Telluride Arts: Feb. Art Walk; Most Shows Up Through the Month!

01 Feb Telluride Arts: Feb. Art Walk; Most Shows Up Through the Month!

Telluride Arts’ February Art Walk takes place Thursday, February 3. Participating venues are open from 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/tellurideartwalk. Use it any time to help navigate through the venues which are open to the public most days. 

Go here for more on the show at Slate Gray.

Go here for more on the show at the Telluride Gallery.

Due to San Miguel County policies for public indoor spaces, please bring masks for entry into Art Walk venues.

Salamandra, featured at the Slate Gray Gallery

Venues hosting Art Walk receptions:  

Ah Haa School for the Arts
Atelier
Baked in Telluride
Bella Fine Goods
Crossbow Leather
Elinoff & Co.
Kamruz Gallery
Lustre Gallery
MiXX projects + atelier
Red Dirt Studio Gallery
Rinkevich Gallery
Slate Gray Gallery
South Fir Street
Tellurado Studio
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
Tony Newlin Gallery
Wilkinson Public Library

Ah Haa School for the Arts

Ah Haa is featuring “Hometown Bound,” an exhibition of fine leather bindings by American Academy of Bookbinding (AAB) students and instructors. (Go here for more on the show.)

Book artist is Susan Estelle Kwas.

These bindings paired with AAB student class notebook pages and sketches, allow visitors an insider’s glimpse into how books get made.

Visit the Daniel Tucker Gallery and explore the process and admire the products of AAB bookbinders.

For more information and to learn about upcoming free and affordable “Hometown Bound” book-making classes, visit www.ahhaa.org.

Atelier

Atelier is featuring the artworks of Joanie Schwarz.

Atelier is artist Joanie Schwarz’s working studio and gallery space at 215 East Colorado. Joanie’s artwork ranges from delicate 14k handmade gold jewelry to dreamscape merged photography of old-world Telluride.

All of Joanie’s work questions what connection means in a world where we need to belong. Our sense of home is imperative to who we are.

Baked in Telluride

Baked in Telluride is featuring “Life is Precious: Use Your Time Wisely,” an exhibition of photography by Morgan Pihl.

Born and raised in Telluride, Colorado, Pihl is an award-winning photographer. A graduate in professional photography from the Isaacson School at Colorado Mountain College, his snow-action sport images have been published in major magazines including National Geographic.

Pihl’s vivacious work includes flora and fauna of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado and beyond, the regional, national and international scenes of his journey. His photos are intimate and yet capture the vast.

Pihl is a professional wildlife and outdoor lifestyle photographer, hunting guide, performance athlete, adventurist and animal companion.

Bella Fine Goods

In addition to featuring beautiful jewelry collections curated from around the world, Bella Fine Goods is presenting the works of Aida Izadpanah and Stan Natchez.

Stan Natchez is known for his innovative and creative paintings. Inspired by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and other iconic artists, his work exudes the power of color and familiar objects. His canvases often begin with artifacts of American culture, including figures such as Native Americans, mission priests or cowboys. Intricate stars-and-stripes beadwork add texture to bold works that emanate beauty and joy.

Aida Izadpanah lives and works in New York City, specializing in large-format, mixed-media and porcelain sculptural painting.

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.

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 who hand-craft each piece.

Elinoff & Co.

Elinoff & Co. is featuring the artworks of Eugenio.

Simply known as Eugenio, he is one of the most promising Peruvian artists working today.

Sprawling cities might seem boisterous to some, but for Eugenio a bustling urban setting is a source of inspiration. Through a command of light and movement, Eugenio takes the ordinary trappings of such settings—cityscapes depicting crowds of people shuffling through a brightly-lit street—and transforms them into something special and grand.

Kamruz Gallery

The Kamruz Gallery is featuring photography by 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 depict the ever-so-active, hippy-happy and often a bit quirky Telluride lifestyle.

Lustre Gallery

Lustre Gallery is presenting the Todd Reed jewelry collection with a special trunk show featuring one-of-a-kind statement pieces.

Todd Reed is an award-winning artist-jeweler whose work has historically challenged established concepts of high jewelry and luxury design.

Reed’s singular style, incorporating raw and natural colored diamonds with recycled metals, has created an entirely new category of jewelry, rebranding the notions of luxury in the process.

Every piece Reed designs is hand-forged in Boulder using only the finest materials and ethically sourced, conflict-free stones.

