In partnership with the fine art studio Aurobora, the gallery also oversees an extensive world-class collection of monotypes by more than forty artists created during Aurobora’s thirty year residency program in San Francisco & Sun Valley. Current artists on display include Clem Crosby, Joanne Greenbaum, LoopmasterM, Lisa Willamson, William O’Brien, Margaux Ogden, Ricardo Mazal and Fraser Taylor.

STRATA by JEFF JUHLIN

Over the course of his forty year career, Jeff Juhlin has spent a great deal of time studying western landscapes.

Based in Utah, Juhlin creates mixed media works consisting of layers of ink, oil paint, paper & wax-- both cold & encaustic.

They are records of time like the landscapes he has long gone to for inspiration.

"My work seeks to reflect a sense of stillness, space and the visual history of time evident in the landscape... In this environment, time reveals itself in the rock strata created by erosion, wind and water-- built up and worn away by the elements in a continuous process.”

Opening December 12th, “Tiny Fruits” is a solo exhibition of oil paintings by artist Sarah Bird at Hemmings Gallery in Ketchum, ID.

To view all the works in the show click here.

Bird is an Idaho- and Oregon-based realist oil painter. She draws on nineteenth-century techniques and seventeenth-century imaginative Flemish perspectives to weave still life and landscape into intimate tabletop worlds that sometimes tip into the surreal.   Historically, still life paintings honored material wealth and colonialism—for example, elaborate feasts featuring exotic fare and rare China, crystals, and silks—but Bird’s paintings instead recenter the natural, local, and marginal: trailside weeds, backyard and feral fruits, found and thrift-store objects. Though done in the studio, her paintings also intentionally evoke and symbolize landscapes, arguing that our experiences of a place are perhaps of greater value than our material obsessions.

In her arrangements, both individually and taken together, one can also see the passing of the seasons and a loose calendar of a year, of a life, emerges.  These pieces are the “tiny fruits” of seasonal pleasures and of painting. Bird paints only with a very small, size zero round brush which makes the process similar to egg tempura painting or needlework: the whole surface is carefully, heavily touched.

Though painted from life rather than from photos, the elements are never all together as they appear in the finished paintings. Flowers wilt and are replaced, dishes and stones move around, as if of their own volition. The paintings are collaged realities, each actively composed and edited over time, an ongoing improvisation in the way of abstract painting. Small touches of the surreal also call attention to the artifice of arrangement and, most importantly, assert the abiding importance of the imagination in how we frame the world. 

Come meet the artist at the Gallery Walk evening reception on December 29th from 5:00-7:30 pm.

July/August 2023  

Ashforth is an artist who spends a great deal of time outdoors, hiking, fly fishing, studying the land & edges of habitats. Her work has been shown in Canada, Europe and across the US as well as featured in Orion Magazine, Carrier Pigeon Magazine, Art in Print, The Adventure Journal & "Headwaters" by author Dylan Tomine with Patagonia Books. 

For her monotypes, paintings and drawings, Ashforth looks with intention to the land and heavily researches the environments she finds herself in. Whether arid basin & range, watershed or coastal wetland, her spare images share memory of place. Her hope is that the subtle tensions observed between land, water & sky will ultimately strike a chord of respect for the raw beauty found in the landscape. 

Come meet the artist and join us for Opening Night on Friday, September 1st from 5:00-7:30pm. 

Hemmings Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sally King Benedict, the first in her new hometown of Ketchum. For the past fifteen years, Benedict has built an impressive following with major shows in Atlanta, Charleston & New York. Known for both her figurative and abstract work, she has been featured in Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Domino and Southern Living. Benedict's exuberant style is unmistakable and showcases her expert use of color and dynamic brushwork. 
Sally and her family moved to Ketchum from Atlanta in 2021.

She's thrilled to present her first body of work inspired by life in the Wood River Valley. In her words, "I have come to realize that the ways I now recreate have also in fact re-created me. This body of work reflects my transition as an artist to a new home over the last two years with imagery inspired by a totally new landscape…one which exists simultaneously between humans and Mother Nature. I have experienced a new viewpoint amongst this community, all while bringing a new baby into the world. I am in a constant state of exhale and disbelief that we get to live here. These paintings reflect my respect for the community here and the way people surrender to the earth and its abundance."

Come meet and celebrate the artist on opening night Friday, July 7th from 5:00-7:30pm!