Michael Godfrey, b. 1958, Germany
Growing up in North Carolina, Michael Godfrey has always appreciated the beauty of the outdoors. Inspired by the many moods of light, his goal is to “capture and interpret these moods on canvas.” His paintings focus on light filtering through the landscape. In handling of color and surface, Godfrey softens the edges implying detail rather than actively stating it, concentrating on the experience of the moment, reveling in the warm glow of sunlight on the landscape. By choosing to focus on light and shadow he gives the viewer only a glimpse of detail.
American Art Collector-Focus-Winter Lands-Highlighting works by Trailside Galleries Artists
February 2019
"Winter Lands"
Featuring works by Danny McCaw, Kathleen Dunphy, James Morgan, Robert Moore, Michael Godfrey, Matt Smith.
Not everyone will agree with Robert Frost’s statement “You can’t get too much winter in the winter,” but Frost, a hardy New England type, knew that with its harshness, winter has space for beauty and frolic.
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Winter Chill
As soon as winter arrives, and with it the first snow, painter Michael Godfrey is immediately drawn to a Lewis Carroll passage from one of his Alice books: “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’” Winter in all its glory will be on view in a new two-artist show—Winter’s Embrace, featuring Godfrey and painter Robert Moore— opening February 18 at Trailside Galleries in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
American Art Collector
Trailside Galleries is pleased to announce Winter’s Embrace, a two man show featuring painters Michael Godfrey and Robert Moore. For this event, each artist has produced a body of work inspired by the ethereal, almost spiritual season of winter. The show will be available to view in the gallery from February 18 to March 2.
Premier Painters of Both Coasts
Jeffrey Carlson Reporting
Editor, Fine Art Today
If paintings of the frothing ocean, the ebb and flow of waves, and soft evening light on coastal cliffs call to you -- then one exhibition this weekend is a must-see. Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, is currently hosting a show of exceptional coastal landscape paintings by artists on both sides of the country. READ MORE
Wyoming’s 10 Best Events and Festivals this September
Colloquially known as the ‘Cowboy State’, Wyoming is a peak-strewn region of the Western United States replete with mountain ranges and the surrounding foothills, notably the Eastern Rocky Mountains. This summer, Wyoming plays host to myriad arts and cultural events, from festivals celebrating the arts in Jackson to chomping on Greek delights in Cheyenne. Wyoming proves the month of September to be a cultural one and offers passers-by these 10 unmissable events, and more.
Art | Logan Maxwell Hagege – Changing Light
1 September – 14 September
Jackson’s Trailside Gallery is hosting Logan Maxwell Hagege’s new exhibition, Changing Light, in which he conjures up quintessential scenes from the American Southwest in a series of figural and landscape works. Hagege deftly depicts scenes emulating Native American life and culture, framed in the thirsty environs of the Southwest desert; his appetite for dusty scenes developed during youthful sojourns at his grandmother’s house in the California desert. To meet Hagege to discuss his art, there will be an artist’s reception on 13 September. Hagege’s works on display at the Changing Light exhibition will be sold by draw.
Art | Fall Gold
1 September – 14 September
For a melange of some of Oklahoma’s best wildlife, landscape and sporting art, lumber into the Trailside Gallery in Jackson for the annual Fall Gold Exhibition and Sale. This yearly aesthetic fiesta occurs to coincide with the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, also featured. Participating artists include Brent Cotton, Michael Godfrey, Bonnie Marris, Jim Morgan, George Northup, and many others, some of whom will be in attendance at the artists’ reception on 13 September. Many of the artworks on display will be procurable so be sure to pack your wallet; you might even walk out with some Fall Gold.
Fall Gold, 130 East Broadway, Jackson, WY, USA, +1 307 733 3186
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