Featured Artists: Courtney Murphy and Linda Katsuda - Whitefish

Friday, July 12, 2019 - Friday, July 26, 2019

exhibition of work from ceramic artist Courtney Murphy and painter Linda Katsuda continues through July 31. Murphy is a Missoula ceramic artist whose designs are influenced by “simplified abstractions of nature, children's artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as textiles, patterns and historical pots.” Katsuda, a landscape and wildlife painter who lives in Whitefish, shares work that ranges from realism to abstract surrealism. “What draws me to any particular place or object is how the light plays upon the planes, making interesting patterns of light and dark or how the sunset or atmosphere casts its particular light on everything, making drab mountains turn purple, pink and orange at sunset, or how majestic mountains can be against a dark storm cloud with a sun beam highlighting a cliff section,” she says.