Chandler Gallery is pleased to present Sea, Sand, Sky, a solo exhibition of paintings by painter Mike Piggott, on view from August 16th through September 20th, 2025. We will celebrate with an artist's reception on August 16th from 5 to 7pm. Mike Piggott will be in attendance and all are welcome to attend.
Sea, Sand, Sky presents a series of recent paintings by the Jackson Hole-based artist. Piggott’s paintings operate in a zone of curious stillness, one where his subjects are paused as if suspended in the thick air of recollection, some hybrid space where time simultaneously accumulates and dissolves. In his paintings of beachgoers, tabletops, fruit, flowers, cowgirls and cowboys, and the landscape of the American West, Piggott resists the spectacle of narrative or climax, focusing on presence and a particular, often mundane moment. He is a passionate and visceral viewer, excited and inspired by the places, people and situations he has witnessed. At the center of Piggott’s practice is a devotional attention to being. His work playfully investigates the experience of being human, especially in the everyday awesomeness of nature. His subjects are not necessarily extraordinary, yet in Piggott’s hands they become supernal and elemental. Piggott recreates moments with these subjects, sometimes faithfully, and other times skewed, flattened, or bathed in artificial light, as a means of exploring our experience as beings in time and in nature.
