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Mayme Kratz
The Length of Daylight 8 December 2025 - 21 January 2026 In The Length of Daylight, Arizona-based artist Mayme Kratz explores the beauty of organic materials found underfoot during long walks in the desert. From these fragile natural remnants, Kratz draws both inspiration and medium. Within layers of sanded resin, seed pods, sun-washed bones, wisps of grass, and other overlooked debris become illuminated in suspended patterns. By encasing these delicate and ethereal forms in colored resin, Kratz reflects on the cycles of life, memory, and change. Read more -
Alia Ali
Introducing Alia Ali 8 December 2025 - 21 January 2026 Gilman Contemporary introduces the work of Alia Ali, an artist with roots in Yemen, Bosnia, and the United States. Ali explores themes of identity, displacement, transnationalism and migration through photographs that blur the line between portraiture and abstraction. Figures are enveloped in vibrantly patterned cloths that obscure identifying characteristics. Every portrait is presented in a hand-upholstered frame, crafted from the same fabric depicted in the photograph, extending the work beyond its visual borders.
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Dana Piazza
Introducing Dana Piazza 26 December 2025 - 28 January 2026 Gilman Contemporary will exhibit the work of Dana Piazza, a Massachusetts-based artist whose practice explores the dynamic tension between order and unpredictability. Piazza's abstract drawings and paintings created on paper, panel, and canvas, begin from a single origin mark and evolve through a meticulous process of repetition and variation. Guided by self-devised algorithms, he allows for subtle, unintentional deviations that inform the next mark. Read more
Upcoming
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Dora Somosi
Alchemy of Memory 28 January - 25 February 2026 Photographer Dora Somosi explores the interplay of nature, memory, and artistic process through her hand-printed cyanotypes. Alchemy of Memory features two ongoing series, By Her Side and Mending, that together reflect on transformation, resilience, personal history, and the art of repair. Read more -
Bastiaan Woudt
Introducing Bastiaan Woudt 29 January - 25 February 2026 Gilman Contemporary is pleased to introduce the work of Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt to the Wood River Valley. Born in the Netherlands in 1987, Bastiaan Woudt has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary photography. Read more -
Felipe Jácome
The Unbroken Project 26 February - 26 March 2026 Felipe Jácome is an Ecuadorian photographer whose work explores the materiality of storytelling. The Unbroken Project, created in collaboration with Ukrainian photographer and dancer Svitlana Onipko, is a moving meditation on resilience, creativity, and the human spirit in times of war. The series captures members of the Ukrainian National Ballet mid-dance. Jácome and Onipko translate the language of dance into a visual expression of endurance, where movement becomes both defiance and survival. Each photograph is printed directly onto bullet casings, a choice that transforms the material remnants of violence into objects of beauty and remembrance. Read more
Past
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Echoes of Time
A selection of Photographs 25 September - 27 October 2025 This fall, Gilman Contemporary presents Echoes of Time, a group exhibition featuring photographs by Stephen Wilkes, Ellie Davies, Nick Brandt, Maggie Taylor, Michael Massaia, and Jim Westphalen. Each artist captures the passage of time in a distinct and powerful way, offering viewers a meditation on memory, transformation, and impermanence. Read more -
Thai Mainhard
Paradise 23 August - 26 September 2025 Thai Mainhard is an abstract painter based in Los Angeles, California. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her work is deeply rooted in human experiences, emotional tension, and personal memory. Through dense color palettes and loose, expressive mark making, Mainhard explores the interplay between the tangible and the intangible, the spiritual and the material. Read more -
Dana Hart-Stone
Americana 24 July - 20 August 2025 Dana Hart-Stone’s digital paintings are rooted in a deep engagement with the historical and cultural fabric of the American West. His early experiences exploring abandoned homesteads in Eastern Montana fostered a fascination with the fragmented narratives of often obscured, histories of the American frontier. These formative encounters continue to inform his work, now expressed through meticulously composed digital paintings constructed from vintage photographs.
