Name: Cozy Mystery Book Club
Start: 2023-4-3T14:00-6:00
End: 2023-4-3T15:00-6:00

Event Type Adult events

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april

03apr2:00 pm3:00 pmCozy Mystery Book Club

04apr7:00 pm8:30 pmLinda Lillegraven: Land Art in the West

Event Details

Albany County Public Library is pleased to host artist and painter Linda Lillegraven on April 4th at 7 PM. Join Albany County Public Library for a presentation on Lillegraven’s artwork and how her relationship with the landscape influences and shapes her work.

Light refreshments will be served.

Linda Lillegraven received her BA in art from San Diego State University in 1970, and a BS in zoology in 1972. She earned a master’s degree in biology from the University of Utah in 1975. A summer doing research in an isolated corner of Utah convinced her that she wanted more than anything to paint the great open landscapes of the West. Living in Laramie, Wyoming provides infinite opportunities to see and paint the high, open country she loves.

Her work is in numerous public and private collections around the West and beyond. She is represented by Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt, Colorado, Deselms Fine Art in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Big Horn Gallery in Cody, Wyoming. She also participates in the Coors Western Art Show, the Buffalo Bill Art Show, and the Cheyenne Frontier Days Art Show.

From Linda herself:

My work is a meditation on our relationship with the landscape. To that end, I strive for a sense of vast space, through the use of subtle visual cues.

An observant traveler in the American West may begin to notice the traces of old roads. Where highways have been re-routed or railroad tracks abandoned, nature has begun to reassert itself with grass and sagebrush. But here where rainfall is sparse and the plough doesn’t venture embankments and cuts may remain visible for centuries. Those faint marks on the land may offer a glimpse of the far future when the traces left by our civilization will have become a distant mystery.

My paintings of Yellowstone National Park arise from a similar motive. The colorful steaming pools and mats of exotic hot-water organisms offer a glimpse of the powerful forces of nature that lie just beneath the surface of our world.