Wandering the West

WANDERING THE WEST FEATURING: JAMES PRINGLE COOK, DAVID GROSSMANN, JIVAN LEE AND MARSHALL NOICE

June 15-27

Reception: June 18 5-8pm

ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON

Pine Top Aspen Reflections #1 Oil 70 x 60 inches

JAMES PRINGLE COOK “My work is more choreographed than planned because there is a sequence of marks that interact to portray the subject. When I pick up a brush or a trowel and lay down a line, the tool plows up paint and changes the mixture of color. I have to choreograph that interaction between one layer of detail and another. It always takes me somewhere I don’t expect.”

– James Pringle Cook James Pringle Cook was born in 1949 in Topeka, Kansas. He received his M.F.A. from Wichita State University in 1972. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Cook’s paintings are in the best tradition of American landscape painting. He is an artist absorbed with the process of painting. He paints quickly and creates richly colored, highly textured surfaces. While his work is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists, it differs from them in that it projects a recognizable reality, dictated by his personal vision and technical skills. His paintings are bold and monumental in scope. Whether he depicts the ripples upon the surface of still pools in mountain streams or the color studies of a stormy sky, his use of color and contrasting textures and techniques invite the viewer into the scene.

High Bridge Study #1 Oil 36 x 30 inches Iron Door Aspens September #1 Oil 36 x 30 inches Iron Door Aspen Light #1 Oil 36 x 30 inches

Iron Door Aspens September #2 Oil 36 x 30 inches Cloudcroft Autumn Snow #1 Oil 36 x 30 inches Iron Door July Color #2 Oil 36 x 30 inches

Trinity Bay Night Rain Oil 48 x 36 inches

Pine Top Aspen Reflections #2 Oil 40 x 60 inches

Red Horse- Reflections Oil 60 x 50 inches

Trinity Bay Night Study Rain #6 Oil 30 x 20 inches

To view more show paintings, visit http://www.altamiraart.com/exhibitions/114/works

DAVID GROSSMAN “I like to think of my paintings as visual poems. On the surface they are quiet whispers, but I hope they convey a depth of emotion to anyone who takes the time to stop and listen.” - David Grossmann David 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.

“When I paint en plein air, it gives me the opportunity to absorb a sense of place and a sense of being there,” Grossmann said. “I hope that sense of place and the emotion I feel when outdoors comes through to the viewers.”

Grossmann’s work has won numerous awards and he has exhibited in 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.

First Light on Mt. Moran Oil on Linen Panel 50 x 30 inches

Tall Trees and Parchment Sky Oil on Linen Panel 24 x 14 inches

Afternoon Light Reflected, Jackson Lake and Mt. Moran Oil on Linen Panel 34 x 20 inches

Sunrise Light on the Tetons Oil on Linen 6 x 8 inches

Aspen on a Hill at Dusk Oil on Linen Panel 24 x 14 inches

From Inside of an Aspen Grove Oil on Linen Panel 24 x 14 inches

The Moon and Scattered Aspen Trunks Oil on Linen Panel 18 x 24 inches First Light on the Tetons Oil on Linen Panel 7 x 12 inches

Mt. Moran from Beside the Snake River Oil on Linen Panel 10 x 8 inches

Study for First Light on Mt. Moran Oil on Linen Panel 12 x 7 inches

Study for Afternoon Light Reflected, Jackson Lake and Mt. Moran Oil on Linen Panel 12 x 7 inches

Snow Caligraphy Oil on Linen Panel 7 x 12 inches Evening Light Over Mt. Moran Oil on Panel 6 x 8 inches

To view more show paintings, visit http://www.altamiraart.com/exhibitions/114/works

Ascendant Ones Oil 66 x 30 inches (diptych)

JIVAN LEE “When painting I’m brought back to simplicities, back to senses, and in a way, back to life. To surrender scripted plans and just listen to look, not knowing what will come, is a trust-fall of sorts and an act of devotion.”- Jivan Lee Jivan Lee is an oil painter based in Santa Fe, NM. He grew up in Woodstock, NY and studied painting at Bard College. His work explores the nature of paint as raw material, creator of image, and catalyst for emotional response, and is increasingly addressing the complexities of how humans see and shape their environment.

