07 Oct Telluride Arts October: Art Walk (some shows up during off-season)!
The Telluride Arts’ Art Walk summer/fall season ends with the First Thursdays series October 7. 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.
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
SHOW Bar at the Sheridan Opera House
Slate Gray Gallery
Tellurado Studio
Telluride Art Collective
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
The Turquoise Door Gallery
For its 30th anniversary and the opening of the Ah Haa’s new home in the Silver Jack Building, Ah Haa celebrates Daniel Tucker and Judith Kohin with an intimate exhibition of their personal artistic works.
In 1991, bookmaker, writer and teacher Daniel Tucker founded Ah Haa School for the Arts as a center for artistic exploration and inspiration. Soon after, Judith Kohin stepped into the role of Director. Both artists established the creative foundation of Ah Haa’s mission to foster imagination, insight and personal expression in all.
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 and learn aboutongoing classes, workshops, programs and 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
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 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 in San Francisco, who grew up in the San Juan mountains.
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.
This October in “Animal World,” MiXX atelier is featuring paintings by local artist Jorge Anchondo along with textile art by Meghan Purcell and Britt Marie Alm. The three artists share a common thread of connection to the animal world – whether as subject matter or physical media itself.
Ruminating on mass extinction and the dwindling populations of animal species across the globe, Anchondo paints the fauna that reveal themselves to him on his daily walks through the meandering country roads of his home in rural Colorado. With gratitude for these chance encounters, he views these works as a record of the wild creatures that we as a species have failed to co-exist with on a grand scale.
Purcell and Alm, on the other hand, work with centuries-old media that rely on animal husbandry and direct relationships with the sources of their fibers – specifically domesticated sheep. Purcell’s felted wool tapestries showcase the rugged, multicolored fleece of the Iceland sheep farmed near her Montana home, while Alm works the finer, lightly spun Merino wool of New Zealand into her intricate, rhythmic weavings.
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.
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 en plein air this July and captures the historic charm of the town of Telluride and surrounding natural beauty. Forty percent of sales benefit the 501c(3) non-profit organization that owns and operates the historic Sheridan Opera House.
“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” the inaugural Not-So-Young People’s Theater production, premieres at 8 p.m. in the theater immediately following Art Walk. This special Local’s Night features half-price tickets.
Slate Gray Gallery presents “Expanse,” featuring Mark Bowles, on display September 30th – November 8th.
The exhibition lures the viewer into the dramatic expansiveness of wide open places. While the monumental images suggest details of the topography of a site, the shape of mountains, the essence of water, trees and such, more accurately describe the emotions stirred in the artist. His simple, but animated palette, elegantly minimal lines, flattened picture planes and overall composition rewards the viewer by connecting with the artist’s personal feelings about a place.
In short, Bowles’ acrylics do not record; they evoke.
Bowles is a Bay Area artist and master colorist whose brilliant work is internationally recognized and collected. His driving passion brought him success while studying art in California and then Mexico. To date, most of the artist’s larger-than-life works interpret the landscapes of Northern California, the Central Valley, and travels through the Southwest.
Tellurado Studio
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 the boundaries. The protagonists of these hand-embellished prints are the Coyotes: enigmatic figures searching for the next big adventure. Stop in and see the newest editions of Pierson’s collection!
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 is featuring “The Body Electric: Luma Jasim.”
Jasim is a multidisciplinary Iraqi-born artist based in Brooklyn, NY, and Boise, ID. who has lived through three wars, an economic blockade, the US invasion catastrophe, and later, her immigration to the US.
Jasim left Iraq in 2006, three years after the invasion. First, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey, and immigrated to the United States two years later. Since then, her art deals with war, violence, and her immigration and acculturation experience, which rose from that.
Jasim multi-media body of work explores the relationship between violence, politics, gender, and emotional memory. In her artwork, she uses the personal to address the political and activate the viewer’s curiosity. Luma often reconstructs her memories, traumas, and thoughts on displacement, belonging, and strangeness in various mediums, including mixed media painting, performance, video, and animation.
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 Twilight at the Transfer, a free live music series. This week’s event features Tom and Claybrook; doors open at 5pm and the show starts at 6pm.
The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is pleased to present Local’s Loop, a group exhibition featuring artists Gordon Brown, Bill Ellzey, Bruce Gomez, Julee Hutchison, Carl Marcus, and Brett Schreckengost.
A favorite of many visitors, the annual Local’s Loop exhibition highlights the important collaboration between the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art and the acclaimed artists who call this region home.
The Turquoise Door Gallery is celebrating our magnificent autumn with new works by Jim Wodark, Nicholas Reti, Robert Franzese and Susie Hyer.
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