02 Sep Telluride Arts: September Art Walk, 9/2!
The Telluride Arts’ Art Walk summer/fall season continues with the First Thursdays series on September 5. Participating venues are open 5-8pm hosting 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.
L. Saar, “A Night at the Uranium,” 2015 acrylic on fabric on panel. Telluride Gallery.
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
Red Dirt Studio Gallery
Rinkevich Gallery
Slate Gray Gallery
Studiotelluride
Tellurado Studio
Telluride Art Collective
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
The Turquoise Door Gallery
Wilkinson Public Library
Ah Haa relocated, reimagined.
Ah Haa School for the Arts is a community center of learning and culture that seeks to inspire individuals of all ages to explore, develop and celebrate their creativity. Visit the Ah Haa’s new home at the Silver Jack Building in the Telluride Arts District to see the new facility for ongoing classes, workshops, programs, and community events.
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 the bringing together of spirituality and business in the service of healing. And she 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 is featuring the assorted artworks of Jerry Oyama. His colorful, abstract portrait and still life paintings draw inspiration from animals, dance, sports, and music.
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. Crossbow Leather offers a truly unique experience of retail in the front, and a workshop in the back. With the production happening in the shop, experience the craft first hand, see products come to life, and meet the people hand crafting each piece.
Elinoff & Co. is featuring the artworks of Ann Krasner.
Born in 1967 in Moscow, Krasner received her MS degree in Optimization Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. In 1988, she and her family immigrated to the USA as political refugees. They settled in Malibu, where Krasner created a distinctive, instantly recognizable artistic style.
Krasner’s works have achieved worldwide recognition, with numerous exhibitions and more than 5000 original oil paintings, sculptures, bronze, ceramic and mixed-media pieces in private and public collections.
ETHOS is featuring the artworks of Heidi Krauss.
Krauss has a deep passion for design and how we communicate with our world through what we put on our bodies. She has distilled a lifetime of obsession into statement pieces that serve as functional art – with a story and a mission.
“Bag on a Mission” is a truly authentic brand, embodying conscious commerce. Each piece is handmade by an artisan dedicated to their craft, made in America with as small of a footprint as possible. The mission and vision highlight how slow, deliberate fashion can help us rethink agriculture, heal the soil, and save our pollinators. Krauss’ works are dedicated to being conduits for change: solution focused as there is much to do.
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 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 the artworks of Caryl A. Brown. Brown’s paintings draw viewers into the serenity and sublimity found in nature. As an outdoor adventurer, she uses color, light, and form in her watercolors to share the beauty she has witnessed in nature. Brown’s perspectives and the essence of who she is are rooted in her roles as mother, educator, and athlete. Brown ignites youth to harness their own creative forces and explore the world through art making. She strives to reignite that childlike sense of awe in others through natural beauty.
Lustre Gallery is featuring the assorted works of David Patchen, a New York native now residing in San Francisco.
Patchen’s active series includes vessels and sculptures in many forms, all meticulously crafted. His work is known for its intense exploration of patterns, intricate multi-layered cane and murrine detail.
MiXX projects + atelier is presenting “Outlaw Disco,” an engaging play on themes of Western Americana, portraiture, and pop art.
Featuring stunning new works by Roy Lichtenstein-inspired painter and wood-worker Mitch McGee, Pop Western phenom Kevin Chupik, and portrait artist Paul Morin, this show cleverly contrasts old with new, and bright color with striking monochrome grays.
Chupik and Mcgee pair Wild West iconography with electric pop art palettes and cheeky riffs on antiquated tropes of classic Americana, while Morin re-imagines vintage black-and-white photographs as strikingly detailed, painterly oil portraits that pop on metallic silver backgrounds.
To celebrate the return of the Telluride Film Festival, MiXX will also be showcasing a new edition of Lisa Swerling’s Cinerama shadowboxes – glittering dioramas that capture the worlds of your favorite cinematic masterpieces in miniature.
Mountain Gate Teahouse & Art Gallery
Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery is featuring the vivid and evocative paintings of local artist Jade Rose, with her exhibition “Inherent in the Leaf.”
Working with a fierce intensity, yet maintaining a deeply gentle spirit, Rose holds a Master of Fine Arts and carries her mastery like a torch. She has been a passionate animal rights activist and an abstract painter for 15 years. Her life’s mission is to end animal cruelty by uplifting animals to the level of saints in the eyes of contemporary art viewers.
