Posts Tagged ‘Trio Fine Art’
The Jackson Hole Art Association kicks off its Summer Exhibitions this week, when artists Mark Newport, Jean Laughton and Taylor Glenn present their work. A reception for all three shows takes place Friday, June 3, 5:30 pm at the Center for the Arts. The shows remain up through July 29, 2011.
Mark Newport’s Sweatermen are giant, knit superhero costumes. Hand made knit goods are especially memory-provoking and connective. My own mother still knits, and a few Christmases ago she created a series of knit snakes. She gave them little black yarn smiles and tiny hats, lined them with panty hose and filled them with birdseed. She’d make a fortune turning them out by the dozen, but she indulged her vision. The snakes are a limited series.
That kind of tactile sensory stimulation, along with every child’s adoration of superheroes, combine to make these intriguing life-size costumes. An empty, dangling superhero suit begs to be filled out; we imagine ourselves inside each one, or a faceless, perfect somebody beneath the hoods. As I write, I realize we adults—particularly baby boomers, the first generation to make anti-aging a daily pursuit—are still drawn to comic book idols. We flock to the movies to see Ironman, Superman, the Green Hornet, Spiderman, Batman.
Artist and educator Mark Newport is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He will give an artist’s talk that day, June 11, at 12:00 p.m. in the Art Association’s Main Gallery.
Taylor Glenn’s touching and beautiful images of China’s Mandarin Green Plastics Company capture assembly workers in an artificial flower factory. That fact does not minimize the poetry in these photographs.
Far Chang humanizes a product Americans buy en masse; these flowers are somebody’s daily art. “We rarely give thought to how these products are made and the individuals who are responsible. These images are a personal and quiet observation of daily life at this factory,” says the Art Association.
Glenn will give a gallery talk on Thursday, June 7, at 7:00 pm.
Jean Laughton’s My Ranching Life caps off the summer shows with dynamic images of Western South Dakota ranching life; this American life. Laughton took these photographs in the Badlands of Interior, South Dakota. Laughton studied photography, simultaneously adapting to the hard tack of daily cowboy life. These are large-scale panoramic photographs, capturing the West’s superhero ranching lifestyle.
http://www.artassociation.org/exhibitions/index.html
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An esteemed colleague, a friend with an interest in urban planning and who works in the real estate industry on a global level, has sent me a list of books written by his own “urban planning heroes,” with synopses:
Design with Nature by Ian McHarg – McHarg taught that buildings and landscapes must respect the natural environment and the ecosystem.
Death and Life of American Cities by Jane Jacobs – Jacobs wrote that “eyes and feet on the street” leading to direct human interaction is the key to successful neighborhoods. Auto-centric, civil-engineering-driven approaches kill neighborhoods.
City in History by Lewis Mumford – Mumford wrote that cities represent the best that civilization has to offer. Most of the advancements in the long history of humankind came from the exchange of ideas and commerce in cities. He valued the historic legacy of cities over the post-modernist destruction of the reminders of who we are and where we came from.
Triumph of the City by Ed Glaeser – Glaeser is a young Harvard economist who just appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He writes that cities are one of the best inventions in humankind and that they are the key to living efficiently on the planet. He is a bit of an anti-planner in that he says planners often get it wrong (sprawl zoning from the 50s was built on bad assumptions that everyone wants a half-acre lot and a two-car garage and no sidewalks). But his ideas about how people express their desires in the real estate marketplace are really intriguing. And he does think that the marketplace would demand higher density, which is also more efficient, if sprawl zoning could be changed.
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Coming to a gallery near you:
Altamira Fine Art welcomes Montana artist Ted Waddell and contemporary landscape painter Louisa McElwain, at an opening reception Thursday, June 2, 6-8:00 pm. Their joint show, Good Country, remains up through June 19. www.altamiraart.com
The Diehl Gallery celebrates its 10th Anniversary on Thursday, June 30. The 10th Anniversay Fête happens 5-9:00 pm at the Gallery. This summer, Diehl features artists Hung Liu, Ashley Collins and Sheila Norgate. The gallery will also travel to Art in San Diego September 1-4th. Cool! www.diehlgallery.com
Trio Fine Art begins summer hours on June 1. The gallery–which features the work of Lee Carlman Riddell, September Vhay, Kathryn Mapes Turner and Jennifer Hoffman–will be open Wednesday through Saturday, noon-6:00 pm. Stop by for tea. Shows throughout the summer! www.triofineart.com
The Jackson Hole Art Auction closes its 2011 Auction consignment period June 1. If you want to consign and you are reading this post May 31, 2011, you’ve got 24 hours to contact Lucy P. Grogan by phoning 866.549.9278. www.jacksonholeartauction.com
One of Jackson’s finest plein air and studio landscape painters, Jennifer L. Hoffman,will become a partner at Trio Fine Art. The new affiliation becomes official January 1, 2011.
