By Anja ClausMinding Nature, Fall 2018, Volume 11, Number 3 Sandra Dal Poggetto and I spoke over the phone for this interview, me on the urban Chicago end and Sandra from the wilds of Montana on the other. She is a landscape artist with a different understanding of landscape paintings—her landscapes cross-temporal and spatial scales,…
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Montana Museum of Art and Culture Excerpts from the conversation (time: 9.19)
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By Sandra Dal Poggetto Center for Humans and Nature In the bottom of a high plains coulee, it’s wild. No plow reaches this place. Sound is quieted yet strangely amplified. Depending on the coulee’s depth, I am a bit frightened. But often there are deer beds in the soft grasses, perhaps sharp-tailed grouse, and I…
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By Michele CorrielWestern Art & Architecture Abstract artist Sandra Dal Poggetto’s work speaks of the land in a visual language that includes game-bird feathers, deer hides, and oil pigments made from plants, soil and bone. She composes a narra-tive of the landscape — of being surrounded by sky, grass and wind, and the awareness of…
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By Zoe Larkins, assistant curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Included as part of a gallery catalogue. A published writer and skilled hunter as well as a visual artist, Sandra Dal Poggetto has written about themes in her fine art practice and hunting, often at the same time. In an essay she wrote to accompany…
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By Brandon Reintjes, curator for MMAC Brandon Reintjes: First of all, can you briefly describe your studio practice? Sandra Dal Poggetto: I generally work five days a week, sometimes weekends. I rise early and finish by lunch time. Sometimes I go back in the afternoon. BR: When you make a single painting, I’ve observed that you do…
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By Sandra Dal PoggettoBasalt Literary Journal Northern California’s coastal hills and valleys where I grew up are smaller in scale and gentler than the Rocky Mountains where I now live. As a girl, there was much to explore, imagine and discover in the chaparral and mixed oak forests that surrounded my home. The native peoples…
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By Mark StevensFrom the catalog accompanying Sandra Dal Poggetto’s solo exhibition, In Situ, mounted by the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, in 2002-2003. For any thoughtful painter, the landscape of the American West is a hauntingly difficult subject. Its visual scale cannot be captured in a rectangle. And its metaphysical character, suffused by the visionary dreams…
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By Sandra Dal PoggettoGray’s Sporting Journal For millennia, painting and hunting have been among the most fundamental expressions of human culture, yet today their relevance is seriously being questioned in this time of radical technological change. In our modern world, one might ask why I, or anyone, would choose to be a painter of landscape—…
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