Posts Tagged ‘Holidays’
“For me, animals endure our presence and attentions with a bemused tolerance so often lacking in our own species.”- Susan Brearey
“Forest Silhouettes,” a new collection of works by noted artist Susan Brearey, now on display at the J.H. Muse Gallery, will be celebrated with an opening reception December 17, 5-8 pm. Brearey, along with artist Mike Piggott, will be featured at the gallery’s annual holiday party, Champagne & Chocolates.  Brearey’s works remain on display until January 15, 2010.
Represented by galleries around the country, Brearey makes her home in Vermont, where she is on the faculty of the Putney School.  Inspired by Vermont’s landscapes, as well as other wilderness, her paintings “employ an economy of detail which evokes both the archaic forms found 
in the primitive cave paintings of Lascaux and the elegant simplicity of Asian art.”
“When you look at one of my paintings, it is like the moment you see an animal, just before it flees,” she says.
Highly evocative, Brearey’s wildlife portraits hold spiritual magic. I think of them as visions, as messengers from one space to ours. They are here with us only momentarily, physically compressed, traveling from portal to portal.
Anthropomorphism is completely absent. Brearey’s animals are practically faceless, symbolically universal. Her palette is muted; she favors serious blues, dulled whites to silver; I see references to topographic maps in a few of these new works. Maps…. or a tree’s inner rings, a forest’s way of revealing the years of its existence.
Brearey leaves it up to us to form answers to all the questions her paintings ask. Likely, a certain warning about our planet’s future is here; Brearey acknowledges that her paintings reflect her concern for environment and species. Perhaps these paintings are prayers, or premonitions.
For more information on this and other exhibitions taking place at the J.H. Muse Gallery this month, log on to their website.
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Ring in the Season with Amy Ringholz’s Solo Winter Show & Reception, at Altamira Fine Art. The exhibition opens with an artist’s reception at the gallery (172 Center Street) on Friday, December 18, 5-7:00 pm. The show remains up until January 8, 2010.
I remember what I believe was Ringholz’s first show — or one of her firsts; she had a Takin’ it to the Streets booth, and she sold a lot of paintings that year. Her signature “jigsaw” painting style was totally new. Since then, Ringholz has become one of Jackson’s favorite local artists; her work could be called playful, but it is rooted in the artist’s deep reverence for the power of animals, and by our collective unconsious reverence for wildlife. Her work is certainly energetic and vibrant.
Says Altamira’s Director Mark Tarrant: “Amy’s Holiday Show has become an annual happening where locals gather to celebrate the Season and her work. Amy’s bold works depicting our local wildlife on bright, colorful canvases are a fitting way to celebrate both the end of the current year and the beginning of the new one.”
For more information, log onto Altamira’s website here.
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Trio Fine Art – featuring art by Lee Carlman Riddell, Kathryn Mapes Turner, September Vhay and Russell Chatham – will be open the following hours during this Holiday Season:
December 22 noon-5pm
December 23 noon -5
December 24 10-3
December 29 noon – 5
December 30 3pm-8pm
December 31st 10-3
The gallery looks forward to seeing everyone during the Wednesday, December 3o Art Walk. Additionally, Trio Fine Art will be open during the winter on Thursdays only, 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm.  More information on Trio’s winter shows will soon be available.  www.triofineart.com.
Yo! Been off-line for two weeks, give or take a sunset.  The J.H. Art Blog is being administrated three quarters of the country away from Jackson Hole. That’s the case all winter, but we’ll keep posting and inquiring and spreading the word.  Here are a few last minute postings, and….I know you know. They’re up anyway.
Rossetti, McCandless and the Art Association join hands for this one; an opening reception takes place Friday, December 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the Center for the Arts.
Miga Rossetti’s first show in a while, Where to Put it All, mixes the chaos of Rosetti’s life with the efficiency she strives to inject. In NYC, many artists and art lovers are converting their homes into galleries, holding mini-shows for artists whose work is not marketable in the current….market. They find ways to stash their “personals,” and maybe Rossetti looks to pick up on that trend.
“Fitting it all in, stashing it, layering it, isolating certain things, giving over to many – all of this is considered,” says Rossetti. Our efficient winged friends are 
considered–creatures who can keep a neat house in a tiny circle, frenetic as each day might be. Materials include mixed media on board, including acrylic paint, natural materials and paper collage.
Martin Garhart & Valerie Seaberg: Falling Awake combines a contemporary painter and printmaker’s artistry with local artist Valerie Seaberg’s 
undulating vessels. Garhart has served as Professor of Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, for over 30 years. Valerie Seaberg describes herself as “an ocean child” destined for mountain life. Her mixed media vessels are like great, tumbled beachcombing finds, undulating clay forms encircled by pine needles or horsehair. They are high country marriages between an ancient ocean and raw land. Seaberg’s works are muscular, sensual and convey a deep sense of time, earth, and element.
Wow—Whoever wrote that is really good! www.artassociation.org.
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Hot off the Facebook presses:
Lyndsay invited you to “Affordable Art Weekend with Oswald Gallery and LMC” on Friday, December 11 at 12:00pm.
Event: Affordable Art Weekend with Oswald Gallery and LMC.
