With vivid house paint, spray paint, stencils, and permanent markers, a group of artists made quick work of a large once-blank wall facing north on Main Street in Tetonia.
Michele Walters, owner of the building, which houses Tribe Artist Collective, local artist Aimee Babneau and their friend Benji Pierson, who designed the Travis Rice signature jacket for Quicksilver, threw paint at a wall last week and combined their styles to produce a richly-colored landscape.
âItâs kind of been a free-for-all but it seems to have worked,â Babneau said.
The Tribe Artist Collective, a Tetonia trading post for art pieces, gifts, and crafts, is launching its second summer of workshops, exhibit openings on the third Thursday of every month, and Sunday art markets, and plans to host an event with Teton Artlab of Jackson, in which participants will create enormous wood block prints. On May 20, Walters threw a grand opening party and art show to celebrate Tribeâs new studio space
Chris Hood does not sit in front of a canvas and start painting. He begins from the back.
The Los Angeles artist uses a raw canvas and builds layers of paint, creating an amalgamation of images using marks, icons and graphics that soak through from back to front. The result is a graphic quality that appears similar to that of a T-shirt turned inside out.
Hood is Teton Artlabâs artist-in-residence through May 21. He will discuss his process in a live Zoom talk at 6 p.m. May 19 at Teton ArtLab.
Hood grew up in Atlanta and was always drawing and interested in art. But it wasnât until he was 18 and he visited a contemporary art fair in Italy that he realized art could be a career. He went on to get a masterâs degree in fine art from the San Francisco Art Institute and is now based in Los Angeles.
If filmmaker Michael Robinson is asked in passing about his work he tends to simply describe himself as an artist.
People can see an abstract sculpture, and even if they donât âget itâ they understand and accept itâs a sculpture. With abstract films people feel like the machine playing it is broken.
âWe are so reliant on moving images for entertainment and information that people maybe have a little less wherewithal for how to approach an abstract film,â Robinson said.
Too often people hear âfilmmakerâ and assume Robinson creates television shows or commercial movies. Instead he creates collaged films that âform a psychedelic funny nightmare that tries to pick apart how we are manipulated by film and media,â he said.
Teton ArtLab is back with its annual Wallpaper show â in a new, pandemic-approved format.
Unframed paintings, drawings and prints will plaster the Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts through Feb. 12. Among the more than 25 Teton-area artists participating are Mike Piggott, Taryn Boals and Ben Roth.
âThis is a show that focuses on small, handmade editions and original works,â said ArtLab founder Travis Walker, whose own work will be for sale. âWe tried to eliminate things that can be mass produced really easily, because we want the work to feel special.â
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Traditionally the Wallpaper show has been a well-attended in-person function that gives people a chance to start or grow their art collections with some affordable works. Prices range from $5 to $500, Walker said.
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