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BY KAREN BOSSICK Art made with wool from endangered Navajo-Churro sheep, handblown glass salmon suspended from the ceiling, artwork created by painstaking Byzantine/Renaissance techniques using gold leaf—these will be among the works you can see at Friday’s Wagon Days Gallery Walk. The walk will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at several Ketchum galleries. It’s a chance to meet some of the artists over complimentary wine. Here are some of the highlights:
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Diane Andrews Hall, created “Flycatcher on Bach.” Her work can be seen at Gail Severn Gallery.
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/// HEMMINGS GALLERY, 340 N. Walnut Ave., is displaying fiber artist Kristina Foley’s large-scale felted works using raw wool that she has culled from endangered Navajo-Churro sheep near her Oregon home and fine Merino from Oregon’s Shaniko Wool Company, known for its regenerative agriculture. Her “Animal Landscapes” series also uses silk from wild moths from rural India. These moths live in forests and jungles, feeding on diverse plants that create natural color variations. The gallery will also display works by mixed-media artist Jeff Juhlin, who lives and works in the Great Basin and the high arid desert of the Kaiparowits plateau of Southern Utah. Juhlin reveals layers of translucent strata composed of pigmented wax, oil, paper, cold wax and other media that are built up and taken away as he creates his unconventional landscapes that mimic rock strata created by erosion, wind and water. /// KNEELAND GALLERY, 271 N. 1st Ave., will feature the work of Utah landscape Painter Douglas Aagard. Aagard is known for his bold use of color, texture and light and some of the paintings in this exhibition appropriately capture the reds and golds of fall.
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Pamela DeTuncq, who has created plenty of deer out of material, now has an interesting fish mount that can be seen in conjunction with The Salmon School at Gail Severn Gallery.
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The gallery will also display new paintings from other gallery artists, as well as plein air pieces painted during recent weeks. /// GILMAN CONTEMPORARY, 661 Sun Valley Road, is showcasing new “Paradise” paintings of artist Thai Mainhard. Originally from Rio de Janeiro and now based in Hawaii, Mainhard is naturally drawn to the patterns and textures of the jungle. Her latest paintings feature colorful botanicals and their vessels bursting with rich textures, vibrant colors and lush patterns. /// GAIL SEVERN GALLERY, 400 1st Avenue, N., is continuing its remarkable exhibition of Joseph Rossano’s “Of Water,” which features hand-blown glass “salmon” suspended from the ceiling. You can also see Hailey artist Pamela DeTuncq’s wall mount of a colorful salmon, along with whimsical works by David Devillier.
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Douglas Aagard’s oil painting of “Gully Road” can be seen at Kneeland Gallery.
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Opening this week is Diane Andrews Hall’s collection of photorealist bird paintings that place birds in a variety of contexts, including vintage sheet music and topographical maps of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. ///SUN VALLEY CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, across from the Saddletree Gallery in The Courtyard at 360 East Avenue, will show new art from Shirley Yang Crutchfield that uses the Renaissance/Byzantine method of utilizing gold leaf. Tracey Sylvester Harris’ paintings capture ephemeral moments from a past era, such as elegant stylish figures dreaming by the pool and children splashing around in innertubes. Cristina Mittermeier’s work speaks to her founding of the International League of Conservation Photographers to pursue conservation photography. And Beau Simmons’ photography spans the gamut from commercial photographs taken for such clients as Guess Jeans and Converse to documenting the lives of cowboys.
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