Monday, August 08, 2011

Artist creates modern petroglyphs

Kevin Sudeith sculpts and paints the Montana landscape — literally. The Minnesota-born artist has been scratching pictures onto Montana cliffs and painting them for parts of two years. As artists did thousands of years ago, Sudeith creates petroglyphs. Petroglyphs are carvings on rock as opposed to pictographs, which are painted images on rock. Sudeith does both. Like the ancients, Sudeith makes art of things he sees around him and things that interest him. On private property near Ingomar, he has carved into rock images of three pickups, two tractors, a cowboy, a space observatory and a bride and groom on their wedding day...more


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