Since opening in 2006, The Center, Hailey has been used as an adjunct exhibition space as well as a place to house visiting artists and hold small discussions or lectures. Exhibitions in Hailey often focus on the work of a single artist whose content is linked to the ideas being explored in concurrent exhibitions in Ketchum. Center curatorial staff is committed to using this space to showcase the work of emerging local and regional artists. In addition to the exhibition space in the Pound/McKercher house, The Center has a dedicated classroom building on the site that was completed in fall 2006 and is in almost constant use for classes for adults, teens and students.
Admission to The Center is always free and open to the public! Hailey Gallery Hours: W–F 2–6pm
Benjamin Love: Shoshone Falls and the Democratic Sublime April 27-July 6
A photographic project by Boise artist Benjamin Love explores the human relationship to nature at Shoshone Falls and the way that relationship has shifted in the last century. Love has created a body of photographs that highlight the manmade structures at the falls and the way they are designed both to enable access and to keep visitors at a distance. Historic photographs of Shoshone Falls from the Idaho State Historical Society hang alongside Love’s work and illustrate the degree to which our experience of nature at the site is now managed and mediated.
Opening Celebration Fri, Apr 27, 6-7:30pm The Center, Hailey
Join us as we celebrate the opening of Benjamin Love: Shoshone Falls and the Democratic Sublime. The artist will speak about his work at 6:30pm.
Astronomical: An Installation by Jennifer Wood The Center, Hailey Nov 19, 2010-Jan 14, 2011 Boise-based artist Jennifer Wood transformed The Center, Hailey through an installation focused on astronomy.
Wide Open Spaces: Panoramic Photographs of Idaho, 1900 - 1940 Feb 24 - Apr 20, 2012
Wide Open Spaces features panoramic photos of early 20th-century Idaho from The College of Idaho’s Robert E. Smylie Archives and the Library of Congress’ American Memory Collection. The photographs in the exhibition were made by The College’s founder Dr. William Judson Boone as well as a number of professional photographers who worked in Idaho during the period. Images of Boise, Nampa, Twin Falls, Hailey and other Idaho cities give viewers a sense of the way they have grown and changed over the last century.
The exhibition was originated by The College of Idaho where it was curated by Catherine Fraser Allen and Jan Boles.
Photograph by Ann Puchner
Due North: Images of Baffin Island and Inuit Art December 16, 2011 - February 10, 2012
An exhibition in Hailey features photographs taken by Wood River Valley resident Ann Puchner while living on Baffin Island from 1960 to 1961. With a crate full of darkroom equipment and a semester of photographic printing classes at Hunter College, Ann Puchner and her small family, including a Siamese cat, left New York City to spend a year with the Inuits at Cape Dorset. Freelancing for the Canadian government, she made photos that recorded daily life 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
The photos were developed in a small closet intended for food storage; an enlarger and photographic supplies were lodged on barrels of dried vegetables, flour, sugar and more. Without running water available, the 60 degree temperature water necessary for the chemicals was obtained by melting from a large ice block stored in the house. Puchner’s photos document the island’s landscapes, people and activities, from dances to seal hunts.
Alongside these images are a number of works from local resident Page Klune’s exceptional collection of sculptures and prints created by Inuit artists. These artworks offer visitors a glimpse into the way Native artists from the Arctic have interpreted the world around them.
Opening Celebration Fri, Dec 16, 5:30–7pm
Join us for the opening of Due North! Ann Puchner will be present to discuss her photographs and Page Klune will speak about her collection.
2011
Awkward Stage Oct 14–Dec 16, 2011 In collaboration with the students of the Sage School
Students at Hailey’s Sage School have worked with Center staff and local photographer Dev Khalsa to curate an exhibition of portraits of themselves and their peers. The exhibition will offer local teens the opportunity to present their ideas about what it means to be an adolescent today and how they perceive themselves. Students have been involved in every step of the curatorial process from creating and choosing the final work to writing wall text and lighting the show.
Geared: An open exhibition June 16 - September 23, 2011 Presented by The Center and the Hailey Arts Commission
Calling local artists! Submit your artwork to The Center’s third annual open exhibition. This summer we’re joining forces with the Hailey Arts Commission to celebrate the bicycle through photos, paintings, prints, drawings, and small sculptures. We’re also showing bike portraits taken at the May 28th opening of Geared in Ketchum. Have your photo taken with your favorite bike and we’ll display it at The Center in Hailey!
