Telluride Arts: Telluride Art Walk, 8/5, 5-8pm

02 Aug Telluride Arts: Telluride Art Walk, 8/5, 5-8pm

The Telluride Arts’ Art Walk summer season continues with the First Thursdays series on August 5. Participating venues are open 5-8pm and host receptions to introduce new exhibits and artists.

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 that are open to the public most days. 

Learn more about the Slate Gray show here.

Learn more about the group show at the Telluride Gallery here.

Venues hosting Art Walk receptions:  

Ah Haa School for the Arts
AVEDA Telluride Spa
Baked in Telluride
Crossbow Leather
Elinoff & Co.
ETHOS
Kamruz Gallery
LIV Sotheby’s International Realty
Lustre Gallery
MiXX projects + atelier
Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery
ON MAIN | flowers by ella
Red Dirt Studio Gallery
Rinkevich Gallery
SHOW Bar at Sheridan Opera House
Slate Gray Gallery
South Fir Street
Tellurado Studio
Telluride Art Collective
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
The Turquoise Door Gallery

Ah Haa School for the Arts

Ah Haa School for the Arts is featuring the 29th Annual Art Auction (Online silent auction July 16 – August 7, 2021). The Annual Art Auction returns this year as the organization moves into its new home at the Silver Jack Building in the Telluride Arts District.

This year’s Auction highlights art as a vision for how to move forward during challenging times, serving as a mirror to reflect and respond to what is complex, confusing, and beautiful. With a focus on accessibility, the Art Auction will once again be online, offering two weeks of virtual bidding on a fun and fantastic array of art, experiences, and opportunities. Help support and raise critical funds to help Ah Haa School for the Arts continue to nourish the creative spirit through classes, workshops, programs, and events for people of all ages in our community!

Aveda Telluride Spa

AVEDA Telluride Spa: Center for Transformation is featuring “The Inner Child Journals” by local artist Darla Murray Loomis.

Darla Murray Loomis is an author, artist, and award-winning pioneer in the beauty and wellness industry. She creates and promotes joining spirituality and business in the service of healing. She alsso inspires women to recover their voices and rightful places in the world through love, beauty and the creative power.

Darla Murray Loomis’s works are mixed-media, and encourage others to restore and regain their ability to dream.

Baked in Telluride

Baked in Telluride is featuring the assorted artworks of Jerry Oyama. Oyama’s colorful, abstract portrait and still-life paintings draw inspiration from animals, dance, sports, and music.

Crossbow Leather

Crossbow Leather is featuring custom leather products by Macy Pryor.

Pryor applies her passion for sculpture and eye for structural design to crafting custom leather bags and accessories. Herr Crossbow Leather offers a truly unique experience of retail in the front and workshop in the back. With the production happening in the shop, experience the craft first-hand, watch products come to life, and meet the people hand-crafting each piece.

Elinoff & Co.

Elinoff & Co. is featuring artworks by Wayne McKenzie.

Wayne’s art emanates a laid-back confidence that is a reflection of his Australian upbringing. With loose brushwork and bold use of color, he brings a unique perspective to the contemporary North American art world.

Wayne’s strong sense of design is derived from the Aboriginal art of his native Australia. His paintings are a visual journey that allows the essence of his subject matter to come to life.

Wayne has established a great reputation as a talented plein air artist in Colorado, winning multiple awards at the premier event, On display in the gallery include Wayne’s Telluride summer and winter street scenes, hiking trails and rivers to ski and wine celebrations.

ETHOS

ETHOS is featuring Paintings and Portals by Brooke Einbender, a.k.a Mindbender Art.

Brooke’s work blends several disciplines into one – painting, XR (extended reality) art, installation, and video. Through these various mediums, Brooke explores the theme of portals. Recently, she has embarked on a new visionary project, “The Unknown Zone,” which is a large-scale installation consisting of 100 painted + embellished reclaimed doors.

This month at ETHOS, a selection of Brooke’s doors will be showcased alongside her mind-bending oil paintings.

Kamruz Gallery

The Kamruz Gallery is featuring photography by Mary Kenez and local painters who 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 Telluride lifestyle.

LIV Sotheby’s International Realty

LIV Sotheby’s Telluride location is featuring Laurel Anderson’s Line + Color series. Offering a sense of restorative meditation, this work explores what Anderson describes as “simplicity perfected.” These modern landscapes of scenes from across the United States explore the balance between shape and color, and how itht dynamic 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.

Lustre Gallery

Lustre Gallery is featuring the assorted works of GURHAN Jewelry.

On display in the gallery is a one-of-a-kind, 24K Hollow Bezel, Ethiopian Opal ring by Gurhan.

Gurhan and his wife Fiona are the force behind GURHAN Jewelry. Together, they redefined the use of 24k gold and have developed their own unique design method that is internationally renowned.

MiXX projects + atelier

MiXX projects + atelier is showing “Terroir: Interactive Ecosystems,” an exhibition featuring artists Meredith Nemirov, Sheila Giolitti, and Rachel Brumer.

Well known to oenophiles, terroir is a centuries-old French term that describes the collective impact of interconnected environmental factors on the expressed outcome of a crop – most commonly grapes cultivated for winemaking.

The show explores the work of three artists who deal in nature and its interwoven systems and the deep rooted networks of culture, place, and practice that coalesce to influence their visual outcomes.

