Graphite works inspired by Glacier Park visit featured at Good Luck Gallery

Large scale graphite drawings of Glacier National Park will be featured as Good Luck Gallery hosts an exhibit showcasing the work of Amory Abbott.  

Abbott completed an artist residency in Glacier in 2019. The exhibit Lost Forever, Still Known runs from Sept. 6 to Dec. 20. 

An artist reception is on Friday, Sept. 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.  

Lost Forever, Still Known is a series of charcoal and blue graphite works inspired Abbott’s time in Glacier Park. The title Lost Forever, Still Known is from lyrics to the Hozier song Butchered Tongue: “You may never know your fortune until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever, and what can still be known.”  

Abbott is an American visual artist, illustrator and author living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. He teaches illustration at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. 

Besides Glacier, he has completed artist residences in Olympic National Park in Washington and along the northwest coast of Ireland at the Boghill Centre.  

His creative practice primarily addresses the modern West’s relationship to wild places, he says on his website.  

“Through dark and dramatic charcoal landscape drawings, I blend folkloric and mythic themes with contemporary ecological concerns to reveal new perspectives about wilderness,” he says.  

Good Luck Gallery is located at 127 Main St., Kalispell. For more information, visit www.goodluckmt.com.  

    "Mount Oberlin and Bird Woman Falls" by Amory Abbott.