Press Release | May 30, 2019

Tailored to the Art Tastes & Design Sensibility of Jackson Hole Residents

Join Our Roster of High Caliber Galleries

Boutique and elegant, limited to 40 spots. The fair is nearly filled. There’s still time to join our lineup of prestigious dealers from around the Nation and Europe. See partial list:

Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum)
Imago Galleries (Palm Desert)
Melissa Morgan Fine Art (Palm Desert)
Bill Hester Gallery (Santa Fe)
K Contemporary (Denver)

Rehs Gallery (NYC)
Medicine Man Gallery (Tucson)
Tim Yarger Gallery (Beverly Hills)
Gary Snyder Fine Art (Montana)
Childs Gallery (Boston)
Henry Boxer Gallery (London)

Be Part of the Art Buzz

JHFAF is running concurrently with the popular Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. Each year 20,000 art enthusiasts, collectors and patrons flock to Jackson Hole in search of treasures to add to their walls. Additionally, the fair is promoting this week’s art extravaganza for the first time to the contemporary art community. Teaming up with artnet, and popular publications, and digital marketing. We expect a record breaking attendance in Jackson Hole this year.

Special Awardees Include:

Lifetime Achievement Award: the late John Nieto
Photographer of the Year: Jeremy Kidd
Sculptor of the Year: Bart Walter
Featured Artists: Larry Pernie, Donald Martiny
Plus more

Teaming Up with Esteemed National Museum of Wildlife Art

The museum is our fair’s beneficiary and Institutional Partner. Our Sept 14, Harvest Moon Art Benefit is dedicated to the NMWA. They are inviting their 9,000 members to the art fair.

2019 Photographer of the Year- Jeremy Kidd

Photographer Jeremy Kidd’s explosive and startling lobby exhibit is a dazzling and blowing selection of dramatically large photographs of the Teton Mountains shot March 2019 during the full moon.

According to Kidd, it seems unrealistic to expect a single photographic shot, a single moment in time, to convey the human experience of seeing. He believes we visually explore our environment in the third and fourth dimensions as we build our personal visual journey.

According to Kidd, it seems unrealistic to expect a single photographic shot, a single moment in time, to convey the human experience of seeing. He believes we visually explore our environment in the third and fourth dimensions as we build our personal visual journey.

His unique photographic technique is accomplished by compositing up to 100 long exposures into a single piece which is a more cohesive way of expressing the filmic. It allows Kidd to explore movement and condensed time.

Kidd presents a condensed vision of multiple photographs as a metaphor for repeated perceptual glances. Here, he engages and shocks JHFAF fairgoers by conveying an animated experience of the dynamic Teton Mountains.

Jeremy Kidd is represented by Imago Galleries, Palm Desert.

Press Release | Feb 15, 2019

Held Concurrently with the 35th Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival

Exhibit in Jackson Hole During Height of Art-Buying Season

It’s Where “Aspen Meets Palm Springs”

Aspen, Palm Springs and Jackson Hole are similar art hubs. Cultured, well-moneyed, art savvy, and socially sophisticated, these towns each have similar demographic populations of around 10,000 residents.

Meet the Buyers You Would Not Meet Elsewhere

The inaugural Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair (JHFAF) provides dealers rare access to this elite, and hard-to-reach community of affluent and avid collectors. Exhibiting at the fair is like having your own “pop-up gallery” during the Fall Arts Festival, when all the big art buyers are in town, seeking acquisitions. Chances are, you won’t meet them anywhere else.

Unlike Any Other Fair in the Nation

JHFAF is uniquely different from all other art fairs as it serves the expansive buying tastes of its local community culture. This is the only art fair in the nation where Western, Wildlife and the New West, meets Modern and Contemporary art genres of the 20th and 21st century. This dynamic “conservation” of art genres truly represents the current spectrum of art collecting in America today. As such, many art experts consider JHFAF to be the most innovative new fair in 2019.

Teaming Up with the Venerable National Museum of Wildlife Art as Sponsor to Promote the Fair

JHFAF will be cross-promoting with the museum’s Western Visions charity event, which runs the evenings of Thursday and Friday, after show hours. In addition to the fair’s regular show hours, JHFAF takes “center stage” in the town’s action-packed Fall Arts Festival’s schedule on Saturday, Sept. 14, 6-8pm, with its Harvest Moon ArtFest, which benefits the museum. This innovative art extravaganza is expected to draw a capacity attendance of arts patrons, philanthropists, and general art lovers.

Press Release | Jan 30, 2019

JHFAF Saturday Night Fundraiser to Benefit the Local Museum & its Charity, Western Visions!

Introducing JHFAF’s The Harvest Moon ArtFest Benefiting the National Museum of Wildlife Art

This major event held at the art fair is scheduled for Saturday night, September 14, from 6-8pm amid the widely popular Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. A sizable turnout of art collectors and patrons are expected to meander through the fair’s aisles, in search of newfound treasures.

The esteemed museum will be promoting the fair to its thousands of members. Additionally, the fair’s September 12, afternoon Opening Sneak “Peak” VIP Pass will be packaged in with a discount to attend the Western Visions evening event at the museum. This provides attendees an action-packed day of art viewing and acquisition for a true “Jacksonite” cultural experience.

Jackson Hole Ranked in the Top 5 Art Markets in the Nation

As a longtime art-buying haven for all genres of art, there are a startling 30 commercial art galleries in Jackson Hole (virtually as many art galleries as restaurants). Exhibiting at JHFAF is a rare opportunity to showcase your inventory, face-to-face, with many of the leading art collectors in the Rocky Mountain region.

Serving Fairgoer’s Buying Tastes

In serving the buying needs of our attendees, the fair will present art galleries featuring a wide range of art genres from Western, Wildlife, the (New West) to Southwest, Post-War, Traditional American and Contemporary. Endemic of Jackson Hole, where the western frontier meets slick contemporary styling, this will be the first fair in the nation to truly present a cross section of 20th and 21st century American art genres.

An archway made of elk antlers at the entrance to Jackson’s town square. Courtesy of ShowHamptons.

Source: Jackson Hole News & Guide | December 27, 2018

Show Hamptons wants to put an international spotlight on the art scene in Jackson Hole.

A new fair is joining the lineup this year at the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

Show Hamptons, an event production company that puts on regional art fairs around the country, is launching the Jackson Hole Fine Arts Fair on Sept. 12 through 15.

The new event, which promises to gather 55 of the country and world’s best galleries into the Snow King Sports and Events Center, is set for the second weekend of the 35th annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. Historically, the Fall Arts Festival has spanned 10 days, and includes many gallery walks and artist receptions, auctions and shows. The festival, spearheaded by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, fills downtown hotels during a time of year when summer tourism traditionally starts to wane.

Though a separate entity from the festival, Show Hampton’s founder Rick Friedman said he hopes the addition of the fair to the busy arts calendar will be a “win-win for everybody.”

Friedman has created regional art fairs from the Hamptons to Palm Springs, and has attended the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival several times.

“It’s a great event,” he said, but “it hit me that it’s not being told on a national or international level.”

By bringing his fair to the festival, Friedman hopes to put an international spotlight on Jackson’s art market. From his past endeavors, he said, Show Hampton has 100,000 contacts to invite to our small mountain town.

“A certain number of people will come, and I think breathe fresh blood and life into the scene,” he said. “We’re getting calls from Europe.”

Friedman believes Jackson is in a unique position to start conversations that have never been had before.

“What’s missing is a national fine arts fair that can create a dynamic conversation between Western, wildlife and contemporary,” he said.

And not just contemporary as in “New West,” but also East Coast contemporary and post-war art.

“There’s a lot of fairs going on all over the place, but really there’s nothing that has a dynamic conversation, an integration between, what I call the complete art history culture of the United States,” Friedman said.

According to Friedman, Jackson’s wealth of “elite collectors” and that it is well known on an international stage makes the new fair possible.

“The perception of Jackson Hole is a magical kingdom of rich cowboys and everyone thinks they’re going to come in and be John Wayne,” Friedman said of New York’s — and the world’s — perception of Jackson.

The fair’s website — JacksonHoleArtFair.com — touts Jackson as a “luxurious resort community … where ‘the Old West meets fashionable contemporary style.’ Where frontier meets cosmopolitan. Where the average home property value is a staggering $2.5 million.”

The excitement surrounding the new fair has caught the attention of ArtNet.com, a worldwide market website devoted to the arts. The website is partnering with Show Hamptons to put on the fair, providing another way to market Jackson on an international level.

Bringing in 55 pop-up galleries to Jackson during the Fall Arts Festival is sure to affect the town’s 30-plus existing galleries. But Friedman said, “We think if the tide comes in, all the boats will rise.

“They aren’t going to be in my show for more than two or three hours,” he said. “So what are they going to do the rest of the time? They’re going to stay in a hotel, walk around, buy things, go to art galleries.

“We want to see everybody do well here.”

Show Hamptons has been in touch with a few galleries in town, including Altamira Fine Art, Diehl Gallery, Tayloe Piggott Gallery and Heather James Fine Art. With the fair’s announcement just last week, no galleries, or the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, were available or willing to comment specifically on the new fair just yet.

“We think that what our role is here is to enhance and augment what’s already happening there,” Friedman said, “and make it a little bigger, a little richer, and more fun, and bring this national, international flavor into it. I think that’s a win-win for everybody.”