Craig Blietz: Herd

Herd, Door County artist Craig Blietz’s first solo exhibition at MOWA, features a new body of work of twenty-three large-scale paintings that depict his beloved cows. Created specifically for MOWA’s white-cube gallery, Blietz’s heroic cow parade is the perfect marriage between barnyard chic and SoHo hip. Blietz places his impeccably drawn cows front and center, allowing them to float in a depthless background of muted agrarian symbols, such as sunflowers, corn stalks, and barns. The abstract designs of his cowhides read like boldly patterned canvases within canvases. The resulting scenes—part Barbizon School, part psychedelic, part Robert Motherwell—are a unique contribution to American art and deserve attention beyond the Midwest.

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