Posts Tagged ‘Jackson Hole Art Auction’
Out West, a two-woman show featuring new works by Mary Roberson and Amy Ringholz, opens at Altamira Fine Art on Thursday, July 21. A reception will be held at the gallery from 5-8 pm, and the exhibition will be on display July 18-31, 2011.
Ringholz rocketed to success. Her bold, mosaic-like paintings of wildlife caught the public’s eye quickly, and she sells like hotcakes. Ringholz is firmly part of a small group of artists credited with establishing new Western Contemporary art genres. It’s an impressive group and includes the likes of Bill Schenck and John Nieto; as well as the early master painters of the West and Southwest. There is no mistaking Ringholz’s swirling big-love painting style. I’d be remiss to not point out Ringholz’s new black and white paintings, a departure from her use of full, saturated colors. These new paintings recall the elegance of Japanese calligraphy.
Mary Roberson’s fluid and mystical paintings belie the artist’s great drafting talents. Roberson believes creativity is “natural and distinct to every individual,” and she avoided over-exposure to formal teaching. Despite the weight and tone of Roberson’s colors her paintings seem visionary. Great beasts of the earth float towards us, then recede. Her works possess a temporal wisdom, and one might imagine Roberson as a chosen recipient of messages sent from animal spirits. She passes these messages on to us, reminding us of the power of wildlife, of the essential inner knowledge of animals and the lessons they may bring us.
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Trailside Galleries and the Gerald Peters Gallery will present the 5th Annual Jackson Hole Art Auction on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts. The
Auction has released information on several lots likely to spur active bidding battles.
John Clymer’s Marie Dorian-Winter Refuge, a 40 x30 inch oil, lists an estimate of $200,000-$300,000.
Bob Kuhn’s Leopard in a Sausage Tree, a 24 x 36 inch acrylic, estimates at $150,000-$250,000.
Maynard Dixon’s Cowpuncher, a 30 x 25 inch oil, has an estimate of $400,000-$600,000.
Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster (no.16), bronze, is estimated to sell between $400,000-$600,000.
Olaf C. Seltzer’s Charles Russell on Horseback, 12 x 8 inch watercolor, estimates at $25,000-$35,000.
G. Harvey’s Pigeon’s Corner, a 50 x 40 inch oil, is estimated at $150,000-$250,000.
Many more exciting lots will be announced; the Auction’s catalog will be available in August, 2011. This auction consistently breaks its own records for attendance and bidder registration and is fast becoming one of the most important great masters Western art auctions.
For more information, contact Auction Coordinator Lucy P. Grogan. Phone: 866 JH WY ART (549-9278). www.jacksonholeartauction.com
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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
The Jackson Hole Art Association kicks off its Summer Exhibitions this week, when artists Mark Newport, Jean Laughton and Taylor Glenn present their work. A reception for all three shows takes place Friday, June 3, 5:30 pm at the Center for the Arts. The shows remain up through July 29, 2011.
Mark Newport’s Sweatermen are giant, knit superhero costumes. Hand made knit goods are especially memory-provoking and connective. My own mother still knits, and a few Christmases ago she created a series of knit snakes. She gave them little black yarn smiles and tiny hats, lined them with panty hose and filled them with birdseed. She’d make a fortune turning them out by the dozen, but she indulged her vision. The snakes are a limited series.
That kind of tactile sensory stimulation, along with every child’s adoration of superheroes, combine to make these intriguing life-size costumes. An empty, dangling superhero suit begs to be filled out; we imagine ourselves inside each one, or a faceless, perfect somebody beneath the hoods. As I write, I realize we adults—particularly baby boomers, the first generation to make anti-aging a daily pursuit—are still drawn to comic book idols. We flock to the movies to see Ironman, Superman, the Green Hornet, Spiderman, Batman.
Artist and educator Mark Newport is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He will give an artist’s talk that day, June 11, at 12:00 p.m. in the Art Association’s Main Gallery.
Taylor Glenn’s touching and beautiful images of China’s Mandarin Green Plastics Company capture assembly workers in an artificial flower factory. That fact does not minimize the poetry in these photographs.
