The Gallery at the Linen Building is a second-floor, loft-style art gallery located inside the Linen Building Event Center. With natural light, warm sunsets and bird's-eye views of Downtown Boise and the Linen District, The Gallery offers artists and art lovers a fresh, unique urban space in which to display and view art.

Since opening in August 2009, The Gallery at the Linen Building has featured several exhibits showcasing the work of some of Idaho's top professional artists, as well as student and faculty artists from Boise State University. If you are interested in exhibiting your work, please review our Submission Guidelines for more information.

ED ANDERSON’S ‘A SKETCH OF IDAHO’

Ed Anderson’s “A Sketch of Idaho” will open at 7 p.m. Friday, February 24, at The Gallery at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District. The exhibit will run through April 19.

“A Sketch of Idaho” showcases around a dozen large-format acrylic paintings and ink drawings. Each placard reveals the inspiration and reason a particular piece exists in Anderson’s life. Anderson also will feature select sketches at the opening to provide viewers a window into his artistic process.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have lived in a sketchbook my entire adult life. Recording the world around me with pen and ink has always felt natural. After many years painting portraits, I have recently found people responding to “my hand.” This has driven me to a line-based painting style relying heavily on my sketchbook musings.  

Moving from the Midwest and not being an Idaho native, the last 10 years have been a blur immersing myself in the outdoors of our state. It is hard to show all of the feelings about all activities in which I have participated. This show is only a small piece of some experiences I have had around the state and how I have come to view some of the places.

ABOUT ED ANDERSON

Ed Anderson (edandersonart.com) is from Minneapolis and moved to Idaho in 2001 with the Air Force. He owns and operates a small private lodge in Valley County and works as a hunting and fishing rep for Jackson Kayak. Recently, he has formed the Fulton Street Showroom (a gallery and artist’s studio in BoDo) and travels the Mountain West selling artwork and enjoying the outdoors. He, his wife and two twin daughters live in East Boise where Anderson has his studio.