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BY KAREN BOSSICK Felipe Jacome was born in Ecuador, but his career path has taken him beyond his studies at the London School of Economics to places around the world where he documents the issues of human mobility and human rights with his camera. His photos have appeared in such publications as National Geographic and The Washington Post. And during Friday’s Gallery Walk his latest work—“Unbroken”—can be seen at GILMAN CONTEMPORARY, 661 Sun Valley Road. The project was created in collaboration with Ukrainian dancer and photographer Svitlana Onipko, whom Jacome met during a photoshoot in Kyiv. And it reflects on the strength of artistic expression during times of war.
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“Katya 2,” a UV print on bullet casings and epoxy resin, is the result of a collaboration between Felipe Jacome and Svitlana Onipko. Jacome’s work can be seen at Gilman Contemporary.
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Each photograph captures current and former members of the Ukrainian National Ballet, their dance a demonstration of strength and vulnerability--acts of resistance in the face of conflict. And the dancers’ silhouettes are hauntingly printed in black onto bullet casings. A portion of proceeds from each sale will support Ukrainian relief efforts. Friday’s Gallery Walk will run from 5 to 7:30 p.m. March 6 at Ketchum galleries, with the exception of Sun Valley Museum of Art, which will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. as part of its First Friday concert gathering. Here are the highlights:
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Karen Jacobsen’s “Birches” can be seen at Anderson Architecture.
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KNEELAND GALLERY, 4th and Leadville, will present a long-awaited new body of work from Andrew Skorut, as well as a large Robert Moore canvas and an iconic Sun Valley image from photographer Kevin Syms. Andrzej Skorut, as he is also known, immigrated from Krakow, Poland, to Salt Lake City in 1987 where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Utah. He is known for his Western landscapes created through the use of multiple layers of paint and glaze. SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART, 5th and Washington streets, is throwing its First Friday party featuring music by the multi-instrumental Ketchum artist Arthur the Tree. Attendees may explore the museum’s current exhibition featuring the artistic treasures of locals while they mingle with friends and listen to the music. ANDERSON ARCHITECTURE, 320 1st Avenue N. next to the former Friesen Gallery, is showcasing the work of three local artists: Karen Jacobsen, Susan Hall and Sarah Davies.
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Susan Hall’s “Paris” acrylic on paper can be seen at Anderson Architecture.
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Jacobsen’s journey as a plein- air landscape painter started as a scientific illustrator, who even worked underseas: “I wanted to be outside, observing my subjects in their natural environments and seeing the truth in my own observations. My mother, also a painter and sculptor, always encouraged me to draw from life, coming up with my own ideas and organizing them into something I can call my own. This independent spirit still motivates me in the work I create and share." Sarah Davies paints abstract landscape based on experiences in magical natural places that have been worshipped and revered for centuries. Images of vast open valleys and distant filtered light observed during childhood road trips in the West appear in work that blurs the line between reality and abstraction. They suggest something beyond that which meets the eye is a way of exploring the relationship that ancient cultures had with the land and it’s secrets and mysteries. Susan Hall places her canvas on a floor or staples it to a wall. Then she begins to randomly spray diluted paint and water onto canvas, before layering paint, incorporating collage and stitching and, perhaps, applying wax. Her works sometimes features cherished fragment of antique fabric; other times, pieces of her hand-built porcelain. GAIL SEVERN GALLERY, 400 12st Ave. N., is showcasing large-scale Jacquard Tapestries that celebrate contemporary artists working in this centuries-old art form woven on historic Belgium looms. Among them, Hung Liu, Squeak Carnwatch, Kiki Smith, April Gornik and Diane Andrews Hall.
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Andrew Skorut’s “End of Summer” can be seen at Kneeland Gallery.
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A solo exhibition of new work by abstract painter Cole Morgan features the tromp l’oeil effects and mixed media he uses to offer dimensionality. The gallery is also showcasing large format photographs by Jack Spencer, Laura Wilson and Laura McPhee that explore the traces of human presence on the landscape. SUN VALLEY CONTEMPORAY, 360 East Avenue, is showing new paintings by Boisean Aaron Hazel, whose recent work focuses on wildlife, Native Americans and other minorities of the West. His work has been featured at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Stanford Children’s Hospital and on the corporate walls of Starbucks, Facebook, Delta Airlines and Nike. SADDLETREE GALLERY, 360 East Avenue, is showing watercolor paintings by Link Jackson, , an adventure artist and photographer who roams wild places in the pursuit of fly fishing, running rivers, backcountry skiing and backpacking, his camera a constant companion. GRAHAM GALLERIES, 660 Sun Valley Road, is showcasing new works by Buck, a mixed-media Western contemporary artist who reimagines the American West through pop art, historical imagery and found objects.
HEMMINGS GALLERY, 340 Walnut Ave., is displaying “Rooted in Color: Idaho Landscapes,” an exhibition of new work by painter MELISSA GRAVES BROWN. (See today’s Eye on Sun Valley article to learn more.) BROSCHOFSKY GALLERIES, 360 East Ave. N., is showcasing contemporary Western art including that of photographer David Yarrow and Billy Schenk MESH Gallery, 4th and Leadville, is showcasing Jeffery Lubeck’s new photographs of Portugal, as well as landscapes of the Sawtooth Mountains.
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