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Gary Komarin - Musee Kiyoharu Shirakaba, Japan
Gary Komarin's work will be on exhibit in Japan at the Musee Kiyoharu Shirakaba from April through June 2008.
A risktaker in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Gary Komarin paints the fancy free world of the imagination with authority and aplomb. Following his intuitive sense of color, form , and surface, he makes the creative process critical to his art. Komarin, the son of an architect, creates work that "while it implies a delicate human-ness, suggests architectural form. His work speaks of the gray and uncertain areas of life. A time caught between recognition and definition where the images themselves become the zenith of focus." |
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Shafer Vineyards - Julie Speidel Bronze Sculpture
After a year of planning by Julie Speidel, Gail Severn and John & Barbara Shafer, Shafer Vineyards is now the proud owner of a Julie Speidel bronze sculpture commissioned for the prominent entry to the winery. After visiting the space numerous times and designing the perfect piece, Julie and her crew installed it in April 2008.
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Sun Valley Center For The Arts
Presents The Boise Idaho Triennial
April 18 – June 11, 2008 Organized by the Boise Art Museum, the Idaho Triennial has been an artistic tradition in Idaho since 1935. Every 3 years a different juror selects work by artists from around the state for this anticipated exhibition. This year's juror, Amy Pence-Brown, is also the Boise Art Museum's Associate Curator. After initially reviewing each submitting artist's work through slides, Pence-Brown spent five weeks driving throughout the state, visiting 71 artists' studios. She eventually narrowed this group down to 25 artists who are represented in the exhibition. The Sun Valley Center for the Arts is delighted to be able to present work by each of these 25 artists in a scaled down version of the Idaho Triennial. The exhibition represents some of the most innovative and thoughtful art being made in Idaho right now. Working in a wide variety of media, from painting and photography to bamboo and robotics, the artists in the exhibition address a range of subject matter with both local and universal relevance. Among the participants are two painters based in the Wood River Valley , David deVillier and Theodore Waddell. |
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Therman Statom: Nascita
Event Time: April 11, 2008 - August 16, 2008
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is pleased to present Therman Statom’s Nascita, an ambitious exhibition comprised of a multitude of site-specific glass and mixed-media sculptures. For over twenty-five years, Statom has revolutionized the glass medium, creating installations of an architectural scale that reward the viewer’s imagination and sense of wonder. Four elements dominate the visual terrain of Therman Statom’s Nascita, or "Origin:" a 50-foot glass frieze, a freestanding glass room, a 30-foot mirror-scaled snake and multiple “mirrorized” architectural fixtures. Statom utilized commercial panes of glass, silicon, mirror and paint as his primary materials to create a stylized and expressive environment that sprawls throughout the gallery. His bold forms brim with symbols — such as maps, vessels, foliage and snakes — that are rooted in art history and personal references. The artist creates glass box "paintings” that house a myriad of painted images as well as eclectic objects suggesting an open-ended narrative filled with surprising juxtapositions. Although Statom precisely planned and prefabricated certain aspects of the exhibition, he also improvised throughout the installation process and will reconfigure the exhibition at multiple points during its run. Statom approaches the gallery space as a studio and laboratory and encourages viewers to join his process of discovery.
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Delos Van Earl - Sculpture welcomes visitors!
Swooping in and out of the ground, "Jungle Red" is a serpentine-esque sculpture that now welcomes the public to the Warm Sands neighborhood in Palm Springs.
It's named for the "Jungle Red" nail polish color made famous in the 1939 Joan Crawford film "The Women". Van Earl said he hopes the sculpture, which looks like a snake curling in and out of the gravel, will be something tourists will stop to take a picture with on the way to their Warm Sands hotels. "It will be a landmark piece," he said as his assistant David Hale applied brick red primer paint. Last summer, the City Council approved the sculpture. It's location in the center of a round-a-bout on Ramon Road and Warm Sands Drive means "Jungle Red" will have high visibility. |
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Gwynn Murrill - Fresno Art Museum
Primal Form: The Sculpture of Gwynn Murrill
Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2007 Fri., Sept. 7 – Sun., Nov. 11, 2007 Gwynn Murrill brings to her award as the Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2007 a lifetime of compelling and powerful work – the exhibition presented is an overview of her command of disparate materials chosen for the expression of her sculptural language where pure abstract form transcends anthropomorphism. There are coyotes of laminated Koa wood, a cat hewn from grey Carrara marble, deer of bronze, an animal relief carved within ceramic tiles, along with soaring bronze eagles – each sculpture extends beyond the mimetic impulse to “follow nature.” Murrill’s sculptural sensibility, in the words of Peter Clothier, is an “ecstatic apprehension of pure form in the environment of pure space.” |
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Tony Foster at the Royal Watercolour Society
The Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London, will host Tony's next major solo exhibition "Searching for a Bigger Subject" from 30 June - 20 July 2008.
