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Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 2010: GO!
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The 2010 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival begins Thursday, September 9! The Jackson Hole Art Blog will post a calendar in 3-day increments. This post lists FAF events for September 9-11, 2010.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Western Design Conference Lecture Series: Three 1-hour accredited talks, open to the public as well as the design community. Free with purchase of Gallery Exhibit Sale Day Pass, $15. Center for the Arts, Downtown Jackson. Noon-3:00 pm. You may buy tickets at the door or visit www.westerndesignconference.com.
Western Design Conference Gala Event: Fashion Jewelry Show. Live model jewelry show, runway fashion show featuring western style couture. Awards over
$22,000 in cash to best new designs. Gala follows. Center for the Arts. Doors open 6:00 pm. Fashion Show: 7:15 pm. (Drink up and buy up, ya’ll!) Tickets: $125, $100, $75. Reserved seating. 307.733.4900 or jhcenterforthearts.com.
Galleries West Fine Art’s 8th Fall Round Up
This annual group show features new works by the entire roster of Galleries West artists. Artist’s reception takes place during the Wednesday (September 15) night ARTwalk.307.733.4412 www.gallerieswestjacksonhole.com
Mountain Trails Gallery Robert Hagan One Man Show – Final Day of Show. 307.734.8150 www.mtntrails.net
RARE Gallery “Art for the New West” Group Show, September 9-19. Featuring the truck tail gate pieces of rising star Michael Kalish, as well as the works of other contemporary western artists. www.raregalleryjacksonhole.com. 307.733.8726
Wilcox Gallery Both gallery locations exhibiting Wildlands and Wildlife Show through Thursday, September 30. 307.733.6450 www.wilcoxgallery.com
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Western Design Conference Exhibition and Sale
18th Annual Western Design Conference Gallery Exhibit Sale
Impressive exhibition of western furniture, home accessories and fashion, Bringing together artists, scholars, collectors, interior designers, architects and fashion designers.
10:00am-5:00pm at the Snow King Pavillion. Tickets at the door; $15 day pass. www.westerndesignconference.com
Trio Fine Art Demonstration
Come watch artists Lee Carlman Riddell, Kathryn Mapes Turner, and September Vhay, with special guest artists Kay Stratman and Shannon Troxler. 3-5:00 pm. www.triofineart.com.
Studio Tours
Get up a carpool of friends and enjoy this self-guided tour of area artist studios. Visit painters, glass blowers, metal forgers, ceramicists. 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Contact Laurie Thal at 307.733.5096 or visit www.thalglass.com. A special Studio Tours Reception takes place at the Center for the Arts, 5-8:00 pm. www.jacksonholechamber.com/images/adobe/FAF2010StudioTour.pdf
Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk
Perhaps the most notorious and fun FAF event. All (more than 30!) of Jackson’s galleries pair with local restaurants to showcase fine art and delectable food and wine. Free, open to the public! Officially begins at 5pm, and officially ends at 8pm. Some galleries remain open later. Walk and wine responsibly! Featured galleries are:
David Brookover Gallery The gallery hosts a special benefit for the Sheriff and Police search and rescue departments and K9 dog units. $10 admission, with all proceeds benefiting those organizations. View Brookover’s new platinum photographs, enjoy special Amangani fare. www.davidbrookover.com.
Tayloe Piggott Gallery Wolf Kahn: Refractions of Light, Paintings and Pastels. Converging color and light to create atmospheric and sensual pictorial fields, (Kahn’s) paintings evoke the ethereal world of nature even when they are not visibly representational. In the mid 1950s Kahn, as a Second Generation member of the New York School, was part of a core group of artists reinterpreting life. www.tayloepiggottgallery.com.
Diehl Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Canadian painter Les Thomas. Thomas described his style as a hybrid of abstraction and representation. The imagery he places in his pictures are the pretexts he needs to further explore pictorial possibilities. This show will benefit the Jackson Hole Land Trust, a 501(c ) (3) organization established in 1980 to preserve open space and the scenic, ranching and wildlife values of Jackson Hole by assisting landowners who wish to protect their land in perpetuity. Collectors are invited to write 10% of the acquisition cost of works in this show directly to the Land Trust.
