Gallery Walk - July 2018

Gallery Walk

Gallery Walk is This Friday, August 3, 2018

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Laurie Victor Kay, “Trees III,” photograph (detail). Artwork courtesy of Gilman Contemporary

INSIDE Broschofsky Galleries......................... Page 6 Frederic Boloix Fine Arts.................... Page 7 Friesen Gallery.................................... Page 2 Gail Severn Gallery............................. Page 3

Gilman Contemporary......................... Page 7 Kneeland Gallery................................. Page 4 MESH Gallery...................................... Page 5 Wood River Fine Arts........................... Page 6 Feature Stories................................... Pages 2 & 3

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CELEBRATION OF COLOR

Robert Moore at Kneeland Gallery

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Nicole Chesney, “Serenus,” oil painting on acid-etched and mirrored glass, 32 inches by 48 inches by 1 inch, 2017. Artwork courtesy of Friesen Gallery

Demiror

Friesen Gallery DEMIROR. Latin translation; to wonder (I wonder how/why), to be amazed, utterly astonished.

Friesen Gallery is thrilled to announce The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s acquisition of a major painting by Nicole Chesney for its permanent collection last week. Earlier this year, the Boise Art Museum added a Chesney to their collection.

Presently on view at Friesen—this important exhibition, Nicole Chesney | DEMIROR | was scheduled in 2016 and the artist has exclusively worked toward creating the 11 exciting paintings in the exhibit since then.

Chesney uses layers of oil paint on a surface of acid-etched mirrored glass to create a luminous and near-hypnotic end result.

Glass, with all its transformative qualities, is a surface onto which Chesney can add,

subtract, and move oil paint around; colors are reflected in a way that canvas or paper does not allow for. Seen from one angle, her painting surfaces are matte and brushy; seen from another angle, they are reflective and elusive.

The works are not literal depictions of a specific skyscape or landscape, and this is not Chesney’s aim. Her paintings can appear to be a section of a cloud in close-up, or they can represent a distant sky. In this contradiction, allusion is made to Bachelard’s idea that “a space that has lost its horizons draws in on itself.” Like the vast sky that we look into, and the borderless space of the dream, there is no perspective and there are no moorings in Chesney’s work.

The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist during Gallery Walk on Friday, Aug. 3, from 5-8 p.m.

Robert Moore, “Celebration of Color,” oil on canvas, 24 inches by 48 inches.

Artwork courtesy of Kneeland Gallery

Kneeland Gallery emphasizes regional landscape and contemporary Western figurative works through a variety of mediums, including original paintings, sculpture and fine-art prints. The gallery’s current exhibition focuses on plein-air paintings, and features artist Robert Moore.

“Robert has been with the gallery for about 20 years,” said director Carey Molter. “He’s a wonderful guy, a wonderful painter, and a real inspiration to other painters. Artists who could be considered really accomplished will come and take workshops at his studio in Declo, near Burley.”

Moore is partially colorblind and cannot see reds and greens in their true form.

“He sees a lot of different shades of

grey in his paintings,” Molter said. “He lays the color out in a certain order every time he starts a new painting, so in his head he will know where his reds are and will be able to put the painting on the canvas that way.”

Over his 20 years at Kneeland Gallery, Molter has seen a transformation in Moore’s works.

“He has become a lot looser with his brushwork and is now using palette knives almost exclusively,” she said. “He is ambidextrous, and he paints with both hands, so he’ll have a palette knife in

Continued on page 5 MOORE SHOWS AT KNEELAND

D E M I R O R Opening Reception for the Artist | Friday 03 August 2018, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

DEMIROR | Latin translation; to wonder (I wonder how / why), to be amazed, utterly astonished Billow | oil painting on acid-etched and mirrored glass | 30” x 63” x 1” | 2018 | $ 42,000.

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Internationally Recognized Painters & Sculptor On View

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Gail Severn Gallery

Gail Severn Gallery is excited to have three internationally acclaimed artists opening this August.

The gallery will host “Artist Chats” featuring Hung Liu, Michael Gregory and Julie Speidel on Saturday, August 4 at 10 a.m.

