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Who Am I?
Portraits of our community
Artspace Theater Gallery: December 2 – 30, 2011
An exhibition of portraits created by participants in the Art Association’s weekly Tuesday evening Portrait Drawing Club sessions. |
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Wyoming Arts Council
Biennial Fellowship Exhibition
Artspace Main + Loft Gallery: November 4 - December 30, 2011
This exhibition takes place every two years and showcases artwork by visual arts fellowship recipients. This year, The Art Association is honored to host this exhibition in our Artspace Main & Loft Galleries. The work will on display thru the end of 2011.
Artwork by Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients
David Klaren
Jenny Dowd
Adrienne Vetter
Abbie Miller
Suzanne Morlock
Diana Baumbach
Penelope Caldwell
Shelby Shadwell
Sue Sommers
David Jones
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Anne Marie Schultz
Cityscapes
Artspace Main + Loft Gallery: October 7 – 27, 2011
These series of Cibachrome prints encompass different venues throughout Chicago at the turn of this century. As American cities usually do, changes were taking place. A critical one, the city was demolishing the racially segregated public housing structures that were built in the late 1930’s., as seen in the C.H.A. (Chicago Housing Authority) series. Millennium Park was being built. Citizens celebrated the carnivalesque, as “time in parentheses”, of the annual Gay Pride Parade. And the daily grind of city life has its’ constant reminders of the ephemeral nature of time. Making urban life more of reality, alternative photographic processes of double exposures, solarization of outdated film and use of a Holga camera add to acidic hue and grittiness of these images. |
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Andrew Wyeth
A Survey
Artspace Main + Loft Gallery: August 10 – September 9, 2011
The sticks that Amy chooses for her tree sculptures are carefully and specifically considered. Her sculptures have a theatrical, vignette quality to them. In David Klaren's drawings, the scribbled lines at first seem chaotic and random, but the randomness coalesces, forming a powerful and recognizable reverse silhouette image. In both of their works, the seeming randomness of the lines is orchestrated to meet their specific ideas and concepts. |
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David Klaren and Amy Unfried
Orchestrated Line
Artspace Theater Gallery: August 10 – September 9, 2011
The sticks that Amy chooses for her tree sculptures are carefully and specifically considered. Her sculptures have a theatrical, vignette quality to them. In David Klaren's drawings, the scribbled lines at first seem chaotic and random, but the randomness coalesces, forming a powerful and recognizable reverse silhouette image. In both of their works, the seeming randomness of the lines is orchestrated to meet their specific ideas and concepts. |
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Mark Newport
Sweatermen
Artspace Main Gallery: June 3 – July 29, 2011
Batman, Iron Man, Spiderman and the Rawhide Kid. These characters are childhood memories of the ultimate man – the dad every boy wants, the man every boy wants to grow up to be. Mark Newport’s hand-knit acrylic re-creations of these heroes’ costumes combine their heroic, protective, ultra masculine, yet vulnerable personas with the protective gestures of his mother. The costumes are life-size, wearable objects that hang limply on hangerchallenging the standard muscular form of the hero and offering the space for the viewer to imagine themselves wearing the costume, becoming the hero. Artist and educator Mark Newport is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. |
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Taylor Glenn
Far Chang
Artspace Theater Gallery: June 3 – July 29, 2011
In 2009 and 2010 Taylor Glenn visited Mandarin Green Plastics Co. in Huidong, China to photograph in their artificial flower factory. This family-owned company, like many Chinese businesses, exports their products to Western markets. We rarely give thought to how theseproducts are made and the individuals who are responsible. These images are a personal and quiet observation of daily life at this factory. |
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Jean Laughton
My Ranch ing Life
Artspace Loft Gallery: June 3 – July 29, 2011
This ongoing photographic series offers an insider’s cinematic view from the saddle of Western South Dakota ranch life. In 2003, Jean Laughton left New York City, moving back home to the tiny Badlands town of Interior, South Dakota. What started as a photography project turned into an adventure when she began working on the Quarter Circle XL Ranch - learning all aspects of the cowboy lifestyle while photographing it from horseback. The resulting large-scale panoramic photographs are a document of present day cowboy life and her life ‘inside the photograph’. |
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Eliot Goss
Figures
Artspace Conference Room Gallery: May 6 – July 29, 2011
Eliot started painting when he started architecture school in 1955. In the beginning, architecture informed much of his painting. Five years ago, Eliot joined a group that met every week at Greg McHuron’s studio to draw from a live model. He has also been attending life drawing sessions at the Art Association. Ink-wash has become Eliot’s preferred drawingmedium because it’s “unchangeable once down on paper; when diluted it provides a very wide range of values from almost imperceptible to impressively black; it flows; it can be very tight or very loose. All of this brings tremendous pleasure to the user and hopefully also the viewer,” he notes. This collection of three dozen drawings was chosen from more than 200 that he has saved in recent years. |
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On the Other Side
Teton MudPots and Driggs Clay Group
Artspace Lobby Gallery: May 6 – 27, 2011
The Art Association’s Teton MudPots are working in collaboration with the Teton Arts Council’s clay group to exhibit their work. Several ceramicists will show together, first in Jackson and then in Driggs.
