Living Narratives

This fall, Milk Moon is proud to present Living Narratives, a group show featuring work by Emily Palmquist, Adam Young, Meghan Purcell, and Melissa DiNino. Through a variety of media, the exhibition addresses themes of storytelling, personal narrative, and intimate connection with nature. 

Through a combination of text and imagery, Austin, Texas-based Adam Young’s folkloric acrylic paintings play with personal storytelling in beguiling tableaus that feel charged with the artist’s own emotional experience, while retaining an open-endedness that allows the viewer to enter into them through their own narrative. Employing entirely different stylistic techniques, oil painter Emily Palmquist also weaves her interior life into her work. Balancing deft representation with painterly abstraction and subtle graphic elements, Palmquist crafts richly detailed scenes that tell her stories through the fauna and flora she shares her home with on Southwest Colorado’s remote Specie Mesa.

Inspired by a lifelong connection to the animal world and years spent working on a ranch in rural Montana, Melissa DiNino’s delicate, almost dreamlike watercolors beautifully depict the intimate relationships that can form between humans and horses. Fiber artist Meghan Purcell’s work is another meditation on our human relationships to the animal world. Beginning with wool from the small herd of Icelandic Sheep she tends on her property outside Livingston, Montana, Purcell’s felted wool mountainscapes not only illustrate her kinship with nature, but physically embody it.