First Friday with Rabbit (artist Maxine Beard) at Bernice’s Bakery

Rabbit, (locally known as artist Maxine Beard) is as messy in her personal life as she is artistically, and is chaotically as organized as her Garden. The human nature of release is a strong theme in her life and art works; as a descendant of generational trauma, story tellers and artists alike, she prefers to let art fill in the blanks which words cannot. Combined with hazy, surreal dreamscapes, dashed with healthy doses of her own history and lore, Rabbit presents her series, “Now and Again, and Again, and..”

In her latest series; we traverse and explore the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Using the manipulation of light, and heavy doses of nostalgia. Combined with the tasty beauty and sexuality that is found in everything, her artworks resemble all of the bits and pieces of things that hold us to this life.

Each piece uniquely portray and reflect their own experiences, individually created with love, alcohol markers, and acrylic paint. With no other copies and or prints in existence, each piece as a “One night stand of the heart”. Her work begrudgingly holds onto, and releases the timeless feeling of past, present, and future.

Her primary medium is using reclaimed wood, scrap paper, ink, alcohol based markers and acrylic. You can find her work year ’round in the beautiful Downtown Missoula, at Upcycled, Local Artistry Shop on The Hip Strip.

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