Social Structures: Amy Jo Popa and Bob Dix April 1 - June 3, 2011
An exhibition at The Center, Hailey, explores the idea of taking old materials and making something new out of them through sculptures by Pocatello-based artist Amy Jo Popa and cardboard box furniture by Bob Dix. Popa works with found materials- paper, wood, tissue- to make delicate abstract structures with organic forms. Dix is recycling used cardboard boxes and turning them into functional furniture. The exhibition will also feature work made by participants in Dix's Bos Furniture class.
Richard A. Young: The Godzilla Series Jan 21, 2011-Mar 25, 2011
Boise-based Richard A. Young has created an entire body of work devoted to Godzilla. Made with a dry sense of humor, these paintings pair classic interpretations of the American landscape with a creature created by the Japanese and quickly adopted into American popular culture.
2010
Source/Resource: Ranching and Water in the West September 17 – November 12
Source/Resource pairs Ben Ditto’s photographs of water usage on 21st-century ranches in Utah and Nevada with photos drawn from the archives of the Idaho State Historical Society of 20th-century ranching and irrigation in Idaho. The exhibition explores the vital role water plays in sustaining ranching in the West and the way water has been managed as a resource over the last century.
Nickolus Meisel, Pound Wish Prescription, 2010
Jill Fitterer, The Dream Tree, 2010
Timber!- an open exhibition July 1 – September 10, 2010
Idaho photographers, illustrators, painters and printmakers are invited to present their interpretations of the trees that inhabit our landscape, our community and our neighborhoods. Submissions must be received by 5pm, Thursday, June 24 and must be accompanied by the submission form and follow the guidelines provided.
Timber! is presented by the Hailey Arts Commission and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts
An Outdoor Installation for Timber! at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Hailey As part of a larger exhibition focused on the artistic interpretation of trees in contemporary art, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts invited proposals from local and regional artists for a temporary installation project involving the trees on The Center’s property in Hailey.
Jill Fitterer: The Dream Tree Nickolus Meisel: Pound Wish Prescription Outdoor Installations at The Center, Hailey Jul 1-Sep 10
As part of The Center’s exploration of trees, Boise artist Jill Fitterer and Nickolus Meisel, who is based in Pullman, Washington, have each created installations in the trees on The Center’s property in Hailey. Both artists were inspired by the history of The Center as the birthplace of Ezra Pound and have designed projects that incorporate writing.
Fitterer’s installation, The Dream Tree, consists of 10 hand-made books, one for each week of the exhibition, that hang from the large conifer at the southwest corner of the property. Each week, the public is invited to record their dreams in one of the twelve books. Fitterer’s etchings and screenprints are interleafed with blank pages in the books.
Meisel has created a set of small, abstract steel forms that encircle the apple tree at the front of the house. Ezra Pound’s poem “A Girl” is written in chalk on the forms. The public is invited to make wishes and to tie white strings representing those wishes to red ropes that hang from the branches of the tree.
Nate Galpin, Tulip, 2009
Nate Galpin and Jen Galpin-Mikesh: Works on Paper Apr 30–Jun 25, 2010
Jen Galpin-Mikesh and Nate Galpin have been making art in the Wood River Valley for almost 10 years. Jen Galpin-Mikesh is a master printer who works with artists to make etchings, woodcuts and monotypes in her Hailey studio. She is also an accomplished artist in her own right for whom drawing is an essential part of her artistic practice. Whether prints or drawings, her works on paper often feature imagery inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Conceptual artist Nate Galpin creates 2- and 3-dimensional art works in a variety of media ranging from photography to metal. Drawing, however, is an integral part of his artistic process. This exhibition features a series of drawings that combine ink and paper with gravity and centrifugal force to create lyrical abstract images.
Opening Celebration Fri, Apr 30, 5:30–7pm The Center, Hailey • Free Join us for drinks and appetizers as we celebrate the opening of Nate Galpin and Jen Galpin-Mikesh: Works on Paper. The artists will speak about their work at 6pm.
Gay Bawa Odmark: Reinventing Indian Traditions December 4, 2009 through April 2, 2010
Longtime Wood River Valley resident Gay Bawa Odmark was born in Lahore and spent part of her childhood in Calcutta before her family left India at the height of the violence that followed that country’s partition. She has spent her life moving between the United Kingdom, the United States and India. A highly accomplished photographer, painter and printmaker, she creates work that draws on her memories and experience of India as well as her studies of Hindu mythology and Indian history.
2009
May Aug Mine, Deer Creek, Wood River Valley, Idaho State Historical Society
Mining the Wood River Valley Fri, Sep 11 – Fri, Nov 27, 2009
Explore the history of mining in the Wood River Valley through photographs drawn from the archives of the Idaho State Historical Society and the Hailey Public Library’s Martyn Mallory Collection. Made from the late 19th century to the 1940s, the photos give us a glimpse into life in the valley a century ago.
