For Radius Gallery's next exhibition we're delighted to present new works by Susan R. Carlson, DG House and  Sheila Miles. 

 

While skilled with and attentive to the formal qualities of art—line and shape, color, composition and the like—these three seasoned artists all infuse their works with a certain joie de vivre that comes straight from the heart, from an instinctive sense of how art at its best transcends formalism, to be received by viewers in bright bursts as much felt as seen.

 

The title of the show is drawn from an 1887 essay titled "What is an Instinct?" by the ground-breaking philosopher and psychologist William James.

 

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These works will be available for pick up or shipping the week after July 6th.

SUSAN R. CARLSON

Missoula, MT • BIO

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DG HOUSE

Bozeman, MT • BIO

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SHEILA MILES

Oracle, AZ • BIO

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ARTIST BIOS

 

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SUSAN R. CARLSON

The collage and mixed media assemblages of Susan R. Carlson are remarkable for their unique constructions, their sophisticated use of color and pattern, their sheer power to engage the viewer in the act of storytelling. Each piece encapsulates a world, or at least a boisterous neighborhood—a place where rules and norms are still being worked out, where composed elements perch tensely at the edge of meaning. Stripped of their familiar contexts, objects and signifiers—numbers, words, phrases, textiles—have been cohesively reassembled in a manner that celebrates mystery, humor and tenderness. While themes emerge, we are never confronted by a didactic message; rather, Carlson’s pieces remind us of the certainty of change— from past to present, whole to broken, valued to discarded.

—Lisa Simon, owner of Radius Gallery

 

Susan R. Carlson is a self-taught artist living in Missoula, MT, where her distinctive found-object assemblages have been shown in numerous venues and exhibitions over the past 20+ years. Represented by Radius Gallery since 2014, she is one of the ten artists whose work appeared the gallery’s Grand Opening exhibition.

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DG HOUSE

As an Indigenous creative, I make it my job to produce art that represents the wildlife and people who don’t often have a voice in our society. I spend a large part of my time in the wildlands where inspiration is everywhere. Each piece I create is based on a real-life encounter: a grizzly walking on a trail, a wolf hunting in a valley, a moose feeding in the river…. Each painting is a story.

—DG House

 

DG House is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Tribe of NE Alabama and lives in Bozeman, MT, along the Gallatin River. She has been an artist-in-residence in Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, IN. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums, including the Missoula Art Museum, the Yellowstone Art Museum, the Phippen Museum of Art in Prescott, AZ, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ, and the Indian Market at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, CA. House is an associate member of Women Artists of the West and American Women Artists. She was named the first Honorary Ranger for Grand Teton National Park.

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SHEILA MILES

I’ve been a dedicated painter for 50+ years and still delight in finding complex and hidden compositions in the seemingly simplest of places. I try to capture beauty and a sense of time and place, focusing on light and shadow, colors and tone, and the abstract qualities in the puzzling shapes that warp over a surface.

—Sheila Miles

Sheila Miles’ painting have been exhibited in over 300 exhibitions, and more than 200 of her works have been collected by public institutions, including New Mexico Arts in Public Places, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum and Missoula Art Museum. Miles earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Art (Painting & Drawing) from Purdue University. She was Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum from 1974 to 1977, Senior Curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum from 1986 to 1990, and has been an Adjunct Instructor at MSU-Billings, MSU-Bozeman and UMT-Missoula. Miles lived in Montana for over 27 years and Santa Fe for 15 years. She now resides in Oracle, AZ.

 

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