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Squeak Carnwath - Oakland Museum of California
ARTISTS OF INVENTION: A CENTURY OF CCA
Squeak Carnwath October 13, 2007 – March 16, 2008 A portrait of Bay Area artists and art movements through the 20th century and celebration of the California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) centennial. The survey includes the renegade plein-air painters known as the Society of Six; production ceramists Edith Heath and Jocomena Maybeck; artists of the Bay Area Figurative school Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, and Manuel Neri; Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, and Viola Frey, leaders of the studio ceramics movement; minimalist John McCracken and conceptualists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; photorealists Robert Bechtle, Richard McLean, and Jack Mendenhall; and cultural commentators Squeak Carnwath and Raymond Saunders. |
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2007 Idaho Triennial
Theodore Waddell & David deVillier
September 1, 2007 – June, 2008 Organized by the Boise Art Museum, the Idaho Triennial is a juried exhibition that has been a respected and treasured part of the museum's legacy since 1935. Held every three years, the Triennial is a statewide, juried art exhibition that reflects the quality and diversity of artwork being created in Idaho. To add a new twist, this year’s guest juror and curator is BAM’s associate curator of art, Amy Pence-Brown. In addition to the standard jurying of slides/digital images submitted by 249 artists, Pence-Brown spent the summer traveling Idaho to conduct 71 on-site studio visits, ultimately selecting 25 for the exhibition. We are happy to announce that the show is touring to two other Idaho venues this spring; it will be at the Prichard Art Gallery in Moscow February 20 - April 4, 2008, and from there go to the Sun Valley Center for the Arts April 18 - June 11, 2008. |
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Laura McPhee: River of No Return
Boise Art Museum
August 25, 2007 – January 13, 2008 Acclaimed photographer Laura McPhee bases each of her photographic series on a dilemma. River of No Return is no exception, highlighting the juxtapositions of individualism versus community and development versus preservation in the American West. This powerful traveling exhibition of haunting, large-scale color photographs captures conflicting ideas of land use and landscape across remote areas of Central Idaho. McPhee spent two years in the Sawtooth Mountains photographing the region’s cinematic and picturesque landscapes and illustrating their coexistence with humanity and development. McPhee sees these images as a microcosm of America and the dilemmas that communities and people face nationwide. The exhibition is organized by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and works from this series focusing on Idaho are also included in a touring exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum. McPhee is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is made possible through the generous collaboration of Alturas Foundation. The Boise Art Museum presentation is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Simplot and the J.R. Simplot Company |
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Theodore Waddell feautured in Art in Embassies
Several paintings are out on loan to the American Embassy in Sweden. Much of the art on loan reflects the vast open space of the American West, but they have also included paintings of other scenes of extraordinary beauty - the monterey coast in California, harbor scenes from Cape Anne and Gloucester, Massachusetts, and a Venetian lagoon.
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Book Signing with Theodore Waddell
With the snow melting and temperatures warming up, we thought that it was time for a fun art event to usher in the new season. Gail Severn Gallery will host a book signing with our artist Theodore Waddell, illustrator of the newly released children’s book Tucker Gets Tuckered,
• Sunday, March 18th, 2007 at 3pm After years of creating imaginative works on paper of his beloved Bernese Mountain Dogs, Tucker, Lilly, and Sam, the artwork has now been arranged with an entertaining narration by writer, Ted Beckstead. The book follows a full day of Tucker’s adventures golfing, snorkeling, going to the beach, and playing with friends. Ted’s artwork is delightful, and as a collector of Theodore’s work you will enjoy this facet of his works on paper. The afternoon at Gail Severn Gallery will be fun for adults and children alike. Hope to see you there. Copies of Tucker Gets Tuckered are available through the gallery, please feel free to call or email us – or, of course, visit us on Sunday for a personalized edition. |
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Deborah Oropallo and The Magnolia Tapestry Project
Acclaimed as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier painters, Deborah Oropallo has created much of her work in recent years using digital photos and inkjet prints. George, her 2007 tapestry with the Magnolia Tapestry Project, finds the artist broadening her exploration of digital media. In George, Oropallo juxtaposes different modes of portraiture, colliding two sets of signs into an image both alien and familiar.
