Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
Jackson photographer Jeff Diener will teach a Fall Photo Workshop in Grand Teton National Park, September 28-October 2, 2011.
“We’ll be using the best light of the day, sunrises and sunsets, and visit some great, and lesser known locations,” notes Diener. “I’ve been exploring and shooting in GTNP for the past 15 yrs. We’ll help participants get comfortable adjusting to changing conditions and sites and create dramatic high-end images. Location scouting, assessing locations and weather, helping participants get to know their cameras, practice with functions and new techniques will be covered. We’ll also spend time each day discussing post-processing computer workflow.” Cost is $875 per person.
Wild West Photos will sponsor the workshop–check the agency’s website here. Contact Diener for more information. 307-734-4450 jeff@jeffdiener.com
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The Jackson Hole Historical Society offers free children’s art classes for kids in grades 1-4, Tuesday mornings, 9:30-11:00 a.m., during 
August. Classes will include storytelling, museum exploring, craft making, and the all important snack. Class sizes are limited to 15 children. Here’s the calendar:
August 2: “Pots, Paper, and Pouches” has fun with stories of Indians, explorers, and settlers. Build a fort and make pemmican to carry in your own handmade pouch.
August 9: ”Rod, Reel, and Rifle” explores the important roles that hunting and fishing activities have had in the valley. Includes storytelling, the creation of a “story” hide and a hanging three-dimensional fish.
August 16: “Awe Inspiring Art” discovers the role of artists and photographers in preserving the beauty of Jackson Hole. Includes storytelling, plein air painting, cookie decorating activities and more.
August 23: “Laughs and Lariats” explores the questions “Does the cowboy wear his tools?” and “Does a rodeo have clowns?” Kids make their own chaps and ride into history with a real cowboy to discover the answers.
For more information, contact Mindy Barnett at 307.733.9605. jhhsmeducation@wyom.net
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Wyoming Gallery, upstairs at Jack Dennis Sports, holds an artists’ reception for Derek DeYoung, Jeff Currier and Jim Berkenfield on Friday, August 5, 4-7:30 pm.
Berkenfield says he has been fly fishing for eighteen years and guiding in the Greater Yellowstone area for the past twelve. “I have continuously photographed my fishing exploits,” he says. “I have recently begun to focus on new perspectives of trout…fish in hand, and during the moments of release.”
Currier’s work is published in fly fishing magazines, catalogs, brochures, and books. He is the author of Currier’s Quick and Easy
Guide to Saltwater Fly Fishing and Currier’s Quick and Easy Guide to Warmwater Fly Fishing guide books.
DeYoung’s work has “veered off from the traditional fish illustration style.” His contemporary paintings focus on style and color rather than rendering realistic images of fish.
The store and gallery are noted fortheir fly fishing equipment, guiding and expertise. A.D. Maddox also calls Wyoming Gallery home. www.jdwyominggallery.com 307.733.7548.
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What is this? That’s what my Facebook friend Steve Mooney (SVP, Jack Morton Global Brand Experience!) would ask.
Answer is, it’s a detail (I think!) of one of two walls, each displaying 40 fused glass bricks. The wall is part of the new Home Ranch project, and will be designed and created by Jackson glass artist (and Facebook friend!) John Frechette. The shuffled, stacked stained glass resembles bison and grizzly DNA.
What do you say to that, Facebook friend “Grizzly 399?”
Walter Hood’s name is now familiar in Jackson; the Oakland, California landscape architect is the creative visionary man-with-a-sculpture-trail-plan. And that plan will soon materialize at the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA).
Hood will materialize July 26 and 27; Tuesday, July 26, 7:00-8:00 pm, Hood will talk about design projects he considers his best (count public spaces at San Francisco’s De Young Museum among them), share his philosophy and ideas about art in public spaces, and generally electrify the audience. Hood is a professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. The talk is free and takes place in the museum’s Cook Auditorium.
Wednesday, July 27, Hood will lead museum members on a hard-hat trail tour. Two years ago Hood discussed the idea of the trail with NMWA, but it was not clear the project would happen.
“The Museum is doing the project, the funding came through and it’s taken hold,” Hood says. He describes NMWA’s landscape as “emerging,” taking precedence over what had been a a parking space focused expanse.
“This is a divine process, it took place slowly—but the we are transforming the landscape, making it more useful. I refer to the idea of sociability of space. Society has been building for cars, we are used to getting in our cars. That’s the antithesis of nature, and Jackson is all about nature! So taking the trail is a no-brainer. We’re a ways from finishing the trail, but I’ve already seen so many people walking the area and using those bike paths.”
Hood knows that change can be hard. But once we’ve changed, we embrace and adapt to better systems put into place. “We think things are more complex than they are. Even New York City
is implementing Portland-like planning. You can now bike on Broadway, it’s so much more pedestrian friendly! The same thing is happening in Jackson.”
