2005 Past Exhibits

May 31 – July 24, 2005
Borderlands Gallery

Featured ceramic sculptures by Atlanta artist Julia Speer, whose work is natural and organic, full of life, “created to provoke thought and invoke something magical.” Introspective and ethereal, Speer’s art is the product of searching and a connection to Native American spirituality. The deserts, architecture, and arid landscapes of the Southwest are primary influences for Speer’s work.

April 5 – May 30, 2005
Borderlands Gallery

Showcased highlights from the careers of two Atlanta area artists whose work is often inspired by nature. The works showed landscapes to figurative pieces to abstracts. McDonald works in oil, pastel, and acrylic while Craven sculpts in earthenware stoneware and creates encaustics, a centuries-old process that uses heated beeswax with pigments mixed in, then applied with brushes.

March 1 – May 30, 2005
Special Exhibition Gallery

Featured historical artwork spanning the history of the U.S. and the career of famed artist Mort Künstler. Produced in conjunction with Hammer Galleries in New York, this exhibition included Western, Civil War, space, American history, and movie poster subjects.

February 1 – March 25, 2005
Borderlands Gallery

Featured carefully composed black and white photographs of decaying objects, places, and things. Buswell, a proud fourth generation Montanan, focuses his camera on artifacts of the Montana frontier. Buswell’s images are more interpretive than they are documentary.

December 28, 2004 – February 13, 2005
Special Exhibition Gallery

Featured the top 11 works of art chosen at the annual art show that raises funds for the National Parks system.

December 7, 2004 – January 30, 2005
Borderlands Gallery

Featured paintings of Native Americans by West German-born artist Hubert Wackerman. For more than three decades Wackerman has traveled North America in search of new subjects. He paints in a wide variety of media.

December 7, 2004 – January 30, 2005
Borderlands Gallery

Featured artwork by artist John Rutan, whose work is inspired by his Montana roots. Philosophically, Rutan’s work is about everyman’s struggle to survive, define who he is, and how he belongs in the world. Artistically, Rutan is concerned with the depth and exploration of color, and compositional balances.