Posts Tagged ‘Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary’
The message at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary is CHANGE. Somehow, in a sour economy for most Jackson Hole Galleries, LMC keeps on happening. The large, loft-like space sitting at Jackson Street level has transformed itself into a place for happenings, 60′s style. 2009′s version of a record player is a d.j. named Mr. Whipple ( a 1960′s and 70′s lab-coated, bespectacled advertising character hawking toilet tissue–nice, soft toilet tissue ), wall art is the new tie dye, and a communal creativity prevails. Getting any attention in today’s art market is real tough; galleries are asking their artists to go small, in order to bring down price points. Three Jackson Hole galleries I know of have closed in as many months. Galleries with strong client stables are calling upon those clients more often.
LMC is the Madonna of Jackson Hole art galleries, working feverishly to stay fresh. Author readings, AIVO, children’s art, musicians in white vans rocking the night away, fire throwing, collaborations with non-profits, joining 1% for the Tetons (says you feel confident you have enough net income capital to donate, going forward, and you’re comfortable providing full access to your income ledger, and you are going with green marketing, and you get your picture taken by the very cool David Swift), openly political art projects. With the exception of regularly scheduled art openings around town, there’s no other action of the sort LMC provides monthly.
So what’s going on over there?
McCandless has a marketing background and she’s pumping it up. Her next happening, pARTicipate for Change, gets hopping this coming First Friday, Februrary 6, 5:30-7:30 pm. The project keeps Obamamania going–I’m all over that.
Here’s the skinny: This First Friday, you can’t just show up to eat organic pizza (Where was that yummy pizza January 20, at Pub Place? We ate bad cafeteria food! Even kids pushed that stuff around on the plate. The dancing, however, was FAB! ) This coming Friday, all comers are asked to actively participate in the creation of a work that will come to life on a wall-sized piece of canvas. Create to the theme of participating for change, and the finished product will be photographed and sent to the President. We audaciously hope! We hope with audacity? I’m still stuck on the “hopefully” grammar thing.
“I also want people to experience that excitement and joy of acquiring a
piece of art…so we will be giving away small pieces of art all night
to everyone who walks in the door. Maybe it will create a mini-trading
sensation,” says McCandless.
Here’s some ways to participate:
1. Hang/install your artwork, up to three pieces, framing optional. Explore “Change.”
2. Contribute to the free-art collection. ( LM: “I am taking old photos/paintings/sketches and cutting them up into mini-art pieces (@ 2″ x 3″). I have one that Alissa Davies gave me in September as her ‘card’. I carry it around in my wallet as a little transportable piece of art that makes me smile. I will write on the back of all of them “www.lmcontemporary.com Art It Forward”)
Lyndsay! I love you! You used single quotations around a word! ( ‘card’ ) I get in trouble from Swift when I do that on Tammy & David Fight About Movies! You go girl! You mean, by single quotes, that the card isn’t a real business card, but you use it as such, it has that spirit, that function, is some way related to the entity “business card.” Did we go to the same high school? Did you have Miss Cole for English class?
3. Bring art supplies/inspiration to use for the art wall-markers, sharpies, charcoal, adhesive stuff, photos, scraps of paper, crayons, safety pins, post-its,—paint requires lots of extra’s, brushes, water, containers—”but we
could make it work!”
Artists need to get their work to LMC by Wednesday, February 4.
Artists who have signed up (I’ve corrected spelling as far as I can; apologies for any remaining misspelled names!)
Anthony Birkholz…video installation
Nicole Burdick and Micah Richardson…ice installation
Bland Hoke…Center of Wonder Public Art ambassador
Amy Larkin
Bronwyn Minton
Alissa Davies
Babs Case
Rachel Kunkle
Ben Carlson
Susan Thulin
Emma Adkisson
Bryce Billings
Ashely Hogge
Jeremy Kusmin
Rich Goodwin
Steven Glass
Gone Missing Teton Art Lab will make an appearance, with its own installation.
Visit www.lmcontemporary.com, or call 307-734-0649/cell: 307-413-4331.
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Jackson Hole’s Art Association presents new works by painter Susan Durfee Thulin, January 23-March 4 2009, in the Center for the Arts ARTSPACE Theater Gallery. An opening reception for the show, “Circle of Shadow and Light,” takes place Friday, January 23, at 5:30 p.m.
