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For over twenty years CAROL
HARTMAN'S interactive electronic
installations, dealing with biases and
prejudices, were shown from California
to New York to the Chicago Arts Institute.
Since 2009, her current series of large oil
paintings have been exhibited in multiple
galleries across the U.S. and Europe.
Childhood days on her family
homestead overlooking the Missouri River,
specifically near Fort Kipp and Fort Union,
developed a deep yearning to learn more about those people who have come
before her and how they changed that landscape.
After leaving her faculty assignments teaching Aesthetics and Criticism of
Art at California State University Sacramento and as Gallery Director at CSU
Fresno, she relocated back to her rural roots in Montana in 2009.
Carol has now been on a long-term exploration and visual documentation of
those early homesteading days in the region, the many trails used to travel to
Montana, and how it has altered the American soil. She continues to have two
or three solo museum exhibitions of her large colorful oil paintings each year.
www.carolhartman.biz • carol@carolhartman.biz
Also in August, as a new member of the "Wild Bunch" artists, I will be
joining them at the Hampton Inn Convention Center in Great Falls for an
exhibition August 19-21.
This rest of this year will be about preparing artwork for previously
scheduled solo museum exhibitions and setting aside time to learn more
about our Montana homesteading history. My favorite part is working
with families to preserve their favorite memories of Montana by painting
commissions for them. This, above all else, is most satisfying!
who came before me.
My Father's Field
Homestead Ranch