Idaho’s Fences- An open exhibition Presented by Sun Valley Center for the Arts June 5-August 31, 2009
In conjunction with The Community Library’s presentation of the Smithsonian touring exhibition Between Fences,the Sun Valley Center for the Arts opens up The Center, Hailey,to local photographers, illustrators, painters and printmakers to present their take on the fences that inhabit our landscape, our community and our neighborhoods.
Chris Binion, Sioux Silos, 2007
Everything Forgotten: Paintings by Chris Binion Apr 3–May 29, 2009 The Center, Hailey Boise-based painter Chris Binion has spent much of his career painting still lifes, but a trip to Fairfield inspired a new body of work. The exhibition will feature a series of watercolor paintings that depict the architecture of farming: barns, grain silos and the other structures that dot the agricultural landscape.
Pamela DeTuncq, June, 2008
June, An Installation by Pamela DeTuncq The Center, Hailey Jan 23–Mar 27, 2009
Wood River Valley artist Pamela DeTuncq created June as a witty meditation on domesticity, gender roles and the degree to which expectations of woman have (and have not) changed since the 1950s.
2008
Sara Varon, Robot Dreams, book cover, courtesy of the artist
Contemporary Graphic Novels Fri, Nov 14, 2008–Fri, Jan 16, 2009
For centuries, sequential imagery has served as a direct and efficient form of communication. From cave paintings to hieroglyphics to superhero comics, when pictures are linked they create a narrative. The 20th century saw the rise of comics as a popular art form that often took the form of caped crusaders. The 21st century has seen the graphic novel grow into an influential and pervasive form of expression that explores topics as wideranging as love, the perils of war, questions of identity and historical narratives. Sara Varon, Cyril Pedrosa and Danica Novgorodoff represent this diversity of talent and content with their stories about robots strolling Brooklyn, the desolate landscape of the Mexican-American border and the rolling hills of a child's imagination.
2008
Eve-Marie Bergren, Mining Identity: Finola, 2005, courtesy of the artist
Mining Identity: Works by Eve-Marie Bergren Aug 29 - Nov 7, 2008 The Center, Hailey
Boise-based artist Eve-Marie Bergren has produced a series of portraits of individuals based on their fingerprints.
Kirsten Furlong, Still Life (Dodo), 2007 Courtesy of the artist
Birdwatch: Works by Kirsten Furlong The Center, Hailey July 3 - August 22, 2008
Boise-based artist Kirsten Furlong has produced a body of work that explores the relationship between birds and our cultural understanding of the natural world.
Continuum II: An Installation in Two Verses A part of the Idaho Triennial Apr - May 2008
Gerri Sayler, who was the winner of the 2007 Idaho Triennial Juror's Prize, has created a special installation using unraveled strands of manila and sisal rope.
The Seditious Stitch: work by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner Feb 22-Apr 11, 2007 Image: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Playing with Bears, 2005
Retablos: Reinterpreting a Tradition exhibition with work by Alma Gomez Dec 19, 2007 -Feb 15, 2008 Image: Alma Gomez, Santa Librada, 2007
2007
Common Soil: An intallation by Matt Sellars January 19-March 16, 2007 Image: Matt Sellars barns installed at The Center, Hailey
Off the Page with Leslie Patricelli Mar 28-May 18, 2007 Image: Leslie Patricelli, Elephants are Big, 2003
Down in the Valley: Recent Paintings by Aaron Pearson Jun 1-Aug 3, 2007 Image: Aaron Pearson, Ghosts 2 (everyone whom I've ever loved), 2006
Silver Lining: Pass Mine Artists' Books Aug 8-Oct 13, 2007 Image: Stephanie Bacon, Mr. Randall and the Chinese Cook, 2005
Lines in the Earth: Journals by Bruce Kremer Oct 19-Dec 14, 2007 Image: Bruce Kremer, Matauwhi, 1990
2006
Tibet Through Local Eyes Apr 12-Jun 2, 2006 Image: Mary Gervase
The Chair in Public: An exhibition of proposed outdoor seating projects June 28-July 28, 2006 Sculpture by Joe Castle, 2006
Keet H'it, Killer Whale House: work by Larry McNeil As a part of ALBUM: Shifting Native Stories multidisciplinary exhibition Aug 9-Oct 20, 2006 Image: Larry McNeil, Dad, 2002
Herd, But Not Seen: photographs by Elissa Kline Nov 3-Jan 12, 2006 Image: Elissa Kline, Wild Ones X, 2005
Jill Fitterer, The Dream Tree, 2010