Michael Gregory, “Blue-Eyed Mary,” oil on canvas/panel, 61.5 inches by 51.5 inches, framed.

Artwork courtesy of Gail Severn Gallery

Michael Gregory: “Here and There”

Michael Gregory’s paintings are immediately recognizable with American icons of barns, homesteads and imagined fields. These structures, while forefront in his previous works, now play evenly with the powerful imagery of the landscape and light. The light, as seen over American soil, is captured from the landscapes of our enigmatic Midwestern and Western fields to the luminescent nighttime sky overlooking cityscapes.

Julie Speidel: “Vasaros Vėjas“

Speidel’s sculptures in bronze, glass and stone, along with her works on paper, draw, in part, from her connection as a child with the ancient megaliths

Julie Speidel, “Saru (ancient bridge from Edo-era Japan),” cast glass and bronze, 29 inches by 25 inches by 8 inches.

Artwork courtesy of Gail Severn Gallery

she encountered living in Europe. Working with natural raw materials, including the Japanese Kozo paper she found in Japan, allow her to incorporate scared imagery from the past and draw from her travels throughout Asia and Europe.

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JULIE SPEIDEL

Hung Liu: “Fetching Water”

Hung Liu has primarily been known for her paintings based on historical Chinese photographs.

Liu’s newest paintings are based on the Dustbowland Depression-era photographs of American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, whom she has long admired. Given the epic, often tragic, subject matter she represents, and the way her images sometimes dissolve in veils of linseed oil, Liu’s newest style has a continuing keen sense of realism.

Painter Alyssa Monks and photographer Laura McPhee will present part two of continuing exhibitions.

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Hung Liu, “Onion Field,” oil on canvas. Artwork courtesy of Gail Severn Gallery

A NEW PERSPECTIVE

Artist Hung Liu shifts focus stateside

BY BAILEY RIERDEN - Intern to TWS Gail Severn Gallery has represented a multitude of artists over the 40 years of the gallery’s existence.

One of those artists is contemporary artist, Hung Liu. Within the walls of the Severn gallery is “Fetching Water,” an oil painting on canvas that’s reminiscent of the historic Dustbowl and Depression era. The painting is one of many based upon the work of Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer. Depicting children, parents and family units, Liu’s work recollects displaced humanity while in a contemporary sphere by adding an em-

pathetic touch and reviving color from underneath the heavy grey tones of her photos to liberate the subjects.

Liu’s work is known for being based upon historical Chinese photographs, often depicting tragic subject matter. Recently, Liu, who lives in Oakland, Calif., and teaches at Mills College, has shifted her

Continued on page 4 HUNG LIU’S ART HIGHLIGHTS HISTORICAL MOMENTS

GAIL SEVERN GALLERY 400 First Avenue North • PO Box 1679 • Ketchum, ID 83340 • 208.726.5079 info@gailseverngallery.com • www.gailseverngallery.com

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27 TH ANNUAL PLEIN AIR EXHIBITION

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27th Annual Plein Air Exhibition Kneeland Gallery

Each summer, Kneeland Gallery invites its own group of plein-air painters to participate in an artistic celebration featuring gatherings and events throughout the week. Paint-outs, demonstrations and a quick draw all feature in the event, and spectators, fellow artists and collectors can enjoy the finished paintings at the culminating Gallery Walk on the final day.

The artists that will participate in Kneeland Gallery’s show this year are Steven Lee Adams, Ovanes Berberian, Jack Braman, John Horejs, Shanna Kunz, Lori McNee, Caleb Meyer, Robert Moore, Silas Thompson and Bart Walker.

On Tuesday, July 31, Robert Moore will offer a single-day color workshop at Kneeland Gallery for all levels of aspiring artist. Interested parties can sign up by contacting the gallery, and space is limited.

On Wednesday, August 1, the 10 artists paint at the Draper Wood River Preserve in Hailey from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Spectators are invited to watch them at work and learn from their different techniques.

On Thursday, August 2, the group will all paint around the red barn on Sun Valley Road.

Silas Thompson, “Inheritance,” oil on canvas, 18 inches by 26 inches. Artwork courtesy of Kneeland Gallery

The final day, Friday, August 3, the artists will partake in a quick draw from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the pond in front of the Sun Valley Inn, followed at 5 p.m. the same day by the Gallery Walk,where all the paintings from the week will be on display and the quick-draw paintings will be part of a silent auction.

