The Graveyard Shift
On view through December 20, 2021
The Brinton Museum
Big Horn, Wyoming
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“The Graveyard Shift” is a Brinton Museum invitational exhibition featuring works by fifteen highly-accomplished, award-winning artists from Wyoming and Colorado and also California and Wisconsin. The idea behind the show is directly related to the cemetery as a place of rest, one’s last repose and the interface between life and death. Consequentially, artists were asked to submit pieces in keeping with a cemetery theme and the subject matter contained therein. Works in this show range in scale and artistic style from Loughridge’s charming woodblock print of a hillside graveyard in LaSauses to Keith Davis’s gelatin-silver prints of exquisite marble sculpture found in Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in Genoa, Italy.
The focus of this exhibition is on the beauty of the places and sites that now immortalize those gone which call to us as a subject for art. The silent simplicity of summer evening’s light on stone monuments in a field, a church, a lone shadow of a cross all evoke the question “what are the tales and stories of those who lie here in the moonlight?” Artist and photographer Tony Hochstsetler from Colorado is the guest curator for this exhibition. Tony is a longtime friend of The Brinton who has exhibited his bronze work and photography in numerous Brinton shows.
[Credit: Leon Loughridge, LaSauses, 2021, woodblock, 7.5″ x 7.5″]
