makes sculptures and drawings that often resemble landscapes, maps, or graphs, however, they do not disclose information; she is less interested in portraying something and more interested in the friction between materials, images, and reality. She often finds herself reconciling what it means to explore the subjects of landscape and perception today while witnessing increasingly unstable conditions of the environment and human existence. In response, she uses poetics and abstraction to channel doubt and sentience.

Abby Flanagan is an artist, writer, and educator. Her work has been exhibited and presented in an array of art and educational institutions, such as soma, mexico city, mx; fieldworks gallery, visual arts center, austin, tx; maine media gallery, rockport, me; foreground gallery, butte, mt; aunt dofe’s hall of recent memory, willow creek, mt; helen e. copeland gallery bozeman, mt; limerick cchool of art and design, co. limerick ireland, burren college of art gallery co. claire, ireland, waller yoblonski gallery, bozeman mt; and exit gallery, bozeman, mt. she has been awarded residencies with soma summer, vermont studio center (postponed due to covid-19), orein arts, burren college of art, and mildred’s lane.