Altamira's Holiday Look Book

HOLIDAY LOOKBOOK YOUR NEW DESTINATION FOR THE PERFECT GIFT DECEMBER 15 - JANUARY 3, 2015 A unique exhibition of over 70 small works from 30 artists.

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ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON

172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256 www.altamiraart.com

*LARISA AUKON *JAMES BASON DUKE BEARDSLEY JAMES PRINGLE COOK R. TOM GILLEON DAVID GROSSMANN *DAVE HALL DONNA HOWELL-SICKLES *JIVAN LEE ED MELL *ERIC MERRELL P.A. NISBET MARSHAL NOICE HOWARD POST MARY ROBERSON THOM ROSS JARED SANDERS BILLY SCHENCK FRITZ SCHOLDER DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM GARY ERNEST SMITH SEPTEMBER VHAY THEODORE WADDELL TRAVIS WALKER *Z.Z. WEI GREG WOODARD DENNIS ZIEMIENSKI *GUEST ARTISTS

HOLIDAY LOOKBOOK YOU’RE INVITED Please join us for a festive reception for the Look Book Show at our Jackson gallery during the Holiday ArtWalk.

DECEMBER 18, 5-8PM 172 Center Street, Jackson, WY 83001

LARISA AUKON

Clockwise from top left: Vintage Town Oil on Linen 18 x 24 inches Rain Dance Oil on Panel 16 x 20 inches Indian Summer Oil on Panel 16 x 20 inches

JAMES BASON

Clockwise from top left: Roux Oil 6 x 8 inches Sienna Oil 6 x 8 inches Snowden Oil 6 x 8 inches Abelle Oil 11 x 14 inches

DUKE BEARDSLEY

Chile Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 inches

Breakaway Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 inches

JAMES PRINGLE COOK

Clockwise from top left: Early Spring Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches Three Sisters Aspen Study Oil on Canvas 14 x 12 inches Victor Lake Study Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches

R. TOM GILLEON

Clockwise from top left: Winter Camp Oil 16 x 20 inches White on White Tipi Oil 16 x 16 inches Mountain Village Oil 20 x 20 inches

DAVID GROSSMANN

Clockwise from top left: Glacier View Oil on Linen Panel 16 x 12 inches Evening Light Over Mount Moran Oil on Linen Panel 12 x 16 inches Mt. Moran Sunrise from Oxbow Bend Oil on Linen Panel 12 by 7 inches

DAVID HALL

Clockwise from top left: Another Rise Oil on Canvas 22 x 30 inches On the Varney Bench Oil on Board 10 x 12 inches That Bend in the River Oil on Canvas 15 x 18 inches Morning Light Oil on Board 9 x 12 inches

DONNA HOWELL-SICKLES

I Will Always Love you Mixed Media on Paper 20 x 15 inches I See You Acrylic on Canvas 8 x 24 inches

JIVAN LEE

Clockwise from top left: Dusk on the Trail Oil on Canvas 24 x 48 inches Portents of Spring Oil on Canvas 30 x 20 inches Midday Aspens Oil on Panel 30 x 40 inches South to the Fog Oil on Panel 16 x 20 inches

ED MELL

Spring Thaw Oil 15 x 30 inches Morning Pinnacle Oil 18 x 24 inches

ERIC MERRELL

Clockwise from top left: Ancient Seabed Oil on Canvas Panel 14 x 14 inches Keep Yourself Alive Oil on Panel 12 x 12 inches The Sun Watched Silently Over the Land Oil on Panel 12 x 16 inches Shadows Between the Sky Oil on Canvas Panel 16 x 20 inches

P.A. NISBET

Mount Spry Oil on Canvas 12 x 9 inches

MARSHALL NOICE

Rollins Woods Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 inches

Rollins Woods II Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 inches

HOWARD POST

Wandering in the Fall Oil on Canvas 10 x 20 inches The Upper Road Oil 11 x 14 inches

MARY ROBERSON

Clockwise from top left: Bison Oil 8 x 8 x 3 inches Elk Oil 8 x 8 x 3 inches Wolf Oil 8 x 8 x 3 inches Moose Oil 8 x 8 x 3 inches

THOM ROSS

Moonlight Trio Acrylic on Canvas 19 x 30 inches

JARED SANDERS

Noris Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches

Winter Shares II Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches

Midway Barn Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches

BILLY SCHENCK

Study for Dark Sky and Cottonwood Oil on Canvas 14 x 11 inches Blazing Cowgirl Study IV Oil on Canvas 16 x 18 inches

FRITZ SCHOLDER (1937-2005)

Clockwise from top left: Wild Poppy, 2002 Acrylic on Canvas 12 x 16 inches Two Pink Orchids, 2003 Acrylic on Canvas 9 x 12 inches Flowers on Green, 2003 Acrylic on Canvas 9 x 12 inches

DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM

Yellow, Black, Green Oil 16 x 12 inches

Yellow, Black, Pink Oil 16 x 12 inches

Red, Orange, Black Oil 16 x 12 inches

GARY ERNEST SMITH

Olympus Oil on Canvas 11 x 14 inches

Rusty Oil on Canvas 14 x 11 inches

Composition in Yellow Oil on Canvas 16 x 12 inches

SEPTEMBER VHAY

Moonwalker’s Dance Oil on Belgian Linen 15 x 22 inches

THEODORE WADDELL

Clockwise from top left: Ruby River Horses IV Drypoint and Aquatint 6 x 6 inches Ruby River Horses I Drypoint and Aquatint 6 x 6 inches Ruby River Horses II Drypoint and Aquatint 6 x 6 inches Ruby River Horses V Drypoint and Aquatint 6 x 6 inches

TRAVIS WALKER

New Mexico #1/12 Silkscreen and Acrylic on Paper 7 x 18 inches

Z.Z. WEI

Airstream Oil on Canvas 30 x 24 inches

Hidden Oil on Canvas 30 x 24 inches

GREG WOODARD

Into the Sunset Edition of 49 Bronze 9 x 12 x 5.25 inches

DENNIS ZIEMIENSKI

Mountain Clydesdale Oil on Linen 11 x 14 inches Ski Holiday Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 inches

Find these and other works on the Look Book Exhibition page at www.altamiraart.com

GUEST ARTISTS LARISA AUKON

“I truly believe there is an inner “pulse” that runs through everything, mostly unseen but more often felt. I can think of no greater artistic inspiration than identifying this current and holding it in my heart long enough to translate it to canvas. I search for that perfect moment where everything falls into place inspirationally and technically. From that point on, I paint voraciously as if time is running out on me. ” From a very young age, Larisa received intensive art training in her native Latvia. She was accepted to the prestigious Janis Rosenthal’s Secondary Art School in Riga. Today, Larisa calls Arizona her home where she spends her time painting and teaching. She was featured in the Southwest Art Magazine, American Art Collector Magazine, Cowboys and Indians Magazine, Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine and in a recently published book Contemporary Art of The Southwest.

JAMES BASON

“My painting is an attempt to go beyond words to connect with, resonate with, and communicate with others at a level of remembrance of which we have all come from. In my work, I strive to move the viewer and engage them in a quiet conversation not solely based on what my painting depicts or its locale, but by what feeling or mood this image is evoking in them. By utilizing color, line, texture and tone I am striving to move beyond a place in time.”

Bason is a native Montanan best known for his serene and contemplative landscape paintings of central Montana. He holds a BA in Graphic Design with honors from Montana State University at Bozeman. His artwork has been exhibited at the Western Masters Art Show, C.M. Russell Art Auction and Miniature Show, the Jay Contway and Friends Art Show, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, The Holter Museum of Art and the Yellowstone Art Museum as well as various art shows and auctions throughout the state of Montana. He resides in Great Falls with his wife and son.

DAVE HALL

“I am moved by the half-light of dawn and dusk, and most of my paintings are inspired by the Yellowstone country of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. A piece of my heart resides there, due in large part to the poetry associated with the convergence of family and friends, moving water and mayfly hatches.”

A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Dave Hall resides in Salt Lake City and on Blaine Spring Creek near Ennis, Montana.

JIVAN LEE

“In my paintings I explore using a whole lot of paint while portraying what are oftentimes fairly traditional subjects. I’m interested in how surface can become a sculptural part of representational paintings, and what happens when it does. The resulting pieces move between abstract fields of color, topographical planes, and recognizable imagery. “ Jivan Lee is an oil painter based in Santa Fe & Taos, NM. He grew up in Woodstock, NY, and studied painting at Bard College with Joseph Santore and Laura Battle. His textural paintings explore the nature of paint as raw material, creator of image, and catalyst for emotional response. They have been exhibited nationally at museums and educational institutions and covered in publications such as Fine Art Connoisseur, Art Business News, and Southwest Art.

ERIC MERRELL

Working extensively on location, Merrell has painted throughout the Sierra Nevada and San Gabriel Mountain ranges, the Mojave and Colorado deserts, along the Pacific Coast, as well as east coast locales like Cape Cod and Maine. Merrell has appeared in publications such as American Art Collector, American Artist, the California Art Club Newsletter, Plein Air Painting and Southwest Art. His work has been exhibited at venues across the United States, including the Bennington Center for the Arts in Bennington, VT; California State University of Los Angeles, CA; the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Orleans, MA; the Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, CA; the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA; the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA; the Salton Sea History Museum, North Shore, CA; and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.

Z.Z. WEI

Z. Z. Wei was born in 1957 in Beijing, China. He started painting during the years of Culture Revolution. Art was his sanctuary from all the turmoil in his childhood and soon became his lifelong pursuit. He graduated from The Central Institute of Arts and Design (now The Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University) in 1984. By the age of 30, he had two exhibitions at China National Museum of Fine Arts.

Upon his first arrival to the Northwest, Z.Z. Wei could not believe the beauty spread before him. His first experiences in the Pacific Northwest were visual revelations. He embarked on an artistic odyssey in a quest to paint powerful images of rural America. He found the strong and unique landscapes in this region, and the spirit which moved through them, mirrored his inner passions and the art ideas he sought. This explosion of awareness coupled with hi s own memories of home have created a visual text in his work that is an intoxicating sensation of the past and present.

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ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON

172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256