Panel selects artist for federal courthouse display
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Jason Middlebrook structure - Seeds of Brooklyn, mosaic, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Brooklyn, NY. (Credits: Billings Gazette)
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Panel selects artist for federal courthouse display
An upstate New York artist has been commissioned to create art for the new federal courthouse in Billings.
Jason Middlebrook was selected by a panel of the government's Art in Architecture Program, the General Services Administration announced on Tuesday.
Middlebrook lives and works in Hudson, N.Y., and has had his work displayed at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. "His work has a very enveloping, almost overwhelming quality," said Robyn Peterson, executive director of the Yellowstone Art Museum, who sat on the selection panel. "It really makes you feel like you're in an otherworldly environment." Peterson said several dozen artists applied for the commission, including Montana artists, and Middlebrook was selected from a group of five finalists. U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby also sat on the panel.
Read the rest of the article at the Billings Gazette .
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