New Summer Exhibit at Brinton Museum

The Summer Exhibition at the Brinton Museum, Anatomy of Life & Land: Jacob Aguiar & Kathryn Mapes Turner, opened to the public on July 11. An opening reception was held on the evening of July 18. Attendees had the opportunity to see the art exhibit and talk to the artists about their work. The event also featured a round-table discussion with the artists.

The two artists met at The Brinton Museum and have developed a friendship through shared interests in the topography of the Bighorn Mountains and surrounding region, its wildlife and rugged beauty.

Curatorial Director Jochen Wierich opened the event and thanked the staff and volunteers at the Brinton.

Jacob Aguiar started the discussion.

He added that his family was in medicine, and when he graduated from high school, he pursued medicine. He added that the only artists he knew at that time were art teachers, and he never had an example of someone in his life who was an artist. He studied science and math in college and went to Natheropathy school. He said he didn’t touch art for four or five years.

He did say that art was something he was always drawn too. After his second year of college, he was burned out and decided to take a year hiatus and concentrate on art.

He tried watercolors but he found he liked the pastel medium for his artwork.

Kathryn Mapes Turner’s art journey was very different. On thing that inspired her was where she grew up.

The beauty of the Teton Mountains draws many artists capturing the landscape. Kathryn met one of them as youngster, who was an inspiration for her to pursue her passion for art.

She added that her school experience in Moran contributed to her later becoming an artist.

Wierich asked the artists about the process they used in their art.

He asked Aguiar, “How much is plein air and how much is, take a sketch or a photo and take it back to your studio?”

Aguiar’s paintings take their inspiration from the Bighorn Mountains’ form and structure, what the artist refers to as the landscape’s bones.

Turner, by contrast, translates her interest in the anatomy of landscape and wildlife into more dream-like images.

This will be the first exhibition at The Brinton featuring the landscape, wildlife, and animal paintings by Turner and Aguiar side by side. Each piece of artwork complements the other in the exhibit.

Around 50 people attended the talk by the artists. This exhibit will be on display at the Brinton until September 8. All the works on display are for sale as well.

For more information, Contact: Jochen Wierich, Curatorial Director, jwierich@thebrintonmuseum.org Main # 307-672-3173.

The Brinton Museum is located at 239 Brinton Road in Big Horn, WY, 82833