April 3 First Friday
5:30-7:30
It's a FF Spring Fling!

We are celebrating spring with bees & teas, dreams & waking, and springflinging it with local creatives!

Bees & Teas
New-to-the-valley artist Megan Fitz is exploring the disappearing bee issue through her large-scale bee prints. She will be joined by Dragon Lady and some special teas and honey. No bees...no flowers...no honey...no tea...and that's just the beginning of the cycle. Come show your love for bees!!

Melissa Herrington- Dreams & Waking
Melissa is one of our most sought-after artists and we are so excited that she is sending us some new work to bring in spring! All the new work is posted on our website."My work, partly in response to the influences of my childhood, examines the theme of identity based on folklore, shared stories and dreams. There is a sense of familiarity and distance that creates cohesive surface tension. These elements have dual characteristics, with imagery that possess historical objectivity to a playful, feminist subjectivity. I am continuously working to develop my personal syntax of symbols, which become more reflective with each work I create. It is through the fusion of dream and waking, resolution and disintegration, which I strive to find an essential truth." Melissa Herrington is featured as LMC's Artist of the Moment. Read more about her on our website: http://www.lmcontemporary.com/exhibitions/artist-of-the-moment.html


Locals who will be flinging it around...

John Frechette
Each buckle is handmade using raw fusion glass.  The process begins by cutting designs with a diamond tipped cutter.  The glass is then layered to create each individual design.  The raw glass is kiln fired for up to twelve hours at over 1400 degrees. Also included in the show on Friday will be new cufflinks, created using the same process as the belt buckles.

Meagan Schwartz
"I formed a company by the name of Raskol Ink. LLC.
The main purpose of Raskol Ink. is to supply the masses with creative, comfortable art inspired designs on the article of clothing that can't be lived without. The Hoodie.
The Hoodies and designs created on them promote individuality and personal expression. The designs are inspired by curiosity, books and workings of the world around and the ones out. I would like to say the designs encourage the imagination and a desire to create. If they do than thats good and Raskol Ink.'s sub-main-purpose in Hoodie creation is fulfilled." www.raskolink.com

Alissa Davies
"My paintings are sustainable because they are unframed, small, and therefore inexpensive, giving a wider population the chance to afford art. Many paintings include collage pieces, such as newspapers, magazines, old tea bags, and other trash or recyclable materials. My pods are a form in nature that I am drawn to and their shape has been present in my life for many years. I often make them out of old tea bags or tea-dyed cheesecloth."

Vanessa Sulzer
"All of my works have a nature-based theme.  I will be featuring a designed t-shirt printed on shirts from American Apparel and shirts purchased at a thrift store. I will also bring along some of my designed scarves that were featured at the December First Friday at LMC. I am also going to be selling drawings on recycled cardboard."

Kelly Chadwick
Kaycee's Naturals http://kayceesnaturals.com
"A few years ago, a friend gave me a do-it-yourself natural body care book. After making several recipes for myself, I began making them for friends and family members. They loved them as much as I did! Before long I collected shelves and shelves of books and ingredients. So now, after many years of testing recipes, I decided to turn a hobby into a business.
kaycee's naturals (formerly pure indulgence) body cocktails are made in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They are pure, simple and loaded with the good stuff! Adding lotions and creams to the line made including a preservative necessary. After much research, I chose a paraben-free preservative found in only one half of one percent or less of each of these products.
kaycee's naturals: more of what your body needs and less of what it doesn't."

Ben Rae
"My pieces are affordable and therefore accessible. No price point is really over $65.  I am using colored strings and leather in the work with pendants made from found objects. My necklaces are a simple combination of materials. Five colored strings, three strips of leather, recycled or found chain layered in a few pieces to create the final piece. Each will be geared towards an attitude of 'less is more', which I think speaks towards how people’s values are changing presently."


