Yellowstone Art Auction 53
46 Rede Ballard Gillette, Wyoming
Red Lodge Ray, 2018 oil on paper, 14" x 16"
Estimated Retail: $2,400 “The concepts behind what constructs and perceptions go into reality fascinate me endlessly. How and why we perceive reality in space and time the way we do is forever a mystery. No better a place to explore it than on a river in the middle of the Rocky Mountains.”
47 Gesine Janzen Bozeman, Montana
This Quiet Creek, 2018
hand-bound accordion book of ten wood block prints, 20" x 18"
Estimated Retail: $7,000
“This Quiet Creek is a hand-bound book of ten wood block prints. The prints present a selection of the lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams, dams, levees, and empty creek beds that I observed on my travels across Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona between 2017 and 2018. Water is represented in its many states: low water and high water, frozen and unfrozen, stagnant, free-flowing, and dried-up. Its power and abundance are presented alongside evidence of manipulation, fragility, and scarcity. Water crashes and roars over rocks, it laps at river banks and meanders slowly across the land. I am drawn to it because of its enduring nature: it keeps going over time, on and on, eternally finding its way. This work is also intended to provoke thought on the many contradictions evident when observing water’s beauty, enjoying nature tourism, and how water is conserved and managed.”
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