Master jewelers meticulously make every piece by hand, employing classic and modern metalsmithing techniques. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.

MiXX projects + atelier

MiXX projects + atelier is presenting “The Ridgeline,” an exhibition featuring the works of Meghan Purcell, Katie Heffelfinger, and MiXX atelier’s newest artist, Dave McClinton.

“The Ridgeline” explores landscape through media and abstraction.

In McClinton’s Austin workspace, crumpled paper forms are the source material for his imagined mountainscapes, transforming into clouded skies and uncannily realistic rock faces. Passages of text from historical documents are subtly rendered into the fabric of his artworks, adding layers of meaning that invade the tranquility of his austere landforms.

Fiber artist Purcell builds her abstract mountainscapes from felted wool, sourced from Icelandic sheep pastured in the valleys near her Livingston, Montana home. Here, the sharp, rugged lines of her rocky peaks play against the soft fiber from which they were formed in poetic contradiction.

Finally, Heffelfinger takes the least traditional approach to the genre with her ethereal watercolors. Composed of dots and lines in dreamy blues and effervescent gold, her abstract works on paper evoke the energy of monumental landforms, transmuted into shape and color.

Red Dirt Studio Gallery

Red Dirt Studio Gallery is featuring paintings by Eunika Rogers, a local artist who works with found clay, wine and pigments, also handcrafted jewelry by Tony Finocchio.

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

Rinkevich Gallery

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

Rinkevich’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.

Slate Gray Gallery

Slate Gray Gallery is presenting “Così Splendido e Vero,” an exhibition featuring the works of Silvio Porzionato.

The exhibition is titled after Porzionato’s painting titled “Così Splendido e Vero da Potervi Ingannare,” which translates to “so splendid and true that it can deceive you.” His large-scale contemporary figure paintings combine classical, mannerist, and expressionist techniques.

Porzionato begins each painting by photographing friends and people he meets on the street. These close-up depictions of ordinary individuals transform them into icons. Inspired by the theatre and opera, each character in the portrait is a star on the “stage” of the canvas. Silvio performs with poetic acts of quick, instinctive brushstrokes – completing a painting in as little as two hours. Between every character he paints and his gestural movements, a story unfolds.

Silvio Porzionato was born in 1971 in Moncalieri, Italy, and graduated from art school and worked as the head designer for a leading Italian company. At the age of 33, he became a self-taught portrait painter. Soon after, he was added to Turin’s Museum of Urban Art’s permanent collection (2010), selected for the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), and exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sicily (2013).

Porzionato gained international recognition exhibiting in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, London, Istanbul, and now Telluride.

South Fir Street

South Fir Street is featuring the artworks of Judy Haas.

Haas hand-embellishes music posters, record covers, antique & vintage posters, movie posters 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.

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

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery is featuring “Historic Treasures of the San Juan Mountains: Thomas Livingstone,” a photographic collection of historic mining sites nestled in the remote and rugged mountains of Southwest Colorado.

Livingstone has made the first effort to document and preserve the spirit of the early San Juan mining pioneers who lived and died high in the dramatically beautiful San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.

Growing up in scenic Colorado, Livingstone developed a keen interest in photography. In 2011, he opened Kendall Mountain Gallery on Blair Street near his home in Silverton, Colorado. Livingstone spent seven years trekking and adventuring across the San Juans to capture mining structures among the majestic mountains and completed the project in 2021.

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art

The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is presenting “No Reason, No Rhyme,” an exhibition featuring two gallery artists: Kristin Beinner James and Krista Harris.

Kristin Beinner James began her career with landscape painting. Over time, she started asking herself questions about what a painting could be. She attempts to answer this and other philosophical questions through experimentation, employing a variety of media such as acrylic, wax, and oil. She often pushes these media through surfaces such as linen, cotton interface, copper mesh, from back to front.

“No Reason, No Rhyme” takes its name from two new paper works by Krista Harris, and features a combination of Harris’s paintings on canvas and mixed-media on paper. Harris builds areas on the work’s surface with custom mixed colors and glazes and then uses scratching, sanding, and paint removal techniques to weave it all together with various lines and marks.

Tony Newlin Gallery

The Tony Newlin Gallery is featuring the nature and wildlife photography of Tony Newlin. 

This winter season the gallery is excited to present five New Release photographs captured this past year: Aspen Mist, Beach Bum, Room with a View, The Sheriff, and Tranquility.