OK kids, not much of a blog post this week - I apologize for the “this morning I brushed my teeth” nature of it. I’m off to Jackson, WY for the Fall Arts Festival first thing tomorrow. It’s the usual ridiculously jam-packed schedule, since the National Museum of Wildlife Art schedules the Western Visions artists for Thursday night, Friday morning, and Friday night … and my Jackson gallery, Legacy, is having its “Legacy of Nature” show Friday afternoon … and there’s the Quickdraw breakfast and Quickdraw itself on Saturday morning…
It’s all exhausting beyond belief but also LOADS of fun - lots of drinking and schmoozing with people who like one’s work (good for my fragile ego), as well as incredibly invaluable networking with nationally- and internationally-known artists. Plus it’s damn nice to get out of the studio and stop contemplating my navel.
Somewhere in the few free hours I have in Jackson I try to sneak off for some photography - horses, swans (generally reliable on Flat Creek north of town), bison, moose (I watched a couple bull moose deliberately tear apart a rail fence at Gros Ventre campground one year - most entertaining), and all the spectacular scenery around the Tetons. And in the spare minutes left over I always check out as many of the other galleries in town as I can (and there are rather a few), particularly the ones with a contemporary bent.
In other news: I’m doing more catching up on art history, this time with a library book on Post-Modernism. Since it’s 100% figurative, I’m underwhelmed. I mean, our species is already ludicrously self-centered - an entire generation of artists devoted to anthropocentrism? Yuck.
And in still other news: I have just received my largest commission to date (very exciting), and if there is interest I’ll chronicle what that’s all about as I work my way through it.
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