Trio Fine Art represents the work of Jackson artists Lee Carlman Riddell, Kathryn Mapes Turner and September Vhay. Montana artist Russell Chatham is also represented at the gallery. And although there will now be four painting partners at the gallery, the gallery’s name will not change.
“I am thrilled and honored to have this amazing opportunity,” says Hoffman. “These three women are artists of the highest caliber and the utmost professionalism. I am excited to be a partner in an artist-run gallery, and to be inspired and motivated by the work of Lee, Kathryn, and September.” To introduce Hoffman as the gallery’s new partner, Trio will host a solo exhibition for Hoffman February 9-19, 2011. An artist’s reception will be held on Thursday, February 10, 2011.
“I am so excited for Jen to join us at Trio! She will add a great deal, from the vibrancy and authenticity of her paintings, to her work ethic, to her joyful laugh,” says Riddell.
Hoffman is one of the region’s finest landscape painters. The Jackson Hole Art Blog has followed her career, and I’m proud to have written the introduction for Jen’s book featuring her work; we were also mentioned in an article on Hoffman’s work in Fine Art Connoisseur (see below). The number of notices of Hoffman’s skill as an 
artist continually grow. In addition to her local participation and representation in such venues as the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, her exhibitions include the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, Reflections in Pastel National Juried Exhibition, the Pastel 100, and Masters in Miniature at the CM Russell Museum.
Recent awards include an Award of Excellence at the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters’ 2010 National Exhibition; Best of Show in the First Annual International Autumn Arts Painting Challenge; and 3rd Place in Landscape in the 9th Annual Pastel 100 sponsored by the Pastel Journal.
Many national fine art magazines cover Hoffman. 2010′s May/June issue of Fine Art Connoisseur listed her in their feature “Artists Making Their Mark: Three to Watch”; and her work has been featured in Western Art Collector, The Pastel Journal, American Artist Magazine, and the Jackson Hole Magazine, among others. Hoffman is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, and also holds memberships in the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, the Oil Painters of America, and the American Impressionist Society.
Trio Fine Art is located at 545 N Cache St. and is open Thursdays from 12-6 during the winter season, with extended hours during Hoffman’s show. www.triofineart.com
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Astoria Fine Art has new works in by Netherlands artist Ewoud de Groot and Western artist Greg Beecham. Lots of new work coming into the gallery, says owner Greg Fulton. Check out the new works this holiday season! Both artists tend to have new work sell quickly. Winter-themed paintings by such artists as Scott Christensen and Clyde Aspevig are available. The gallery hosts a Holiday Reception, with special guest Beecham, on December 30, 5-7 pm. www.astoriafineart.com
Horizon Fine Art is highlighting the bright and joyous paintings of artist Sarah Rogers. Rogers has exhuberant, colorful portraits of wildlife on exhibit–cardinals, bison, and big Christmas bears. Stop by the (still pretty new!) gallery space on King Street, across from Shades Café. 307.739.1540 www.horizonfineartgallery.com
MADE, where artist John Frechette hangs his hat and fused glass, will donate 25% of all sales he rings up on Monday, Dec. 20, 5-8 pm to the Art Association. Check it out in Gaslight Alley; look for the canopy of festive holiday lights!
CIAO has extended its deadline to December 30, 2010 for artists interested in entering CIAO’s exhibition “New Year’s Resolution,” a show inspired by new beginnings, growth and promises to yourself or others. Visit www.ciaogallery.com for more info.
Tom Mangelsen and Sue Cedarholm hold their Winter Solstice opening reception showcasing their new photographs and paintings on Tuesday, December 21—under that full, freshly eclipsed, moon. Images of Nature Gallery, 5-9 pm.
Stop by the Art Association Lobby on Tuesday, December 21, 4-6 pm, for a tea-and-cookies reception for ArtSpot artist (Charlie Brown shirt!) Suzanne Morlock. (I have enjoyed all ArtSpot installations, but this giant metallic t-shirt is the most successful to date. It’s unmistakable, stands up to weather, is highly visible, fits time and place, and is a universal symbol imbued with multiple messages. And, it has humor. Congrats!) Info: 307.413.1800.
A Trunk Show from Kyrgyzstan featuring felt toys, hats, slippers and other gifts to warm the soul remains at the American Legion Hall through December 24th. Hours are 11 am - 7 pm; located on the corner of Gill and North Cache. 307.733.3082. 
