Ram Under Plexiglas, Milltown, Montana, 2012

This limited-edition photograph by 2013 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Bryan Schutmaat is from his series, Grays the Mountain Sends. The series describes mining sites and small mountain towns, as well as the people who built them, work in them, and sometimes seek to escape them. Ram Under Plexiglas, Milltown, Montana (2012) symbolizes the complex relationships between nature and culture, man and beast, and wild and tame that are fostered in such western American landscapes. In this image, as with the series as a whole, Schutmaat’s carefully controlled palette and rigorous composition speak to the tensions the photographs represent.

Pigment Print
Image Size: 22 x 27 1/2 inches
Paper Size: 24 x 31 inches
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered by the artist

Bryan Schutmaat (b. 1983, Houston, Texas) completed a BA in history at the University of Houston and received an MFA in photography from the Hartford Art School in Connecticut. Schutmaat’s photographs have been exhibited in such venues as the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Houston Center for Photography; Photo Center Northwest; and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, among many others. His work has been published in American Photo, PDN, Hotshoe International, VICE, The Sunday Times Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, CNN, and elsewhere. In 2013, he won first place in Center’s Gallerist Choice Awards and the grand prize in the Daylight Photo Awards, and he was named a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation.