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“The Beauty Around Us,” a show of new works by Jackson artist Bill Sawczuck, is on exhibit at Trio Fine Art July 11-28th, 2012. Sawczuck is the gallery’s newest addition, and joins Trio’s partners in doing what those artists are inspired—even possessed—-to do: paint the power of this place. An artist’s reception takes place Thursday, July 12th, 5-8:00 pm, at the gallery. Sawczuck will be on hand, and will give a talk about his painting style. The reception is free, and the public is invited.
A painting and heart as big as the landscape around us. “Tribute To Greg,” a 24 x 48″ oil on canvas, by Trio Fine Art’s Bill Sawczuck, is a masterful painting, and a tribute to Sawczuck’s close friend and “long-time plein air painting buddy” Greg McHuron.
"Tribute To Greg," 24x48" Oil on Canvas
This very special show emphasizes that, as Sawczuck says, artists can “find inspiration in magnificent mountains, derelict buildings and anything in between.” An artist need only look around him to find the snowy landscapes, myriad Teton views, unmatched autumn colors, wildlife, historic old barns, ranches and cabins. All these subjects are part and parcel of Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Some views are inescapable; some are hidden and blended into the cottonwoods, near the rivers and lakes, by a rock outcropping, under an aspen, in the sky, or partially hidden by a mound of winter snow.
Kathryn Mapes Turner, landscape painter at large and partner at Trio Fine Art in Jackson Hole, recently sent news regarding her new paintings, hopes and inspirations:
“I have been exploring the creative process by allowing it to reveal itself through the canvas. My work is rooted in my love for the landscape, offered as a humble expression of appreciation for its magnificence. I want to grow ever more aware and attentive to its rhythms. This has made way for a series of storm paintings that are fitting to with the variable weather we are having this season. Now that it is spring, I am spending more time outside painting on location. Here, I experience the resurgence of nature all around me. The result has been bolder brushwork and richer color.”
Trio is also home to painters Jennifer L. Hoffman and Bill Sawczuck. The gallery has announced their summer exhibition schedule:
Bill Sawzuck – Solo exhibition July 11 – 28, 2012
Kathryn Mapes Turner – August 1-18, 2012
Jennifer L. Hoffman- August 22 – September 8th, 2012
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Two Jackson Hole galleries—Diehl Gallery and Astoria Fine Art—have announced adding new artists and acquisitions.
Diehl Gallery welcomes sculptors Natalie Clark and Kate Hunt, and painter Alexandra Eldridge. Clark will debut new works August 23 – September 6, 2012, and an opening reception takes place Thursday, August 23rd, 5-8:00 pm. Clark is a British-American classically trained artist, designer and educator. As a child, she enjoyed making things and she naturally gravitated toward becoming a 3-D artist. Natalie’s work is a global fusion of modern and ethnographic styles.
“My paintings emerge from a place where contradictions are allowed, paradox reigns and reason is abandoned,” says Eldridge. “My search is for the inherent radiance in all things…the extraordinary in the
ordinary.” Her biography states that Eldridge “has had over 40 solo shows, and has participated in many group shows throughout the U.S. as well as many international exhibitions. She has exhibited in Paris, London, Belgrade, Ljubljana, New York, California, and Santa Fe.”
If you’ve visited Jackson’s Amangani, or WRJ Associates’ new showroom space on King Street, you’re familiar with Kate Hunt’s work. In a past life, she was represented by Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary. Hunt’s work is object oriented; she uses steel, twine, boat building epoxy, encaustic and stacked newspaper. She has been awarded a Montana Arts Council Award and the Gottlieb Grant.
Astoria welcomes wildlife sculptor Richard Loffler and painter David Yorke. The Autry National Center notes Yorke’s passion has been to “paint the American West—to portray historical Plains Indians, the pioneers, and the landscape of the West. In most cases, Yorke uses props and regalia that he has researched and constructed, and poses models that he finds during his travels and at period reenactments.”
“Through evolution, each animal has carved its own original statement within this vast scheme of rhythm and structure,” says Loffler. “Its spirit and vitality offer a perpetual platform from which to learn. The complex web that nature weaves for us cannot be understood in one artist’s lifetime; it is a forever growing and changing format and one that deserves distinction.”
Additionally, Astoria is offering new aquisitions from private collections. Artists include Albert Bierstadt, Conrad Schweiring, William Acheff and more. www.astoriafineart.com
Trio Fine Art is transitioning, evolving.
September Vhay, an original founder of Trio Fine Art, has announced she will be leaving that gallery and joining Jackson’s Altamira Fine Art, effective May 3, 2012. At that time, Trio Fine Art will welcome Jackson-based painter Bill Sawczuk as that gallery’s new partner.
Focusing on painting while simultaneously running a gallery is more than a full time job, and after six successful years at Trio, Vhay says she “has come to a place in her life where she feels that her time is best spent painting.”
“Running Trio Fine Art has been an incredibly rewarding experience in regards to having the opportunity to work with, and create art alongside, the talent of Kathryn Turner, Molly Hirschfield, Lee Riddell, and Jennifer Hoffman,” says Vhay, who is known for her distinct renderings of horses and wildlife. “Trio also provided the unique experience for an artist to connect with collectors and witness the public enjoying the work first hand. Artists become attached to their paintings, and there is a certain solace in knowing where they go. I am proud of what the
gallery has become and would like to extend a huge amount of gratitude to my amazing business partners, collectors, family and friends for their unwavering support. Neither Trio Fine Art nor my career would be where they are without it.”
Trio Fine Art’s next group exhibition, Flight, opens at the gallery on Thursday, December 8, 2011. An opening reception takes place 5-8:00 pm, and a percentage of all sales benefit the Teton Raptor Center, and Center director Roger Smith promises to bring along a raptor resident.
It’s the Trio artists’ affinity for birds that inspired the show. Trio’s four artists —Jennifer L. Hoffman, Lee Carlman Riddell, Kathryn Mapes Turner and September Vhay—all have lofty aspirations and feelings for good things that take wing.
“My love of birds,” says Riddell, “came from my parents. Dad planted the flowers that attracted the birds to our yard, and Mom taught me to recognize the bird’s songs.
Recently a Calliope hummingbird nested outside my studio window and I was able to draw and paint the mother and two chicks.” It was a formative experience for Riddell. She adds that she and her husband Ed Riddell made contributions towards helping to rehabilitate injured raptors; the money paid for lots of frozen mice. The Raptor Center is one of Jackson’s great treasures, says Lee Riddell.
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.
