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Contact: The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho | www.theartmuseum.org. | 524-7777
Location: at 300 S. Capital Avenue, Idaho Falls,

NEW EXHIBIT AT THE ART MUSEUM EXPLORES VIVID LANDSCAPES OF THE WEST AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF CLAY

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The newest art exhibit at the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho brings together the spontaneous, luminous paintings of Ted Waddell and the contemporary pottery and ceramics of friends and mentors Kathy Galloway, Susan Harris, Seth Rainville, Done Ridley and Russ Wrankle. The Paintings of Ted Waddell and The Objects of Our Friendship will be in Idaho Falls through July 12.   

Waddell is a sophisticated modernist painter whose works have attracted widespread recognition. A cattle rancher who splits his time between the Musselshell River northwest of Billings, MT, and Hailey, ID, he often paints freely-rendered range animals roaming the vast plains of eastern Montana using a combination of oil and wax. 

Waddell’s “pieces are both physical and pictorial acts. They are quite literally about the process of painting, and it is the process of their creation that is revealed so boldly to viewers, participants really, that they find impossible to resist being involved in the kinetic force of the art,” says Peter H. Hassrick, professor of American Western Art and director of the Charles M. Russell Center in Western History at the University of Oklahoma.

Idaho Falls native, Kathy Galloway, who moved to the Southwest in 1994 to follow her passion for ceramics, says of her work in the exhibit, “My passion for clay lies within functional pottery. I believe that a well-crafted functional pot has a nature of its own—that it has the ability to ground its user. To remind them that in this fast paced, production oriented world, it is good to cultivate and maintain our one-of-a-kind identities.”

The curious self-sculpture by Russ Wrankle of a bound dog on a brick is one image viewers will unlikely soon forget. Elements of Susan Harris’ fascination with ancient oriental bronze ritual vessels are readily apparent in her impressive grouping of black stoneware. Her recent work explores the process of reduction cooling, where no glazes are applied to the external surface in order to retain crisp and intricate textural details reminiscent of wrought iron.  Seth Rainville’s unique style and Don Ridley’s organically shaped ceramics show viewers the endless possibilities of clay in the hands of master craftsmen. 

The exhibits are generously sponsored by Ron and Shirley Koester and Ron and Ellie Hampton as well as by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

Also being featured at the Museum through July 12 are the eclectic and spontaneous assemblages by the Museum Artists in “Some Assemblage Required” in the Studio Gallery. Rexburg watercolorist Lori Price’s scenes from her travels to Italy are showcased in the Hall Gallery.
 
The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho is located at 300 S. Capital Avenue, Idaho Falls.  The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm with extended evening hours on Thursdays until 8 pm. For more information please call 524-7777 or go to www.theartmuseum.org. 

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