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Steve Wrubel
Rodeo Revisited 24 July - 20 August 2025 Captivated by the American west, photographer Steve Wrubel has dedicated his lens to the rodeo ring since 2019. These images capture split second between rider and animal, showing the power and stamina of both athletes. The rodeo is a way of life largely untouched by modernity. Like the cowboys he... Read more
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Jason Wheatley
Illuminated Silence: A Still Life in Motion 18 June - 23 July 2025 Jason Wheatley is drawn to the idea that still life is anything but still. In his paintings, wildlife is captured within the confines of still life, where birds pause in contemplation, animals are caught in moments of curiosity or mischief, and objects are arranged with a purposeful intention that suggests something has just happened or is about to unfold. Read more -
Frances McCormack
Collage 18 June - 23 July 2025 Frances McCormack’s lush botanical abstractions reflect a freedom of expression honed through years of artistic practice. In 2019, she turned to collage, a medium that allowed her to work on a smaller scale. This shift required a change in approach, as collage demands patience—a quality McCormack muses she wishes she had learned earlier. Read more -
Distinct Visions
Icons and Innovators in Photography 8 May - 17 June 2025 This exhibition presents a curated selection of photographic works by contemporary artists who have significantly influenced the visual language of photography. Read more -
NIck Brandt at The Photography Show, Booth A10, Park Avenue Armory, NYC
Nick Brandt -THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES 23 - 27 April 2025 Gilman Contemporary is thrilled to announce its participation in the AIPAD Photography Show in New York City. The fair will take place at the Park Avenue Armory from April 23 to April 27, 2025. We will be presenting a curated selection of acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt’s latest body of work, THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES: The Day May Break, Chapter Four. Read more
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Ben Steele
A Day in the Sun 27 February - 23 April 2025 This exhibition presents new works by Ben Steele, a Utah-based artist whose oil paintings seamlessly blend nostalgia with sharp wit. Combining classical technique with contemporary commentary, Steele transforms iconic imagery—vintage toys, pop culture, and art history—into playful yet provocative critiques on current culture and artistic tradition. Read more -
Come Together
Dana Hart-Stone, Ellie Davies, Jim Westphalen, and Paulette Tavormina 24 January - 24 February 2025 Contemporary art is constantly evolving, shaped by technology, social change, and personal creativity. Blending traditional techniques with digital innovations, this exhibition features artists who use photography to explore diverse themes. The exhibition challenges the viewer to step beyond their familiar ways of seeing and view the world through a different... Read more -
Nick Brandt
THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES 21 December 2024 - 23 January 2025 The Echo of Our Voices is the fourth chapter of Nick Brandt's ongoing climate-conscious photographic series, The Day May Break . This new chapter presents a poignant visual narrative showing the impact of water scarcity on a group of Syrian refugees in southern Jordan who are forced to relocate multiple... Read more -
María Ossandón Recart
Reconstruction series 21 December 2024 - 23 January 2025 Chilean based artist María Ossandón Recart uses ink drawing and broken ceramic pieces to rework the miniature scenes or landscapes found on the ceramic fragment, linking universal memories together with personal experiences. Read more
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Kelly Ording
SUNGAZING 20 December 2024 - 23 January 2025 The paintings in this exhibition are inspired by Kelly Ording's practice of sungazing, a meditative ritual where one gazes toward the sun to absorb its radiant energy. For Ording, the slow and methodical process of painting becomes an extension of this meditative ritual. Serving as a visual language, Ording's saturated... Read more -
Flávia Junqueira
The Absurd and the Grace 22 August - 27 September 2024 Brazilian artist Flávia Junquiera’s poetic photographs are carefully staged and produced odes to monumental architecture and the ephermeral essence of childhood. Junquiera creates site specific installations that are dreamlike, and playful; Grand theaters are filled with balloons, a lone carousel horse sans rider intrudes upon an ornate library, balloons and bubbles litter and float above the Parque Lage in Rio de Janerio. Read more -
James Austin Murray
