Exhibition: Mary Ann Bonjorni: Head and Heart

Mary Ann Bonjorni is a renaissance woman, equally at home lecturing about the changing pictorial space of modernist painting and spending fourteen-hour days in the saddle watching over livestock on summer range, both a multidisciplinary artist and professional ranch hand. Until her retirement from the University of Montana, she lived simultaneously in two seemingly opposite worlds, in academia and on the ground, ranching labor. It’s easy to imagine that while in either role, the other is so completely foreign as to be inadmissible, but Bonjorni has a transparent passion for living life to the fullest and an honest, insatiable curiosity about people and places, how things work and why. When looking at the breadth and consistency of her work, there is no separation between her art and her life.