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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / DENVER, CO
December 1, 2016-January 3, 2017Visions West Contemporary
1715 Wazee Street | Denver, CO 80202
(303) 292-0909 | http://www.visionswestcontemporary.comThe snow show
D
ecember 1 through January 3, Visions
West Contemporary will host The
Snow Show, featuring sculpture, paintings
and works on paper that highlight the
sights and colors of winter. The group
exhibition will be on view concurrently at
the gallery’s locations in Denver, Colorado;
Jackson, Wyoming; and Bozeman,
Montana. Participating will be Dave White,
Crystal Morey, JenMarie Zeleznak, Tracy
Stuckey, Zemer Peled, Chris Maynard,
Mike Weber, Theodore Waddell, Rocky
Hawkins and William Sweetlove.
While common in theme, the works
displayed are diverse in style and subject
matter. There will be everything from
sculptures of penguins to snow-covered
landscapes included.
Nearly all of the landscapes that Waddell
paints refer to a geographic location; his
piece Snowline Angus is no different.
“Between Lima and the Montana-Idaho
border, along the freeway, is a sign:
Snowline. There are no towns there, only
mountains and pastures on either side
of the road,” says Waddell. “Cattle water
at the small lake on the west side of the
road, framed by the mountains in the
background. The pastures are huge—the
cattle recede to dots and the fences look
like line drawings in the distance. One can
understand this perspective in a palpable
way. I have been on this road over a
hundred times and I never tire of the vistas
offered and I always learn more about this
great land.”
Stuckey began his painting A Man, a
Woman, and a Horse last year when he
was abandoning the traditional view of the
southwestern landscape for the mountain
west. “I wanted to explore a different region
of the West, but use the same characters.
This painting in particular started off with
just the woman leading the horse over
this frozen lakebed. I kept rearranging the
elements while adding and subtracting
other imagery,” Stuckey explains.
“I decided to add the male character at
the bottom and then the blanket in order1
Theodore Waddell,
Snowline Angus, oil, 72 x 72"2
Chris Maynard, Swan Burst,
mute swan feather, 12 x 12"3
Tracy Stuckey, A Man, a
Woman, and a Horse, oil on
canvas, 48 x 72"4
Robert McCauley, It’s Just
Over That Mountain, oil,
21 x 30"5
Mike Weber, Ego, mixed
media, 48 x 48 x 3"12