Mountain Gate Teahouse & Art Gallery

Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery is featuring “Inherent in the Leaf,” a collection of abstract paintings by Jade Rose and guest artists.

“Inherent in the Leaf” is a reminder of the intertwining relationship between meditation, tea, and enlightenment. Like great art, exceptional tea transcends words and is best experienced directly in the here and now. Therefore, every true teahouse is an art gallery and every art gallery a welcome place to appreciate the artistry of tea. Jade works with oil paints and pastels to create large, abstract images which evoke a sense of depth and repose. The exhibition’s guest artists are carefully curated to reflect the space of mindful awareness reminiscent of a tea ceremony.

ON MAIN | flowers by ella

ON MAIN and flowers by ella showcases unique and exquisite pieces from homewares, clothing, furniture, tabletop and fine art, as well as a full-functioning flower shop. Among the featured designers and artists are DDW, Angela Okajima Kempinas, Teressa Foglia, Le Kasha, Dries Van Noten, Loquet and more.

Red Dirt Studio Gallery

Red Dirt Studio Gallery is featuring paintings from Eunika Rogers, a local painter who paints with found clay, wine and pigments.

Eubika collects her clay medium on her hikes in San Juan Mountains and Telluride. With her earthy palette she creates large realistic paintings of Colorado landscapes – painted with the matter with which it was formed.

Rinkevich Gallery

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

Margaret’s paintings are 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.

SHOW Bar at the Sheridan Opera House

The Sheridan Arts Foundation is featuring artwork from the 18th annual Telluride Plein Air in the SHOW Bar at the Sheridan Opera House. Each painting was produced on-site or en plein air in July and captures the historic charm of the town of Telluride and its surrounding natural beauty.

Forty percent of sales benefit the 501c(3) non-profit organization that owns and operates the historic Sheridan Opera House.

There will be free live music on the SHOW Bar patio featuring Six Dollar String Band from 6-8 p.m. and $1 Community Night featuring “Flash Mountain Flood” in the theater starting at 9 p.m.

Slate Gray Gallery

Slate Gray is presenting “Escape,” an exhibition featuring the mixed-media work of Katherine Lott and Molly Perrault.

After the year that shall not be named, everyone could use an escape. Take a road trip across the country, appreciate an aspen clad forest, follow the cairns to somewhere unexpected, or simply retreat to a house in the middle of nowhere – escape. Both featured artists depict calming moments.

Long-term Telluride local, Molly Perrault, creates paper shard paintings of the stunning San Juan landscapes, images from her travels, and markers along her journeys.

Katherine Lott, a local to our sister gallery in Kerrville, TX, displays whimsical mixed media paintings of quiet settings – the perfect happy place.

Lott and Perrault will both be in attendance for the August Art Walk opening.

South Fir Street

South Fir Street is an embellished poster gallery featuring the art of Judy Haas.

A collection of vintage posters, movie posters and music posters hand-embellished with crystals, diamond dust and other elements.

Each poster is one-of-a- kind.

Tellurado Studio

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

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

Telluride Art Collective

Telluride Art Collective is featuring the work of Rebecca McFarland and Joanie Schwarz.

Rebecca and Joanie see beauty in imperfection. This space is a working studio, displaying a collection of artworks such as paintings, photography, fine jewelry and hand-embroidered cashmere.

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery is featuring The Body Electric: Eli Craven.

Eli’s works conceptually with photographic images, re-evaluating the physical and psychological potential of the picture through sculptural and digital interventions. The materials are reconfigured through simple acts of censorship and distortion, potentially provoking the desire to see. The renewed compositions often act like a peephole, which diverts the viewer’s gaze and focuses attention to otherwise overlooked details.

Entire scenes are rendered incomplete without the viewer’s imagination filling the gaps and visualizing what lies beneath the surface of the photograph, or behind the veil.

The Body Electric is a series of exhibitions for 2021 which highlight figurative art and light art—asking its viewers to meditate on the idea of humanity, embodiment, and our unique light.

Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse

The Telluride Transfer Warehouse is presenting a Tiny Concert Series featuring Mike Dillon.

Doors open at 6pm and the show will start at 7pm.

For tickets, visit TellurideArts.org/warehouseeventscalendar.

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is featuring “Altered States,” a collection of recent works by gallery artists including: Catherine Courtenaye, Sue Dirksen, Krista Harris, Shawna Moore, Christine Nguyen, Kelly O’Connor, Lisa Pressman, Maggie Taylor, and Emmi Whitehorse.

The works on view are mostly abstract with the exceptions of O’Connor’s commanding multi-paneled collage and Taylor’s whimsical photographic arrangements. The collection brings the unconscious mind to center stage, unveils inner desires, and creates an experience that is as much felt as seen. In essence, the dreams of these artists are on view, however literal or exaggerated they may be.

Altogether, this grouping of mostly new work creates an atmosphere that will both engage and challenge the mind’s inner eye.

The Turquoise Door Gallery

The Turquoise Door Gallery is featuring the artworks of Rita Pacheco, a local Colorado artist and new Ridgway resident.

Rita’s “slice-of-daily-life” oil paintings of Telluride and the region evoke memories of Norman Rockwell – but with her own contemporary impressionist style.