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James Lavadour and The Smithsonian
Native Artists Challenge Landscape Traditions in "Off the Map." Five artists investigate the complex relationship between Native art and the landscape in “Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination,” opening at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center Saturday, March 3, 2007. The exhibition, which comprisesrecent workbyJeffrey Gibson, Carlos Jacanamijoy, James Lavadour, Erica Lord and Emmi Whitehorse, closes Monday, Sept. 3.
www.nmai.si.edu/press/releases/2007_01_03offthemap_pr_nmai.pdf
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Gwynn Murrill in public spaces...
Gwynn Murrill will be included in the "landmark exhibition," Mulitiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006
February 25-April 15, 2007 at LA Municipal Art Gallery. Presented by The Southern California Women's Caucus for Art and the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. www.scwca.com/murrill
Gwynn is also pleased to have her Tigers included as installations in Toronto Airport's groundbreaking new wing, Pier F |
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Join Us To Celebrate 30 Years, 1977-2007
The beginning of 2007 marks the start of our 30th year - and in celebration of the gallery's anniversary we will be having exhibitions and special events througout the year to honor the artists we represent and to extend our appreciation for our collectors who have supported the arts and our gallery for the last three decades.
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Victoria Adams and Tacoma Art Museum
Victoria Adams will have a number of paintings included at The 8th Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum, Feb. 10- May 6 2007. Curated by David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and by Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at the Tacoma Art Museum. Out of a field of over 900 entrants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, 41 artists were selected. A catalog will accompany the exhibition.
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Tony Foster's upcoming museum calendar:
November is a busy month for watercolorist Tony Foster:
11/02/06 - "Searching for a Bigger Subject" lecture; Tucson Museum, 6PM 11/08/06 - Tony will be present for the opening of "Yosemite – Art of an American Icon" Autry National Center Museum of the American West, Los Angeles 11/17/06 - "Painting the Grand Canyon," lecture; Denver Art Museum, 5PM |
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Gwynn Murrill at the DeCordova Museum
Gwynn Murrill is featured in the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Massacusetts. The new exhibition, "Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art" opens September 2, 2006.
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New film on Tony Foster
"The Man Who Painted Everest" is a 50-minute documentary on Tony Foster's art and expeditions. The film records his most recent journey to paint the world's highest mountain. In conjunction with his opening at the gallery on Friday, September 1st, the artist will be showing a special presentation of the film on Sunday, September 3rd at 7pm.
Also of note, Phoenix Art Museum added Foster's "From Point Sublime Looking ESE" watercolor, 84" x 48" to their permanent collection. The Tucson Art Museum features, "From Walapai Point Looking ESE," 84" x 48" for their show on the Grand Canyon. As well, look out for the Autry Center for Western Art, Los Angeles' exhibition, "Yosemite -The Art of An Icon" featuring Foster's "Eight Days on Eagle Peak," 72" x 72". |
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Ed Musante in Village Voice and NY Sun
Musante's first NYC exhibition gets rave reviews. www.nysun.com/musante
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Sun Valley Visual Arts Forum
June 23 - 24, 2006. The Sun Valley Gallery Association celebrated 25 Years with their first annual Collector's Forum. Keynote speakers were Francoise Gilot, artist and author of "Life with Picasso," and Steve Wynn, entrepreneur/ art collector. Also, Barbara Guggenheim, art consultant, gave a provocative lecture on her approach to collecting. To cap it all off the Gallery Association installed an Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition on Main Street. Please come view sculpture by Will Robinson, Julie Speidel, and Mark Stasz.
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Deborah Oropallo's "Twice Removed" opens at BAM
April 8 - June 18, 2006; Boise Art Museum's exhibition of Deborah Oropallo's recent and new digital paintings, "Twice Removed" Supported by an exhibition and publication grant from the Paul G. Allen Foundation and additional catalogue support from Gail Severn Gallery. Catalogues available
www.boiseartmuseum.org/oropallo Oropallo, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award recipient, will have a solo exhibition at Gail Severn Gallery opening August 4 - August 31, 2006 |
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Special event: Anam Cara Chorale fills the Gallery
May 19, 2006
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