On the Return 1 - 21 August 2024 On the Return features new work from painter James Austin Murray who continues to demand that we put aside preconceived perceptions of light and dark. Murray rakes, scrapes, and physically moves his thickly applied black paint making the flat surface expand and contract, ripple, and pulse. Each painting is informed... Read more -
Jason Wheatley
Language of the Birds 29 July - 21 August 2024 Jason Wheatley’s exhibition, Language of the Birds, features dreamlike still life paintings that explore the relationship between fantastical ideas and recognizable imagery. Embracing the illustrative style of John James Audubon’s famed “Birds of America” series, Wheatley deploys realist and absurdist sensibilities in each still life. Filled with metaphor and riddles,... Read more
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Nick Brandt
SINK / RISE 14 June - 27 July 2024 SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Everyone and everything was shot in-camera underwater. This chapter turns its lens on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The... Read more -
Seonna Hong
Freytag's Pyramid 14 June - 25 July 2024 In the exhibition Freytag’s Pyramid artist Seonna Hong uses the framework of novelist Gustav Freytag’s dramatic structure to visually chronicle the ebb and flow of life, memory, and human experience. The structural elements of storytelling as laid out by Freytag are broken up into a five-part pyramid: Exposition, Rising Action,... Read more -
Thai Mainhard
Off the Ground 1 May - 14 June 2024 In Thai Mainhard’s exhibition Off the Ground vibrant, frenetic colors are collaged, painted, and drawn onto canvases that show a sense of composition and experience. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and based in Los Angeles, California, Mainhard’s personal exploration of place seeps into each of her paintings.... Read more -
Matt Duffin
On the Move 1 March - 15 April 2024 Matt Duffin's encaustic paintings use primarily black and white tones with selected pops of color to bring attention to his irreverent subjects. Employing simplicity within the imagery allows the painstaking qualities of his methodology to shine. Encaustic works are made using wax to which pigment has been added. The wax... Read more
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Paul Béliveau
Morandi 1 - 25 March 2024 Paul Béliveau’s Morandi is inspired by the often pastel-toned works of Italian painter Giorgio Morandi. While Béliveau has treated book spines as subject matter before, in the Morandi series the books themselves, rather than the text that decorates their covers, are treated as the aesthetic quality. Outside reference to author,... Read more -
Joanne Freeman
These Days 25 January - 29 February 2024 Abstract painter Joanne Freeman does not rely on direct observation but rather process and precedence. The title These Days , borrowed from the song written by Jackson Browne in the late 1960’s, conjured up comparisons to her own state of mind during her daily studio practice where the realities and... Read more -
John Westmark
On the Fold 25 January - 29 February 2024 Using delicate paper sewing patterns applied directly to canvas Westmark creates strong female protagonists, often stoic martyrs, fantastical beings or the hapless everywoman . Westmark embellishes the garment patterns with custom text inspired by feminist writing, creating a conceptual narrative alongside the existing assembly instructions to complete the familiar dialogue... Read more -
Deck the Walls
Group Exhibition 11 December 2023 - 24 January 2024 Each December/January Gilman Contemporary celebrates the diversity of the artists they bring to Sun Valley with their group exhibition, Deck the Walls . This dynamic group show teases upcoming feature exhibitions with works by Joanne Freeman, John Westmark, Matt Duffin and Paul Béliveau, as well as introducing new artists to... Read more
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Frances McCormack
Above and Below 24 August - 30 September 2023 Our term Paradise is derived from the old Persian word pairidaeza meaning, walled garden . My paintings are invented spaces or interior theaters that are essentially images of the process of growth or transformation within a contained space. I have sought out these spaces or walled gardens in Rome at... Read more -
Hall Spassov
Family 15 August - 26 September 2023 Husband and wife artists, Erik Hall and Amy Spassov, combine their individual practices to create a whole new world steeped in careful details. Their two styles, while being quite disparate on first look, meet in the middle with comprehensive and painstakingly thorough brush strokes. The work starts with the wild... Read more -
Carmen McNall