Mountain Gate is Telluride’s home for the craft, art, and meditation of tea. “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, here and now. Therefore, every true teahouse is an art gallery and every art gallery a welcome place to appreciate the artistry of tea. Guest artists are carefully curated to reflect the space of mindful awareness shared in tea ceremony.
Red Dirt Studio Gallery is featuring paintings from Eunika Rogers, a local painter who works in found clay, wine and pigments collected her clay medium on her hikes in San Juan Mountains and Telluride.
With her earthy palette Rogers creates large realistic paintings of Colorado landscapes with the matter with which they were formed.
The Rinkevich Gallery is featuring “Ancient Conversations,” a series of paintings by Margaret Rinkevich.
Rinkevich’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.
Slate Gray Gallery is presenting “1000 Mile Journey” by Fran J Nagy.
The exhibition examines the complex relationship between Native Americans, U.S. history, and contemporary culture. Drawing on inspiration from cultural assimilation and her dwindling Native American DNA, Nagy’s work delivers a powerful message while speaking for “the ones who are remembered – by how they were forgotten.”
Nagy is the last descendant in her family who carries any physical trace of her Native American ancestry. That is conveyed in her intuitive approach to painting. Every elongated figure is facing away from the viewer, resin dripping off the canvas, both as a statement on lost identity, and also looking forward into anunknown future.
Nagyis a life-long artist, former teaching artist, and owner of Imagine Partners in Art. She was born in Mobile, Alabama, grew up in the New Orleans area and currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama.
Nagy will be in attendance for the September Art Walk.
Studiotelluride is featuring the assorted artworks of Robert Weatherford.
Weatherford has been painting in Telluride since 1977, and has been an integral part of the Telluride Arts community for decades. Originally from Laredo, Texas, Weatherford obtained a Masters in Painting from Claremont Graduate Art School in California and a Masters in Systematic Theology from Union Seminary in New York.
Weatherford is the Director of the Telluride Painting School at the Ah Haa School for the Arts and Vice-President of the Board. He regularly teaches a painting class at Ah Haa.l
The Tellurado Studio is featuring the adventurous fine art of Markus Pierson.
Pierson explores a mythic narrative in 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 Art Collective is featuring the artworks of Rebecca McFarland and Joanie Schwarz.
McFarland and Schwarz see beauty in imperfection. Their space is a working studio, displaying a collection of artworks such as paintings, photography, fine jewelry and hand embroidered cashmere.
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
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Telluride Arts HQ Gallery presents “The Body Electric: Nancy Jean Guerrero.”
Growing up in Stockton, CA, Nancy Jean Guerrero has always used painting, crafts, and imagery as a way to understand and overcome the circumstances she experienced as a child – focusing on her personal relationships with repulsion, beauty, privacy, and obsession.
“I create magical narratives to process my anxieties, reach catharsis, and become vulnerable with the world,” Guerrero explained.
The Body Electric is a series of exhibitions running throughout 2021 which highlight figurative art and light art, asking its viewers to meditate on the idea of humanity, embodiment, and our own unique light.
Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse
The Telluride Transfer Warehouse is presenting “Twilight at the Transfer,” a free live music series. This week’s event features Ethan Morrison; doors open at 6pm; show starts at 7pm.
Morrison is an indie rock/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with a rich dynamic sound and stellar singing and guitar chops. He is a finalist in the 2021 New Mexico music awards (winners have yet to be announced), in both the Indie rock and adult contemporary/pop categories.
Morrison grew up in Colorado and now resides near Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is presenting “Then & Now,” a group exhibition featuring artists Sheila Pree Bright, Dan Budnik, Alison Saar, and Lezley Saar.
The exhibition includes painted and printed works by Lezley and Alison Saar alongside photographic images of major civil rights marches and movements (1958 – 1965 by Dan Budnik and 2020 by Sheila Pree Bright). The works are supported with a short film and poetry by Sheila Pree Bright.
As Ashley Hayward, Owner of Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, notes: “This [exhibition] has inspired powerful memories shared by our visitors. For our gallery team, this has become our listening show, and we have witnessed visitors having deeply moving experiences. These shared experiences are profound and create opportunities to educate and shape us all.”
The Turquoise Door Gallery is featuring original paintings and photographs by Colorado and other internationally acclaimed artists.
Telluride Arts is presenting a Wilkinson Public Library exhibition: “Within The Woods” by Cie Hoover.
Hoover’s artworks evoke the solitude, peace, and inspiration found within the mountains and forests. He seeks these aspects when creating his artworks, every art piece inspired by the wood and environment within which it is created.
Hoover utilizes various types of wood to create wall-mounted works with depth and texture, as well as large and small sculptural works.
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