Butterfly Effect

Jim Kopp
2025, Acrylic on Wood Assemblage
$225.00

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I’ve been creating as a self-taught artist for 25 years. I really had no desire to ever pick up a paintbrush, I was more interested in music—especially playing the drum kit. But when my mother passed away, I began painting as a sort of subconscious therapy. Another catalyst was seeing the work of American folk artist Howard Finster. Through my paintings, you can find echoes of Western medieval art, with its highly stylized flat perspective, strange interpretations of animals, and overall darkness. Folk art galleries see me as part of their genre. When we finally met, Howard Finster told me: Keep painting and don’t worry about what other people think of your art.” I’ve held onto that advice ever since.

James Overstreet
2025, Oil on Panel
$650.00

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Pamela McCulloch
2025, Mixed Media on Canvas
$150.00

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Christy Anspach
2025, Assemblage Including Toy FPV Drone, Plastic Eggs, and Found Objects
NFS

Good, Bad and Ugly is an experiential exploration into the effects and repercussions, both positive and negative, of advances and innovations in technology. Originally conceived as a performance piece, it quickly became apparent that the artist’s dreadful ability as an FPV pilot necessitates the performance to occur remotely for the safety of bystanders. While she practices to improve her skill, video will have to suffice. Does technology outrun our collective understanding of how to manage it? Are some people damaged by the same technologies from which others benefit? Are individuals or populations both assisted and injured by advances in tech? Do the same innovations simultaneously help and hurt people? It seems to the artist that the answer to all these questions is “yes”. This assemblage and video performance is an artifact of the artist’s playful engagement with the serious concepts accompanying the rapid advancement of today’s tech.

Curious what’s in the eggs? Feel free to have a look!

Holland Dutton
2025, Antique Altered Book, Collage, Pigments
$265.00

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The Butterfly Effect poses the theory that a small, seemingly insignificant action can trigger a series of events that lead to large, significant outcomes. What becomes when in the beginning there is …. The flutter of a kaleidoscope of butterflies taking flight ……a soft whispered word …..a single musical note breaking the silence in the dark.

Brianna McFarland
2025, Mixed Media on Canvas
$1850.00

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Raised on a ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota and mentored by my artist grandmother, I developed a deep reverence for the wild beauty of the American West. My work explores this terrain through a contemporary lens, blending expressive abstraction with detailed realism to capture the region’s untamed spirit.

I use alcohol inks, fluid acrylics, and experimental techniques to evoke the sweeping movement of Western landscapes. These fluid forms are juxtaposed with more meticulously rendered wildlife, creating a dynamic tension between chaos and control, tradition and innovation. This interplay reflects the West itself—a place where vast skies meet intricate natural life.

Each piece is a visual dialogue between freedom and focus, inviting viewers to experience the West as I see it: luminous, raw, and alive. My goal is to honor the land’s complexity while pushing the boundaries of modern Western art.

Bronwyn Minton
2025, Watercolor and Ink on Paper with Thread
$150.00

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Mary Thompson
2025, Mixed Media
$600.00

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Mary Thompson has called Sublette County home for nearly 50 years. She has an art history and studio studies background, and aesthetics has always driven her work. Only recently has she begun to paint in earnest.

Trista Niekum
2025, Watercolor and Watercolor Pencil on Wood Panel
$100.00

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This series explores the butterfly effect through humanity’s pivotal shift from a nomadic to a sedentary life. One small change that altered not only the course of our species but also of the earth. Thousands of years ago, as humans settled in place, the foundations of civilization began to take shape. From this moment unfolded the rise of industry, livestock, cities, and cropland. Each a ripple expanding through time. These paintings reflect how that single decision to stay put set into motion the vast and complex systems that define our modern existence.

Trista Niekum
2025, Watercolor and Watercolor Pencil on Wood Panel
$100.00

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Trista Niekum
2025, Watercolor and Watercolor Pencil on Wood Panel
$100.00

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Trista Niekum
2025, Watercolor and Watercolor Pencil on Wood Panel
$100.00

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Dan Abernathy
2025, Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel
$1680.00

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Josh Baldwin
2025, Oil on Canvas
$1500.00

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Madeleine Murdock
2025, Mixed Media
$150.00

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Samantha Soper
2025, Cardboard, Wood, Steel
$550.00

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There are a few things that I will never be able to forget. I’ll never be able to forget waking up to the sound of elk bugling to one another in the morning. I won’t ever forget the sound of wind through tall trees or what it feels like to ride a horse bareback down a mountain with no trail to follow. I will never be able to forget that as a child, I thought the woods and mountains went on forever; that if I was careless, I could walk into them in one direction and never run into a human being again. If only the spirit of my home could speak, could walk, could glare, could suffer, and could trust in a human way, maybe people would look at it.

The cardboard tree-figures I have built--full bodies and limbs alike--are my best effort to personify complicated thoughts and feelings I have about the spirit of the landscape I grew up in, and the way that I feel in my heart, we are changing it for the worse.

This particular work explores an aspect of my sense of loss I have yet to look head on: that in part my resistance to change--in all its diverse potential--plays a role in my own suffering.

Alice Pang
2025, Stoneware, Porcelain, Mason Stain
$800.00

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When I floated the Snake River for the first time this fall, I was struck by how rivers change, not just from year to year, but day to day. Rifting earthquakes and scouring glaciers can shape a river over millennia, but so can falling branches and shifting stones every day.

The creation of this piece — over 60 hours of nerikomi (staining, stacking, and slicing clay) and mishima (inlaying clay) in the form of the Snake River — gave me time to reflect on the power of small changes. Just as a single stone, shifting slightly, can change the course of a river, a single act of care can change the course of a life.”

Hours after dropping off the piece, I rushed to the airport and was lucky enough to fly over the river and see the exact section I’d inlaid (Deadman’s Bar) catching the last light at dusk. It was such a special moment.

Jocelyn Slack
2025, Watercolor, Graphite
$200.00

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Flow: to proceed, issue forth. I am in awe of the interconnectedness of our existence, all forces and beings on earth under the influence of our spinning planet: fluid geology, oceans, atmosphere, plant, animal forms, the chambers of the human heart. How everything contributes to this interwoven flow. Like the delicate wings of a butterfly, travel weary and wind torn from their life spans' journey.

Jennifer L. Hoffman
2025, Linen, Cotton, Vintage Fabric
$375.00

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The smallest step sends infinite ripples through the ground, through the mycelium, tree roots, and fauna nestled in humus and leaf matter; through the oxygen and helium and carbon dioxide molecules; through the water vapor and cloud forms. Other ripples disperse, intersect, disrupt, dissolve. We affect and are affected.

Linda L. Ryan
2025, Mixed Media
$160.00

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Often what appears to be an insignificant encounter, experience or moment may only later be realized as a redirect or recalibration. In the words of Rainer Maria Rilke, “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”