The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery

Join us Thursday, July 5th, 6-9pm for our next Whitefish Gallery Nights event featuring Animal Instincts.  Bellingham, WA artists, Deb McCunn & Deb Stern, along with Montana artists, Trudy Skari, Susan Mattson & Betsey Hurd will be gracing us with a ceramic feast of rabbits, goats & birds, but mostly rabbits!!  Fine art, refreshments & live music!  For more information call 406-863-ARTS and for more about Whitefish Gallery Nights, go to http://www.whitefishgallerynights.org!!  Cheers!                                                            “Curiosity gives us vitality, allowing us to stretch and grow. Sculpting in clay is my vehicle for challenging assumptions. The richness and versatility of the medium allow me to carve subtle details throughout my work, layering meaning, stories and thought provoking questions.”  Deb McCunn                             

Join us Thursday, June 7th, 6-9PM for our next Whitefish Gallery Nights event featuring post-hillbilly artist, Fred Warf, local outsider artist, Caleb Stolte and local assemblage artist, ME.  Art From The Way Outside is a mixture of work that’s recycled & raw, re-purposed & painted, collected & assembled by some locals that believe there’s much more to art than being “pretty”!!   Refreshments, music & some far-out art!!  For more information call 406-863-ARTS or log onto http://www.whitefishgallerynights.org.  Cheers & Happy Summer!!!

“Art can be:
Everywhere, a challenge, inspiring, mysterious, simple, square, hip, futuristic, passé, unnecessary, requisite, variable, steady, natural, alien, waste of time, inescapable, competitive, collaborative, joy, sadness, out of touch, out of reach, outside, inside, expressed, expressive, laughable, created, found, godly, devilish, purchased, stolen, destroyed, created, worldly, otherworldly, despair, joy, sadness, complicated, sport, hobby, vocation, avocation, human, humane, machine, inspired, inspiring, secret, shared, disappointing, immediate, upsetting, political, controversial, numerical, landscape, portrait, abstract, realistic, hot, cold, love, hate, indifference, edible, trash-able, official, wordy, geometric, bookish, taught, ignored, adulated, erudite, complicated, misunderstood, groped, grokked, disappointing, manhandled, woman inspired, natural, childish, elderly, small, large, grand, mundane, everywhere, dance-able, spoken, story, song, beauty, god, child, given, taken, free, costly, real, surreal, hyper-real, more real than reality, whatever you want it, personal, public, sexual, asexual, outrageous, color, form, absence, presence, light, dark, morning, noon, night, nighty, night, rain, rainbow, sun, shadow, breathe, undefinable…… FUN!  And more than this!”  Fred Warf

“I’m an earthbound misfit…I collect and I assemble…grounded by rocks & rust, shells & flotsam, wood & clay.  What does it all mean?  Who’s to say……..”  ME

It’s finally spring in Whitefish & we will be celebrating with a colorful exhibit of collage work by two lovely Montana artists!!  Spring Collage will feature mixed media works by Helena artist and weaver, Mary Jean Martin and Whitefish abstract artist, Olivia Stark.  Join us Thursday, May 3rd, 6-9PM for our first Whitefish Gallery Nights event of the season!!  Fine art, refreshments & live music by local cellist, Lee Zimmerman!  For more information, call 406-863-ARTS or log onto http://www.whitefishgallerynights.org!  We are looking forward to another great season!!

                         Lee Zimmerman

Mary Jean Martin – “Color is my poetry, combined into handwoven fabric and mixed media collage.  Ancient weavers and ten thousand years of evolving culture sit with me as I weave.  I feel connected to these people and wonder what they thought about as they worked at the loom.  Probably color!”  http://www.maryjeanmartin.com

Olivia Stark – “I paint what I need to see and so I go looking. I find my best work is through improvisation.  A resourcefulness that limits overthinking.  My studio is quite small which keeps me focused on the immediate.  I enjoy the elements of structure and chaos and find the need to fluctuate between the two in making art. The dynamics involved are a satisfying part of my process.  My art is about movement.  Moving energy that is internalized.  Creating space for effort and problem solving.  A kind of primary for the development of confidence and an activation of personal assertions.  My goal is to reveal the essence of the painting, subject the viewer to those assertions and offer new possibilities.”  http://www.oliviastarkart.com

Please also join us for a Spring Clearance Sale on Friday & Saturday, May 4th & 5th, 10-5PM.  Find all those prints that you’ve been collecting (we know you have a pile of them!!) and bring them in for same day framing!!  We have a selection of in-house made readymade frames, in-stock moulding for custom framing & other select framed prints available at discounted prices.  We have a plethora of 4×6, 5×7 & 8×10 frames ready to be filled with your images!!  For more information, give us a call at 406-863-2787!!  Cheers & Happy Spring!!

Olivia Stark will be showing a series of new work during the final Whitefish Gallery Nights of the season at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery. “First It’s Mine, Then It’s Yours” reminds the viewer that art is subjective and invites transformation of thought and fixed ideas. Linger long enough to experience the unique language that each piece offers.  Colorful, abstract expressionist collage & acrylics ready for open interpretation by both the artist & the viewer! Please join Olivia as she shares some of her favorite work!  Light refreshments & spinning jazz on the turntable!!  Thursday, October 5th, 6-9PM.  For more information go to http://www.whitefishgallerynights.org or call 406-863-ARTS!

Join us on Thursday, September 7th, 6-9PM for our next Whitefish Gallery Nights event featuring Judy Cockrell’s colorful & eclectic artwork depicting Mostly Fish!!  Fine art, refreshments & live music provided by Lee Zimmerman!  For more informaiton call 406-863-ARTS or log onto http://www.whitefishgallerynights.org.  Cheers!

Join us for our next Whitefish Gallery Nights event, Thursday, August 3rd, 6-9PM featuring the colorful mixed media work of Linda Hendrickson. “Trail Treasures” will feature a variety of regional flora & fauna expressed with vivid palette & collage. Live music provided by William Ingrid.

Please join us Thursday, July 6th, 6-9PM for our next Whitefish Gallery Nights event.  We will be featuring Kalispell ceramic/mixed media artist, Charity Flowers.  A mix of sculpture & photography will be displayed exploring the development of the artist & reflections of her place in the world in an exhibit titled “Origin of Self”.  Fine art & refreshments served.  For more information please call, 406-863-ARTS or log onto http://www.whitefishgallerynights.org.  Cheers and Happy Independence Day!!!