“As the trail takes shape it is very exciting to see what a great space it is going to be for people and for sculpture,” says NMWA Curator of Education Jane Lavino. “Walter has given us a fabulous design. Because this feature will be free and open to the public it will be a great way for the Museum to reach out. We’ve already seen ways in which this project has paved the way for new partnerships. Plans are underway for an artist-in-residence who will work with community members to create a sculptural piece for the trail. There are also plans for some “behind the scenes” sculpture installation viewing opportunities.”
For information, contact Jane Lavino (jlavino@wildlifeart.org) or call 307.732.5417 www.wildlifeart.org
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Edward Riddell & Lee Carlman Riddell’s joint show, Gratitude, is on exhibit July 27-August 13, 2011 at Trio Fine Art, in Jackson. The show features paintings and black & white photographs depicting Tuscany. An opening reception takes place Thursday, July 28 from 5-8 pm. The Riddells will talk about their work from 6:30-7:00 pm.
A few years ago, the couple began a love affair with Italy, a country known for its romantic cities, landscapes, art and people. As they tell it, Ed Riddell took Lee to see Florence, Italy where he’d studied as a Stanford University art student. They have returned every year since, and earlier this year Ed’s photographs of the Tuscany region were featured in a show at Montalcino, Italy’s Caffe Alla Loggia.
When such an offer is extended to Americans, it’s a great honor. Tuscany has embraced the couple, and they consider Tuscany a spiritual home.
Tuscan doorways, flowers’ shadows cast against simple white windowsills, city skylines, wheat fields and wildflowers, laundry hung out to dry; these are the subjects of Lee’s sunwashed and delicate
oil paintings. Lee composes her paintings—ranging in size from 6″ square to 12″ x 24″—from memory, field sketches and photographs. She has fashioned her own painterly combination of oil and watercolor techniques.
Ed Riddell’s new photographic process eliminates glare by eliminating glass. His 21”x28” black and white prints are laminate coated, staving off moisture and adding image longevity by protecting the photographs from ultra-violet light. The photographer frames his images of Italy’s cultural and pastoral beauty with contemporary, hand-rubbed aluminum panels.
The artists’ work is also included in Wyoming’s Ucross Foundation Art Gallery’s exhibit, In The Presence Of Trees, June 30 – September 6, 2011.
www.triofineart.com 307.734.4444.
Tuesday, December 21 is 2010′s Winter Solstice. A total lunar eclipse will occur that morning–very early. If it’s visible, this will be the last total lunar eclipse we’ll see for about three years.
It’s also the date world-renowned photographer Tom Mangelsen and painter Sue Cedarholm have chosen to debut new works. Winter Solstice, an artist reception, takes place December 21 at Mangelsen’s showroom “Images of Nature,” 170 N. Cache, from 5-9:00 pm.
A celebration of light, of rebirth. A time to renew, to consider what has come before, and what lies ahead. A time to contribute to Mother Earth’s well being. To dream, and to hold hands in
the great circle of life. To me, these rituals and beliefs surrounding the Solstice are never far from Tom Mangelsen’s mind, or Cedarholm’s; in almost constant contact with Nature they travel the world, chronicling wildlife, parting the mists.
“May these images inspire you to experience and preserve the wonders of our natural world,” says Mangelsen. And while the camera is Mangelsen’s beginning and end point, Cedarholm’s paintings spring from photographs she takes. She and Mangelsen have worked together five years, two sets of eyes on the universe. Viewing Cedarholm’s graphic expressionistic acrylic canvases—-works bordering on the abstract, highly designed—alongside Mangelsen’s photographs provides views of nature taking us in and out of different spaces and alternating depths.
Summer’s hissing, a pool of salt water magnifying a crab’s red shell; steam rising from the Snake shrouds a band of elk–but we can inhale their scent, and the scent of the forest. Sun beats down on Kenya’s ubiquitous, graceful acacia trees. The soul of a jaguar is hot magenta. A mother polar bear and her cubs are at home, together, in the snow.
You can learn more about Mangelsen and Cedarholm–get a preview of their new works—by visiting www.mangelsen.com and www.suecedarholm.com. A Mangelsen-Cedarholm show may not come again for another three years. If I were you, I’d catch this one.
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Item #2
He’s got frames.
Photographer Edward Riddell’s new website Le Fotographie is taking off. Many special opportunities to bring art into your life can be found this season, but Le Fotographie’s prowess at providing beautiful photographs — taken in locations all around the world — at really great prices is exceptional. Riddell has added framing to the mix; now you can order any image with a simple, beautiful black frame.
Knowing Riddell’s penchant for perfection, I had full confidence in ordering an image for my mother on the occasion of her 80th birthday. And I admit–even though I’m thoroughly acquainted with Ed (and Lee’s) Riddell’s high standards for quality, it’s always a bit of a chance to send a gift to your mother that you’ve not seen first hand. My mom loves art; we’re a family steeped in art appreciation. Making the right choice was a big deal.