I’m a huge fan of Susan’s early work. I recall seeing my all time favorite Thulin painting hanging on Mary Grossman’s living room wall. I haven’t seen this show yet, but I love what I can make out of “Moonlight Marsh,” an abstract landscape arranged in horizontal fields of color. A moss green pond nourishes waving fronds and Matisse-like plants below its surface. Above, Thulin’s charcoal verticals bisect arcing shades of blue, mingled with pink patches of sky. A moon’s golden strip floats.
Looks like information can be found at www.lmcontemporary.com; Thulin is represented by Lyndsay McCandless.
Cut and pasted below is information on the Art Association’s call for artists wishing to participate in 2009 Art Fair Jackson Hole:
Art Fair Jackson Hole applications are now available on-line through www.zapplication.org and will be available through February 28, 2009. The July and August Art Fair Jackson Hole fairs are juried, three day events July 17, 18 & 19 and August 14, 15 & 16 taking place in Miller Park. Produced by the Art Association of Jackson Hole, the fairs offer high-end arts and crafts, as well as children’s activities and entertainment.
For more information please go to www.jhartfair.org, www.zapplication.org or call 307.733.8792. Thanks!
- What are Jackson Hole Art Galleries planning this Christmas season? Here’s a peek.
ARTWalk 2008 !!! (Or, “A Revision Revised”)
The Gallery Association will hold TWO gallery walks this month. December’s Thursday gallery stroll takes place December 18, 5-8:00 pm. Look for the bright blue, red and white banners in front of participating galleries.
Additionally, the Gallery Association’s special HOLIDAY ARTWalk takes place SATURDAY, December 27, 5-8:00 p.m. Join Jackson Hole’s galleries for 2008′s holiday arts stroll, falling on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year’s. Banners designate participating galleries.
For more information on this month’s gallery walks, contact info@diehlgallery.com. Check with your favorite galleries for information on special openings and events.
The Jackson Hole Art Association puts on its annual Art Fair Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, December 6, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Snow King Ice Arena. $2 Admission, dozens of vendors! 733-8792 for information.
Oswald Gallery has been selected to participate in the ultra-prestigious Photo Miami 2008. As part of the world’s most important contemporary art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Photo Miami takes place December 3 to December 7, in the Wynwood Art District of Miami.
Oswald’s entries are the contemporary photographs of Virgilio Ferreira and Dylan Vitone. “Both of these emerging photographers explore the urban environment in different ways and on different continents while exploring the ambiguities and contradictions of urban life,” says Leya Oswald.
Says Oswald, ” Vitone’s photographs combine formal portraiture with classic street photography in multi-frame panoramas…. In contrast, Ferreira works in an intuitive and random manner on the streets of Asia’s megalopolises. Embracing his outsider status, he works quickly and anonymously late at night, capturing the mere suggestion of the places and their people.”
For more information on Photo Miami or these photographers, please contact Oswald Gallery, leya@oswaldgallery.com or 888-898-0077.
Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary’s December 5th First Friday, “Funky Finds For Under $50” focuses on Jackson’s local creative community and supporting artisans this holiday. Music by DJ Mr. Whipple, and organic pizzas served up by Chris O’Blenness and SouthSide Pizza & Pub.
Change is coming, be the Change!
Featured vendors include, but are not limited to:
“Halo Hats” by AJ Carghill and Pam Coleman—seconds included;
“Special somethings” by Wren Fialka and Brandy….
Vanessa Sulzer’s screen print bird scarves…
Alissa Davies’ mixed media on paper (I have some!), small paintings with added collage materials.
Phone 307-734-0649 or 307-413-4331 for information.
The National Museum of Wildlife Art hosts one of Jackson’s favorite holiday traditions, “Wild About the Season!” on Sunday, December 7, 1:00-4:00 p.m. This family-style Christmas festival includes art projects, cookies, cider and other treats, and a visit from Santa Claus. Free. 733-5771.
The Jackson Hole Center for the Arts will be closed periodically during the holidays, particularly at Christmas and New Year’s. Phone 734-8956 for more information.
David Brookover, of Brookover Photography, reports his gallery will be open through the season. Check out the new platinum prints! Currently traveling and shooting in Japan, Brookover returns to his studio December 22. In his absence the gallery is well staffed; please visit.
JH Muse Gallery’s holiday invitation, featuring artist Nicole Charbonnet’s hauntingly beautiful, suggestive mixed media work “Tree,” invites the public to that gallery’s annual “Champagne and Chocolates” celebration. Join the gallery on Thursday, December 11, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, Tayloe’s new glittery jewels and Charbonnet’s latest collection of works, “Avatars and Heroes.”
