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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
Through July 31, Trailside Galleries will present a showcase of works by artist Mike Malm — new paintings will be available for viewing
the latter part of the month.
Though he often paints landscapes, Malm is an avid romantic portraitist. His softest, most sensitive works often recall Renoir’s reverence for the feminine. Against rural backgrounds Malm portrays what he feels is one of God’s great creations: the human figure. To Malm, a tilt of the head or tiny hand gesture can communicate universal thought and emotion.
In other words, painting is a calling for this artist, a testimony. With every work, Malm strives to move his viewers by capturing the infinite subtleties of human nature.
A new showcase of paintings by artist Chris Owen follows, August 1-31 at Trailside. The gallery says up to ten new works will be on display by the artist, whose work hangs in such collections as the Pearce Western Art Collection in Corsicana, Texas, the National Western Museum in Denver, Colorado, and the Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Owen has moved to working with oils full time, and his passion is chronicling cowboy life. In speaking about his art Owen falls into detailed descriptions of his observations of horses and ranches.
“There is nothing more satisfying to me than to bring a green colt up into a real nice saddle horse that knows how to handle himself and is a pleasure to be around. From the halter breaking and ground work right on up to all of the roping and getting gates and other ranch chores, each step presents its own challenges and the way it’s handled can vary quite a bit depending on the individual horse’s personality,” says the artist.
For information on both shows, contact Trailside’s Dawn Meckam by emailing dawn@trailsidegalleries.com, or phoning 307.733.3186.
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At Heather James Fine Art, Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art brings together exquisite examples of art by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Léon Cortès, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Claude Monet, and Jackson Pollock among many others.
A highlight of the show, Monet’s Water Lily (c. 1915-1919), gives Jackson art lovers a chance to see one of Monet’s signature works; part of a series that defined the artist’s career. ”Monet’s distinctive late palette and all of the pictorial tensions unique to the achievements of the artist’s final decades are on display with this prime example from the master Impressionist’s oeuvre,” says the gallery’s James Corona.
Specific works on exhibit include Pablo Picasso’s Buste de Femme Souriante (1901) and Fernand Léger’s La racine noire et fragments d’objets (1943-1950).
For information: lyndsay@heatherjames.com.
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 of many prestigious collections. However, the prize he holds most dear comes from the Blackfeet Nation, which, in 1987, honored Noice with a name-giving ceremony. Medicine man George Kicking Woman, who saw Noice’s name in a vision, gave the artist a Blackfeet name: “E-Kah-She-Mah-Kin.”
I don’t know the translation, but I do know that Noice began his artistic career as a photographer. The work taught him about light. In fact, Noice was Ansel Adams’ assistant during the summer of 1977, and the experience gave birth to Noice’s love of landscape.
“I have sometimes wondered if I live here because of the work I do, or if I do the work because I live here,” muses Noice. “An interesting question without an answer. I learned how to see light from Ansel Adams. He was a great teacher. I really learned how to recognize landscapes. I feel that my experience in photography has helped me to develop a heightened sensitivity towards landscapes.”
Noice’s work also has to be influenced by Fauvism. For the Fauves, color is 
TOUT. It is applied furiously, without restraint, and it is wholly interpretive.
Art history lesson alert!
“Fauvism” refers to a period in art history having its genesis in 1905, when French painter Henri Matisse and his buddies Andre Derain, Maurice Vlaminck, Albert Marquet, Raoul Dufy, and Georges Braque first displayed new paintings drenched with color; huge, vast masses of unbroken, emotional, explosive color. These painters and others were given the nickname “Les Fauves,” –the Wild Beasts. Upon seeing the collection of wildly colorful paintings surrounding a comparatively run-of-the-mill sculpture, unveiled for the first time at the 1905 Paris Salon d’Automme, French art critic Louis Vauxcelles remarked that “it was like a Donatello ‘parmi les fauves’”-among the wild beasts.
Wildlife art. Wild Beasts. Sense a century-old connection here?
Contemporary Western Art is in no way disconnected from art history’s great movements; it descends from many masters and traditions. Artists in the West articulate landscape and are paying homage to light, color, and “the shapes of things,” as artists always have.
In addition to Trio house artist Lee Carlman Riddell hosting a painting workshop in Tuscany, her gallery partner Kathryn Mapes Turner has said “yes” to an invitation to exhibit her work alongside those of Michigan painter John Felsing.
The two artists plan a joint exhibition at Altamira Fine 
Art, where Felsing is represented. The show runs March 11-13, kicking off with an artist’s reception on Thursday, March 11, 5-7 pm, at Altamira, in Jackson.
The show does not signal any change in Turner’s affiliation with Trio Fine Art. More on this special exhibition soon.
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 6:30 pm, this talk will allow participants to head out early in the evening—however, I can’t imagine an hour being enough time to really tackle this subject, particularly given the Jackson Hole late-arrival trademark. At this writing the Blog is unclear as to whether this discussion will deal with perceived censorship issues within Jackson, or with censorship in the world at large. Maybe both.
