THE SWEET SPOT PAINTINGS
Dec 23, 2016 7-10pm
The Rose, 50 W Broadway, Jackson, Wyoming
The idea for these paintings came about in an unusual manner. My painter friend, Joe Arnold from Laramie, Wyoming visited my studio several years ago and looked at my landscape paintings covering many of the walls. After he returned to Laramie, I received an email from him with what I felt to be rather extreme advice.
He suggested that of my typical landscape paintings, I take the best 25% area of the painting and use that to create another (hopefully) superior painting. This advice came after several years of my Colorado painting advisor, Joanne Rienhoff, telling me what parts (if not all parts) of a given work should be eliminated. She often suggested I trim a painting down from the original size saving only the best part.
With this collective advice making a real impression on me, I painted three dozen 12" x 12" works based upon the most successful sections of previously executed paintings. This process continued for another couple of years.
The results are displayed with the original landscape paintings on the left and with what I call the Sweet Spot versions on the right.
Additional paintings in the show completed after my sweet spot exercises are taking what I learned and applying the sweet spot mindset to the creation of new paintings.
JACKSON HOLE PUBLIC ART
Installed August 2014
As part of the community's 100th Anniversary Celebration, thirteen area utility boxes were wrapped with reproductions by local artists that celebrate life in Jackson Hole. They are intended to adorn these usually unattractive structures for up to seven years.
Center for the Arts, 265 South Cache Street, Jackson, Wyoming
IF IT'S YOU, IT'S YOURS 2.0
June 27, 2014 5-7pm
Join us for this party and giveaway.
3rd floor paintig & drawing studio, Art Association
See exhibition portfolio.
A collection of more than 60 pastel portraits created in 2013 and 2014 will be displayed and given away to the models. If you see your portrait, you own it.
The Art Association is located in the Center for the Arts, off the 240 S. Glenwood Street entrance lobby near the reception desk. Phone: (307) 733- 6379
Art Association of Jackson Hole
IF IT'S YOU, IT'S YOURS
September 11, 2012 5-8pm
FIGURES
May 6 thru July 29, 2011
Opening Reception: May 6, 5:30
artspace conference gallery, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Center for the Arts
Five years ago, Eliot Goss 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 drawing medium 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. See exhibition portfolio.
Read the May 4th Jackson Hole News article by Katie Niner.
The artspace confrence gallery is located in the Center for the Arts, off the 240 S. Glenwood Street entrance lobby near the reception desk. Phone: (307) 733- 6379
Art Association of Jackson Hole
Eliot and Natalie Goss' Italy
Nani's 18th Anniversary
Nani's Genuine Pasta House
2008 Group Show
"Whodunit" Anoymous Auction
Art Association of Jackson Hole
2008 Group Show
Valentines Day Show - Life Drawing
Ciao Gallery, Jackson Hole
2007 Works on Paper
Juried Group Show
Art Association of Jackson Hole
2007 Group Show
Rim Rock Ranch Painters' Retreat
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
2006 Group Show
Figures
Trio Gallery, Jackson Hole
2006 Group Show
Rim Rock Ranch Painters' Retreat
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
2004 One Man Show
Art Association of Jackson Hole
2001 Rising Sage Space
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
2001 One Man Show
Art Association of Jackson Hole
1998 Two Person Show
Art Association of Jackson Hole