Hockaday hosts unique video art installations in Landscapes Reimagined exhibit

Landscapes Reimagined an exhibit featuring video art installations by Rachel Rose and Rick Silva will be on display at the Hockaday Museum of Art beginning Nov. 8.  

The installations were loaned to the museum as part of an Art Bridges Foundation grant, which provided funding to incorporate a video response wall where visitors may share their sketches, thoughts and experiences of the installation. The exhibit will be on display through Sept. 20, 2025.  

“Video and animation are the art mediums of the 21st century, and I cannot wait for the public to experience these immersive, imaginative works generously loaned by Art Bridges. They will inspire artists and visitors of all ages,” Hockaday Executive Director Alyssa Cordova said. 

Rose’s room-size video installation, “Lake Valley (2016),” is an enchanting, visually rich animated storybook video, with themes and imagery from classic children’s literature, such as forest landscapes and woodland creatures. The New York-based artist creates a dreamlike story about central themes of childhood stories — imagination, loneliness and longing for personal connection. Through dense collage and cel animation techniques, the artist combines illustrated layers of fantasy and imaginative detail for all ages. 

Rose’s work has been exhibited at prominent venues such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has held solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Galleries in London, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Castello di Rivoli in Turin and Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, according to her bio. 

Brazilian-born artist Silva’s video installation, “Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears (2018),” explores themes of technology, ecology and climate change. The contemporary work reflects the political and ecological threats to four U.S. national monuments, combining aerial drone footage and photogrammetry — the process of capturing images and stitching them together to create a digital model — with 3D animation to create a dystopic nature documentary. 

Silva’s work has been exhibited at institutions including The Centre Pompidou, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Silva lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is an associate professor at The University of Oregon.  

Accompanying the installations will be 16 contemporary landscape from the Hockaday’s permanent collection. Artists from Freeman Butts and Charles Davis, to King Kuka, Neil Parsons and Theodore Waddell, explore modern reinterpretations of classic and traditional landscape painting through new media, impressionistic styles and abstraction. 

Admission to the museum is $10. Members are free. 

As part of the grant funding, educators from surrounding Flathead and Blackfeet Reservation schools are invited to tour the exhibit and participate in a hands-on printmaking and animation project. People interested in organizing a class tour and bussing to the museum should contact Hockaday Education Director Kathy Martin at education@hockadaymuseum.com. 

The museum is located at 302 Second Ave. E. in Kalispell. For more information, call 755-5268 or visit www.hockadaymuseum.com. 

    "Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bear Ears (detail)," by Oregon-based artist Rick Silva. Runtime is 18 minutes and 32 seconds. (Image courtesy of Rick Silva)