Posts Tagged ‘Fall Arts Festival’
Summer, season of the sagebrush, presents a fine opportunity to visit Trailside Galleries’ annual show Salute to Summer.
Salute to Summer is considered by many in Jackson’s arts community to be summer’s official arts scene opener. Opening June 6, the show runs through June 26; an artists’ reception will be held at Trailside on Thursday, June 23, 5-8:00 pm. Known for its exceptional roster of historical and contemporary Western artists, the gallery is also the Jackson home of the Fall Arts Festival season’s Jackson Hole Art Auction.
2011′s Salute to Summer showcases diverse new work by all gallery artists. A partial list of participating artists includes Bonnie Marris, Ralph Oberg, Robert 
Moore, Matt Smith, Dan Mieduch, Bill Anton, Kyle Sims, Jim Norton, Howard Rogers, Nicholas Coleman, Brent Cotton, and Z.S. Liang, among many others.
Trailside’s Managing Partner Maryvonne Leshe is featured in Southwest Art’s May 2011 issue, 40 Prominent People in the Western Art World. Leshe says that her proudest achievements include weathering tough economic times and developing successful careers for new artists, such as Kyle Sims. The biggest changes she’s seen in the art world are “the number of museums entering the market,” competing with galleries for artists’ work, and a growing group of younger collectors interested in buying more contemporary Western art.
For information, contact Dawn Meckem. 307.733.3186. www.trailsidegalleries.com
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“I begin with a realistic focus—the photograph—and use this as a vehicle to express a mood or an aspect of the human condition. Then, by extending the colors and the textures found in the photograph, I can create a world from my own imagination, the results bordering on the surreal.” – Robin Winfield
I recently visited the storybook town of Carmel, California. The town has so many galleries that, in 2004, its council passed an ordinance dictating that no new galleries may open. The ratio of galleries to residents then was 1:34; Carmel has over 120 art galleries.
One artist whose work stands out is Robin Winfield. Her sunny gallery, just off Ocean Avenue and tucked down a whitewashed pathway, beckons. I’d estimate her shop is 200 square feet, and chock full of her architecture-inspired photograph/paintings. Winfield’s love of photography and archictecture meet in her portraits of buildings, doorways, signage, and interpretations of other works of art. A St. Louis native, Winfield has traveled the world and the U.S., documenting cities across
Europe and Mexico. Her work does connote the surreal; Surrealism uses images from the subconcscious to create works depicting everyday objects in ways that challenge our sense of reality. Winfield’s manipulated paintings of city details and doorways remind me most of Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Town Squares series. Winfield’s works do not interpret the human form; she prefers transforming city buildings and streets.
Enigmatic and mystical, these paintings pay homage to the arches, doorways, paved streets, buildings and storehouses Winfield encounters. Palaces, porticos, power lines, Buddhas and trolley tracks are all re-imagined via the artist’s unique process.
From photographic slides Winfield makes “full frame, archival, laminated prints,” and adheres them to board. She treats the surrounding surfaces with a spackle-like material, preparing them for paint. “Usually I do not paint on the photograph, although there are exceptions,” notes Winfield. ”I paint out from the 
photograph, creating a surreal or different reality [that surrounds] the photo, the focal point.”
Winfield’s works are evocative, beautiful, meditative.
Contact Robin Winfield by phoning 831.601.0725 or emailing robinwinfield@hotmail.com. Log on to her website: www.robinwinfield.com
On May 19, as part of New York’s auction season, Sotheby’s holds its American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Auction. Featured in this year’s sale is Thomas Moran’s 1902 oil on canvas landscape Coconino Pines and Cliffs, Arizona. Measuring 26 x 32″, the painting is estimated to sell, according to one source at
$800/1,200,000. At last look, Sotheby’s posted an estimate of $500,000 – $700,000.
For American artists, the era was an opportunity for noted landscapists to be commissioned by railroads interested in promoting cross country travel, and America’s national parks held great allure, both as destination and as artistic subject. Moran is said to have accompanied a group of 12 or more artists commissioned by the Santa Fe Railroad. The expedition took them to the Grand Canyon; the railroad’s line had a starting point at Williams, Arizona. Moran enjoyed exploring other areas in Arizona as a benefit of his affiliation with the Santa Fe line.
