John
Saurer
Parts of the whole
DECEMBER 3, 2024 - JANUARY 11, 2025
Our exhibition space is glowing with wall installations by artist, John Saurer. If the days get a little dark, we encourage you to come by and say hello through January 10th to see the work yourself. This is our second solo exhibition by John Saurer, but our first in our new space. The versatility in his practice extends to materiality and for those of you that saw his monotypes, branded drawings and digital prints at our last show, the sculptural relief and intentional use of reflective surfaces and shadow-casting in these newest works are a wonderful immersive experience.
John Saurer received his BA at Hope College (sculpture and drawing) and MFA at Colorado State University (sculpture). He has installed and exhibited work nationally and internationally. “Place” will always influence his work – he has lived in California, Indiana, Ohio, Utah, Idaho, Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, and Montana. Saurer's work consistently involves drawing, printmaking, and sculpture and he taught each of these media at St. Olaf College since 1995 – maintaining studios in both Minnesota and Montana. He retired from teaching and moved full-time to Bozeman in June 2024.
“Elements in this sculpture refer to characters, scrolls, and tools from ancient and contemporary forms of communication. I’m also intrigued in creating new relationships between two-dimensional media and remain intrigued by the implicit ‘drawings’ on the wall created by random patterns and relief sculpture.”
Shadow Casting
“This work is a tributary, from personal transitions of time and place to the expansiveness and glacial pacing of the natural world. When working with opposites there is a potential for a third meaning to come into being…This work is comprised of invasive Buckthorn trees covered in gold glitter.”
All That Glitters is Not Gold
“The title of this piece is another play on words — chorus, chorale, choral, coral — and references the formal elements found in music and the coastal paradise of San Salvador island in the Bahamas (a place I taught a drawing-from-nature course).
Chorus
