Travis Walker September 20 - October 1, 2016
Out There, Oil, 48″ x 60″
Out There
Artist Reception: September 22, 5-8pm ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON
Altamira Fine Art Jackson is pleased to present a new one-man show for Jackson Hole artist Travis Walker. The show opens September 20 and an Artist Reception will be held on Thursday evening, September 22 from 5-8pm. Presales available. Call 307-739-4700 or email connect@altamiraart.com
The show will feature over a dozen new paintings, including popular Jackson landmarks and beyond. For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing the essence of the seemingly mundane scenes around town: a morning on the Elk Refuge, a decaying house with a fence made of skis, a vintage trailer park. His work is influenced by the work of American regionalists Edward Hopper and Grant Wood, Japanese printmaking, and German Expressionism. “A common subject in my work is the road, which represents our journey through life. We start off staring down the lines of a road, and our entire lives we continue to follow the road to new places. My fascination with roads led me to another symbol in my work: the trailer home. I have found so many of trailers scattered throughout the West that I have come to view them as representations of the American Dream, full of hope, uncertainty, and memory.� ~ Travis Walker
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
TRAVIS WALKER
ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON
Travis Walker is the founder and director of Teton Artlab, a nonprofit arts organization that provides studio space for artists. He was born in 1976 in Tokyo, Japan, and earned his BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2000 from Virginia Commonwealth University. Recent group exhibitions include the 2012 Western Visions Show and Sale and the 2013 and 2012 Takin’ It to the Streets Art Fair, among many others. Solo exhibitions include “American Dreams” in 2012 at Cowboy Coffee and “Views of Jackson” in 2009 at Teton Artlab. Walker was a 2013 panelist for the National Endowment for the Art’ Artists Communities Grant. He was a 2013 Artist in Residence at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. In 2012, he won the “Rising Star Award” from the Cultural Council of Jackson Hole. Publications include the 2015 book Painters of Grand Teton National Park written by Donna and James Poulton. Travis’s work appeared on the cover of the 2016 Images West Magazine.
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SHOW CATALOG
ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON
TRAVIS WALKER
Out There, Oil, 48″ x 60″
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TRAVIS WALKER Across the Refuge, Acrylic, 16″ x 20″
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TRAVIS WALKER
Gai Mode No. 2, Acrylic, 9″ x 12″
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TRAVIS WALKER Mead Ranch No.2, Acrylic, 11″ x 14″
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TRAVIS WALKER
Silent Grove South Park, Acrylic, 16″ x 20″
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TRAVIS WALKER R Park and Snake River, Acrylic, 18″ x 36″
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Silent Refuge, Oil, 12″ x 36″
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TRAVIS WALKER Snake River Vision, Oil, 28″ x 56″
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Sun in Your Eyes (Firehose River), Acrylic, 16″ x 20″
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TRAVIS WALKER Swan Pond Clouds, Acrylic, 18″ x 24″
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Teton Theater No. 2, Oil, 38″ x 46″
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TRAVIS WALKER Soaring, Oil, 48″ x 60″
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Upcoming Shows
at Altamira Fine Art Jackson Travis Walker: “Out There” September 20-October 1, 2016 • Artist Reception: September 22, 5-8pm Todd Kosharek: “Utopian Vision: The History Project” October 3-15, 2016 • Artist Reception: October 6, 5-8pm More 2016 shows announced soon.
2 LOCATIONS: JACKSON, WY + SCOTTSDALE, AZ
172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256 For more information on gallery artists visit www.altamiraart.com