Telluride Arts: April Art Walk!

31 Mar Telluride Arts: April Art Walk!

Telluride Arts’ Art Walk takes place Thursday, April 1, 2021. Participating venues host receptions to introduce new exhibits and artists from 5pm-8pm.

Complimentary Gallery Guides, offering a self-guided tour, are available at participating venues or online at telluridearts.org/art-walk-2021. The guide can be used at any time to help navigate through galleries and venues open to the public most days. 

Participants are asked to wear masks, practice safe social distancing, avoid large groups, and keep hands washed and sanitized. Venues are allowing a limited number of people into the spaces at a time, window displays will be emphasized for outdoor viewing, and there will be no food or beverages served at this time. 

Art Walk partakers are encouraged to support Telluride’s local bars and restaurants for take-out beverages and bites.

For a deep dive into the shows at Slate Gray and the Telluride Gallery just click on the links.

“An Aria for RBG,” Bette Ridgeway at Slate Gray Telluride.

Venues Hosting Art Walk Receptions:  

Aveda Telluride Spa
Baked in Telluride
Elinoff & Co.
ETHOS
Kamruz Gallery
The Liberty Bar & Lounge
LIV Sotheby’s International Realty
Lustre Gallery
MiXX projects + atelier
Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery
Sheridan Opera House SHOW Bar
Slate Gray Gallery
Tellurado Studio
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
The Turquoise Door Gallery

Aveda Telluride Spa:

Aveda Telluride Spa is featuring artwork by Brazilian artist Jair Gabriel.

Gabriel was born in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and grew up as a rubber tapper’s son harvesting latex. He creates paintings using acrylic paint on canvas, with a unique combination of pointillist and stylized techniques that inspire a new perspective on a natural scene

Baked in Telluride:

Baked in Telluride is featuring “A Year in My Life as a Telluride Single Woman,” an exhibit by local artist Randye Mandell.

Mandell has been part of the Telluride art community for over 20 Years. This show is a collection of paintings that represent her life as a single woman in Telluride – the artworks are colorful, expressive, and intriguing. With these visual accounts of her experiences, Mandell hopes to make viewers smile.

Elinoff & Co.:

Elinoff & Co. is featuring artworks by Ryan Smith.

Early in his life, Smith developed a passion for the outdoors, which fueled an obsession for landscape photography. Growing up in the beautifully diverse state of Utah, Smith consistently traveled through the west and beyond – capturing iconic views, each of which spark emotion and tell a story. Smith’s artistic style is unique and unmistakable; he has received numerous prestigious awards and his works are featured within renowned publications. Stop into the gallery and view Smith’s photographs, as well as Elinoff & Co.’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary fine art, jewelry, and prints.

ETHOS:

ETHOS is featuring the artwork of Ayla Kanow.

Kanow is a junior at Telluride High School who learned how to make mala necklaces from local artist Sarah Ward. She uses this process to manage stress, and take a break from the busy life of online school. Kanow thoroughly enjoys mala creation, and is delighted to share her art with the Telluride community. She hopes these necklaces bring love and ease to daily life. Each and every necklace is made with care and compassion. For questions, send Kanow an email: ayla.kanow@gmail.com

Kamruz Gallery: 

The Kamruz Gallery is featuring photography from Mary Kenez and local painters that capture the spirit of Telluride and Southwest Colorado. For more than 10 years, Kamruz Gallery has offered Telluride locals and visitors unique and humorous creations that cleverly capture the ever-so-active, hippy-happy and sometimes a bit quirky Telluridian lifestyle.

The Liberty Bar & Lounge:

The Liberty is featuring the work of Emily Ballou in its spacious and comfortable bar area.

Ballou gathers inspiration from the natural beauty that surrounds her on the Western Slope of Colorado. Additionally, the artist finds recent trends in design and fashion to be a source of inspiration for the vibrant display of colors and interesting textures found in her abstract work.

