DENNIS ZIEMIENSKI
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September 10 – 22, 2018 Jackson Hole Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Featured Artist Artist Reception & Poster Signing September 12 | 4:00–7:00pm
DENNIS ZIEMIENSKI It’s the Water
Jackson Hole | Scottsdale | AltamiraArt.com
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Shallow Creek Crossing Oil on canvas | 36 x 48 inches Enquire
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It’s the Water Dennis Ziemienski scans historical images for the cracks, the openings for alternative perspectives. Within these moments, he splices contemporary insight. Storms become more dramatic, canyons deepen with shadows and people convey character—both complicated and stoic.
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Such was his approach to creating the 2018 Fall Arts Festival poster painting. Ever drawn to the awesome scale of the Tetons, he considered the personalities bordering the well-worn lore of the Wild West—the heroines of Jackson Hole. Casting his daughter, a lifelong rider, as muse (as he often does), he rendered a cowgirl and her horse en route home. The pair pause in the Snake River, muzzle playfully submerged and hat brim meditatively upturned to the Tetons. The restorative scene stems from a river trip Ziemienski took years ago with his wife. A California native turned world traveler, he has been visiting the valley since his
twenties. That summer day, he left his camera behind, choosing to immerse himself in the experience on the Snake. The adventure imprinted on his memory; recalling the power of the river felt like wading within an enduring eddy. Reflection runs through all his new work at Altamira—the vitality and variation of water itself in the American West. Whether welled in portending clouds, cascading over falls, or pooling around bison, water provides the plot line, the animating force of the account, not the humans set to small scale. It’s the Water that compels his characters forward, from the past into the future.
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Teton Oasis Oil on canvas | 40 x 36 inches Enquire
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Autumn Fly Fisherman Oil on canvas | 12 x 20 inches Enquire
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Yellowstone From The Station Wagon Oil on linen panel | 24 x 24 inches Enquire
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Montana Cloudburst Oil on canvas | 24 x 24 inches Enquire
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Ascent From The Gorge Oil on canvas | 30 x 20 inches Enquire
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The Cowboy’s Canteen Oil on canvas | 30 x 36 inches Enquire
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The Waterhole Oil on canvas | 24 x 20 inches Enquire
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Crossing The Yellowstone Oil on canvas | 24 x 36 inches Enquire
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Got Em Oil on canvas | 20 x 20 inches Enquire
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On String Lake Oil on canvas | 18 x 24 inches Enquire
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The Stray Oil on canvas | 30 x 30 inches Enquire
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Along the Great Northern Oil on canvas | 36 x 36 inches Enquire
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Regarding the Trail Oil on canvas | 36 x 30 inches Enquire
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Summer Thunderhead Monument Valley Oil on canvas | 20 x 30 inches Enquire
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Mule Train to Phantom Ranch Oil on canvas | 40 x 36 inches Enquire
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Water Magic Oil on canvas | 36 x 24 inches Enquire
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172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming 83001 AltamiraArt.com | 307-739-4700
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