Think Eco- bring your own cup
Think Local- bring your checkbook
Think First Friday- bring a bottle of wine contribution

March 13th

The Jackson Hole Music Experience presents Friday Live with Monkey Wrench Gang from 5-7pm

March 20th - Songwriter's Alley

An intimate concert setting featuring the songs of:
Isaac Hayden (www.myspace.com/isaachayden)  from Jackson
Benyaro (www.myspace.com/benyaro) from New York
Terry Hill (www.myspace.com/terryhillmusic) from Pinedale
at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary
Friday, March 20
7pm
$5 suggested donation, BYOB
For more information, email Aaron Davis at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 

LMC presents HeeB 100

From Left to Right:

Alain Macklovitch aka A-TRAK

It's been more than ten years since Alain Macklovitch, a.k.a A-TRAK, won DMC's World DJ Championship at the tender age of 15. The Montreal native has been on a collision course with superstardom ever since - drawing inspiration from big bro David Macklovitch of Chromeo and Kanye West, who took the young DJ under his wing in 2004, giving him a spont on his tour and his first real fade (Sabrina Jaszi)

Agathe Snow

Agathe Snow could be considered a post-media artist. For her installation "No Need To Worry, the Apocalypse Has Already Happened," she created a post-apocalyptic Manhattan refuge/bunker built inside the stomach of a modern whale. Her other works, which have been shown at the Whitney and featured in New York Magazine and i-D, also hint at the collapse of civilization. However, Snow's palate is not confined to the dark and decaying. She recently documented her voyage from Chinatown, NY to Chinatown, LA, making a sculpture of all the belongings she brought with her, practicing tai chi and eating only Chinese food along the way. Chinese food in Kansas? That's suffering for your arts. (Oliver Noble)

Lux Alptraum

Lux Alptraum's lifelong obsession with sex found its ideal mate on the Internet, and for the past 10 years she has taken the come-one-come-all approach to educating the masses about her favorite subject. Alptraum serves as associate editor at Gawker Media's sex and porn blog, Fleshbot and as editor of Boinkology, where she incites discussions on sex, relationships and other pressing topics such as "Boobs. How big is too big?" (Marcy Kelly)

Carlen Altman

For centuries, the Catholic faith held a monopoly on the single coolest religious accessory, but that's all changing now with the advent of the Jewish rosary. Twenty-five-year-old Oberlin graduate and aspiring comedian Carlen Altman has decided it's time to take the prayer beads, worn by devout Catholics Pete Doherty and Madonna in the '80s, and add stars of David, chais and hamsas. Already featured in Lucky Magazine and InTouch, Altman operates out of her Brighton Beach home, which is now piled to the ceiling with bulk orders of glow-in-the-dark beads and silver-metallic rosary cases from China. (Jay Diamond)

February 6 | First Friday Event

5:30 - 8 pm

Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary is encouraging all First Friday goers to pARTicipate for change. Actively take part in the creation and appreciation of art by pARTicipating in a local community collaborative art piece. Experience the joy of acquiring and creating art through mini art pieces and a community canvas.


Special creative appearance by Teton Art Lab

Local artists  pARTicipating with art and installations

Non-profit information art installations

Free art for everyone on Friday...ART IT FORWARD

What to bring?
BYOC: Bring Your Own Cup for Beer/Wine
A camera to create your own piece of art. (Afterwards send your photos/videos to LMC and we will put them up on our blog!)

Anne Muller recently traveled to Bhutan and was captivated by the government's Gross National Happiness philosophy.  Gross National Happiness is the way of life of Bhutan centered on good governance, community, environmental conservation, and an egalitarian economy.  This guiding policy of Bhutan adheres to the notion that Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product.  Muller documented her journey and experiences through photographs.  She took hundreds of photographs which are compiled into a book.  The exhibit will feature twenty-one of her favorites.  Anne Muller will be at the gallery on Friday, January 2nd to talk about her photos and experiences in Bhutan. Please join us.

Artist Talk 5-6pm (please RSVP: 734.0649 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Artist Reception 6-8pm