Embedded in the Overlap

Yellowstone Art Museum
Billings, Montana
April 3, 2026–January 10, 2027

Embedded in the Overlap features work by Rebecca Hutchinson, an award-winning sculptor and three-decade resident of Helena, Montana. The site-responsive exhibition engages directly with Yellowstone Art Museum’s location in Billings, inspired conceptually by aspects of the city’s distinctive character: the history of settlement along the geographically prominent Rimrocks, the industries that sustain its communities, and the dramatic, and often unpredictable, weather of the plains.

For the exhibition, diverse materials from the region such as beet pulp, blue jeans, creek willow, and regional clay are carefully collected and transformed by Hutchinson for artmaking. Much of the organic and fibrous content is boiled, pulped, and poured into large sheets of paper; the paper sheets are further cut, coated in clay, and coiled to build up the vessel forms. In addition to sculpture, printmaking serves as a medium through which Hutchinson expresses her concept of place.