Posts Tagged ‘Maynard Dixon’
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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Saturday, June 18, 2011, the doors at Factory Studios open at 6:30 p.m. sharp. Doors will close at 7:30 p.m. and Art+Cloth+Street kicks off. If you show after 7:30, you don’t get in. The show is a fundraiser for the Factory Studios and tickets are $75 for front row seats and a limited edition Teton Art Lab print & four drink/raffle tokens; $20 for standing room and one token. Tickets are on sale at Valley Bookstore, Shades Café and via Factory Studios.
An “evening of art and fashion,” the show features exciting new work from three of Jackson’s most creative emerging clothing designers, Abbie Miller, Calla Grimes, and Owen Ashley.” Local arts specialists Lyndsay McCandless and Suzanne Morlock will discuss–perhaps debate–the intersection of clothing, art, and fashion. A runway show follows.
Abbie Miller/A.M. Renegade : “I’m working with the idea of geometry instead of drape,” she said. “I always like to see how far I can tip everything to the stage of bad proportion or ugliness, and then pull it back to a point where its flattering on the body. I like a play between natural and urban, earth tones and synthetic colors. It has to do with my fascination with cities and my weird romance with construction sites mixed with the experience of living here…” www.abbiesumiller.com
Calla Grimes: “My approach to designing clothing starts really with my own desire to wear easy everyday clothing that features the body’s best assets,” Grimes said. “I love to feel that I am in a wonderful piece of clothing that can be worn day into night, with a very strong element of the feminine. I use linen, linen blends, wool jerseys and fine knits, and silks of every kind.” callajacobson@gmail.com
Owen Ashley/Ashelter: Owen Ashley is a Jackson native and a founding designer for Anomoly Farm. His own label, Orson Ashelter, features functional outdoor-inspired fashion. “You can wear all of it outside and it won’t get ruined,” he said. “If it is meant to keep you warm it will; if it is supposed to keep you cool it will.” Ashley is currently working with shotgun-perforated vinyl faux leather, reclaimed from the Jackson Hole Airport. owen@anomalyfarm.com
www.factorystudios.org. Contact: Abbie Miller, abbgrab@gmail.com or 307-760-5035
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“The landscape is the tangible connection between man and God. It is a very humbling task—trying to paint the unseen qualities of a landscape as well as what is seen.” – Glenn Dean
Altamira Fine Art presents Bill Schenck, Glenn Dean and Logan Hagege in a new show, Earth & Sky, opening Thursday, June 16, with an artists’ reception from 5-8pm. Works remain on exhibit through June 26.
Schenck is the West’s Roy Lichtenstein. A bold, flattened pop-art style is Schenck’s hallmark. A former Jackson Hole resident, the artist now
lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work reflects his environs and their people. In his early paintings, a sense of ‘makin’ a bit of fun’ of Western cowboys and cowgirls was common. Though Schenck continues to paint in a bright comic book style, a new reverence for indigenous peoples is evident. Native Americans are depicted in softer romantic hues, horses are purple spirits set against vast Southwestern deserts. “His work is characterized by hot colors, surreal juxtapositions and patterning which explore clashes between wilderness and civilization, the individual and community, nature and culture, freedom and restriction,” notes the gallery.
Hagege was born in 1980; he’s a mere 31 years old. A biographical profile describes Logan as being influenced by diverse past masters: Gustav Klimpt, N.C. Wyeth, T.W. Dewing and
Maynard Dixon. In Hagege’s works I see Klimpt’s sensuality of line; N.C. Wyeth’s dramatic, historic compositions; Dewing’s proud, emblematic portraits; and Dixon’s electrifying Southwestern vistas. I can’t help thinking that German painter Hans Holbein (1497-1543), the greatest portraitist of his day, has cast his spirit into Hagege’s paintings.
Dean is a landscapist. Maynard Dixon’s powerful influence reappears in Dean’s glowing Southwest mesas and endless skies. Clouds billow & morph, pulling us toward Heaven. Ranch hands and cowboys are tiny figures passing through great canyons and deserts. Nature is dominant. Western landscape painters of the early 1900′s “…emphasized the importance of seeing the color of light combined with interesting compositions and seemingly effortless designs, while carefully observing the simple and basic characteristics of a specific location,” says the artist. “It still feels like I’m at a magic show when I see work by those artists.”
Magic runs through it; and by “it,” I mean this show. www.altamiraart.com
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Saturday, June 18, is “Saturday U” day at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Two presentations to note:
9-10 a.m. — “The Oglala Lakota (Sioux) and the Modernization of American Culture, 1848-1890,” presented by Jeff Means, history assistant professor.