I chose Paul Adams’ “Salt Lake Arch, © 2005″ and asked Riddell to send it to my Mom’s winter home in central Florida. The photograph’s body-of-water subject is bathed in pastel light and, while this is a true-to-life image, the composition has an abstract quality I was confident she’d love.
She did. She ripped the package open almost a week early and called me right away to tell me how much she loves the photograph. And she loved it for the reasons I thought she would. And THAT means that the choice of any image you check out at Le Fotographie is highly likely to live up to your expectations. And that chances of finding a holiday gift that will speak thoughtfully and artfully to your loved ones are quite good. If you’re shy about choosing a specific photograph, gift certificates are available, too.
HURRY. You have until the end of this week for Christmas delivery IF you mention the Jackson Hole Art Blog in your order’s comment box! :-) www.lefotographie.com
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Other Holiday Arts Happenings…..
Thursday, December 16th, take a holiday stroll ( but please watch your step, there’s a ton of ice out there! ) around downtown Jackson and visit galleries hosting Seasonal Art Receptions. Those galleries include:
Cayuse Western Americana An authentic Sheep Wagon and a new gold collection by Jackson artist Dawn Bryfogle set the stage for Christmas at Cayuse. Hours are 3-8 pm, so there’s an afternoon and evening’s worth of cheer. 307.739.1940 www.cayusewa.com December 16th.
Tayloe Piggott Gallery December 16th “For the Love of Paper” artists show and reception 5-8 pm www.tayloepiggottgallery.com.
Trailside Galleries December 16th Gallery-wide Holiday Celebration Reception 5-8pm www.trailsidegalleries.com.
Diehl Gallery December 16th 5-9 pm Holiday Reception www.diehlgallery.com
Full Circle Frameworks Friday, December 17th “Stuff by Emily Paul…” Artist Show 5:30-9:30 pm
Altamira Fine Art Friday, December 17th Holiday Artist Reception 5-7 pm www.altamiraart.com
You had to know an art exhibit inspired by the fracking debate would pop up. For every exhibit we hear about, my guess is dozens more exist.
I and my family have friends and colleagues in the oil and gas industries. They’re great people and are very earth aware, work hard, and are damn smart. They are scientists, geologists, capitalists and entrepreneurs, and they provide me with a sense of what is going on from their expert-in-the-field perspectives. I can only relate what I learn, from both sides of the issue. So, to those good friends: Thank you.
The situation pictured above looks bad, doesn’t it? The image, by the way, is courtesy of Exit Art; that organization posted it courtesy of photographer Jacques del Conte.
FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill, opens at New York’s Exit Art on December 7. An opening reception takes place 7-9 pm that day, and the show runs through Februrary 5, 2011. Its goal is to explore the myriad controversies surrounding “fracking”, the process of extracting gas from “new shale.” Natural gas weaned from shale deposits is hailed by many as being America’s way out of foreign oil dependency; it’s also considered by the industry and supporting business and governmental entities as an economic saviour for those living in shale-rich regions. The economic benefits of a booming gas drilling industry would build coffers in any state engaged in significant drilling activity. Regions with dense drilling activity tend to be remote, lacking diverse industries capable of providing adequate jobs. Drilling derived income can turn lives around; it can also lower private property values when individuals lease acreage out to drilling.
Take Wyoming, for example.
By the way, a revealing—but still very well balanced—portrayal of the pressures, tensions and dealings connected to drilling in Louisiana and Pennsylvania appeared just a few weeks ago in the Times. In New York State, notes Exit Art, a drilling moratorium is in effect until the D.E.C. issues fracking regulation, which could happen as soon as 2011.
Proponents of natural gas drilling say it is safe. Critics say that chemicals used in fracking are dangerous because they contaminate water supplies. In some drilling locales, water is being piped in from other communities–a process draining water from its source. “Fueling” the conflict is the fact that so far, gas industries are not legally bound to reveal the names of the chemicals used in fracking. This new exhibition, a project of SEA, looks to create dialogue and educate the public via “documentary videos, photographs, commissioned works, public responses and literature…” Exit Art issued a call to artists and the public to submit original artwork on postcards, with written statements “verso,” on the topic of fracking. The responses are on view in this show. Submissions are accepted for the show through its duration.
(Hear that, Ricki Arno? Get the Adorables in on the project! Love you!)
That invitation is extended to Wyoming artists, of course.
If you are in NYC on January 12, 2011, 7-9 pm, you can attend a panel discussion on fracking and its effects, led by Actor/Activist Mark Ruffalo. In addition to Ruffalo, participants are:
Moderator: Tracy Carluccio, Activist.
Panelists: Joe Levine, Lobbyist / Activist; Michael Lebron, Grassroots Organization; Al Appleton, Policy; Michel Boufadel, Civil Engineer; Christy Rupp, Artist; and a representative from the documentary film, Gasland.
Support for this exhibition was provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bloomberg LP; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Check out www.exitart.org; phone 212-966-7745 for information.
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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.