Ballou’s style of painting is contemporary. She works primarily with acrylics, but also experiments with other materials such as wood stain, gold leaf, and varnishes in order to create new and intriguing surfaces and styles. Ballou is constantly pushing her work to new levels, but consistently strives for vivacious color schemes and stimulating surface textures.

LIV Sotheby’s International Realty:

LIV Sotheby’s Telluride location is showing Laurel Anderson’s Line + Color series.

Offering a sense of restorative meditation, this series explores what Anderson calls “simplicity, perfected.” These modern landscapes from across the United States explore the balance between shape and color, and how it can create a sense of simplicity and stillness on a grand scale. Anderson is a fine art photographer in San Francisco, who grew up in the San Juan mountains. Follow Laurel Anderson @ayearinamerica.

Lustre Gallery

Lustre Gallery is presenting the sculptural works of Jim Eppler.

Eppler spends many hours outdoors observing animals and birds, capturing in sketchbooks and on film the remarkable dimensions of wildlife and their habitats.

Sculpted in wax and clay, Eppler’s creations capture subtle gestures and movements that are cast in bronze using the lost wax method. With paint and patina, Eppler expresses the distinctive markings unique to each species. His sculptural works include bunnies and jackrabbits, wolves, bobcats, coyotes and foxes, elk, moose, deer and bears, buffalo, owls, otters, snakes, frogs and turtles, mourning doves, roadrunners and ravens, and more.

His pieces are suitable for both interior placement, as well as landscaping treatments. Please visit the Lustre Gallery at their new location, 214 W Colorado Ave, to learn more about Jim Eppler and his bronze sculptures.

MiXX projects + atelier:

MiXX projects + atelier is showing “Shades of Abstraction,” a visually rich exploration of the play between abstraction and realism, the fantastical and the concrete. Featured artists Marco Grassi, Sheryl Daane Chesnut, and Juan Carlos Collada span that spectrum of representational and abstract across a variety of media.

Oil painter Marco Grassi’s arresting large-scale portraits manage to marry a gestural sense of abstraction with an impressive understanding of the human form. The addition of gold leaf and a deftly handled rainbow of colors add a dreamlike element to his work, elevating his ordinary subjects into goddess-like figures.

On the micro level, Juan Carlos Collada’s exquisite mixed-media pieces embody a realism that at first tricks the eye – hundreds of lifelike butterflies fashioned from feathers, silk, and paint. But zoomed out, they form swooping, painterly forms that elegantly evoke a feeling of flight.

The most manifestly abstract artist, Sheryl Daane Chesnut, also brings a grounding element to the show with her atmospheric mixed-media work. Through alchemical solutions of paints, solvents, and minerals, Daane Chesnut’s expansive paintings capture a sense of place so poignant the viewer can feel the sharpness of ice-cold water, or the damp breeze that precedes a storm.

Mountain Gate Teahouse & Art Gallery:

Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery is featuring the abstract painting exhibition “Flowers in Ancient Water” by Jade Rose (she/her/hers).

Jade works with oil paints and pastels to create large, abstract images which evoke a sense of depth and repose.

Visit the gallery and enjoy a cup of tea at a safe social distance.

Rinkevich Gallery:

The Rinkevich Gallery is showing “Ancient Conversations,” a series of paintings by Margaret Rinkevich.

Margaret’s work is frequently informed by tribal peoples, ancient monuments and material culture. During the painting process, ancient prototypes are disassembled and rearranged. What emerges within the forms and colors are the vestiges of ancient thought processes – communicating the absence of the communicators.

Sheridan Opera House SHOW Bar:

The SHOW Bar is featuring artworks from the annual Telluride Plein Air.

For this event, the Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) normally hosts 24 nationally recognized plein air artists over the Fourth of July weekend. This year, due to COVID-19, the event was scaled back to 11 artists in September. With the conclusion of the event in the fall, each featured artist is displaying one of their artworks in The SHOW Bar.

