Having been a poster illustrator in the film industry for nearly a decade, Steve Huston switched to fine art in 1989 and began teaching full time at his alma mater, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Then, after 25 years of living in California and establishing successful careers in both commercial and fine art, Steve Huston and his family moved to the open space of Montana.

Huston's latest body of work changes from his earlier depictions of isolated figures to groups of figures celebrating every day laborers and the beauty of the figure in motion. Although his works are multi-figure and highlighted as though they were centered by a spotlight, there is no sense that the figures are interacting.&...