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12E - Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Amy Jurekovic’s works on paper and canvas reference her tattoo artistry and vice versa. She will be the featured artist at Big Haus’ open house, 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14.
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hether painting on paper, canvas or skin, Amy Jurekovic focuses on compelling, contemporary details. On Friday, Sept. 14, she will share her works on paper with people who visit Big Haus, the artists collective on Cache Street. A Jackson native, Jurekovic works full time as a tattoo artist at Twenty Two Tattoo. She describes her tattoo aesthetic as neotraditionalist, a blending of Sailor Jerry’s strong outlines with vivid details. At Twenty Two Tattoo, she does mostly custom work. Her tattoo art has informed her fine art and vice versa. “It has made me a lot more detail-oriented,” she said. “It is pretty incredible that someone puts that much trust in you.” Likewise, her fine art funneled her into the tattoo profession, which she always considered a dream job. An art major at the University of Wyoming, Jurekovic returned home with her paintings and the desire to pursue art professionally. During the opening for a show of her portraits at the now-shuttered Lines Gallery, a lot of people approached her and asked if she tattooed. Their interest “lit a fire for me to look into it more,” she said. She approached Mike Zimmer at Twenty Two Tattoo and became his apprentice about two years ago. As the featured artist at Big Haus’ open house, Jurekovic will line the main gallery with a mixture of works on paper and canvas, pieces she describes as very different from the paintings on canvas and wood
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Big Haus is an artists collective with eight studios on three floors.
panel she has shown in the past. The Big Haus event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14. In honor of the site’s former glory as a jail, there will be a “jailhouse” barbecue and beverages. The open house invites people to visit artists in their studios, see pieces in progress and work finished within the walls. There are eight studios on three floors. Residents are Abby Paffrath, Brooke Kemmerer, Aaron Wallis, Tristan Greszko, Travis Walker, Wendell Field, Mike Piggott, Tommie Williams of Dedicate Brand and XOWYO Paper and Press. Wallis plans to hang the latest print in his Street Bible series — a tribute to the ’80s kingpin Rick Ross. Big Haus — the name is a fusion of big house, a reference to the shuttered jail that shares the lot, and Bauhaus, the seminal German arts and crafts movement — reinvented a 1970s office building as artist studios and shared workspaces. A Teton Artlab project, the collective shares the nonprofit’s mission to provide artists with educational opportunities.