Far Chang humanizes a product Americans buy en masse; these flowers are somebody’s daily art. “We rarely give thought to how these products are made and the individuals who are responsible. These images are a personal and quiet observation of daily life at this factory,” says the Art Association.
Glenn will give a gallery talk on Thursday, June 7, at 7:00 pm.
Jean Laughton’s My Ranching Life caps off the summer shows with dynamic images of Western South Dakota ranching life; this American life. Laughton took these photographs in the Badlands of Interior, South Dakota. Laughton studied photography, simultaneously adapting to the hard tack of daily cowboy life. These are large-scale panoramic photographs, capturing the West’s superhero ranching lifestyle.
http://www.artassociation.org/exhibitions/index.html
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An esteemed colleague, a friend with an interest in urban planning and who works in the real estate industry on a global level, has sent me a list of books written by his own “urban planning heroes,” with synopses:
Design with Nature by Ian McHarg – McHarg taught that buildings and landscapes must respect the natural environment and the ecosystem.
Death and Life of American Cities by Jane Jacobs – Jacobs wrote that “eyes and feet on the street” leading to direct human interaction is the key to successful neighborhoods. Auto-centric, civil-engineering-driven approaches kill neighborhoods.
City in History by Lewis Mumford – Mumford wrote that cities represent the best that civilization has to offer. Most of the advancements in the long history of humankind came from the exchange of ideas and commerce in cities. He valued the historic legacy of cities over the post-modernist destruction of the reminders of who we are and where we came from.
Triumph of the City by Ed Glaeser – Glaeser is a young Harvard economist who just appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He writes that cities are one of the best inventions in humankind and that they are the key to living efficiently on the planet. He is a bit of an anti-planner in that he says planners often get it wrong (sprawl zoning from the 50s was built on bad assumptions that everyone wants a half-acre lot and a two-car garage and no sidewalks). But his ideas about how people express their desires in the real estate marketplace are really intriguing. And he does think that the marketplace would demand higher density, which is also more efficient, if sprawl zoning could be changed.
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Coming to a gallery near you:
Altamira Fine Art welcomes Montana artist Ted Waddell and contemporary landscape painter Louisa McElwain, at an opening reception Thursday, June 2, 6-8:00 pm. Their joint show, Good Country, remains up through June 19. www.altamiraart.com
The Diehl Gallery celebrates its 10th Anniversary on Thursday, June 30. The 10th Anniversay Fête happens 5-9:00 pm at the Gallery. This summer, Diehl features artists Hung Liu, Ashley Collins and Sheila Norgate. The gallery will also travel to Art in San Diego September 1-4th. Cool! www.diehlgallery.com
Trio Fine Art begins summer hours on June 1. The gallery–which features the work of Lee Carlman Riddell, September Vhay, Kathryn Mapes Turner and Jennifer Hoffman–will be open Wednesday through Saturday, noon-6:00 pm. Stop by for tea. Shows throughout the summer! www.triofineart.com
The Jackson Hole Art Auction closes its 2011 Auction consignment period June 1. If you want to consign and you are reading this post May 31, 2011, you’ve got 24 hours to contact Lucy P. Grogan by phoning 866.549.9278. www.jacksonholeartauction.com
“Treemier.” Gravity. A play on words and a weighty noun headline the presence and presentations of Brazilian artist Thais Beltrame and local filmaker David Gonzales at the Art Association this month. Friday, January 14, the public is invited to attend an opening reception for the artist at the Center for the Arts; at 7:30 pm local arbor advocacy group Treefight premiers Seeing Red, a 20-minute film chronicling the non-profit’s first year of activism. Following that, a fundraising raffle and party ensue.
As doubtful melancholy is so prevalent a theme in the show’s press materials it must be o.k. to repeat that Beltrame’s artistry has its roots in a hatred of colored pencils. She favors black and white drawings, “creating endless narratives with simple lines.” Information on the artist goes on to say that today “….the result of such act are universal existential issues represented in black and white, recreating the memories of our childhood in all of its darkness, sadness, discovery and glow. The artist makes use of the subtle and meticulous brush and ink, revealing an atmosphere both peculiar and melancholic.” Beltrame will be creating a site specific (the newest trend in Jackson’s art scene) installation piece for this show.