Other works auctioned include Georgia O’Keeffe’s Inside Clam Shell, estimated at $3.5 million – the painting is the “star” of the auction. John Singer Sargent’s In a Gondola has an estimate of $1.5-$2.5 million; Remington’s Mountain Man, Cast No. 6, estimated at $700-$900,000; and N.C. Wyeth’s Waite Seized Him and Swung Him On High, $250-$350,000.
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First: Thank you, Diehl Gallery, for sending me SO MANY IMAGES WITHOUT MY HAVING TO ASK YOU! That never happens.
The Sixth Annual Fete at Diehl Gallery – June 5
5-9 p.m.
Season-Opening All-Artist Show featuring
new works by gallery artists
June 23 & 24
Ashley Collins Preview
6-9 p.m. (6/23)
Ticketed preview to benefit Teton Science Schools;
Call Laurel Wyckoff at Teton Science Schools for
information and tickets: 307.734.3766
Ashley Collins Public Opening (6/24)
5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through July 14
July 17 
Chris Reilly
5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through July 30
July 31
Monica Petty Aiello and Tyler Aiello
5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through August 13
August 14
David Banegas
5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through August 27
August 28
Dirk De Bruycker
5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through September 9
September 10 Les Thomas
5-8 pm
(In conjunction with Palates and Palettes and the JH Fall Arts Festival) Exhibition runs through September 30
INFO: 
307-733-0905
info@diehlgallery.com
www.diehlgallery.com
(Picasso!) Pablo Picasso’s ”Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” which had a pre-sale estimate of between $70 million and $90 million, sold the evening of May 4 for $106.5 million, a new world record for any artwork sold at auction. New York Auction house Christie’s hammered the sale to an as yet unidentified buyer. Christie’s auction house on Tuesday evening to an unidentified telephone bidder.
The Washington Post reports that “There were nine minutes of bidding involving eight clients in the sale room and on the phone, Christie’s said. At $88 million, two bidders remained. The final bid was $95 million, but the buyer’s premium took the sale price to $106.5 million.
Conor Jordan, head of impressionist and modern art for Christie’s New York, said he was “ecstatic with the results.”
“Tonight’s spectacular results showed the great confidence in the marketplace and the enthusiasm with which it welcomes top quality works,” he said.
The striking work of Picasso’s muse and mistress Marie-Therese Walter has been exhibited in the United States only once, in 1961 in Los Angeles to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Picasso’s birth. The painting, which measures more than 5 feet by 4 feet, shows a reclining nude figure with an image of Picasso in the background looking over her.”
This is really special. Writer/Conservationist/Activist/Friend Cate Cabot has sent word that world renowned biologist artist Patricia Johanson will speak at the Jackson Hole Community School on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 5:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
This is a talk everyone who feels the Town of Jackson should evolve with consideration to new urbanism, and as a sustainable and cultural reflection of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, need attend. These are the ideas and concepts crucial to how Jackson, now an urban entity, can become a model of sustainable, artful urban existence in the midst of protected land. Jackson leaders mandate must be this: to consider all indigenous and cultural qualities of our region in their civic planning.
A wonderful story: Johanson used her time with her young children wandering the woods and open spaces. As her children explored, she created biological, artful field sketches of the places they visited. According to Cabot, Johnson’s “small artistically stunning 
studies became what her earlier vision had anticipated, massive functional interactive installations which incorporate sculpture with local natural history and the cultural story line of an area with the intent to resolve a problem…”
A problem, in Johanson’s case, is defined as polluted water and heavily polluted land sites. Johanson has worked to design passive natural filters for dirtied waters, and restore it as potable. She also creates systems that reclaim crucial habitat shared by mankind and myriad species.
“Her work is jaw dropping in scale, composition, effectiveness, beauty and comprehensive synthesis,” says Cabot. “These installations have regenerated environments all over the world with many works completed, many more under development. I think
of Thomas Berry’s perspective, that “we humans are genetically coded for beauty” when I consider Patricia Johanson’s work.”