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Y.A.R.D. ART
Year 10 | Alumni & Instructors
Artspace Main + Loft Gallery: May 6 – 23, 2011
Works created by this year’s YARD (Young Artists Revolutionary Designs) Art students feature repurposed furniture made from recycled items in collaboration with the Habitat Restore. Their creativity knows no bounds – come see what these talented students in
the YARD High School outreach program have created over the course of the school
year with instructors Sam Dowd, Javier Baez Armenta and Ben Carlson.
Sponsored in part by an Anonymous Challenge Grant and Challenge Donors.
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Members Only
Presented in Memory of Norman Shapiro
Artspace Main Gallery: March 25 – April 29, 2011
Members' Exhibitions are an integral part of our schedule, representing an eclectic and extensive body of work by talented Art Association Members of all ages. Former Board Member Norman Shapiro was part of the creativity that helped to shape and perpetuate this lasting favorite. The 2011 show is proudly offered to the community in his memory.
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Makarapa and Vuvuzela
Ian van Coller
Artspace Loft Gallery: March 4 – April 28, 2011
In June and July of 2010, South Africa hosted the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. This is the first time that the FIFA World Cup (European Football) has been held on the continent of Africa. Sixteen years after the end of apartheid this event represents a particularly important time in South African history, where South Africa was able to stage a massive “coming out” party for the rest of the world. This series of photographs focuses on South African national identity expressed through portraiture of football fans as well landscapes of football fields around the country.
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Solidarity
Amy Jurekovic and Amanda Sullivan
Artspace Theater Gallery: March 25 – April 29, 2011
This exhibition is an examination and celebration of discovering and defining one's self, and trying to maintain self through solidarity.
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The Golden Bear
in the land of Genghis Kahn
Artspace Theater Gallery: February 22 – March 25, 2011
For the past 6 years, Derek Craighead and the Gobi Bear Project have been working to recover the population (25-30) of the critically endangered Gobi Bear in the Gobi Desert of southern Mongolia. Over the years of research Craighead has collected numerous photos of this rarely viewed part of our world and elusive brown bear. The purpose of this body of work is to create an emotional connection for the viewer of this critically endangered species, the environment, and the reasons for its decline.
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Gravity
Thais Beltrame
Artspace Main Gallery: January 14 – March 14, 2011
The Brazilian artist Thais Beltrame was born in 1976 and since she was little, she used to despise colored pencils and compulsively scribble on her mother’s books with a ball pen, creating endless narratives with simple lines. Today the result of such act are universal existential issues represented in black and white, recreating the memories of our childhood in all of its darkness, sadness, discovery and glow. The artist makes use of the subtle and meticulous brush and ink, revealing an atmosphere both peculiar and melancholic.
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Midwinter Watercolor Magic
Curated by Fred Kingwill
Artspace Theater Gallery: January 14 – February 11, 2011
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