PIXoils™ Artworks Spirit Catcher and Fort Mountain move to C.M. Russell Museum, as part of Gilleon Retrospective

After nine months at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, two PIXoils™ digital canvas artworks were unveiled at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. Fort Mountain features a monumental Montana landscape going through four seasons of change, and Spirit Catcher captures the imposing portraiture of many Native Americans of the late 1800s-1910s with expressive color and enrichment.

From October 2024 to March 2025, they will be featured as a part of the retrospective Inner Light: The Art of Tom Gilleon.

Patrons and friends of the museum were treated to a special preview evening to enjoy the retrospective before it opened to the general public. This museum brought the digital artworks close to the land that inspired them, and the Western Spirit that is still alive today. The real Fort Mountain was only a few miles away, under an autumn moon.

PIXoils™ digital canvas artworks are a form of pioneering: embracing the heart of the American West, reaching beyond known realms and exploring, adventuring, and innovating. Don’t Fence Me In.

For information on PIXoils™ and current projects on the drawing board, contact:

Hannah Monroe: Artist Development & Communications

hannah@mixonium.com

PIXoils™ Digital Piece Spirit Catcher Unveiled at Smithsonian-Affiliate Booth Western Art Museum

On a cool Georgia winter day at the Smithsonian-affiliate Booth Western Art Museum, the latest addition to the contemporary gallery was revealed. This monumental PIXoils™ digital canvas triptych - Spirit Catcher - is a groundbreaking collaboration between artists Tom Gilleon, Marshall Monroe, and Hannah Monroe. The artwork is on loan from the collection of Howard and Anne Schutte, displayed for all visitors to the museum to enjoy.

The triptych has also been on display at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, as a part of Inner Light: The Art of Tom Gilleon.

Attendees to the Booth Museum enjoyed a special presentation on digital art by Marshall and Hannah Monroe, focusing on the elevated use of technology, the higher purpose of art, and how they approach PIXoils™ fine art with a “what would Rembrandt do?” perspective. The PIXoils™ team discussed their view of technology and digital art as a development of artistic tools that must be explored and charted - something that must be guided by artistic principles, not the other way around.

The presentation ended with a live demonstration of digital sketching and painting by Hannah Monroe, after which the attendees went upstairs to enjoy the full PIXoils™ digital art experience of Spirit Catcher. The hardwood floors of the contemporary gallery gave perfect reverberation to the immersive soundscape of the artwork, as attendees experienced the rich, dynamic visual elements.

For information on the new platform advancements and commission projects on the drawing board, contact:

Hannah Monroe: Artist Development & Communications

hannah@mixonium.com

PIXoils™ Presents: A New Collaboration Work from R. Tom Gilleon and Marshall Monroe

  Under a blazing orange, red, and pink sunset in the Arizona sky, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West held a VIP reception featuring the unveiling of the latest PIXoils™ digital canvas - a triptych.  The work, entitled Spirit Catcher, is a collaboration between contemporary Western artist R. Tom Gilleon, and PIXoils creator-founder Marshall Monroe. 

 Special guests were invited to a unique installation exhibit entitled, Inner Light:  An R. Tom Gilleon Retrospective, with over 70 original works from Gilleon’s multi-decade fine art career.

  To kick off the event, the new PIXoils™ Digital Canvas work was unveiled via a dramatic kabuki-style curtain drop, complete with the audience providing a countdown.  The museum’s esteemed leadership was on hand to mark the unveiling.

Marshall Monroe discusses the new work with collectors and VIP guests at the event.

Spirit Catcher is an expansion of the PIXoils™ Digital Canvas and immersive PIX.Salon platform technologies, allowing for multiple surfaces and more experiential systems for discerning collectors at the corporate, private, and public institution levels.

“Our philosophy for technology in fine art takes its cue from one of the greatest Western songs of all time by Cole Porter, … ‘Don’t Fence Me In,’” said Monroe in his remarks to the crowd before the unveiling.  “That’s how we’re approaching this new world.  And we just getting started with what is possible as we drive the evolution of storytelling and original media artistic expression.”

These works are not simple reproductions of historic artworks, rather they consist of all original imagery, brushwork, compositing, visual effects, animated sequences, and computer graphics imagery - all set to an original symphony score and sound effects spatial audio experience.  The result is something utterly new - an artistic dreamlike experience that brings audiences closer to the campfire and night sky communal encounters of the world “out west.”

The exhibition, which will be at the museum for the next six months, also features a single-panel PIXoils™ collaborative work from Gilleon and Monroe entitled Fort Mountain.  The Fort Mountain piece features an expansive landscape horizon from Montana and presents four seasons of times passage in that setting.  The sequence includes thunderstorms, a full-moon nocturne, and even a white-out blizzard.

For information on the new platform advancements and commission projects on the drawing board, contact:

Hannah Monroe: Artist Development & Communications

hannah@mixonium.com

PIXoils™ Featured in Tom Gilleon Retrospective at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West

The world premier of Spirit Catcher will be taking place at the 70-painting career retrospective of Tom Gilleon at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West.

Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West

A master of color and composition, R. Tom Gilleon manipulates formal elements to depict time-honored Western themes in new and inventive ways. His evocative perceptions of reality feature bold luminous color and economy of detail. His trademark tipi paintings suggest a mythical glow, as if illuminated by the moon or glowing embers within.