Pathways of Time 27 July - 23 August 2023 California based artist Carmen McNall's paintings are punctuated by deep woodcuts creating a balance between textured patterns and stretches of pure pigment. By combining painting with added wood carving techniques, the paintings are not just rich in color, but embody the idea of 'handcrafted, ' a theme that is central... Read more -
Kelly Ording
Pathways of Time 26 July - 23 August 2023 Kelly Ording's works explore the fine line between minimalism and representation. Interested in the tonal and textural possibilities of a surface, Ording often begins her compositions by hand dyeing paper or canvas, creating an element of surprise and playfulness that offsets the mathematical rigor and precision of her use of... Read more
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Mayme Kratz
Shadow & Substance 29 June - 25 July 2023 We are pleased to present Arizona artist Mayme Kratz's mixed-media exhibition, Shadow and Substance , which will run June 29 - July 25. Kratz finds inspiration in Arizona's harsh desert climate, collecting found organic materials such as bone fragments, poppy pods, grasses, and flowers which she collects on long hikes... Read more -
Rodney Smith Retrospective: Leap of Faith
In conjunction with the release of Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith published by Getty Publications 13 June - 25 July 2023 Join us on Friday, July 7th for gallery walk with a book signing by Paul Martineau, Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Leslie Smolan, Executive Director of the Rodney Smith Estate, in celebrating the release of Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith published by Getty Publications. Read more -
Paulette Tavormina
Fiore del Giardino 25 May - 28 June 2023 Replete with flowers from her own garden, Tavormina's enchanting photographs include surprise elements and hidden symbolism inspired by her admiration of the Dutch still-life painters of the 17 th century. Read more -
Pulp Reality
Exploring Paper as a Medium 28 February - 11 April 2023 A group show with works by Jill Lear, Peter Clark, Jeri Eisenberg, and Joanne Freeman. Paper is a distinctive medium in these artist's practice, from collage to encaustic coated photographs printed on Japanese Kozo paper. Read more
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Tuck Fauntleroy
Burn 20 January - 8 March 2023 Fauntleroy’s focus for his Burn series are wildfire affected regions in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. They represent a mixed perspective with some images shot aerially and others shot from the ground. Like much if his other work, the aerial images were captured flying over the territory... Read more -
Thai Mainhard
Harmonic Tension 20 January - 21 February 2023 Brazilian born painter Thai Mainhard's practice harnesses her own raw and immediate need to create. Each abstract painting combines expressive mark making with dense blocks of color exploring the opposing forces that make up our lives. Mainhard encounters human nature, exploring happiness, frustration, surprise, connection, spirituality, and overall thinking processing.... Read more -
Deck The Walls
Exhibiting a diverse selection of new works from gallery artists 1 December 2022 - 17 January 2023 Each December Gilman Contemporary celebrates the diversity of the artists they bring to Sun Valley with a dynamic group exhibition. This year the gallery teases future summer exhibitions including Carmen McNall and Mayme Kratz, who will have solo exhibitions in 2023. Also featured in December's group exhibit are gallery newcomers... Read more -
Marco Casentini
As in a Heartbeat 27 October - 25 November 2022 Casentini is inspired by his surroundings and translates them to the canvas. Colors, lines, and shapes vibrate with memories of place whether that be from his origination in La Spezia or the bold warmth of California where he spends part of each year. Read more
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Greg Miller
Bubble Up 1 September - 21 October 2022 Growing up in California during the 50’s and 60’s Greg Miller was steeped in the pop culture of mid-century Americana. Miller draws from a time when advertising and text became encrypted into our experience of everyday life, when life as “advertised” and life as “lived” became intertwined for rural and... Read more -
Wendel Wirth
Grüv 25 July - 24 August 2022 Grüv is a photographic study of sound vibrations, recorded by some of our world’s greatest musicians, as etched in vinyl. Read more -
New Voices
Thai Mainhard, Carmen Mcnall, Hannah Parret, Brianna Gluszak, Kelly Ording, Joanne Freeman 24 June - 25 July 2022 Come celebrate 15 years with Gilman Contemporary as we highlight emerging and mid-career female artists! Read more -
Laurie Victor Kay
Compositions 1 March - 2 April 2022 Photographer Laurie Victor Kay is best known for focusing her lens on public places and the people who inhabit them. Employing painterly techniques through digital manipulation, Kay reimagines these spaces, adjusting the images to reflect her ideal. The results are vibrant, dreamlike images that are balanced in symmetrical form. In... Read more
