Parker Stremmel

Tom Judd | The World Is Flat

May 19 – June 18, 2011

Chapter 3: Artwork To The People

In 1997, Tom Judd curated a month long rotating exhibition at the TZ Art Gallery in New York City called “The Chalkboard Chronicles”. Using three large chalkboards, twelve artists were asked to abandon the concept of the ‘cloistered artist working in isolation’ by exploring the process of creating art in a public forum. This documented event began with three artists to a chalkboard in the window of the gallery. After one week, the boards were erased, making any outcome strictly temporary. Throughout the process, artists were interviewed before, during and after their time appearing in the creative act to gallery pedestrians.

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Wal-Mart Heiress Alice Walton Finds $800 Million More for Her Crystal Bridges Museum

by ARTINFO,  May 5, 2011

Media-shy Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton has already poured vast amounts of her own money into her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, funding the $50 million Moshe Safdie-designed project and gathering a wide-ranging collection of colonial-to-contemporary art to display in the space when it opens on November 11. Now, the Bentonville, Arkansas, museum has announced that it has received an additional $800 million endowment from the Walton Family Foundation (on whose board of directors Alice Walton sits) to fund the institution “in perpetuity.” Read More

Tom Judd | The World Is Flat

May 19 – June 18, 2011

Chapter 2: You Don’t Even Know

The improvisational nature of Tom Judd’s paintings is unmistakable. Their energy and theatrical magic represent a world that does not so much discuss any particular subject as much as capture the idea of creating something. Read More

Tom Judd | The World Is Flat

May 19 – June 18, 2011

 
Chapter 1: Practice makes Process

“Willem de Kooning, when asked if it upset him that there were so many people making paintings that looked like his, responded, ‘No, because they don’t get to do the bad ones’.

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Auctioneer Pete Stremmel takes bids on "Attack on the Stage" by Nick Eggenhofer during the March In Montana auction on Friday afternoon at the Town House Inns. / TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS

March In Montana’s Friday auction featured more than 370 pieces of art, with more than $700,000 in estimated sales.

With so many items for sale, the Friday auction moved at a fast clip. Auctioneer Pete Stremmel warned the crowd before he kicked off bidding on the first piece that he planned to auction 75 items per hour.

“Which is moving fairly quickly,” he said. “If you’re interested, get your hand up quickly.” Read More

The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction group, in association with Monitou Galleries, present the Annual March in Montana dealer show and auction at The Townhouse Inn in Great Falls, Montana. Read More

On Friday, March 11 from 8:15 am to 5 pm, the Oakland Museum of California hosts an Art Guild Day Tour at the all-new Crocker Museum with visits to the Barry Sakata Gallery and the vineyard ranch and studio of Stremmel artist Roger Berry.

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Western Nevada College has three new exhibitions opening in the Carson Galleries today.  They will run from Feb. 14 through March 25.

In the Main Gallery is “Great Basin Work,” a sculptural exhibition by Nevada artist, Larry Williamson.  His sculpture plumbs the Great Basin Desert for imagery and materials. Read More