Visual Arts Projects in Idaho
Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Program to Boise Art Museum
for the Scott Fife Exhibition.
Boise Art Museum
Big Trouble: The Idaho Project & Shapers Of The 20th Century
February 10 - April 15, 2007
This exhibition borrows its title from Anthony Lukas' book Big Trouble, an extensive study of the legal drama that unfolded following the 1905 assassination of Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. The installation, created by artist Scott Fife, revisits this historical event through a series of sculptural portraits created out of sliced and layered archival cardboard. The cast of characters includes "Big Bill" Haywood, leader of the mineworkers' union; Harry Orchard, the assassin; defense attorney Clarence Darrow; socialist Eugene Debs; and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. The exhibition is being presented in conjunction with Idaho's 100-year anniversary of the Steunenberg murder trial. Additionally, Shapers of the 20th Century will be on view, comprising 12 new sculptures and 11 large-scale drawings by Fife. Each piece depicts a political or social celebrity such as Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Lionel Hampton, and Pablo Picasso.
Scott Fife: The Idaho Project is supported in part through a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts' American Masterpieces program.
Sponsored in part by Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley, LLP and Syringa Bank
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