Solo Show Featuring PAINTALLICA
Make Believe in Yourself
About the Artists
Jesse Albrecht
@jessealbrecht.com
Albrecht was half way through his MFA program (ceramics) at the University of Iowa when he was deployed to Iraq (03-04 medic/security work). His work explores the collision of war myth and reality through the physical and mental aesthetics of combat, national narratives, and the aftermath. He lives and works in Montana-- utilizes ceramics, drawing, and paper making--and has work in numerous permanent collections to include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, The National Archives, and The Library of Congress.
Josh Anderson
@joshanderson.studio
Josh Anderson, BFA in sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and his MFA in sculpture with a minor in Intermedia from the University of Iowa. Josh attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has exhibited work widely. He serves as an associate professor of art and the director of the Marian Art Gallery at Mount Mary University, WI.
Gordon Barnes
@gordon_barnes_art
Gordon Barnes is a mischievous and curious artist and educator working in Portland, Oregon who enjoys thinking deeply about the wrong things. Gordon earned a BFA in Printmaking from Sonoma State University, CA in 2005 and a MFA in Studio Practice from Portland State University, OR in 2007. His printmaking research is broadly focused on expanding/exploring the intersection of digital and traditional approaches while playfully and humanely challenging what he sees as false binary choices baked into the way many of us frame our thinking around gender, sexuality, taste, class and craft. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for the last 20 years and he has been an active member of Paintallica since 2008
Jamie Boling
After earning an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa, Jamie spent a year as a research fellow at the Louvre in Paris, France. He has taught at some of the top art programs in the United States and continues to show his work nationally and internationally. His many years living and working in Paris, Berlin, and New York have allowed him to collaborate on projects with world-class galleries, museums, fashion designers, and filmmakers. Jamie is a classically trained painter whose work mines the detritus of American culture focusing and amplifying both the disturbing and humorous nature of our collective cultural obsessions. Additionally, he is a founding member of the art collective Paintallica. Jamie currently lives and works in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Sean Chandler
@niithuwaak
Trained as a painter at MSU Bozeman, MT and embedded in an artistic family, Sean has made art throughout his life. He placed his promising artistic practice on hold to pursue an MA in Native Studies at MSU Bozeman, MT and an EdD in educational leadership at UM. MT while employed as Director of American Indian Studies at Aaniiih Nakoda College on the Ft. Belknap Reservation, MT. A scholar at heart, Sean has consistently devoted himself to language revitalization and American Indian studies. Sean was recently appointed President of Aaniiih Nakoda College, MT.
He has received awards and exhibited at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ, and the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN, with work collected by the Museum of Natural History in Paris and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Museum, MN. Since 2014 when he returned to art making, his artwork has become increasingly complex and intricate—rich, many-layered visual expressions that reflect his life experiences and the Aaniiih culture.
Shelby Davis
Shelby Davis is an artist and designer living in Portland, OR with his wife and son. Shelby grew up in Six Mile, SC in the Blue Ridge foothills–a place whose natural beauty inspires him to this day. His parents were both artists who made pots, sculpture, and quilts, and they filled their house in the woods with beautiful things they had traded for with their friends. Shelby grew up traveling to craft shows around the country, surrounded by artists who cared deeply about their craft and well made objects. He works collaboratively with his wife, Crystal Schenk, and with the arts group, Paintallica. He teaches Industrial Design and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Portland, OR. He is on the Board of Directors for The Rensing Center, a non-profit artist residency center located on the property he was raised on in South Carolina. He does a lot of Kung Fu and is an instructor/student at the Portland Shaolin Center.
Jay Schmidt
@jschmidtart
Jay Schmidt was born in Chester, PA and currently resides in Bozeman, MT. Jay earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, MO in 1974 and completed his MFA at the University of California, Davis two years later. In 2007 he retired from a twenty-six year career as a professor in the School of Art at Montana State University, MT. His enormous paintings engulf the viewer with the obsessiveness of modern-day consumerism, commercialism, and war-mongering—Schmidt has been an active participant in a variety of collaborative art groups including the Free Art School, Paintallica and the Rat Trap Clay Club where he began his involvement in ceramics.
Juan Solis Cruz
@soliscruz.studio
@soliscruz.tattoos
Bruce Tapola
Bruce Tapola was born and raised in Ohio and currently lives in St. Paul, MN. He was awarded an MFA from Montana State University in Bozeman, MT (1983). His work has been presented nationally and internationally for over thirty years, including at the Minneapolis Institute of Art,MN Midway Contemporary Mpls, MN. Front International Triennial for Contemporary Art ,Cleveland, OH, Holter Art Museum, Helena, MT , Soap Factory Mpls, MN La Panaderia, Mexico City, MX. Tapola is the recipient of three McKnight Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2017, 2001,1995). In addition to his own studio practice, Tapola is a member of the artist collectives, Paintallica, Free Art School, Rat Trap Clay Club (RIP) and Artpolice.
Phillip Thomas
@phillthytart
Corey Urlacher
Growing up in Montana, Corey Urlacher graduated Montana State University, MT in 2005 with a BFA in sculpture. After moving to Washington State, Corey started to refine his style of mixed media relief sculpture using vintage plastic, bones, religious statuary, Halloween decorations, etc. Corey is inspired by a fascination with mythology, antiquity, and mortality. His sculptures are found in private collections around the US.
John (Dismal) Warren
John Warren has been tattooing since 2016. He was born and raised in Wyoming and originally moved to Bozeman to attend Montana State University, MT. He graduated in 2007 with his BFA. John would describe his style as a hybrid between traditional and illustrative. He enjoys tattooing and painting dark imagery, and can’t say no to a classic skull. John is open to doing most styles, excluding photo realism. He would love to do more traditional tattoos.