What: Exhibit
Start Time: Friday, December 11 at 12:00pm
End Time: Saturday, December 12 at 8:00pm
Where: Oswald Gallery, 165 North Center Street
Join Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary and Oswald Gallery as we kick-off our Contemporary Art Collaboration in the Oswald Gallery space with an Affordable Art Weekend. Works by artists in both galleries will be on view and all artworks on view will be $3,000, or less, with many works under $1,000.
Please consider donating 10% of any purchase price to one of several arts non-profits.  A nice gesture from McCandless, recently forced to call it quits — it will really happen this time, I think — because of late-to-the-game town rulings on the state of her space.
Why now? Lyndsay has been in that space six years, TOJ. Come on. Give a hand, don’t slam her door. If you had problems, or if anyone did, why didn’t you voice them? Why didn’t you do something pro-active to keep LMC cooking?  I hope there is a bit of investigating on the part of the two newspapers. If everything is on the up-and-up, so be it. If this is a sudden, last-ditch effort on the part of LMC’s next door developers to beat back the common peeps, that stinks. Fix it up, instead. You have the money. And, it would do your complex (that nobody is living in) good stead.
The gallery will be open from noon until 8, with a cocktail reception each night from 6 to 8 pm.
Item #3:Â It’s Bazaar.
This Christmas, please come for some good cheer and bargains — and to support the JHHS Rotary Interact teenagers who are selling great gifts to raise money to open a village library in Nepal.
Many new rug designs and selected imports have just arrived. Bring your neighbors!
Sat. & Sun. December 12 & 13 10 am to 4 pm. Steer your sleigh to 1520 Fish Creek Road, in Wilson. Look for the prayer flags. For more information, contact hostess and Nepal benefactor Didi Thunder, at 307.733.4124.
Throughout December, Mountain Trails Gallery hosts its Holiday Miniatures Show, a collection of small works on canvas and bronze sculptures. Currently on display, the show remains up through December 24th.  An artists’ reception takes place Thursday, December 17, 4-7 p.m.
Gallery Director Pam Flores notes that the show explores a wide selection of 
subjects and styles. Prices are mixed, providing good opportunity to purchase affordable art; it’s a nice chance to 
begin a personal collection.  Themes are primarily Western, and include wildlife, Native American culture, cowboys and landscapes.  More than 50 works are included.
Many artists will be on hand to greet the public during the reception, which takes place during December’s Gallery Association Art Walk. This is the first holiday reception for Mountain Trails in their new corner space on the Town Square.
For more information contact Pamela Flores, at 307.734.8150, or email director@mtntrails.net.
Trailside Galleries Home for the Holidays Miniature Show presents a Santa-sized bag full of miniature paintings this December. Beginning December 1, and running through December 31, Trailside’s East Broadway gallery showcases works sized for your stocking by many of its artists.
“Subjects could be the sweeping landscapes of the West or the neighboring wildlife native to North America.  Many genres and mediums will be represented and collectors can be sure to find a wide variety of fabulous miniature paintings—perfect for the holiday season,” says Trailside’s Cara Kelly.
The gallery hopes this selection of small painting “jewels” will speak to our love of 
the region’s special beauty, its sense of home and the pleasures of being surrounded by family and friends. The holidays are also a time for transformation and receiving nature’s oft intangible messages of hope, nourishment and love, as well as awareness of all that sustains us.
Trailside Galleries will be open every day during December, with the exception of Christmas and New Year’s. For information, contact Cara Kelly at cara@trailsidegalleries.com.
Shhhhh. It’s a silent auction.
The 15th Annual Out of the Woods Silent Art Auction, an Art Association favorite, takes place Friday, November 20th, 6-8 pm at the Center for the Arts Theater Lobby.
We don’t have Todd around, but we still have his “shhh!” A sort of an in-house ‘palates and palettes’ arts event, the evening promises a throng of art-lover clamoring for food, wine and….local art. Artists donate works, and the public bids on art of all kinds, via a silent auction. It’s loads of fun, and all proceeds raise money for the Art Association’s Educational Programming.
On your mark, get set…..start shopping! For information, contact Amy Fradley at 307.733.8792 or email amyf@artassociation.org.
Also at the Art Association – specifically upstairs in the Artspace Loft Gallery – check out “Little Cayman,” on display November 13 – December 31, 2009.
Drool and live vicariously through News & Guide grand dame Liz McCabe, who has been visiting Little Cayman. The exhibit is billed as a collection of visions of the south seas idyll by McCabe, Jon Stuart, Laura McWethy, Tom Montgomery and others.
If they need someone to carry their bags, they should give me a call. www.artassociation.org.
Item #2:Â Thal Glass
Glass blower Laurie Thal blows and fires her magic goblets, vases and vessels in her Teton Village Road studio. Every fall -or early winter, depending on how you experience November - she hosts a holiday open house, and this year’s holiday event takes place Saturday, November 21, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. This is a free event, and a fun excursion for the whole family.
Thal will be there, giving demonstrations and answering questions–the studio is typically stocked with a variety of glass items, in a variety of sizes and price points and a veritable rainbow of colors.
Thal has not supplied a contact phone number, but click on her website–linked above–for more information and a good look at her wares.