Whatever the focus, it’s a convenient and welcome chance for creative persona to bring censorship’s causes and repercussions to light.
The irony of censorship is that when a show or artist is censored their particular spotlight only burns brighter. And usually, as we’ve seen in Jackson, the entity doing the censoring gets much more negative attention than the art in question.
Figure of Speech: Censorship in the Arts will be held in Artspace’s Main Gallery. Panel members include reps from writing, dancing, theatrical and visual arts.
Item #2:
A reminder that Lee Carlman Riddell and Ed Riddell are guiding a photography and painting workshop to Tuscany, Italy this spring. The trip begins April 29, 2010 and concludes a week or so later, on May 5.
Ed Riddell has details about the trip on his website, www.edwardriddell.com. You can also visit Lee’s website, www.leeriddell.com. Lee is represented locally by Trio Fine Art. A previous post on this blog has more details regarding fees and application processes; do a search using key words “Riddell,” “workshop” or “Tuscany” and the post should appear.
Mary Roberson’s epic collection, Nature is Life in the Dream, opened at Altamira Fine Art on August 6, and you should not miss seeing this remarkable collection of new paintings.
Says Roberson, “When I struggle, I watch the critters who teach me the greatest value of all – simplicity and joy.”
This new grouping of large scale paintings is mythic in scope, abstract, muted and…dream-like. Roberson uses earth tones mixed with low-impact greens and amber, and feels she is capturing climate, ground, atmosphere, and animal by avoiding an over use of color. Her bison appear to have floated down from the sky, settled on desert amidst sandy clouds of dust, and are slowly materializing.
Altamira’s artist bio page says that Roberson is a “….firm believer in the concept that the creative process should be fun, selfless, and that it is natural and distinct to every individual…. Wildlife and nature are her sources of both inspiration and reaffirmation.”
Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Update: R. Tom Gilleon, 2009′s Fall Arts Festival Poster Artist, is now represented by Altamira Fine Art. This year’s poster signing event will take place at Altamira. See J.H. Fall Arts Festival Calendar –click on the page link, right hand side of the Jackson Hole Art Blog’s home page.
Altamira: 307.739.4700. www.altamiraart.com.
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The Legacy Gallery presents its summer Visions of the West: Multi-Artist Show and Sale, opening Friday, August 14. With a focus on sculpture and paintings of Native Americans and Cowboys (I’ll capitalize both!) the show, says the gallery, “represents the true spirit of the West.”
A spirit more and more elusive, some might argue. Let’s keep the legends, romance and history alive in Western art. Many Legacy Gallery artists are participating in the show and will be on hand for the August 14 opening.
A list of participating artists includes: James Ayers, Roy Andersen, Russell 
Houston, Robert Shufelt, Chad Poppleton, C. Michael Dudash, Jason Rich, John Fawcett, David Wright, Gary Lynn Roberts, John Gawne, Teal Blake, Joni Falk, George D. Smith, and a few paintings to be sold on a draw basis by G. Harvey. Also showing will be bronze sculptors Tim Shinabarger, Richard Greeves, G. Harvey, John Coleman, T.D. Kelsey, and Mehl Lawson.
This special show is accompanied by a color catalogue, a fine addition and collectible item in itself. For additional information or color photos, contact Legacy Gallery at 307-733-2353 or email maya@legacygallery.com.
Item #3: Art Association/Art Lab
The Jackson Hole Art Association’s August Art Fair Jackson Hole takes place 
August 14-16, at Miller Park in Jackson. Additionally, The 10th Annual (Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival) Takin’ It to the Streets art fair takes place Sunday, September 13, 2009. Says the Art Association, ” An intimate ‘local’s only’ show, this fair has become a popular favorite with locals and visitors alike! If you create your own art and want to apply to this juried show, we’d love to have you! Contact Amy Fradley, Art Fair Director at 307-733-8792, or email at artistinfo@jhartfair.org.
Visiting the Art Association? Don’t stop there; head upstairs to the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts third floor and check out Teton Art Lab. Travis Walker’s brainchild, the Art Lab provides artist residencies and a shared artistic and studio experience. It’s a great place for artists new to Jackson to find their way and establish credibility.
This Friday, check out artwork by local and regional artists works in It Came from the Supervolcano, a collection of charged, energetic art by up-and-coming creatives and, just maybe, inspired by Yellowstone’s volcanic power. The show adds to the ever-growing list of venues for new artists “exploding” around town. Alexandra Kornblum’s graphic, bold oil paintings headline the show. Ben Carlson and others get in the groove, too. The show pops its cork with an opening Friday night, 6-9 pm, at the Art Lab. www.tetonartlab.com.
In the fall, the Art Lab can set qualifying artists up with housing, studio access, and other kinds of support. Email: info@tetonartlab.com.
