeman. Hours are Monday through Friday from 10am–5:30pm, Saturday from 10am–5pm, and Sunday from 11am–5pm. Learn more about the space and framing services at www.oldmaingallery.com.