Robert Moore, “Many Are the Joys”, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”

FEATURING: Steven Lee Adams • Ovanes Berberian Jack Braman • John Horejs Shanna Kunz • Lori McNee Caleb Meyer • Silas Thompson Robert Moore • Bart Walker July 31st

One-day painting workshop with Robert Moore

August 1st

Artists paint at The Draper Preserve, Hailey, 10am-4pm

August 2nd

Artists paint the Red Barn,

Sun Valley Road, 10am-4pm

August 3rd

Quick Draw

Sun Valley Inn Pond 12-1.30pm

ARTISTS’ RECEPTION KNEELAND GALLERY • 5-8PM

271 First Ave N, Ketchum, ID 83340 PO Box 2070, Sun Valley, ID 83353 208.726.5512 email: art@kneelandgallery.com website: www.kneelandgallery.com

Hung Liu, “Fetching Water,” oil on canvas, 80 inches by 80 inches. Artwork courtesy of Gail Severn Gallery

Hung Liu’s art highlights historical moments Continued from page 3 focus to American subjects.

“She was sent off into the countryside during the cultural revolution,” said Meredith Skillman, a gallery registrar for Severn Galleries. “There’s an affinity, or revelation, she had when she saw the pictures of Dorothea Lange and these kind of work camps and the idea of being a migrant worker. She felt a strong relation to that.”

“The idea of migration in general is a strong theme in her work because she immigrated to the U.S from China,” Skillman said. “When she came here, she was exposed to this whole new way of painting. She was trained as a mural painter, but now she’s here and is experiencing all these new freeing forms of painting that aren’t as traditional.

“Hung uses a mapping method in her painting where the backgrounds are softer, but there’s a sharpening of the figure, which is an easy way to identify her as an artist.”

Known for representing doleful subject matter in a weeping realism, Liu is one of the “important art-

ists, nationally and internationally, and her message in her paintings is something quite wonderful because of its timely matter and things in the news dealing with immigration,” Skillman said.

Liu is currently part of an important show, “Stranger in a Strange Land: Art of California,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She also just recently finished an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C. “Hung is a very important female artist,” Skillman said. “Our gallery is nearly 70 percent female artists, and she is a great example of an exemplary woman who is creating her own voice. Art has a way of giving someone a voice, whether they’re a woman, a man, an immigrant, or a native of the country.”

Besides her connection with Liu’s work over the years, Skillman said she has the “highest respect for her as an artist. Hung says, ‘People adopt children, but people can adopt ancestors as well,’ and I think that’s a very beautiful sentiment to think of. Art, Hung’s specifically, is a wonderful way of exploring the human emotion behind an event. She’s a remarkable artist and individual.” tws

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Jeffrey H. Lubeck, “Morning Commute in the Sawtooths,” gallery-wrapped canvas, 2018. Artwork courtesy of MESH Gallery

Life And Times At The Horse Ranch MESH Gallery

MESH Gallery continues its second phase of equine photography for 2018.

Resident artists Jeffrey H. Lubeck and Claire Porter had the pleasure of working with Pioneer Outfitters at Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch in Stanley, Idaho, to capture the start and finish of your average workday on the ranch! New artwork will be on display as well as an informational discussion around what “downtime” can look like for an operation whose office spans over 900 acres of peace and seclusion.

As the summer continues to heat up, make sure you swing on in to cool off this Gallery Walk. New works will be on display from each of the gallery’s resident artists as well as featured artist of the month, Todd Kaplan.

Early August is a beautiful time of year to enjoy those long summer nights as they fade into stunning sunsets bathing the Wood River Valley in soft glows of oranges, pinks and reds.

Robert Moore, “Winter Eve,” oil on canvas, 12 inches by 24 inches. Artwork courtesy of Kneeland Gallery

Moore shows at Kneeland Continued from page 2 each hand and he’ll start with the canvas flat. Most artists will have an easel, but he has his flat, and he’ll take the tubes of paint and literally squirt the paint on the canvas. Then he will go in and start moving it around, and within a few minutes you can start to see things forming. After a few hours, you can trees, rivers and how it all comes together.”