The gallery is open through the holidays. Hours are 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Monday through Thursday, 10:00 – 7:00 pm Friday and Saturday, and 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Sundays. 733-0555.
Cayuse Western Americana plans this month: A brunch on Sunday, December 14th features Dawn Bryfogle’s wonderful jewelry from semi-precious and precious stones, but with a twist: she finds unique “orphaned” vintage pieces she incorporates into necklaces or bracelets. These could be old Navajo sterling and turquoise items, or western engraved silver – really, anything that looks like it could be given a new purpose in her contemporary settings of agate, tourmaline, and other beautiful stones. The brunch is from 11 – 3 and will feature food and brunch style cocktails as well as the traditional non-alcoholic brunch drinks. Bryfogle’s work will remain a featured item this month.
Thursday, during December 18th’s gallery walk, Cayuse is open until 8pm, with gift ideas in a variety of price ranges, with some gifts under $12. Seasonal treats will be all over the place, and hot spiced wine will be on the woodstove….
December 27th, Jack Walker is Cayuse’s special guest until 8pm. His ingot silver and leather jewelry is marketed worldwide by a major fashion designer – his last Cayuse show sold out.
Cayuse’s extended holiday hours: Friday and Saturday until 7pm, and open on Sundays. Monday – Thursday are 10 – 6 unless there’s a gallery walk; hours are good Dec 15th – January 11, 2009. 307-739-1940.
Horizon Fine Art’s 9th Annual “It’s a Small World Art for Those Tucked Away Places” event happens December 14 – January 4, 2009. Horizon’s “2nd Annual World’s Largest Amber and Turquoise Show” runs concurrently.
Horizon swings with the Season during this year’s December 27th gallery ARTWalk; stop in for some live jazz as you make the rounds.
For information, phone 307-739-1540 or email horizonfineart@wyoming.com
Galleries West Fine Art will host their 6th annual holiday miniature show, “Little Jewels,” December 15 – January 5, 2009. Featuring small sculpture and paintings no larger than 11×14, the show has an intimate quality that affords a closer look at each artist’s hand. Works by a range of artists, including John Potter, Jennifer L. Hoffman, D. Lee, & Bart Walker, showcase plein air and tonalist landscapes, wildlife art, Western and Native American art, basketry, pottery, and more.
An opening reception happens during December 27th’s ARTWalk, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Contact Galleries West Fine Art at 307-733-4412, or visit www.gallerieswestjacksonhole.com.
December 20- January 11, 2009 the Diehl Gallery celebrates internationally renowned sculptor Jim Budish with a one-man exhibition.
An artist’s reception takes place Saturday, December 27th, from 5-8 pm. Join the Diehl Gallery for fine art, sumptuous treats and beverages! This exhibition is Diehl Gallery’s featured Holiday ARTWalk event.
Contact the gallery at 307-733-0905. Email: info@diehlgallery.com
In town on Saturday, December 20, Jackson’s newest gallery, “Troutwater,” officially opens its doors with a holiday reception beginning at 3:00 p.m. “Troutwater” is located in Crabtree Corners Mall, a few paces past the giant stuffed buffalo. “A Horse of a Different Color” joins the fun, as does “Accentuate.” 307-699-4175.
Also occurring December 20: CIAO Gallery’s “Holiday Miniatures & Fine Artisan Exhibition” opening reception happens 6:00 pm-9pm. Featuring local and national artists and other works limited to 9×9 inch dimensions. More information on CIAO’s winter schedule can be found on the Jackson Hole Art Blog by entering “CIAO” in the search window.
A Horse of a Different Color presents three artists new to Jackson’s gallery scene. Toland Sand‘s, D G House’s and Lynn Bishop’s creations will be featured at the Dec. 27 Holiday Gallery Stroll.
Toland Sand, known internationally for his constructed cold glass, has works in galleries and private collections around the world. His sculptures feel alive, seemingly changing color, patterns and structure.
D G House, a Native American artist residing in Bozeman, specializes in contemporary, vivid, paintings of animals. She is an artist in residence in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Her paintings are part of the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of the American Indian permanent collection, as well as private collections worldwide.
Glass artist Lyn Bishop works in fused glass. “Glass can be incredibly strong, or very fragile, simple or ornate, transparent or opaque, functional or not, it’s limitless”, she says. Her pieces are densely patterned, often resembling woven fabrics.
“A Horse of A Different Color” holiday hours are 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Saturdays and 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sunday.
“A Horse of a Different Color” is located at 60 E. Broadway. Phone 734-9603.
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