TODD KO SHAREK
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May 28 - June 8, 2019 Jackson Hole
TODD KO SHAREK Nectar
Jackson Hole | Scottsdale | AltamiraArt.com
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Remember This Acrylic on canvas | 9 x 36 inches Enquire
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NECTAR Todd Kosharek believes in beauty. Not the artificial, magazine-cover variety. Rather, “the beauty that makes people feel alive.” The beauty he recognized in reading about a Syrian man who, after fleeing his war-torn home, planted a garden outside his tent in a refugee camp. The beauty he sees in the history of Japanese origami cranes and their transition from a form of prayer into a recognized symbol of peace. The beauty he sees in the towering flower gardens his father tends. Within these blooming beds, his father raises monarch butterflies. Last summer, Kosharek witnessed the monarch metamorphosis and even held one butterfly in his hand for an hour, studying the details of the butterfly’s every movement as it gathered strength after emerging from chrysalis. An hour of intimacy, of stillness before the butterfly fluttered away. That profound experience inspired his latest series of paintings—a rumination on the attraction between place and people. Love, like nectar, is the force binding all beings together. Yet like
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his concept of beauty, his visualizations of love are layered. He is complicating his compositions with elements of transformation: his origami cranes are now pieces of personal texts (a love letter from his wife, a note by his oldest son now six) and monarchs alight in multiples. The love expressed is the nectar attracting the butterflies to the cranes. In a parallel series of landscape paintings, he explores the power of place—his adopted home of Jackson Hole for the past 18 years. The
decision to raise his family in the Tetons— immersed in natural grandeur yet exposed to geographic and economic extremes— evidences his enlightened approach to vulnerability—the soil from which love thrives. “Nectar is a very personal, selfexamining collection of work,” Kosharek says. “I hope it opens people to the same sort of strength of vulnerability. That’s to me the nectar that attracts the butterflies to the intimacy of the cranes and attracts people profoundly to a place.”
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My Endlessly, Your Freedom Acrylic on board | 8 x 14 inches Enquire
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In a Whisper Acrylic on board | 16 x 12 inches Enquire
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Together-Everywhere Acrylic on board | 16 x 24 inches Enquire
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He Love Me - Letter From My Five Year Old Acrylic on board | 38 x 46 inches Enquire
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Heron Ponds Acrylic on board | 8 x 6 inches Enquire
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Ever Present Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 50 inches Enquire
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This Valley Acrylic on board | 14 x 18 inches Enquire
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This Place, My Son Acrylic on canvas | 32 x 60 inches Enquire
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Our Mini Forest Acrylic on board | 50 x 66 inches Enquire
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Cache Creek Autumn Acrylic on board | 8 x 6 inches Enquire
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Just Over the Hill Acrylic on board | 6 x 8 inches Enquire
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Frozen Cattails Acrylic on board | 6 x 8 inches Enquire
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Game Creek Acrylic on board | 6 x 8 inches Enquire
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Shadow Snow Acrylic on board | 6 x 8 inches Enquire
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Swan Nests Acrylic on board | 6 x 8 inches Enquire
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Melody Acrylic on board | 6 x 8 inches Enquire
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What You Said About Happiness Acrylic on board | 9 x 36 inches Enquire
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In My Blood Acrylic on board | 24 x 16 inches Enquire
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Simplicity Tranquility Passion Acrylic on board | 8 x 14 inches Enquire
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My True Art Acrylic on board | 12 x 24 inches Enquire
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Most Beautiful Precious Perfect Acrylic on board | 8 x 24 inches Enquire
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172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming 83001 AltamiraArt.com | 307-739-4700
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