Trio Fine Art’s Kathryn Mapes Turner presents her latest works in a new show, Time In-Between. Opening with an artist’s reception July 29, 5-8 pm, the exhibition remains up through August 15. Time, and its impermanence, are Turner’s themes—these concepts are explored in oils and drawings of landscape and animals.
Turner’s work is ever more tonalist, more reductive and evocative. Realism is not fully dissolved, though she often seems to be working towards abstraction in her oil paintings.
In fact, Turner theorizes that all visual art is “inspired by an abstract idea that is executed with a specific medium onto a fixed surface,” a thought developing into imagery. “My art is what happens between me, my subject and the medium which are all constantly changing” explains Turner.
Comparing this series of paintings to sedimentary rock—each composition is built up using multiple layers of paint—Turner notes that it was difficult to decide when any of her paintings were complete. Stratitfication of glazes and dry brush technique enable her paintings to take on a life of their own.
Check out Turner’s work on her website, or phone her directly, at 307.690.9632.
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July 17-30, check out the work by collaborating (and married) artists Chris Reilly and Michelle Haglund, on display at Diehl Gallery. This post missed the
show’s opening, but if you haven’t already, stop by the gallery to see these mystical, lovely works.
Encaustics play a big, if not complete, roll. Birds and bees, insects and little amorphous frogs—fantastic flowers and backgrounds of mottled gold, reds and greens suggest nature’s sensual core. I think of the Renaissance; flowers are used as ancient symbols in many cultures and have been since antiquity. Haglund says the artists’s household is filled with “enthusiastic nature explorations of various life forms.” Wax is the medium bringing the work of the two artists together—some works are by both artists, others by one or the other. They describe finished works as “fully ripened.”
For his part, Reilly seeks to inspire contemplation. “The stillness of meditation is echoed in the quietude of the finished painting that has undergone a process of creation, destruction and finally preservation. Creatures that transform, such as dragonflies and butterflies, are arranged in a loose grid symbolizing the enduring pattern of regeneration. Branches, laden with blossoms and fruit, stretch across the canvas receiving light and mimicking a human limb. These works are built up with wax and scraped down until a feeling of serenity is achieved,” he notes.
Email: info@diehlgallery.com. Phone: 307.733.0905
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Jackson painter and photographer (and, we should add, portraitist) Alison Brush says she will have two shows in Jackson this summer. Currently, new works are on display at Betty Rock Cafe through August 6.
“The realms between waking consciousness and sleep fascinate me,” says the artist. Fluid and rhythmic, these paintings would rock you to sleep were they music. Dreams of the oceans. Wriggle into spaces swimming in refracted, swirling color. Meditate, imagine your wildest dreams coming true.
Brush’s cyclonic paintings flow towards infinity, and beyond.
Email the artist at: abrush@mindspring.com.
On July 8, Lee Carlman Riddell and Ed Riddell will open a joint show, Joy, at Trio Fine Art.
For Lee and Ed, joy is the thing that, when cultivated, creates a better life. ”A special friend taught us the importance of cheering each other on: remembering a birthday, cooking dinner for friends, attending weddings and graduations and …art openings. Volunteering your time. It is these special things that we can all do that give us satisfaction and a sense of community,” says Lee.
The couple, recently returned from Tuscany, are, according to Lee, “excited to be showing their new work created over the past year.”
Photographer Ed Riddell expects he’ll be showing ten to twenty new photographs, while Lee notes her paintings will include works as large as 18 x 18″, 12 x 30″ and 12 x 24.”
Ed is planning a “surprise” for the public with his new images; Lee will be displaying some new, more expansive landscape paintings. Red barns covered by snowfall, Snake River pelicans, hoary frost cottonwoods, the moon. Tuscany’s landscapes are rendered in field sketches (which can be the most exciting part of any show). Nesting hummingbirds, very difficult to observe, housed themselves outside Lee’s studio—expect to see sketches of tiny, hovering Trochilidae.
Joy’s opening reception takes place 5-8:00 pm; a salon-style conversation with Ed and Lee Riddell happens the same evening, 5-6:00 pm. Contact Lee by phoning either 307.733.8093, x10 or 307.699.0923.
Watch for Lee’s contribution to the 2010 NMWA Western Visions Show. One more accolade: Lee’s work was accepted as part of the juried Yellowstone Art Museum 42nd art Auction.
Visit www.triofineart.com for more information. In addition to Riddell, Trio Fine Art represents Kathryn Mapes Turner and September Vhay…and that painter up in Livingston….what’s his name……..Russell Chatham (humor attempt!). Look for some guest artist appearances this season. Summer gallery hours at Trio are Wed. – Sat., Noon-6pm.
