Christine Meytras

The attraction for anything artistic started at an early age. I was fortunate to go to schools where art was an important part of their curriculum. I studied drawing in high school, was accepted at the Beaux Arts school of Grenoble in France and obtained a “Maîtrise” in Art History from Grenoble’s University (the equivalent of a master’s degree.)
I moved to Jackson in the summer of 1995.

My work has been shown in juried exhibitions:

-Texas Photographic Society’s TPS 27:
The International Competition Show
Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
May 2018

-Flora & Fauna
Bauhaus Prairie Gallery. Online Juried Exhibition. (2)
April 2018

-Nature
Juried Exhibition. Honorable mention.
Art Room Online gallery
March 2018

-Open A New Year
Bauhaus Prairie Gallery. Online Juried Exhibition. 1st place.
January 2018

-Texas Photographic Society Drone & Aerial Photography
Online Juried Exhibition
November 2017

-WonderSpot/ Artspot
Installation Outdoors on Broadway, Jackson, WY
July-September 2017

-Abstraction: Theoretical, Conceptual & Intellectual
Bauhaus Prairie Gallery. Online Juried Exhibition. 2 Honorable mentions +1.
February 2017

-Open subject
Bauhaus Prairie Gallery. Online Juried Exhibition. 1 Honorable mention + 2.
January 2017

-Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition.
Juried Exhibition. Cheyenne, WY
January 2017

-Black and White
Bauhaus Prairie Gallery. Online Juried Exhibition.
December 2016

-Hui No’eau Annual Juried Exhibition
Maui, Hawaii
January – February 2014

-Drawing the Figure.
Juried Exhibition. Art Association, Jackson, WY
April 2013

-Fab Women Show
Juried Exhibition. Works of Wyoming, Laramie
October – November 2012

-Art in the Parks
Juried Exhibition. Honorable Mention
Museum, Cheyenne, WY
November – December 2012

-Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition
Juried Exhibition. Cheyenne, WY
June 2012

I participated in group exhibits in Jackson, in yearly fund raisers for Jackson’s Art Association and had two solo exhibits in Jackson.

“Coming Back Home,” a mixed media painting, is in the State Museum' collection in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

My sculptures can be seen outdoors in Jackson and Vail, Colorado.


Portfolio:

Aerial: Land Patterns

The irrigation patterns seen from the sky reveal an esthetic beyond the necessity of growing crops to feed people. They become food for hearts and souls.

Aerial: Land Patterns “Aerial: Land Patterns”

2018
Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 inches

Land 5 “Land 5”

2017
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches

West

Living in Wyoming, the wild West sate, I love mining the symbols and the beauty of the culture of the living West. I also love celebrating wildlife.

1909: Riding a Bronco "Straight up" “1909: Riding a Bronco "Straight up"”

2017
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 14 inches

How Do You Lay Your Hat? “How Do You Lay Your Hat?”

2017
Gouache on paper
23 x 18 inches

Night Mountain “Night Mountain”

2016
Mixed media on scratch board
18 x 14 inches
Honorable mention.
Juried exhibition: Open subject. Bauhaus Prairie Gallerie (on line)

Between Water and Sky “Between Water and Sky”

The mighty Buffalo live around me. I watch them as the seasons change. The Buffalo, still and posing, is also the center piece of the Wyoming flag: a symbol of the Wild West. I saw a solitary male in Yellowstone National Park rubbing its neck against a tree. It looked powerful, fierce, determined . To show its roughness and wildness I used rough material like sand paper, wasps nest, coconut tree bark, pieces of sisal cord.I printed pictures I had taken of birds against a spillway of rushing water at the dam on the Snake river, water and pebbles in the Gros Ventre river and inverted sky and water. A sky of water, a river of clouds, both elements that surround a Buffalo