Artist Reception: Molly Murphy Adams

Molly Murphy Adams helps audience see beadwork as primary fine art form in new exhibition at Missoula Art Museum. Missoula Art Museum presents Molly Murphy Adams: The Space Between in the Lynda M. Frost Contemporary American Indian Art Gallery. Adams (descendant, Oglala/Lakota) explores Indigenous beadwork historically, philosophically, and visually. The artist uses landscape photographs as a foundation material for beadwork art and also examines the form through assemblages and abstract grids.