5:00pm-9:00pm
307.733.0905, www.diehlgallery.com
Cayuse Cayuse is highlighting early works inspired by National Parks, focusing on Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon National Parks. The show explores some of the first work, commissioned by the United States Government. www.cayusewa.com
Teton Art Lab, Center for the Arts: 5:30-7:30 pm. Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Alex Katz, Richmond Burton, and Robert Cottingham prints by master printer Karl Hecksher of K5 Editions. Hand carved and entirely hand printed masterworks by world famous artists. (Note: A recent New Yorker Magazine article by neurologist/artist/author Oliver Sacks identifies Close as having life-long prosopagnosia, a condition blocking the ability to recognize faces. Sacks quotes Close: “I don’t know who anyone is and essentially have no memory at all for people in real space. But when I flatten them out in a photograph I can commit that image to memory.”) www.tetonartlab.com.
Legacy Gallery showcases a One Man Show featuring Kyle Polzin (all paintings will be sold by draw). 5:00-8:00pm. 307.733.2353, www.legacygallery.com
Wild by Nature Gallery features new works by nature photographer Henry H. Holdsworth. Show remains up through September 19. 307.733.8877, www.wildbynaturegallery.com. 5-8:00 pm.
Astoria Fine Art Ewoud de Groot. Artist Reception 5-8:00 pm. 307.733.4016 www.astoriafineart.com
Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee Concert and Dance Party
Celebrate the West at the 9th Annual Premier Music and Poetry Roundup. Enjoy award-winning artists Juni Fisher, Patty Clayton, Al ‘Doc’ Mehl, and The All Star Cowboy Dance Band, featuring top-tier local singer songwriters and musicians. Join in the finale by gathering on stage for a true Western dance party
. Center for the Arts, 8:00pm, $28 307.733.4900 or www.jacksonholecowboyjubilee.org.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Happy Birthday, Dad!
18th Annual Western Design Conference Gallery Exhibit Sale The lollapalooza exhibition of western furniture, home accessories and fashion continues. The Pavilion at Snow King Resort, 10:00am-5:00pm. Tickets at the door $15 day pass. www.westerndesignconference.com
Studio Tours A second chance to spend the day visiting artist studios throughout the valley. Download the self-guiding map here. Contact Laurie Thal at 307.733.5096.
Historic Ranch Tours Visit historic valley ranches, where Jackson Hole’s cowboy heritage still thrives. The tour is complete with cowboys, Western entertainment, and a good ol’ fashioned barbeque. Hosted by Mountain Living magazine. Busses leave Jackson’s Home Ranch parking lot at 2:00pm. $50 307.733.3316 or 307.699.3868
Legacy Gallery Artist Focus Show featuring Robert Coombs and Josh Elliott. 307.733.2353, www.legacygallery.com
A Horse of a Different Color showcases Sandy Graves’ contemporary bronze sculpture through September 30. Artist reception 4-7:00 pm. 307.734.9603 www.ahorseofadifferentcolorgalleryjh.com
West Lives On Gallery presents a One Man Show “Capturing Wyoming On Canvas,” by Reid Christie; artist’s reception 2-5:00 p.m. Show runs through September 12. 307.734.2888 www.westliveson.com
Artists in the Park Come join Kathy Wipfler and the Grand Teton Association for a free plein air demonstration of her painting techniques.
Kathy’s oil paints on large canvases and has two paintings hanging in The Whitney Museum of Western Art in Cody, WY. Locally, her work can be found at Trailside Galleries. www.kathywipfler.com. 3-6pm, Chapel of the Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park. Bring a chair, a snack and watch Wipfler capture the majesty of Jackson’s Hole. 307.739.3606.
That’s the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival calendar through September 11, 2010. Fall Arts Festival calendar listings for September 12-15, 2010 follow soon! ~TC
Jackson artists Shannon Troxler and Kay Stratman open their joint show Resonance at Trio Fine Art, with an artists’ reception on Thursday, September 9, 5-8:00 pm. Troxler and Stratman will host a conversation from 6:30-7:00 pm. On display September 7, the show runs through September 19, 2010.