Spirit Catcher digital triptych - powered by PIXoils™

The Gilleon show will feature two digital canvas artworks, both collaborations with Marshall Monroe, inventor of the PIXoils™ Digital Canvas platform.

Spirit Catcher is a monumental 22-minute digital triptych featuring landscapes, portraiture, and various visual transformations, all integrated with an original multi-dimensional sound score.

The work contains images taken by famed photographer Edward S. Curtis, re-interpreted in vivid contemporary color and painterly texture.

The show will also include single-panel masterworks Hungry Fox Equinox, Fort Mountain, and Flute of the Loon.

Fort Mountain - powered by PIXoils™

PIXoils™ digital canvas artworks are shown in Montana, Wyoming, and in various private, corporate, and museum collections. Monumental editions can be found in the permanent collections of the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT, and in the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA.

Hungry Fox Equinox - powered by PIXoils™

For more information on the museum show or acquisition of PIXoils™ platform artworks, contact Hannah Monroe at hannah@mixonium.com

PIXoils™ Digital Canvas Featured in Prestigious Montana Trails Exhibition

Three large format PIXoils™ digital masterworks, Fort Mountain, Hungry Fox Equinox, and Flute of the Loon are being featured in the 2022-2023 winter gallery exhibition at Montana Trails Gallery in Bozeman, MT.

Still frame of Fort Mountain during dusk.

The works feature the visual artistry of Marshall McLaury Monroe in the unique collaborative environment made possible by the platform. The gallery show, Big Medicine, opened Friday, November 18, and will be on display at Montana Trails through the new year.

“PIXoils™ is a voyage of discovery in the digital frontier,” noted Marshall McLaury Monroe in reflecting on the new milestones being reached with the platform. “So it’s great we can showcase it here in the American West. We’re inventing a new experience; truly path-finding fine art using dynamic visual and acoustic sensory environments. We’ve only begun to explore what we can do with these new tools we’re creating, and we love sharing the pieces working with great partners like Maria Abad and the Montana Trails Gallery.”

Still frame from Flute of the Loon at the beginning of the daytime cycle.

Bozeman is a fitting setting for these masterworks, as it has been a hub of the West since its founding in the mid-1800s. Today Bozeman serves as the gateway to the resort town of Big Sky, the Lone Peak recreation areas, and the prestigious Yellowstone Club. PIXoils™ is a platform uniquely positioned to help convey and even embody the spirit of the West with digital canvas. The works range from 10 to 19 minutes in duration, and feature seasons, atmospheric effects, and intriguing narrative moments.

“We’re excited about this show, as the opportunity to showcase our Digital Canvas vision in such a historic and sophisticated venue. We have multiple collectors of these works in the Yellowstone Club and now we’re making this amazing new sensory experience available to a broader community of art lovers,” said Hannah Monroe, speaking at the opening evening reception.

Still frame from Hungry Fox Equinox featuring the Aurora Borealis.

Montana Trails Gallery can be reached at (406) 586-2166 or on montanatrails.com.

CONSERVATORi Editions Showcased in Del Mar Gallery

PIXOils™ Fine Artworks are the centerpiece of a new gallery in Del Mar, Southern California. The gallery is on Camino Del Mar Boulevard along the coast among luxury retail and many dynamic restaurants. The gallery is intermittently open for walk-in viewing but also is reservation only via the Gilleon Reserve Website.

Hungry Fox Equinox - Original PIXoils™ Fine Art Canvas with R. Tom GIlleon

The Del Mar Gallery unit features multiple digital canvas masterworks by R. Tom Gilleon with Marshall Monroe, as well as an elite collection of traditional media works by artists Greg Woodard and Todd Connor. The gallery also showcases the CONSERVATORi™ Original Series works by Marshall Monroe, including the forest stream/river survey “Swan & Gallatin,” the tropical island journeys of “Maui Napili” and “Kauai Napali,” the mountain splendor of “Yellowstone” National Park, and the Southern California survey “Coronado Del Mar.”

PIXoils™ CONSERVATORi - Swan & Gallitan Edition on Display in Del Mar Gallery

The gallery is in a gorgeous location with view of the ocean from the front door, making it an ideal two-day shopping and relaxation and sight-seeing destination for collectors.

Front of the Gilleon Reserve Fine Art Gallery in Del Mar, Southern California

The Gilleon Reserve - Gallery Sign

CONSERVATORi - Coronado Del Mar Edition 1 of 24 //SOLD//

PIXoils™ Digital Fine Artworks is proud to announce the sale of edition No. 1 of the new Coronado Del Mar CONSERVATORi series. The private collector in San Diego area will be showing the artwork in a professional setting, including a custom PIXoils™ specialty decor interiors fit-out.

The Coronado Del Mar CONSERVATORi original artwork has a run time of 3 hrs and 2 minutes, with imagery of serene ocean settings and coastal biomes. This work also includes a dramatic black and white Chiaroscuro sequence.

Coronado Del Mar is a series of reflections on the coastal climate and its diversity of lighting and color conditions throughout a summer period. The work is installed at 46” H x 72” W and with programmed auto ON and OFF.