Duke Beardsley Exhibition | Fall Arts Festival 2017

Duke Beardsley Solo Exhibition • September 4-23, 2017

Artist Reception: September 8, 5 - 8pm

Altamira Fine Art Jackson

Altamira Fine Art is pleased to

present a solo exhibition for Duke Beardsley during the annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, September 4-23, 2017.

Please join us for the Artist Reception on Friday, September 8 from 5-8pm during the popular Palates and Palettes ArtWalk.

Duke Beardsley has a masterly command of drawing technique.

His working cowboy images are rendered in a clever minimalist

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approach and presented in palettes that lend a Pop Art sensibility. His unique art, like his western lifestyle, is a joyful melding of tradition and contemporary styling.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Duke BEARDSLEY

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Duke Beardsley was born in 1969 in Denver, Colorado. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As a fifth generation Coloradan, Duke Beardsley’s western roots run deep. Splitting his time between Denver and his family’s cattle ranch in eastern Colorado, he has been drawing and painting images of the American West most of his life. His work blends modern artistic elements with the traditional icons of the West. The result has made him a consistently popular favorite among collectors of contemporary western art.

Beardsley’s work has been featured in exhibitions including the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale, The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum, and the Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show & Sale.

Collections include the Denver Art Museum, the Forbes Collection, Booth Museum of Western Art, and the State of Colorado.

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ART CATALOG “ Color and pattern continue to be a means to an end for me.

They’re tools I use to intentionally remove the cowboy icon from the herd-bound and conventional trappings of the traditional western landscape. What does the icon mean out here on its own? Does it still carry the traditional weight and provenance? Rugged individualism, heroic, tough? And what happens when you impose a decidedly and unapologetically romanticized icon in front of an equally stylized and romanticized invented background of a hundred floating cowboys?”

~ Duke Beardsley

DUKE BEARDSLEY

Close Range, Mixed Media on Masonite Tiles, 81.25" x 48.5"

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Doce Sueños Pequeños, Mixed Media on Masonite Tile, 15" x 12"

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Seis Vaqueros Pequeños de Oro, Mixed Media on Masonite Tile,15.25" x 13.75"

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Fake News, Mixed Media on Collage, Triptych, 24" x 108"

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Four Ways From Sunday Oil, Tetraptych, 24" x 72"

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Minty, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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Cool, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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Very Berry Fresh, Oil on Canvas, 12” x 36”

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Swingtown, Mixed Media on Collage, 48" x 72"

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Frost King, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24"

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King Dean, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24"

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The Sun King, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24"

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Hector, Oil on Canvas, 60” x 60”

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Cinco Vaqueros PequeĂąos Verticales Rojos, Mixed Media on Masonite Tiles, 29" x 3.75"

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Quatro Vaqueros Pequeños Blancos, Mixed Media on Masonite Tiles, 5” x 12”

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CLOCKWISE: Vaquero Peque単o Green, Vaquero Peque単o Red, Vaquero Peque単o Orange, Vaquero Peque単o, Mixed Media on Masonite Tiles, 3" x 5" (Each Tile Sold Separately) 22 connect@altamiraart.com

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CLOCKWISE: Vaqueros Pequeños: Apple on Apple, Aqua on Aqua, Lemon on Lime, Moss on Moss, Pink on Pink, Chili on Chili, Oil on Canvas, 8" x 10" (Each Tile Sold Separately) 23

Join us for our upcoming 2017 shows in Jackson, including: Duke Beardsley: Solo Exhibition September 4-23, 2017 Artist Reception: Friday, September 8, 5-8pm Greg Woodard: Solo Exhibition September 11-23, 2017 ArtWalk Reception: Wednesday, September 13, 5-8pm Thom Ross & Travis Walker: So Many Roads October 9-21, 2017 ArtWalk Reception: Wednesday, October 19, 5-8pm September Vhay & Erica Vhay December 11-31, 2017 Artist Reception: Thursday, December 21, 5-8pm

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