Sandra Dal Poggetto
Points West: A Convergence
Materials gathered from the land itself.
Bozeman, 2020
Sandra Dal Poggetto's 2020 exhibition with Echo Arts gathered work across six series — Points West, Surprise Creek, Breed, Targhee, American Fork and the first of the Archive canvases — unified by a single conviction: that a painting of the West should contain the West.
A painting of the West should contain the West.Blue grouse and wild turkey feathers, dyed deer hair, buckskin danglers — materials taken in the field — are worked into soft pastel and oil. The intimate Points West panels sit beside monumental canvases like American Fork No. 16 at nearly eight feet, a hunter-painter's archive of participatory engagement with the land. Dal Poggetto returned to Echo Arts in 2024 with Watching from the Inside.
Hunter, painter, archivist of the field.
A landscape painter of the American West, Sandra Dal Poggetto's art embodies a visceral convergence with the natural world. Her abstract paintings are concrete and representational, allusive and lyrical — and built, in part, from the land itself: game-bird feathers, dyed deer hair, and buckskin worked directly into pastel and oil.
Dal Poggetto received her BA from UC Davis and MA from San Francisco State, and resides in Helena, Montana. She has exhibited internationally and is part of museum collections in the West.