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Recent Gifts to the Collection from the Estates of Will Farrington and Miriam Sample


Missoula Art Museum is honored to share with you five art works gifted to our Permanent Collection from the estates of two Montana art enthusiasts: Will Farrington and Miriam Sample.  MAM's permanent collection would not have reached the 1,000 objects that it consists of today without the generous support of the community through gifts and donations from individuals, estates, and artists, whether a single artwork or a large collection. Will's family gifted Jerry McCauley's Harley "Super Glide" Prototype to the collection, while the estate of Miriam Sample left MAM four works: a pit fired bowl by Paul Slaton, a cast aluminum sculptural work by Clarice Dreyer, a wood relief work by John Buck entitled French Town, and a painting by Harold Schlotzhauer entitled Classical Intrusion. These works are on display in MAM's foyer through March in honor of Will and Miriam as well as all community members who have helped build such a beautiful collection of art works, held in trust for all generations.


Montana's own Gennie DeWeese and Walter Hook were the first two artists whose work was acquired for Missoula's contemporary art collection through purchase awards at the 1973 Missoula Festival of the Arts, two years before the establishment of the MAM. Our community recognizes the importance of collecting contemporary visual art for the benefit of future audiences. Across three decades of creative change and growth, the MAM has maintained its commitment to acquiring artworks representative of the region's unique creative spirit, and will continue to preserve the best of contemporary Montana art.

 

In 2000 MAM received its first bequest of artworks to the Collection from Joyce Folsom. Inspired by her generosity, MAM established the Joyce Folsom Society to identify and encourage planned givers to the collection, and rest assured, some incredible personal collections will be entering the Collection in the years to come. If you are interested in including MAM's Permanent Collection in your will-or are interested in donating artworks at anytime-please contact Registrar Ted Hughes or Director Laura Millin at 728.0447.

 

 


      Featured Acquisitions:

Alex Kraft and Hak Kyun Kim


The Missoula Art Museum is often gifted artworks by the outstanding, hard working artists of our community, and we are grateful for the donation of these exciting artworks by Alex Kraft and Hak Kyun Kim and honored to share them with our visitors. Continuing an established Montana tradition, Kraft's ubi uber and phileal ocinea, and Kim's After Serving 04, push the envelope with philosophical, expressive, and formal explorations in clay.

 

After earning an M.F.A. from The University of Montana in 2006, Kraft spent time aubi ubers an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray in Helena and then the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. Currently she is an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in New Mexico. Krafphileal ocinaet creates imagined life forms and their environments composed of visceral and bodily systems that explore the physical internal and the sacred internal, the material versus the intangible. Surfaces are brightly colored and multi-textured and the titles convey a Latin-like biological language invented by the artist. In Kraft's pieces, the physicality of form, color, and surface correspond to the emotion, intellect, and instinct within these beings. Ubi uber (top left) is a creature that radiates a life-force of its own, a heart-like beast with an up-thrust neck, teetering on its small legs. Phileal ocinae (right) is a wall-mounted painterly creation suggesting either a cross-section view of some beast, displaying the viscera, or a window into an alien or microscopic environment of floating organisms. Both pieces are fantastical, adventurous works that push the limits of clay manipulation.

 

Hak Kyun Kim traveled to The University of Montana from Korea, with an education and aesthetiAfter Serving 04c strongly rooted in industrial design. Kim earned his M.F.A. in 2008 and is currently artist-in-residence at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS. In contrast to Kraft's expressionistic beings, Kim returns to the vessel with a quiet simplicity, exploring the edge between function and non-function. Kim's piece After Serving 04 (left), a platter with five cup-like vessels spilling across its surface as if ready for wash up, displays philosophical tension by presenting a sensuously clean and smooth surface, calm color, and the suggestion of utility contrasted by its slightly asymmetrical forms and an askew arrangement of objects. Masterful craftsmanship and conceptualization invite the viewer to experience harmony between idea and form, emotion and surface. The vessel becomes the content, interplay between Kim's aesthetic philosophy and highly skilled clay handling.

 

For more information: Alex Kraft: http://alexkraftart.com/home.html

Hak kyun Kim: www.lawrenceartscenter.com/faculty.html







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