Here We Have Idaho: Material Matters | S. A. Jones and Astri Snodgrass

Here We Have Idaho: Material Matters is the first exhibition within a new Boise Art Museum program that showcases Idaho-based artists whose artworks broaden the boundaries of contemporary art. This program reimagines how the Boise Art Museum engages with artists and artists engage with our community, while highlighting the role of art and artists in reflecting important ideas of our times.

Boise Art Museum is pleased to introduce S. A. (Sharon) Jones and to showcase her artwork in Idaho for the first time in her artistic career.  Born in 1944, and currently living in a secluded area of eastern Idaho, Jones has been making paintings for more than 50 years.  Her artwork evokes ideas of genetics, cells, otherworldly beings, and the cosmos with vibrant colors painted on irregularly shaped canvases. Boise Art Museum is thrilled to pair Jones’s large-scale paintings with the sculptural artworks of Astri Snodgrass.  Snodgrass was born in 1989 and is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Boise State University.  She paints, sews, knits, and weaves paper sculptures that are gentle yet powerful, whether suspended from the ceiling or displayed on the wall. Through her artwork, Snodgrass suggests that we are all interconnected by unseen threads.  Both artists challenge art traditions and lend expanded definitions to what a painting can be.