http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog Tammy Christel's forum for Teton County Visual Arts, Community Issues, and Trends. Copyrighted. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:10:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bonus Prelude: YouTube Rock Art Epic Sensation! Now, back to work. Perhaps Spring's promise of fresh earth and sky is potent serum for new collaborations.   With Daylight Savings Time just days away, Altamira Fine Art announces a rare two-person show, No Limit. The exhibition joins the work of landscape artists John ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/03/10/limitless-landscapes-felsing-turner-at-altamira/ Two items from the Art Association: Having just read a Jackson Hole News and Guide profile on  Art Association new Executive Director Jennifer Crawford's feeling for space between art and its viewer, it really seems like kismet that a new show, Redefining Space, has opened at Artspace Loft Gallery.  Kismet, or ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/03/07/aa-spaces-out-art-markets-three-ds/ Lately, plein air painter Jen Hoffman has been screeching.  "Scree!"  I suspected she'd mistaken herself for a hawk, but she's just excited about the National Museum of Wildlife Art's upcoming exhibit, Birds of Sage and Scree.  Twenty-seven paintings by artist Greg McHuron with correlating text by writer and conservationist Bert ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/03/03/painter-mchuron-writer-raynes-take-wing/ A huge benefit of Facebook is reconnecting with friends you thought you'd never see or hear from again. I want to tell you about Elizabeth Galindo and her sister Pam.  Elizabeth was my earliest, best childhood friend.  I knew her as Beth Wright; she now goes by Elizabeth, or Liz.   ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/03/01/journal-skirts-commemorate-sister-raise-funds/ Kaidi Dunstan's first show took place some 20 years ago, in a small Deloney Street gallery.   In a matter of hours, the exhibit was close to sold out.  Her first collection of oil paintings, a grouping of still lifes and portrayals of the female human figure were so masterfully painted ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/02/25/london-to-jackson-dunstan-opens-at-tayloe-piggott/ Altamira Fine Art continues its ascent by adding yet another new artist to its roster:  Marshall Noice. Some years ago I wrote about Noice for Planet Jackson Hole. The column went something like this: Noice, who lives and paints in Kallispell, Montana, is a nationally noted artist whose works are part ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/02/21/altamira-welcomes-marshall-noice-hosts-felsing-turner/ Item #1 (With a bullet.) Via Facebook, the Art Association of Jackson Hole has announced a lecture on censorship taking place Thursday, February 18, at the Center for the Arts. The forum is set to be a panel discussion and runs sixty minutes.  Beginning at 5:30 pm and scheduled to end at ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/02/18/arts-censorship-discussion-tuscany-field-trip/ Diehl Gallery features works by artist Angie Renfro now through March 6.   As they've been doing, Diehl is offering collectors a chance to deduct 10% of the cost of any art work towards a particular non-profit.   This show benefits WomensTrust, an organization providing outreach to Ghana, via microfinancing, ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/02/16/angie-renfro-at-diehl-gallery-good-bye-to-center-street-gallery/ As this is the Jackson Hole Art Blog, and not the Irish Artists Look at America Blog, I should probably begin this post with my "Art for Dummies" discovery that Thomas Moran, famed portraitist of Yellowstone, was not the only artist in his family.   In fact, most of his immediate ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/02/12/lonely-planet-of-art-the-other-moran/ Jackson Hole artist September Vhay revisits a familiar theme in a new show, All the Red Horses. On view beginning February 9, the show opens February 11, with a reception from 5-8 pm at Trio Fine Art. Vhay will talk about her art from 5-6 pm. Horses are inextricably associated with ... http://jacksonholearttours.com/ArtBlog/2010/02/08/vhay-paints-the-red-horses/