Making a difference requires a degree of scrutiny and pessimism. And lots and lots of questions. Like, “What is the role of the artist in the 21st Century?”
Beltrame’s art and Gonzales’ tree fighting, a kismet connection. Check out these sites to learn more about the artists and their work:
www.thaisbeltrame.blogspot.com
and…www.artassociation.org, to see information on upcoming classes, exhibitions and events.
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The fifth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction will take place on Saturday September 17, 2011 at the Center for the Arts in Jackson. Produced by Jackson’s Trailside Galleries in partnership with the Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the auction has rapidly become one of the West’s premiere auctions of contemporary and deceased Western Masters.
The auction is a major contributer to Jackson’s soaring Fall Arts Festival lodging and tourism statistics.
The auction’s Emma Zanetti says that this year’s sale already has works to offer for sale by these artists: William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, Bill Owen, G. Harvey, Kenneth Riley, Mian Situ, Howard Terpning, Morgan Weistling, and Z.S. Liang. Also available are important works by the Taos Society of Artists, the Santa Fe Art Colony, as well as historically recognized artists of the American West.
Want to consign a work? Call for details at 1.866.549.9278, visit www.jacksonholeartauction.com or stop by the Trailside Galleries at 130 East Broadway in Jackson.
What was your favorite Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival event?
People watching? Always interesting people to watch. Suddenly, Jackson is a teensy more diverse.
A few brunettes come to town!
Palates and Palettes: Several galleries were packed, but that is a change from last year’s party; in 2009, every inch of town was crowded. Age demographics have shifted; P&P is no longer an age 40+ event. Many young (20′s) people out and about, but I saw very few of this group looking at art. Food and beverages are 50% of the evening’s draw—Ok, more like 90%—but when a gallery becomes so jammed with kids out for a good time and din is epically loud it’s time to head on out the door. Even a caterer expressed concern over the lack of interest in the art by younger attendees.
Would providing only one (free) alcohol drink ticket per visitor keep the crowds moving?
Mike Piggott, Tayloe Piggott Gallery: Great to catch up with you and talk about old California’s landscape and funky times. Those eucalyptus, red roads, trails in the hills…(the colors in a certain stupendous Kahn). The best Kahns sold. Thank you (and Camille) for bringing this lovely exhibition to Jackson. I know it was a show many put on their “must see” list. And see they did. They saw, they talked about it. A lot.
Galleries West Fine Art: Ms. Hoffman, always a pleasure; Galleries West exudes such warmth. I remain committed to my feeling that your landscapes are some of the loveliest around. Go get those headlines you
deserve! The gallery is so inviting, and thank you for supporting the great tradition of landscape painting.
Mr. Tarrant and Company: Altamira is an artist epicenter. And, you have the best space in town for viewing the work you carry. Congrats on a successful year, and thank you for setting Jackson’s gallery bar high. Altamira’s artists complement one another, and the gallery’s “enclaves” vary the energy. In other words, in a single trip to the gallery visitors enjoy multiple art barometrics.
David Brookover raised $2,400 for his canine charities—his entry fee was $10 a head, so you do the math. David also has some brilliant new platinums of Yellowstone wildlife, particularly wolves. Gorgeous work and 100% different from all the other wildlife photography I’ve seen in town. More on that later. (Santa Fe is not as happening as Jackson Hole, says Brookover—-he’s coming up on the last month or two of his year lease on Canyon Road. All efforts will be re-directed back to Jackson.)
Astoria’s Ewoud De Groot, a Dutch wildlife artist known particularly for his sparkling portrayals of bird species, says that he sells a huge majority of his work in the States. Holland’s art market is sleepy. The vision for arts depicting nature is here, says he. De Groot is young, blond, cosmopolitan. Extremely self assured, finely tailored wardrobe. He likes Astoria’s mix of artists. Word has it Astoria sold 11 De Groots!