His paintings are rhythmic, textural responses to the Western landscape in its many forms, from untrammeled wild lands to urban machinery and iconic chapels. Jivan paints on-location from direct observation, attempting to relay the unique sentiment of each moment and place that inspires his work. The resulting paintings transition between abstract fields of color, topographical planes, and recognizable imagery; one can discern actual places and things in each piece, but simultaneously see that these images arise from paint – tangible substance – applied in bold, colorful, celebratory passages.

Jivan’s paintings have been exhibited nationally at museums and educational institutions and covered in publications such as Fine Art Connoisseur, Southwest Art Magazine, Art Business News, and Plein Air Magazine. In addition to painting as much as time allows, Jivan also teaches and helms the Project for Art and the Environment. Jivan’s work was featured on the cover of Southwest Art Magazine’s February 2015 issue.

Stormy Ridge #1 Oil 24 x 24 inches

Stormy Ridge #2 Oil 24 x 24 inches

Midday Aspens Oil on Panel 30 x 40 inches

The Quiet Time Oil Impasto on Canvas 30 x 40 inches

Deluge Oil Impasto on Canvas 40 x 72 inches

The View From Here Oil 30 x 36 inches

Cuyamungue Oil 31 x 50 inches

To view more show paintings, visit http://www.altamiraart.com/exhibitions/114/works

MARSHALL NOICE “My paintings are made in response to things I see in the natural world. They capture a place at a particular time. And they capture a moment in my sensibility.” – Marshall Noice Marshall Noice was born in 1952 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and grew up in Minnesota and Montana.

He studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the University of Montana, as well as with Ansel Adams.

Noice has experience in several artistic genres, including music and photography. After studying with Ansel Adams and gaining insight into composition and light values, Noice turned his attention to painting in 1989, when he first encountered the highly textured paintings of Theodore Waddell. Noice began by painting 100 canvases of Blackfeet artifacts, in which he experimented with color and perspective. He honed his ability to illuminate a work, whether it’s an oil painting or a pastel sketch, and he developed his raison d’être: color does not trump composition, but rather shares the stage.

Noice works primarily in oils, using vibrant colors to evoke the essence of what he sees. Notably, he employs rich color contrasts, from strong magentas next to bright tangerines to cerulean blues next to canary yellows and electric reds hovering over bars of subdued moss green. The artist says he strives to capture the feeling of a place rather than the look of it. “My paintings are not concerned with a precise rendering of a particular scene, but are a simplified, abstract exploration of what I see. My goal is to capture the subject’s line, shape, color, and form in a simple, direct manner.”

Noice was the featured artist at the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival in 2000. He won the Pastel Society of America Award in 2001, and has several times won the Flathead Valley Cultural Achievement Award. Selected museum exhibitions include the Booth Western Art Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, Hockaday Museum of Art, Yellowstone Art Museum, Clymer Museum, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

Birches on the Flathead Oil 24 x 24 inches

Bluest Sky Oil 18 x 24 inches

High Water Everywhere Oil on Canvas 48 x 24 inches

Light Behind Seven Maples Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 inches

Lilacs, Fairway Oil 18 x 27 inches

South of Lower Valley Road Oil on Canvas 46 x 46 inches

To view more show paintings, visit http://www.altamiraart.com/exhibitions/114/works

JACKSON SUMMER SCHEDULE JUNE Gary Ernest Smith “Into the West” June 29-July 11 Reception and Artist Talk: July 2, 5:30-7:30pm JULY Theodore Waddell “The Painterly Continuum” July 13-25 Reception: July 16, 5-8pm Dennis Ziemienski “Visions of the New Old West” July 27-Aug 8 Reception and Artist Talk: July 30, 5:30-7:30pm AUGUST Jared Sanders “Chosen Road” August 10-22 Reception and Artist Talk: August 20, 5-8pm SEPTEMBER R. Tom Gilleon “Confluence of Culture” Sept 1-12 Reception: September 11, 5-8pm

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

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