“Resonance” refers to the ability to evoke or suggest images, memories and emotions. Travel, exotic world destinations, equally exotic birds and animals and sensitive interpretations of the natural world comprise this show. Both artists are painters; Stratman works in the sumi-e style of watercolor painting, while Troxler uses a variety of painting mediums. Some of her paintings combine oils on silver or gold leaf on board; these works lend an Asian sensibility to Troxler’s work. She plans to include a completed gold leaf screen in this 
exhibition.
While Troxler’s work is often big, bold, splashed with color, gilded, and rich—Stratman’s style is minimalist, a haiku. Stratman’s employing sumi-e links the two artists, and the show has a unified theme inspired by ancient Japanese painting traditions.
Trio Fine Art’s Fall Arts Festival calendar also includes artist demonstrations during September 10th’s Palates and Palettes gallery walk, and on September 12 & 14. Yum, a FAF “farewell” brunch Sept. 19, 11a – 3p. ….Special gallery hours are in effect during the residence of Resonance; check the gallery for details. 307.734.4444.
Websites I visited that were alternately up and running or works in progress at this writing are: www.triofineart.com, www.shannontroxler.net and www.kaystratman.com.
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Robert Coombs is Legacy Gallery’s artist in the spotlight this Fall Arts Festival. September 11-20, immerse yourself in the concept of the Romantic West — Coombs, a Utah native, is noted for his tender,
figurative paintings of women and children. If you wish, you could say this Western artist has taken a path less traveled by embracing the warmth and humanity that women and children must often provide when life in the West becomes a tad hard bitten. Coombs paints portraits of the women and children of today’s West, as well as those whose lives are now part of a rich pioneering history.
Coombs says that a life altering event occurred when he viewed the original works of Edwin Austin Abbey’s Shakespearean subjects on display at the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. “For the first time in my life I could actually feel the emotional impact and power that painting could impart. I decided to seek after those attributes in my own work.” Expect to view at least eight new works.
An artist’s reception takes place September 11, 1-4:00 pm.
Legacy will follow the Coombs showcase with its annual “Legacy of Nature” Group Show and Sale, opening September 17; a reception takes place that day from 1-4:00 pm. Wildlife is the theme, and this exhibition includes works by these noted artists: Ken Bunn, Ken Carlson, Julie T. Chapman, Michael Coleman, Luke Frazier, Brian Grimm, Carol Hagan, Krystii Melaine, Eugene Morelli, Chad Poppleton, Tim Shinabarger, George D. Smith, Trevor Swanson, and Brett Smith.
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The Art Association continues its relatively new embrace of plein air painting with its exhibition On Location with the Plein Air Painters of America, on display now through September 6, 2010. Fifty paintings will be on exhibition and for sale. An opening reception takes place September 3, 5:30 pm.
As the Fall Arts Festival connotes romance, so does the Plein Air Painters of America (PAPA) history. The group was founded in California, inspired by the California Impressionists. Color, light and quality of work are the organization’s hallmarks.
From their website: “In 1982 Ruth Westphal published the resource book Plein-Air Painters of California The Southland, followed four years later by The Northland. Major collections were being built, and prices for historic paintings were rising. Burns, who was president of the Catalina Art Association at the time, felt the moment had arrived to educate collectors about contemporary artists pursuing the art of painting from life.”
Craig Spankie, a long time Art Association contributing artist, opens his show Export Quality on Friday, September 10, at 5:30 p.m.
“I try to limit my involvement with the materials as much as possible – not destroy the unique nature of something, but create simplicity by combining color, texture and space,” says New 
Zealander Spankie. The artist works with raw materials, and quite a bit of lugging and tugging went into shaping this particular show. Two years in the making, Spankie says that this collection has been put together in Jackson and New Zealand. A large quantity of work was too large to reasonably transport between the two locations, so Spankie downsized.
The work ended up being “small enough to fit into his checked baggage, that required a maximum weight of 46kg. Spankie ”emptied years of collected contents from his shed onto an animal grazed front paddock to create most of Export Quality. Work was proudly created in New Zealand with unique and unsophisticated materials, giving a raw, real sense to the viewer.”
The Art Association notes that due to a special event, this exhibit will not be available to view Sept. 13-16.
Also coming up at the Art Association: Chuck Close.