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I love it when the nudes come together!
Lyndsay McCandless, Director at newly opened Heather James Fine Art, would like you to come in and see some of her 
favorite things. Marilyn is one of them. Even “hetero” women are in love with Marilyn. Can’t stop looking at her.
“When Hollywood photographer Lawrence Schiller, America’s first paparazzi, got the assignment to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it, just another fabulous Hollywood assignment,” says McCandless. “But he, and the world, were unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped into the pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. The film crew brought out a birthday cake on that day, June 1, 1962 when she turned 36, and she gleefully sat before the sparkler candles…”
Schiller caught the moment, on a day that turned out to be her last on a movie set. Two months later Monroe would be dead.
McCandless also digs painter Timothy Tompkins’ nebulas; painted on aluminum panels they remind her of ethereal, glorious, galactic worm holes. She notes that the work is inspired by images in modern media and how they relate to art history and the human condition; the works have a transitory effect.
There’s so much more, including an August “Wyeth” extravaganza. Do not miss it. 307.200.6090 gets you Lyndsay.
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Shoot, it’s Schenck!
My bad. Missed this item in my “drafts” stack. Here are the facts!
WHAT: Book Signing: “Bill Schenck, Serigraphs 1971-1996”
WHEN: Saturday, July 10th 10 AM to 1 PM
WHERE: Altamira Fine Art, 172 Center Street
WHY: It’s Bill Schenck! (Have you SEEN the magazine layouts of his cool southwestern home?)
STRAIGHT FROM THE GALLERY’S MOUTH: Over the past four decades Bill Schenck’s hard-edge oil paintings examining the realities of modern Western life have ranged from the nostalgic and the surreal to Photorealism and Conceptualism. Yet little attention has been given to the unique serigraphs he created over twenty-five years. Between the early 1970’s and the mid-1990’s, Schenck created fifty-two editions of serigraphs encompassing a variety of themes including fictionalized Western histories, Native American subjects, and depictions of the modern cowboys and cowgirls. These silkscreen prints reveal the serious, the playful, and the critical aspects of his fascination with the West….His Photorealist style lends itself to a contemporary interpretation of the West in a melding of Pop art graphic boldness and Warhol-like mythmaking. To heighten the glamour and drama of his subjects, he pays sharp attention to compositional elements such as setting, viewing angle, light, and color.
email: connect@altamiraart.com
Jackson Hole artist September Vhay revisits a familiar theme in a new show, All the Red Horses. On view beginning February 9, the show opens February 11, with a reception from 5-8 pm at Trio Fine Art. Vhay will talk about her art from 5-6 pm.
Horses are inextricably associated with Vhay; her portraits of these animals — nobody renders a horse’s body and flesh like Vhay– are ubiquitous. Rightly so. Vhay’s horses hold gentle strength, graceful form and lyric mystery.
These horses are red and reduced. Minimal, they are void of Vhay’s more representational anatomy and detail. She has explored using this red paint–I’m going to call it a Chinese red–in the past. Constructive circles and arcs are plain in these works, which remain ethereal.
A little research tells me that describing Vhay’s red as Chinese red is apt. In Chinese art, the horse is a symbol of power and virtue; a thousand years ago Asians considered the horse to be a luxury good, rivaling silk in its prestige. They are also a symbol of imperial power. And red, in China, is the color of Luck.
For more information, phone Trio Fine Art at 307.734.4444.
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Naturally Nude, CIAO Gallery’s latest competitive exhibition, holds its opening reception at CIAO on Saturday, February 13, 6-9 pm. The party will be warmed up by jazz trumpeter Mark Memor and accompanying musicians providing music composed by CIAO artist Martin Hagen.
With more entries than ever–this is CIAO’s third annual Naturally Nude show– choosing just a few winning artists was difficult, says gallery manager Michele Walters. She notes that the juried show has caught on – artists from around the country submit work.
Judges ultimately bestowed first place to Michael McGrath’s delicate bronzes; second place to Rick Wheeler’s compositions rendered with oils, watercolors and pastels; and third prize was awarded to Armin Muhsam’s abstract intaglio prints.
An evening of jazz and art is romantic, but an evening with jazz, art and good food 
borders on the decadent. Wilson chef Piper Wright-Clark will be serving up tasty fare, inspired by Valentine’s Day.
What’s not to love about this party? Do drop in. CIAO’s address is 66 S. Glenwood, in Jackson. Contact Walters at 307.733.7833 for more information, and viva l’amour.