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Michael Massaia
Try and Remember 27 January - 1 March 2022 With luminous lighting, and rich deep blacks Michael Massaia's photograph draw us into an intimate encounter between Massaia and his subject. These encounters are fleeting and offer a sense of trying to remember the past. Read more -
Paulette Tavormina
Seizing Beauty 15 December 2021 - 21 January 2022 Photographer Paulette Tavormina builds upon the tradition of still-life while exploring nature and time in each of her carefully created and captured images. Read more -
It Was All a Dream
Rodney Smith, Jason Langer 18 August - 1 November 2021 From the whimsical photography of Rodney Smith to the neo-noir of Jason Langer, Gilman Contemporary is ending the summer on a romantic note. Featuring photographers whose vision elicits a sense of mystery and charm. Read more -
Alex Couwenberg
New Paintings 17 July - 18 August 2021 Alex Couwenberg’s abstract paintings teeter between hard edges and gestural, textural brushwork. Couwenberg’s paintings are reflective of both environmental and social influences. Read more
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Kelly Ording
A Bright Side 9 June - 16 July 2021 From muted tones to vibrant colors, pen and ink drawings to paintings, Kelly Ording intentionally pushes the limits of minimalism and representation. She separates her paintings between abstracted landscapes and geometric abstractions, the former being intuitive and the latter being more intentional. The landscapes pull their palettes from the natural... Read more -
Steve Wrubel
Rodeo 9 June - 15 July 2021 In his Rodeo series, photographer Steve Wrubel captures bronc and bull riders mid-movement. These graphic, intimate, and gritty images expand on the canon of the American West. Read more -
Joanne Freeman
Color as Form 1 February - 17 March 2021 New York based painter Joanne Freeman’s works on paper and oil paintings are vibrant and filled with an innate sense of space and form. Freeman's abstractions are reductive and recall mid-century media. Read more -
Tuck Fauntleroy
Elements 3 August - 14 September 2020 Photographer Tuck Fauntleroy's newest series 'Elements' explores icy shorelines and rivers. These aerial images draw on geometric shapes and abstraction. Read more
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Mária Švarbová
Yesterday's Future 15 June - 15 July 2020 Renowned for her Swimming Pool series, which launched in 2014 and continued through 2018, Svarbova’s aesthetic has become instantly recognizable. Her style departs from traditional portraiture and focuses on experimentation with space, color, and atmosphere. Taking an interest in Socialist era architecture and public spaces, Maria transforms each scene with... Read more -
Tom Chambers
Magic Realism 1 March - 15 April 2020 Tom Chambers is an award winning photographer known for creating photomontages that move beyond documentation of the present and seek to merge reality and dreams. Read more -
John Westmark
Gender Patterns 31 January - 29 February 2020 John Westmark's abstracted figurative mixed media paintings, that use vintage sewing patterns to create anonymous figures. Westmark explores images of feminine strength while using non-traditional materials. Read more -
Ellie Davies
Stars 28 January - 29 February 2020 British photographer Ellie Davies creates landscapes that reflect humanity in nature. Davies' series 'Stars' is an ethereal look at the dense forests of England with overlays of images of celestial phenomena. Read more
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Alex Timmermans
Storytelling 25 October - 16 December 2019 Alex Timmermans' collodian wet-plate photographs have a vintage aesthetic mixed with a keen sense of humor. Read more -
Tuck Fauntleroy
Waterlines 17 June - 26 July 2019 This July, Gilman Contemporary will exhibit the work of Jackson Hole, Wyoming based photographer Tuck Fauntleroy. His series Waterline is the culmination of ten years of mapping, flying, and exploring the ever-changing paths of isolated rivers throughout the West at the cusp of spring. The deceptively simple black and white... Read more -
Niv Rozenberg
Boswijck/Summit 27 February - 17 April 2019 Gilman Contemporary is thrilled to introduce our clients to the work of Niv Rozenberg, an Israeli born and Brooklyn based photographer. Rozenberg explores the complex nature of urban architecture in his manipulated, and minimalistic photographs. Rozenberg's series Boswijck examines the architecture of Bushwick, Brooklyn. Through the elimination of any identifying... Read more -
Paul Béliveau
Les Autodafés 15 June - 26 July 2018 Read more
