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Ketchum Artist to Share Garden Treasures at Friday’s Gallery Walk
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
 

BY KAREN BOSSICK

Deborra Marshall Bohrer’s garden along Trail Creek is not exactly hidden.

It was featured in the Sawtooth Botanical Garden’s annual Garden Tour a few years ago. And she constantly regales friends and family with its beauty.

Now she will share that beauty with even more people through new paintings inspired by the garden, which she’s titled “Scenes From the Hidden Garden.”

Bohrer is showing those works and new works from her sandhill crane series at Lipton Fine Arts, 411 N. Leadville Ave., next to The Leadville Espress House in Ketchum. And she’ll be present to discuss them during the August Gallery Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4.

“I’m inspired at the amount of effort that Deborra takes to produce a painting,” said Lipton Fine Arts owner Gary Lipton. “Priming, scraping and grinding with power tools and the almighty palette knife with layers upon layers of paint. When looking at the paintings you can see so much depth.”

Indeed, when Bohrer painted poppies in “Flourish,” it was the middle of winter, and she had to srape back and forth to bring them to life.

“It had dark colors and it was harsh. It eventually progressed and the painting came out from underneath,” she said.

Bohrer, who also has an exhibition at the Community Library, said that she is not a patient person but that painting has taught her patience.

“I live fast and paintings for me to slow down,” she said.

She can’t draw her subject matter first, she says, because her paintings often take a her a whole different direction than she originally anticipated.

“These paintings all represent something inside me,” she said. “It may look like a sandhill crane, but it’s actually something inside me. When I’m painting it feels like I’m part of the painting.”

Bohrer titled “Mahler’s Crane,” since it was inspired by the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 last summer.

“When I painted it, I felt it wrapping its wings around me,” she said. “I love birds. Birds inspire me. I even love magpies.”

But, if she has a soft spot for a particular bird it would be the sandhill crane so enamored is she of form and figure.

“I love the elegance of cranes—the line of their necks, the way they stand so regally. It’s like they’re saying, ‘Here I am!’ ”

Members of the Sun Valley Gallery Association and others will throw their doors open from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4. And many of the artists they’re representing will be present to discuss their work. Here’s a look at what’s on tap:

Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Avenue North, is showing the work of Raphaelle Goethals, who works in  wax and resin, layering, pouring, scraping and scratching as she works toward perfection. Goethals will offer a free Artist Chat at the gallery at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 5.

Also, Gary Komarin, whose art shows a unique take on the visual cacophony of sidewalks, brick, gravel, nuclear reactors.

Gilman Contemporary, 661 Sun Valley Road, is hosting Wendel Wirth’s “No Vacancy.” Wirth will be on hand to talk about her landscape photographs which are currently focused on small town America. In addition, James Austin Murray will be on hand to discuss his mesmerizing oil on canvas paintings. The paintings, which evoke Zen sand gardens, utilize pure ivory black oil which allows for the movement of paint to reflect light in a way that tricks the eye. Finally, Kelly Ording will be on hand to discuss her artwork blending organic and geometric shapes.

Kneeland Gallery, 271 1st Ave. N., is displaying the plein air works nine of its artists painted around Sun Valley Wednesday through Friday, including those painted during an hour-long Quick Draw today at noon at Ketchum Town Square. The artists are Steven Lee Adams, Ovanes Berberian, Jack Braman, John Horejs, Shanna Kunz, Lori McNee, Caleb Meyer, Robert Moore and Bart Walker.

Friesen Gallery, 320 First Ave. N., is depicting painter Lawrence Fodor’s take on “Eclipse: Obscured Memories.” Fodor will be attendance.

The Leadville Espresso House, 411 Leadville Ave., will host a reception for a new exhibition by Wood River Valley artist Abby Grosvenor. Grosvenor achieved commercial success painting landscapes and was formally trained in figurative painting but has always returned to abstract work. She has had numerous exhibitions in several galleries.

Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 5th and Washington Street, is displaying its “Night Watch exhibition inspired by the solar eclipse and the valley’s intent for establishing a dark sky reserve. Among the works: Anna Fidler’s “Vampires and Wolf Men” which explores the transformation of night.

Broschofsky Galleries, 360 East Avenue, is featuring new fanciful works by Jill McVarish with such imaginative names as “Sacagawea Poses for her Portrait for the Dollar.”

Boloix Fine Arts in the Galleria Building on 4th Street, will feature modernist works by Hungarian artist Emile Lahner.

Wood River Fine Arts, 360 East Avenue, will feature new works by landscape artist G. Russell Case, who was inspired by early California impressionists like Maynard Dixon.

Harvey Art Projets, on Walnut Avenue between Sun Valley Road and Fourth Street, is presenting works by Australian aboriginal artists.

MESH Gallery in what used to be Paul Kenny’s ski shop at 420 Fourth St., will offer new landscape photographs by Jeffrey Lubeck, Tessa Sheehan, Tory Taglio and Ed Cannady.

Mountain Images Gallery, 360 East Avenue, displays the beautiful landscape photographs of James Bourret and photography by Jerry Hadam and Diana Citret.

Stone Art Gallery in the Walnut Avenue Mall on Sun Valley Road features Jeff Holmchick’s stone tables, wall art and sculptures inspired by the Old World.

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