Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis

Moth To A Flame

August 22nd - September 13th, 2026 
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 22nd, 7-10 pm

Monte Vista Projects is pleased to present Moth To A Flame, a collaborative installation from artistic team Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis. 

Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis are a collaborative artist team who met on a ceramics field trip in high school in Madison, Wisconsin. During their decades together, they have made artwork in five different states and shown nationally and abroad. They have attended residencies in Vallauris, France, Red Lodge, Montana, Anderson Ranch, Colorado, and Wassaic, New York. Currently, they live in Boise, Idaho, where they teach at College of Western Idaho, for the City of Boise, and curate installations for Treefort Music Fest.

Their work plays with the disconnect between physical, digital, and psychic space, as well as the mythologies behind architectural and product displays. Together, they craft a puzzle of symbols that ask questions with no solution, only sensation. An idea can have more dimension when it is described from two different perspectives, similar to how having two eyes gives us the ability to see depth. Collaboration leaves room for realities beyond the personal, building an environment of belief and trust that extends to the audience.

They begin with intense observation— examining the objects we use, the built environment, flora and fauna, and media spectacle. They examine both the functional and symbolic values of these things, showing the symbolism behind the literal, and creating an absurd reason for interconnectivity that reflects the dissonance between seeing, feeling, knowing, wondering, needing, and being. This work comes from a place of love, confusion, and a desire for peace and truth in the face of persistent violence and misinformation.