Descriptions of Johanson’s book, Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson’s Environmental Projects , published in association with the Islands Institute, praise her environmental solutions expanding, healing and softening sites ranging from congested waterfronts to urban wastelands. Johanson’s designs are accepted as important new models for the reclamation of gardens and parks eroded by neglect, lighting the way for new sustainable, integrative landscapes.
Johanson’s book is available at the Teton County Library.
For more information about May 4th’s event, contact Sarah Drake at 307.733.5427.
To read other posts relating to landscape and planning, an invitation is extended to search this site using any of these key words: Urban Planning, Landscape, Placemaking or Walter Hood.
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The Jackson Hole Art Auction is back, returning to the J.H. Center for the Arts Theater, on Saturday, September 18, 2010. I believe the Auction is still open for consignments–last year’s cut off date was June 1. The Jackson Hole Art Auction is its own entity and is produced by the partnership of Trailside and Gerald Peters Galleries. It is a pinnacle event of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.
As anyone who has attended this auction knows, it is the real thing. The Auction features “Past and Present Masters of the American West,” focusing on historically recognized artists, according to the Auction’s Emma Zanetti. Lots auctioned in past sales include works by the Taos Society of Artists, and deceased Masters. Artists you may recognize include, but are not limited to C.M. Russell, Albert Bierstadt, Maynard Dixon, Charlie Dye, Frederic Remington, John Clymer, Bob Kuhn, Carl Rungius, Donald Teague, Olaf Wieghorst, and more. Top contemporary artists include William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, Clark Hulings, Z.S. Liang, Bill Owen, Jim Norton, Kenneth Riley, Mian Situ, Howard Terpning, Jie Wei Zhou and others.
Last year’s solid auction sales totaled just under $6 million. To talk with the Auction about consignments, stop by Trailside Galleries in Jackson (130 East Broadway) or email Emma Zanetti at registrar@jacksonholeartauction.com.
“I love the way my gallery looks right now; it looks like a New York gallery!” – Tayloe Piggot
J.H. Muse Gallery’s Tayloe Piggot made that comment a few years back; the gallery was then housed in its former West Broadway space. But, far from moving away from aligning herself with NYC’s mega-arts culture, she continues to reach out, looking to translate that city’s contemporary energy to Jackson Hole’s art scene.
To that end, she and arts specialist Camille Obering present “Influences of Nature on Abstraction,” opening at J.H. Muse on September 3. Spotlighting contemporary masters Milton Avery, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, the show remains up through the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival (power play!) all the way to October 14, 2009. An opening reception takes place Friday, September 11, 5-8:00 pm.
Obviously, public access to works by internationally known contemporary artists is rare in Jackson. We’ll all feel as if we’re partaking in a MoMa field trip, and that will be thrilling. Folks living full time in the inter-mountain west, as a rule, don’t visit significant contemporary museums as often as urban dwellers This show, says its organizers, depicts work “unconstrained” by “representational” rules—a comment seeming to allude to a belief that here, constraint and representation are the norm.
Emerging art movements often claim to be throwing off restraints of earlier schools, and they are. But no school of art emerges from a vacuum.
Artistic “constraint” is a misconception; artists decide for themselves what feels like constraint. If Clyde Aspevig were asked to paint like Frankenthaler, he may feel some constraint. Aspevig doesn’t interpret and experience nature the same way as Frankenthaler. Poetry is highly structured and disciplined, but often seems less formally conceived than prose.
These artists–Frankenthaler, Avery, Mitchell and Diebenkorn–created something 
new for themselves and for art history. In creating something new, another set of rules for achieving the effect the artist wants is established. Another guide is written, another opinion. Artists’ efforts to tell the world as they see it are opinions set to canvas, photographic paper, in clay.
Artistic vision is highly personal, but principles invariably apply.
From the age of seven, Picasso received formal, academic artistic training. From those building blocks, his brilliance exploded. Over and over again Picasso studied the human form. Without this deep knowledge, Picasso’s abstractions would lose their magic.
Obering puts the Muse show artists in context:
“Milton Avery (1885 – 1965), often thought of as America’s Matisse, is best known for his conflation of abstraction and representation using a rich and unusual palette.