Moore’s new work, “Celebration of Color,” is one of Molter’s favorites.

“The closer you get, the more you get drawn in to the different colors and the technique of it. But from ten feet back, you can see the bigger picture, with trees, foliage… etc.,” she said. “It’s almost cubist the way he puts the paint on in blocks of color. He moves the paint around constantly, so he’ll be making his own colors as he goes.”

Molter doesn’t know another artist who uses the palette knife in the same fashion as Moore.

“He’s the only artist we have at Kneeland that

paints that way and he’s our best-selling artist in the gallery and has been for the past several years. I think people just really respond to how vibrant his paintings are and how they have a real sense of familiarity.”

“Winter Eve,” another new work by Moore, is another standout. Molter loves the artist’s play of light on the ground and the hillside behind it.

“You are obviously looking at snow, but as you go in to see more details, there are so many different colors in the snow,” she said. “Lilacs, turquoise, light blue, greys combine to make a snowy river bank. It’s quite a hard thing to make a winter painting seem warm. Oftentimes artists will use a lot of blue, and they will be cool in tone. This piece has a real warmth to it. I think his underpainting is probably a lot of red, and you can see red in the scene, too.”

See new works by Robert Moore and numerous plein-air paintings at Kneeland Gallery through August. The gallery is located at 271 First Avenue North in Ketchum. Call (208) 726-5512 or visit kneelandgallery.com to learn more. tws

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Prix De West Wood River Fine Arts

Wood River Fine Arts continues to feature the finest representational artists from across the United States and Canada. The gallery is proud to include five Prix de West Purchase Award winners from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum among our featured artists.

Our newest artist is National Sculpture Society member Stephanie Revennaugh. The artist is a master of sculpting the heart and soul of her subjects. As a lifelong equestrian, she brings her knowledge and love of horses to her work in a spectacular fashion. Revennaugh works in both sculpting and painting, but feels her true voice comes through when she is working in clay.

New works from Russell Case, Jeremy Lipking and Matt Smith will also be featured. Len Chmiel, the 2018 winner of the Robert Lougheed Award at the recent Prix de West Show in Oklahoma City, will also be featuring new paintings.

Wood River Fine Arts is located at 360 East Avenue (The Courtyard Building), in Ketchum. For more information call owners Tom Bassett and Sandy Gregorak at (208) 928-7728 or visit our website at www.woodriverfinearts.com.

John Moyers

“Burgeoning Giant”

Oil on Gessoboard 24” high X 24” wide

John Moyers 360 East Avenue, In The Courtyard | Ketchum 208.928.7728 | www.woodriverfinearts.com

EDWARD S. CURTIS Presenting a selection of photographs from “The North American Indian, 1898-1928”

Matt Smith, “Autumn on the Sweetwater,” oil on linen, 20 inches by 24 inches.

Artwork courtesy of Wood River Fine Arts

The North American Indian, 1898-1928 Broschofsky Galleries

Broschofsky Galleries is presenting a collection of photographs from Edward Curtis’s 30-year expedition. Beginning in 1898, and continuing on to 1928, Curtis dedicated much of his life to documenting North American Indians before many of their customs and ways of life disappeared. This comprehensive project won the support of such prominent and powerful figures as President Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan.

Over the three decades, Curtis and his crew traveled on horseback, with their pack horses following behind. He shot over 40,000 photographs of over 80 different tribes traveling west of the Mississippi from the Mexican border to northern Alaska.

Upon its completion in 1930, Curtis’s work, titled The North American Indian, consisted of 20 volume books. Each volume was accompanied by a corresponding portfolio containing larger-format prints.

This important collection will be on display through August.

Broschofsky Galleries is also showing contemporary paintings and sculpture by gallery artists.

Chief Garfield-Jicarilla, 1904 Edward S. Curtis Also showing: Russell Chatham, Michael Coleman, Rudi Broschofsky, Joellyn Duesberry, Russell Young, Ken Peloke, Ewoud de Groot, Billy Schenck, Theodore Villa, Andy Warhol and more.

