Telluride Arts: March Art Walk!

03 Mar Telluride Arts: March Art Walk!

Telluride Arts’ Art Walk of 2021 takes place Thursday, March 4, 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
ON MAIN | flowers by ella
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 images using acrylic paint on canvas, in 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 modern art drawings & prints by Picasso, Chagall, Dufy, Modigliani, War-hol, Rivera, Renoir, Basquiat and others. Additionally, the gallery hosts contemporary paintings by McKenzie, Godshalk, Elinoff, Zaza, Morante, Huallpa, Eugenio, Cienfuegos, Baci, Pantigozo, Suarez, Tapia, Lazarov, Marmanov, Nasanov, Pentjukh and more.

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 who capture the spirit of Telluride and Southwest Colorado. For more than 10 years, Kamruz Gallery has offered its locals and visitors unique and humorous creations that cleverly capture the ever-so-active, hippy-happy and sometimes a bit quirky Telluride 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 describes as “simplicity, perfected.” These modern landscapes from across the United States explore a balance between shape and color and how that tends to 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 Lluis Masriera’s art nouveau jewelry dating back to the 19th century.

Lluis Masriera was born into a family of artistic painters and jewelers firmly linked to the artistic life of Barcelona, Spain. As a young man, fresh from his jewelry studies and enameling apprenticeship, Lluis’s family allowed him to melt down every last piece of jewelry in their shop to create his collection featuring flora, fauna, serpentine elements and feminine sensuality. Launched in the fall, his collection  sold out by Christmas.

A visionary, Lluis maintained each die that he carved and today his collection of works numbers in the thousands. A few pieces are released each year while others are retired. Each is made to order, using the same fired enameling process Lluis pioneered over a century ago.

Visit the gallery at its new location at 214 W. Colorado Ave.

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.

ON MAIN | flowers by ella

ON MAIN is featuring the custom work of Teressa Foglia.

Foglia is a hat designer and maker, a modern milliner. An avid hat lover her entire life, she dreamt of starting her own collection for years. After experiencing heartbreak, Foglia booked a one-way ticket to Europe and stayed for a year. During her time, she discovered a millinery course in the South of France: three days later she was in the studio learning how to make hats with a renowned milliner from London.

Foglia continued designing and making hats in Berlin, London, and Los Angeles, but it was not until she settled into her home state of New York that her first collection was established.

With an enticing and recognizable aesthetic, Foglia’s creative direction, design, and energy has transformed the way people feel when they wear a hat. She brings a modern and compelling edge to millinery. Every order is handmade in New York City in the hope of inspiring the human spirit one hat at a time.

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.

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.

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery

Image, Parnello

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 Bradford.

“The Body Electric” highlights figurative art and light art, asking viewers to meditate on the idea of humanity, embodiment, and our unique light.

Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse

Telluride Transfer Warehouse.

Stop into the Transfer Warehouse for the grand opening of the new space!

Bring friends and family, check out the Quonset hut, have a drink, and listen to music.

The Warehouse will be open for visitors depending on weather conditions for the evening.

Follow the Warehouse event calendar on Instagram and Facebook @telluridetransferwarehouse

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

Image, 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.