The SHOW Bar is following strict CDC social distancing guidelines this season, and is offering live music, a covered outdoor patio, heaters, specialty cocktails, and hot soup for the perfect Aprés.

Slate Gray Gallery:

Slate Gray is presenting “Women of the Faraway.” The show is in homage to Georgia O’Keeffe’s trailblazing impact and her love for “The Faraway,” a romantic term she used to describe the Northern New Mexico desert.

“Women of the Faraway” features a group show of women artists from New Mexico. Artworks in the exhibition include: the beads on bone by Ali Launer; the lyrical abstraction of Bette Ridgeway; Alexandra Eldridge’s photo-based paintings exploring the subconscious; Martha Rea Baker’s richly textured second wave Ab-Ex paintings; Kathryn Tatum’s mountain abstracts and Telluride landscapes on rice paper; and, last but not least, Amy Van Winkle’s encaustics that project external and internal landscapes.

The Tellurado Studio:

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The Tellurado Studio is featuring the adventurous fine art of Markus Pierson.

Pierson explores a mythic narrative with his “Coyote” series, each piece symbolic of wanderlust and living beyond boundaries. The protagonists of these hand-embellished prints are the coyotes: enigmatic figures searching for the next big adventure.

Slate Gray is presenting “Women of the Faraway.” The show is in homage to Georgia O’Keeffe’s trailblazing impact and her love for “The Faraway,” a romantic term she used to describe the Northern New Mexico desert.

“Women of the Faraway” features a group show of women artists from New Mexico. Artworks in the exhibition include: the beads on bone by Ali Launer; the lyrical abstraction of Bette Ridgeway; Alexandra Eldridge’s photo-based paintings exploring the subconscious; Martha Rea Baker’s richly textured second wave Ab-Ex paintings; Kathryn Tatum’s mountain abstracts and Telluride landscapes on rice paper; and, last but not least, Amy Van Winkle’s encaustics that project external and internal landscapes.

Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse:

The Telluride Transfer Warehouse is featuring live music by Michael Tobin from 4-6:30pm, as part of the free Apres Ski Series. Enjoy the sunshine along with some classic rock cover tunes! As the sun sets around 7pm, the Transfer Warehouse will feature an outdoor projection of “Come Over,” a film highlighting contemporary dance by James Jackson Jr. and light art by Katy Parnello. 

“Come Over” was created as a collaboration between Filmmaker Scott Upshur, Choreographer Jamie Jackson, Jr., and Electrolier Wood and Light Sculpture Artist Katy Parnello for her solo show “Visceral” (which opened at Gallery 81435 in December 2018). The piece is inspired by the act of dancing alone in your room. This projection is a part of “The Body Electric,” a Telluride Arts exhibition curated by Britt Bradford.

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery:

Parnello at Telluride Arts HQ,

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery is featuring “The Body Electric,” an exhibition curated by Britt Bradford, with artists Casey Hagerman, Joshua Penrose, Katy Parnello, Sara Scribner, Shane Scribner, and Britt Bradford. The Body Electric highlights figurative art and light art—asking its viewers to meditate on the idea of humanity, embodiment, and our unique light.

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art:

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is presenting “A Perfect Rhythm: Landscapes and Still Lifes” from February 9 – April 16, 2021.

The exhibition features artists Dan McCleary, Christine Nguyen, Lucas Reiner, and Andy Woll, all of whom share an affinity for their natural surroundings that they are masterfully able to convey through their individual artistic practices.

The Turquoise Door Gallery:

Ovanes Berberian

The Turquoise Door Gallery is presenting artworks by Colorado’s most prominent plein air painters. The show includesDavid Santillanes, Jim Wodark, Gregory Packard, and others.

This March, the Turquoise Door Gallery will also host artworks from the world-renowned Russian impressionist, Ovanes Berberian.