360 East Ave. Ketchum, ID 208.726.4950 www.brogallery.com

Edward S. Curtis, “The Storm.” Artwork courtesy of Broschofsky Galleries

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Kelly Ording, “Halo,” acrylic on dyed paper. Artwork courtesy of Gilman Contemporary

Compositions Gilman Contemporary

Photographer Laurie Victor Kay is best known for focusing her lens on public places and the people who inhabit them. Employing painterly techniques through digital manipulation, Kay reimagines these spaces, adjusting the images to reflect her ideal. The results are vibrant, dreamlike images that are balanced and symmetrical in form.

In this way, she succeeds in creating escapist landscapes, both urban and natural, that allow the viewer to imagine a more perfect world.

The gallery will also be showing Oakland-based painter Kelly Ording. Ording’s work on paper and canvas demonstrates a meditative quality. Beginning by hand-dying her surfaces, she then employs simple repetition and intuitive mark-making, intentionally pushing the limits of minimalism and geometric abstraction.

In addition to exhibiting her paintings worldwide, Ording has numerous large-scale public works throughout the Bay Area and internationally, including San Francisco’s landmark Clarion Alley and Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

FREDERIC BOLOIX FINE ARTS Rainer Gross, “Bender Twins,” 2018, 30 inches by 26 inches each.

Artwork courtesy of Frederic Boloix Fine Arts

‘Twins:’ Rich In Artistic Possibilities

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RAINER GROSS “TWINS”

Frederic Boloix Fine Arts Frederic Boloix Fine Arts will be showing “Twins,” by contemporary German American artist, Rainer Gross.

The “Twins” give the viewer much to see and discover. Looking closely, we may easily reconstruct the process—pioneered by Rainer Gross—in which the paintings were created. We can distinguish between the individual layers of paint, and we can understand how, through the imprinting, the deeper layers of the one painting are reversed to become the upper layers of the other.

Depending upon the distance we view them from, different aspects of the medium will dominate—the color, the paint, the texture, and so on. In short, with the method of contact painting, an instrument rich in artistic possibilities is created.

Rainer Gross was featured at the prestigious Ludwig Museum in Koblenz in a one-man, 40-year retrospective in 2012, and his work is found in the following public and private collections: AT&T Corporate Art Collection, USA Bayer A.G. Leverkusen, Germany Chase Bank Collection, New York, USA Cohen Family Collection, New York, USA Collection Peter Ludwig, Aachen, Germany Hewlett-Packard Collection, Palo Alto, CA, USA Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland Hirschhorn Collection, Washington, D.C., USA Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, USA Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland Pro Sieben, München, Germany UBS Union Bank of Switzerland Eric Schmidt (Google) Collection, Hamptons, NY

Rainer Gross, “Lehman Twins,” 24 inches by 20 inches each

Open for Gallery Walk Friday August 3rd, 5-8pm FEATURING JAZZ PIANIST ALAN PENNAY We are located in the atrium of the Galleria Building on Leadville and Fourth in Ketchum.

351 Leadville Ave. in Ketchum • Tel. 208.726.8810 Frederic@Boloix.com

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Gallery Walk Downtown Ketchum Map Downtown Ketchum

Highway 75 to Stanley

Spruce Avenue

Walnut Avenue

Leadville Avenue

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Washington Avenue

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Warm Springs Road

Ore Wagon Museum

7 Fifth Street Giacobbi Square

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Community Librar y

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6 Second Street

First Street Ski & Heritage Museum

River Street

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Highway 75 to Hailey

1. Broschofsky Galleries 360 East Avenue

© sun valley gallery association

5. Gilman Contemporary 661 Sun Valley Road

2. Frederic Boloix Fine Arts Contemporary6.661Kneeland 1. Broschofsky Galleries 360 East Avenue 5. Gilman Sun ValleyGallery Road 351 Leadville Avenue, The Galleria Building 271 First Avenue North 2. Frederic Boloix Fine Arts 351 Leadville Avenue, 6. Kneeland Gallery 271 First Avenue North 3. Friesen Gallery 7. Sun Valley Center for 7.

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Street East River Fine Arts 400 First Avenue North

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9. MESH Gallery