David Grossmann and David Michael Slonim

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DAVID GROSSMANN INTO QUIET PLACES July 28th - Aug 9th

Thursday July 31st 5:00-7:00 PM

ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON

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DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM IMPROVISATIONS July 28th - Aug 9th

Thursday July 31st 5:00-7:00 PM

DAVID GROSSMANN INTO QUIET PLACES

Using a gentle, glowing palette, Grossmann paints abstracted visions of forests that are melodic in their focus on rhythm and symmetry. Sprawling swaths of landscape transform into flat, smooth planes, while scattered trees lend a profound sense of depth. These contrasting perspectives set the works slightly off-balance, sending the eye on an endless quest to consolidate them.

The show will include a large work, 30” x 40”, entitled “Quiet Places.” In this painting the sky pales toward dusk, still glowing over the curving bank of receding snow, and a deer blends silently into the colors of the exposed ground.

“I wanted to capture a sense of fragile stillness,” Grossmann said. “Deer embody the stillness and solitude that I feel when I am in the forest.”

For More images from David Grossmann’s show please visit: http://www.altamiraart.com/ exhibitions/86/works

Grossmann will also unveil his first triptych, “Cascading Sky Triptych,” which captures the immense sky at dawn as the light of the new morning overtakes the remnants of night. “This is a scene I have painted many times from life, standing on my back porch and looking toward the mountains as morning comes,” he said.

Grossmann begins his process with homemade wooden panels covered in linen and several layers of sanded gesso. He works in oil, adding layers and setting the painting aside to dry before adding more. He encourages viewers to take in the scratches from his palette knife, the overlapping opaque and transparent layers of paint, the weave of the linen and the warmth of the underpainting showing through in unexpected places.

Grossmann’s work has won numerous awards and been included in many exhibitions, including the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, American Impressionist Society National Juried Show, and Salon International. Southwest Art featured Grossmann as one of their “Artists to Watch.” His work has also been included in Plein Air and American Art Collector.

Gracefully Toward Evening Oil on Linen Panel 50 x 30 Inches

Before the Birds Begin to Sing Oil on Linen on Panel 24 x 14 inches

Cascading Sky Oil on Linen on Panel 24 x 42 inches

Quiet Places Oil on Linen on Panel 30 x 40 inches

Morning Flight Oil on Linen on Panel 24 x 14 inches

February Lines and Patches Oil on Linen on Panel 24 x 18 inches

Red, Black, Gray Oil on Canvas 60 x 48 inches

DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM IMPROVISATIONS David Michael Slonim is an accomplished painter who takes his cue from the abstract expressionists of the mid-20th Century. The paintings in “Improvisations” almost all began as drawings of trees and wooded places.

Slonim says the improvisation comes as he is working on a piece and responding to what is on the canvas, how shapes relate to shapes, colors to colors, lines to lines. Then, he says, “the enjoyment of visual rhythms takes over.”

Discord is a visual theme running through these paintings. The artist establishes a form and then violates it slightly, just enough to provide tension, but not enough to break the overall harmony. He says hepaints images he would want to live with, paintings that invite questions and welcome a variety of interpretations.

David Michael Slonim’s work has been selected for the Coors Western Art Exhibit, Great American Artists, C.M. Russell Auction, Western Rendezvous of Art, Western Miniatures Show at the C.M. Russell Museum, and the Rising Stars exhibit at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. Solo exhibitions at regional museums include the Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana; Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Indiana; and Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson, Indiana.

Slonim’s paintings hang in corporate, museum and private collections nationally.

His work has been featured in Western Art & Architecture, Southwest Art, Big Sky Journal, USArt, Plein Air Magazine, and Indianapolis Monthly.

For More images from David Michael Slonim’s show please visit: http://www.altamiraart.com/ exhibitions/87/works

Woodlands No. 61 Oil on Board 16 x 12 inches

Woodlands No. 62 Oil on Canvas 16 x 12 inches

Woodlands No. 64 Oil on Board 16 x 12 inches

Fire and Ice Oil on Linen 60 x 48 inches

Woodlands No. 65 (Grizzly Country) Oil on Canvas 60 x 48 inches

Woodlands No. 33 Oil on Canvas 48 x 60 inches

JACKSON HOLE FALL ARTS FESTIVAL Sept 5-15th PALATES & PALETTES GALLERY WALK, PAIRING UP WITH THE INDIAN Friday Sept 5th 5:00-8:00 PM

R. TOM GILLEON

The Journey, Not the Destination: Sept 1-15th, Reception: Wednesday Sept 10th 5:00-8:00 PM

HOWARD POST

Western Perspectives: Sept 1-15th, Reception: Wednesday Sept 10th 5:00-8:00 PM

GLENN DEAN

The Lure of the West: Sept 1-15th, Reception: Wednesday Sept 10th 5:00-8:00 PM

ED MELL

Beyond the Visible Terrain: Sept 1-15th, Reception: Wednesday Sept 10th 5:00-8:00 PM

GREG WOODARD

Legends: Sept 1-15th, Reception: Wednesday Sept 10th 5:00-8:00 PM 19TH ANNUAL JACKSON HOLE QUICK DRAW ART SALE AND AUCTION with Altamira Artists: Jared Sanders and Duke Bearsdley Saturday Sept 13th Starts at 9:00 AM ART BRUNCH GALLERY WALK Sunday Sept 14th11:00-3:00 PM

For more information please contact Dean Munn at dean@altamiraart.com, Katherine Harrington at katherine@altamiraart.com or Audrey Parish at az@altamiraart.com or call 307.739.4700 www.altamiraart.com

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