Richard Diebenkorn’s (1922 – 1993) aerial landscapes of California illuminated the light and line of this area by marrying color field painting and geometric abstraction in a bold personal style.
Helen Frankenthaler (born 1928), known as a color field 
painter and an abstract expressionist, utilized a technique known as “soak stain,” in which oil paints were diluted and painted onto unprimed canvas or
paper, resulting in stunning and luminescent paintings.
Joan Mitchell’s (1925 – 1992) powerful and energetic brush stroke played out nature’s patterns, light, and depth, making her work some of the most spectacular of the
Abstract Expressionists.”
I’d kill for a Frankenthaler; when I look at her work I feel as if I’m beneath the ocean’s surface—a favorite place to be—floating over brilliant corals, translucent kelps. My sister would like an Avery, please.
For information, visit www.jhmusegallery.com, phone 307.733.0555—or, contact Camille Obering through her website.
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Cayuse favorite Jack Walker is back, bringing new designs and best sellers, on Friday, August 28th from 5 – 8pm. Meet Jack and view his pure silver and leather hand crafted work. He’s joined for the second year by Jackson jeweler and silversmith Dawn Bryfogle, whose work combines contemporary gemstone styling with vintage sterling treasures. She’ll also be showing her new handmade sterling pieces.
Margaritas may make an appearance at tonight’s opening. For info, email info@cayusewa.com.
Jackson Hole photographer David Brookover, owner of Brookover Gallery, will add a new gallery space in Santa Fe, New Mexico this fall. Brookover plans to commence operations in November. The new space, also be called Brookover Gallery, will occupy 2,000 square feet on Santa Fe’s famed Canyon Road. The new gallery will feature Brookover’s large format photography, with an emphasis on his new platinum prints.
“Santa Fe allows me to show work of the kind I’m becoming more interested in,” says Brookover. “The town offers an international clientele, a market more favorably geared, year-round, to the new emphasis in my photography.”
“I have so much stored away here that’s not really appropriate for Jackson, that I want to show. Santa Fe is the art market. The economy is slow, but I’ve been here nine years, and it’s time to dive in. I’m really excited.”
Brookover will rotate exhibits and says he’ll be in Santa Fe for an extended period of time to get things going. He’s been considering opening a new gallery for almost four years (Brookover opened his Jackson gallery in the lower level of his current space), but the timing had to be right. Serendipity happened; the right space became available. While the Jackson gallery displays color, black and white, and platinum prints taken in Japan, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, California and other locations, the new space will concentrate on platinum images of Japan, the southwest and areas of the Colorado Plateau, horses and…nudes.
Yep, nudes! The last time I saw photographs of nudes on the Jackson Hole arts scene was several years ago, when Spencer Tunick’s nude landscapes came to town.
What a hubbub! I almost went to jail for writing about the show.
Brookover is branching out, taking a leap into the human landscape. He’s just 
finished shooting a series of nudes–inspired in part by Edward Weston–and plans to introduce them to the public during Jackson’s September Fall Arts Festival. Currently, Brookover says he’ll include two platinum prints, black and whites, and a few color images.
And, Brookover has a coffee table book in the works. Black silk and boxed, it will spotlight his black and white images; a limited collector’s edition will include a platinum print.
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Painter Lee Carlman Riddell opens her new show, Field Days and Figures, at Trio Fine Art with an artist’s reception on Thursday, August 13, 6-8 pm. Riddell will talk about her work from 5-6 pm
Riddell’s rich color pops from her relatively small canvases; 8″ x 10″ is a preferred format. Titles from the show connote pastoral sublimity: “Willows & Meadow, Wyoming,” “Wisteria Over Door, Tuscany,” and “Fall Colors, Wyoming.” Printed on the show’s flier are poems by Riddell, describing her contemplative and creative connections to the spaces and places she paints: South Park, Wilson’s dike, Greg McHuron’s studio. And, in Italy, Florence and Tuscany.
Figure drawings are a part of this show, too. Field Days & Figures remains on display through August 29. 734-4444. www.triofineart.com.