10:15-11:15 a.m. — “Public Art and Community: Building Partnerships through Art,” presented by Susan Moldenhauer, UW Art Museum director and chief curator. Why is public art important, and what can it do for a community? Moldenhauer discusses how the program “Sculpture, A Wyoming Invitational” was created and implemented.
For more details, or to register for college credit or Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTSB) credit, call Susan Thulin, CWC outreach coordinator, (307) 733-7425.
This is cheating, but I’m sure Erin O’Connor will forgive the indescretion. I’m going to repeat other people’s comments about O’Connor’s latest successes. She’s on the short list for a certain summer plein air event, but I’m not allowed to tell you about that quite yet.
It’s cheating even more to boil down a description of Erin’s light to this: She paints like Dixon. O’Connor is not as well known (yet) as I think she should be, but that may soon change. Notices and awards are piling up, the latest being an article featuring the artist in Spring 2011′s issue of Plein Air Magazine. The article, “Living Lightly and Painting Boldly,” describes O’Connor’s artistic learning process, talks about her mentors and the life she lives as a plein air artist; a life that dictates small spaces, creative use of time, flexibility and an ability to swiftly capture landscapes that capture her. Fine examples of the artist’s work are depicted. Here’s a comment from O’Connor’s Facebook page:
“As a plein air painter who also lives out of his vehicle, when necessary … I can really relate to you, and your approach to the direct-study of landscapes. And SUCH beautiful images … you have a perfect eye for developing the sweep of your compositions [no cameras necessary]. Your article confirms what I suspected the moment I first saw you ‘working’ that morning at Winter Park … when you paint, you are in ‘direct conversation’ with the natural world. Never let anything keep you from your work and workplace … you set a high example for the rest of us! Thank you for sharing your experience.”- Williamson Tapia
O’Connor was selected as the 2009 Joshua Tree National Park Artist-in-Residence. Congrats on all past and presents successes, Erin.
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Hot Glass, Cold Beer, Be Here.
Friday, March 25, blow yourself to a fun evening with the Teton Art Lab Glass Gang. The latter is hosting its first fundraiser at Jackson’s newest arts venue, the Factory Studios. $20 gets you in and goes to support the non-
profit Factory mission. Artists Danny White and John Hogan will be executing a “hot glass performance” and you can probably leave the party with your own piece of hand blown artisan glass.
Oh, says Travis: “Free Beer!”
The party starts at 6:00 pm, ends at 9:00 pm. ONLY fifty (50) tickets are available, and that ensures a good time to be had by all. No crushed glass. Call Rob Hollis at 307-248-1785 or respond on FB to reserve tickets.
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This is just fun. I did not know the National Museum of Wildlife Art had this link to play with.
If you click here, you will find a neat art exercise. “Create a Composition with Carl Rungius” explores basic art principles; famed landscape painter Tucker Smith leads you through the game. The home page I found bobbled back and forth like a seesaw; balance is a component of strong paintings. You can review a series of principles or just jump ahead to creating your own “painting.” A nice interactive project, an enjoyable addition to NMWA’s interactive offierings.
This week’s NMWA ”Art Alive @ 12:05″ features demonsrations by sculptor Sandy Scott .
E.I. Couse, (1866-1936), "Moonlight"
The third annual Jackson Hole Art Auction will take place Saturday, September 19, 2009 at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts Theater. The live auction, a major Fall Arts Festival event, is a collaboration between Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Galleries.
The auction’s sweep of historic artists includes a rich array of paintings from the Taos Society of Artists, and recognized historic artists whose early visions of America’s West shaped the world’s perceptions of a new and largely unexplored world. Deceased masters represented in the Jackson Hole Art Auction have included C.M. Russell, Albert Bierstadt, Maynard Dixon–an excellent DVD on Maynard Dixon’s life and legacy narrated by Diane Keaton is available at Trailside Galleries– E. Irving Couse, John Clymer, Bob Kuhn, Carl Rungius and more. William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Robert Bateman–recently the subject of a special retrospective at the National Museum of Wildlife Art–Z.S. Liang, Mian Situ, Howard Terpning and more.
According to press releases, last year’s auction fetched 7.7 million. The auction is currently soliciting consignments for this year’s auction. Preview works already consigned upstairs at Trailside Galleries, 130 East Broadway. Contact Heidi Theios for more information, at 1-866-549-9278. email: curator@jacksonholeartauction.com.