John Henry Haseltine: The Mountain Clown & Other Foul Animals
On view through February 9, 2025
Yellowstone Art Museum
Billings, Montana
www.artmuseum.org
Utilizing toys, puppets, and comics in addition to painting, sculpture, and performance, Haseltine explores how both self-produced folk art and kitsch mass production equally contribute to the legacy of Western mythology. This exhibition examines the parallels between historical western expansion and contemporary gentrification in the region and presents the ways fabricated stories can be manipulated to present local and personal identities.
Alongside the exhibition of his artworks, Haseltine will bring his puppets to life with theatre performances in the Charles M. Bair Family Gallery.
[Image courtesy Yellowstone Art Museum and the artist.]