Heather James: I’m not getting to spend as much time with you as I’d like, but that will change soon. Incredible art. Worldly presence. Great knowledge, ever-changing art “trips” to be had. Lyndsay’s imagination and passion. Far out gallery events. The gallery is doing a notable job combining its world-wide knowledge with being involved locally. Applause!
Diehl Gallery: So eclectic and really a fine example of providing for local non-profit organizations while doing what the gallery is meant to do, sell art. Ashley Collins has certainly had her profile raised because of
your huge marketing efforts. Collins had works hanging everywhere at the Western Design Conference.
Trailside: Trailside is where you can find Greenwood Design creations—in case that doesn’t ring a bell, Greenwood’s “Yellowstone Desk” won the Western Design Conference’s “Best in Show.” I spent 30 minutes looking for that desk’s secret compartment. Horton Spitzer is a fan. Loved Western Design Conference. Thought I’d spend 20 minutes; spent two hours. Made some awesome discoveries.
Western Visions/NMWA : “The Grizzly Claw Necklace” by artist Z.S. Liang was the top-selling artwork, going for $42,500. Press releases note that while final income figures for the event aren’t yet available….all three 2010 top sellers (sold) for higher prices than 2009’s. “With so many excellent artist submissions, it’s no surprise we attracted significant bids and generated so much interest,” says Curator of Art Adam Harris. (Come on, NMWA, comp me at least ONE ticket for ONE event…) I’ve heard many positive reports on the art up for sale at this year’s Western Visions—and I hope most of it remains up for a little while, so I can see it. Need to renew my membership as well, and check out progress on the new sculpture trail. Adam, your book Wildlife in American Art, Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art is gorgeous. So nice to see you, and the book, last Saturday.
Trio Fine Art: The feminine gallery, but boys like it too. Visiting Trio is like taking a walk through a soothing forest glen. Civility reigns, as does tea. And margs. The women artists of Trio have, over the course of a few years, achieved what not many can in Jackson: transformed a slightly hexed location into a sought out destination. It’s rare to visit that gallery and not learn something. It’s light, it’s Zen. The gallery is a good friend to Artists in the Environment/Parks.
Cayuse: Did not get over to you during the Festival, but I know what you are doing; keeping a focus on the Parks art history is extremely important—those pioneers got us all here, created the aura of the West, established the Parks. And with the Historical Museum’s losing out on the SPET vote, your passions are even more important. Can’t wait to stop in.
Art Association & Teton Art Lab: Another good year on the Streets! Would like to see more exciting new artists participating. Kudos on your continuing expanded visions and efforts—Chuck Close & Co. was neat and I understand Spence’s photographs represent a new and exciting vision for our favorite celeb attorney-photog. During Palates and Palettes word on the street was, “Have you been to the Art Association? I’m headed over, there’s way interesting work there!”
Jackson Hole Art Auction: What can we say? The auction, which takes place at the Center for the Arts, and is a joint production between Gerald Peters Gallery and Trailside, has stood Jackson’s art scene on its ear. With buyer premiums figured in, more than $6 million dollars worth of Western Art was sold this year. ”With over 230 phones bids, 75 absentee bids and more than 200 registered bidders in the audience, the 
atmosphere in the auditorium was palpable. As the hammer fell on the final lot, sales for the 4 ½ hour session totalled more than $6,225,000, sending a clear message that collectors are actively purchasing and are very enthusiastic about the western representational art market,” says the Auction’s Emma Zanetti.
Mian Situ’s “A New Beginning, San Francisco, 1910,” estimated at $275,000 to $375,000, sold for $402,500. Eanger Irving Couse’s “The Pottery Decorator” reached a hammer price of $253,000. Prices include buyer’s premium.
Good strategies, great organization, superb curating and outreach, and ever-growing word-of-mouth is making this annual live auction a huge success for Jackson. To attend, all you have to do is register. Registration is free. This year, Auction catalogs were priced at $45. See all the auction results at www.jacksonholeartauction.com.
