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Parallel shows by Idaho artists Cynthia Stoetzer and Valerie Stuart begin at the Tayloe Piggott Gallery on October 25, and remain up through December 12, 2010; but the shows will be officially opened together in a new venue for the gallery, an Open House. Saturday, November 6, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm the public is welcome to stop by the gallery for an open “Art Conversation.” Throughout the day visitors may drop in to talk with the artists, view the work, and enjoy refreshments.
Stuart and Stoetzer will talk about their process, experience and challenges as artists — this opportunity, in tandem with an atmosphere likened to a home setting, is meant to be a satisfying experience for all attendees. A satisfying and dynamic mix of gallery and inside-the-artist’s-studio.
Stoetzer’s show In the Leaves and On the Plains expands upon the artist’s style of combining elements of European and American Impressionists, with a bit of Pointillism in the painterly mix. The subject, though, is Stoetzer’s western landscapes. As large as 48″ x 60″, Stoetzer’s paintings are known for their ability to shimmer.
“My aim now is to reclaim landscape as the serious and cherished subject it has always been,” says the artist. “And to celebrate that love of the specific place and time. So when I paint a grove of trees, you can see that they are Aspen trees as they grow in that particular way in the Rockies. They’re not just an idea, or a symbol, of a tree. It’s been said that to give one’s attention is the greatest act of love, and when I’m painting an aspen tree, I’m giving it my full attention.”
Stuart’s Incontado mixed media works recall Renaissance frescos. This series, her “Mura Venete” (Venetian Walls), incorporates plaster, oil
paint, and resin. Stuart uses a layering process and “chromatic key construction,” creating great luminous depth on her canvases. A combination of color, tension, language and experience speak to the emotional “self.” And Stuart’ self has had many lives; the artist has worked as an actor, stunt driver and in fashion design before devoting herself full time to her painting.
www.tayloepiggottgallery.com
Contact information for artists: Valerie Stuart, valeriestuart@cox.net, (208)720-6115 Cynthia Stoetzer, (208)354-0112, guild@silverstar.com
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One of Jackson’s coolest cultural traditions is the creation and admiring of Parejas del Día de los Muertos- –Day of the Dead Figures—around town. The Teton County Library never omits marking this Latino tradition of creating and displaying colorful, festive altars honoring the circle of life, and those who have gone before us.
October 23 & 30, celebrate “Day of the Dead” by creating and decorating novios with the artisan Oton Baez, at the Library. Class offered in two continuous Saturday sessions. Registration required and has been ongoing as of Oct. 11. For ages 7 to adult. Ordway Auditorium. Free. For more information, contact Latino Programs Coordinator Patty Rocha, 733-2164 ext. 237 or procha@tclib.org . In Spanish & English.
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It’s hard to paint the night.
But, for wildlife and many painters of landscape and wildlife, night bewitches. Wildlife emerges, gathers and responds to the deepening light. Artists strive to capture the effects of moonlight and the stars on a blackening sky and the earth below. The National Museum of Wildlife Art’s new show, Dusk to Dawn: Nocturnes from the Collection, opens October 30, 2010, remains on display through May 1, 2011, and “combines master works of the genre drawn from the museum’s collection with an exploration of nocturnal animal behavior.”
My favorite present-day “local” night-sky artist is Bill Sawczuk. Sublime, twinkling, translucent nocturnal skies. And one of my favorite wildlife/landscape works is Rockwell Kent’s 1920′s stylized “Mt. Equinox, Vermont,” an oil painting featured in this show.
This exhibit spotlights historic painters such as Georges-Frederick Rotig, Frank Tenney Johnson and Albert Bierstadt, as well as more contemporary painters; Lars Jonsson and Bob Kuhn are two examples. For more information contact the Museum, or log onto the website, www.wildlifeart.org.
“The unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn apart. Kahn is an artist who embodies the synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, with the palette of Matisse, Rothko’s sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism.” – Wolf Kahn Bio
“With each painting, you have to set up a situation in which you can be surprised. You have to have the opportunity to be spontaneous.”- Wolf Kahn
Jackson Hole’s Fall Arts Festival is upon us, and many galleries are warming up, previewing their big shows. In the case of Jackson’s Tayloe Piggott Gallery, in partnership with Camille Obering, the big draw is a show of Wolf Kahn paintings and pastels. Refractions of Light is on exhibit at that gallery now through October 24; an opening takes place September 10, 5-8 pm, during Palates & Palettes.
It always seemed just a matter of time before Wolf Kahn showed up at Tayloe’s.
Potent combination, balancing Matisse, Rothko and American Impressionism. It’s as if Wolf Kahn single handedly created a new painting genre. Oh, wait, I think he did! Can we call him a synthesist? His
most influential teacher, Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, certainly was. Wolf Kahn’s style, arguably one of the most recognized in American art, has itself influenced a generation of expressionistic, fauvist-style painters. He is certainly one of the most influential contemporary landscape painters. His work is at once tranquil and effervescence. His color palette is largely pastel, as if Nature blushed while posing for Kahn.
Though he studied art in New York, he’s a 1950′s urban art student who went country. During the 50′s Kahn became influential in that era’s explorative, hyper-creative art movements. Born in 1927, he continues to divide his time between New York and Vermont.
My desk calendar is a Wolf Kahn. Even on mass produced calendar stock, Kahn’s saturated hues obliterate all the other colors in immediate view. For more information, visit www.tayloepiggottgallery.com or phone 307.733.0555.
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Check out Jackson’s Legacy Gallery One Man Show for Texas artist Gary Lynn Roberts, opening August 26th, with an artist’s opening reception 6-8:00 pm. at the gallery.
This new exhibition features at least 15 new paintings by this popular genre artist. Heck. Months ago I received an email from a Western art fan living in Idaho. She asked me if I knew the name of a landscape artist from Texas, whose work was shown in Jackson. The paintings they’d seen by that artist moved them. That was the only information they had, and I was at a loss. Fingers crossed they see this post and that Roberts is their man!
Roberts paints scenes recalling Western life dating from the 1800′s. A classic landscape realist, Roberts learned to paint at an early age. His father, Joe Rader Roberts, was also an artist. Formative influences on Roberts’ work were artists G. Harvey and A.D. Greer. Daily participation in ranch life gave Roberts the experience he needed to “portray the natural characteristics of horses and the ranch lifestyle….during the Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell era, when cowboys and Indians were prevalent.”
The works at this exhibit will be originals, but Roberts has a selection of giclées on canvas. Many of his new works can be seen on the artist’s website, linked above. For more information, phone Legacy Gallery at 307.733.2353.
Though this information reached the Jackson Hole Art Blog a little late to post in time for this exhibit’s August 19 opening reception, I wanted to call your attention to Interpreting the GYE, on exhibit through August 31 at Galleries West Fine Art. The exhibition combines paintings, sculptures and (quite possibly) pastel.
The concept that we are all here because of the Power of Place seems to be “locking in” for Jackson’s arts community. Of course, the GYE–Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem–has been examined, observed, interpreted and adored by artists since the 1860′s. Now, our contemporary arts community is accepting—”considering” may be a more appropriate description — that landscape, wildlife and indigenous cultures are cool.
Galleries West features representational work by contemporary artists. It is a friendly, hard working and lovely gallery, filled with work created with full depth of devotion to Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson. You know these artists. Come see the work.
Galleries West is located on 70 S. Glenwood, in Jackson — across from Trio Restaurant. For information, call the gallery at 307.733.4412.
