Telluride Arts March: Art Walk, Shows Up Through the Month!

02 Mar Telluride Arts March: Art Walk, Shows Up Through the Month!

Telluride Arts’ March Art Walk takes place Thursday, March 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.

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
Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery
Red Dirt Studio Gallery
Rinkevich Gallery
Slate Gray Gallery
South Fir Street
Tellurado Studio
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
Tony Newlin Gallery
Wilkinson Public Library

Ah Haa School for the Arts

Telluride’s Ah Haa School for the Arts is presenting “Wish You Were Here: Postcards to Telluride Past and Present,” an interactive, community-sourced exhibition in the Daniel Tucker Gallery.

An open call went out for photos of Telluride’s past and present events and places asking anyone and everyone to submit pictures that truly capture what Telluride means to them, and that might also resonate with the rest of the community.

In response, photos of karaoke in the Steaming Bean, KOTO street dances, 4th of July and Mushroom Festival parades, even the Valley Floor cows flooded in. From this wide collection, the top 15 – 20 images were selected and printed as runs of 100 postcards each. Visitors to the gallery during the month of March will be encouraged to select a postcard (or two or three!) that prompt their own memories and stories of Telluride, and to write (either signed or anonymous) their story on the back of the selected postcard. Written postcards will be put on narrow shelves on the walls of the gallery, so that everyone can read the stories connected to different places, events, and times.

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 manage to capture the vastness that surrounds us all.

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.

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 showcasing the fine handblown glass of David Patchen.

Patchen is a San Francisco-based glass artist whose work is shown internationally. His love for blowing glass centers around the creative, physical, and technical challenges of the process. The artist’s work is known for intense colors, intricate detail, and meticulous design.

Nothing about Patchen’s art happens by accident – he plans days in advance, creating the pattern elements, which colors should be contrasting or complementary, composing tiles into a mosaic and ultimately determining the shape. The scale of Patchen’s work requires a team to handle the physical demands of creation. It becomes like a dance, timing how to move about the studio dealing with the heat of things because the behavior of the glass changes from second to second at 2300 degrees.

MiXX projects + atelier

MiXX atelier is showing an uninhibited celebration of the coming spring.

Lush forest tableaus from Luis Bivar pair with Joanna Pilarczyk’s sunny indoor scenes in this densely colorful show that should leave you feeling optimistic.

Bivar’s collaged forest-scapes are exuberant with flora and fauna, and subtly grounded with a sense of depth from washed acrylic trees, appearing simultaneously material and surreal.

Meanwhile, Pilarczyk’s thoughtfully cropped portraits are just as rich with color and detail, capturing the depth and breadth of the life lived within the walls of her small apartment.

Mountain Gate Teahouse and Art Gallery

Mountain Gate Gallery is featuring the brilliant paintings of Philip Maltman.

Maltman’s freedom of brushstroke and mastery of form make for a moving visual experience.

Following in the lineage of Cy Twombly, Maltman has perfected his technique – free and flowing to capture the essence of his subject matter. His years of work included jobs running art departments in England in the ’80s and ’90s.

The Gallery is also showcasing Jade Rose. Her new work, “The Water Remembers the Bird after Flight,” is a monumental abstraction which captures an ephemeral moment:

“For one moment, the stillness of the bird is recorded in the water and then it’s gone. This is how light works. That is how life is. We are present, and then we change in an endless dance of emptiness, form and transformation. The background is just as alive and numinous as the foreground.”

Join one of Mountain Gate’s weekly tea ceremonies to enjoy the art over an expertly brewed cup of rare, old-growth tea.

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 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

Slate Gray Gallery is presenting “Rendering The West” featuring the work of Topher Straus.

These large-scale, digital paintings of landscapes highlight the beauty of the West. Each painting starts with a photo, then Straus’ uses his  tools –  computer, stylus, and photoshop – to select and isolate colors, gradations, and hue. With his stylus, the artist paints clean contour lines to describe the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal characteristics of the landscape. Long hours are spent on every detail, down to the last tiny star in the sky. The painting is then sublimated onto aluminum. The outcome? A transcendent rendering of the expansiveness of the American West.

Colorado born, Straus resides near Denver. A graduate of Syracuse University with a BFA in Film Art, he worked under Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Altman, personally directing several films.

Straus’s first solo exhibition in Denver (2019) resulted in an invitation to display his painting,”Tetons,” at the Grand Teton’s National Park Visitor Center through 2042.

Straus has exhibited in galleries, institutions, and museums throughout the U.S. and overseas. At the core of his success is his heartfelt generosity: since 2019, he has proudly donated over $50,000 to non-profits focused on food insecurity, art education, and conservation.

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 Emily Ballou.

Ballou lives, works, and plays in Telluride year-round. She specializes in abstract acrylic paintings, often incorporating other mediums as well (gold leaf, inks, varnishes, and more).

Ballou is constantly pushing her work to have its own unique properties, but consistently strives for vivacious color schemes and stimulating surface textures.

Ballou is also one of 11 artists chosen to display their work on The Cabins at Mountain Village dining pods, each one made from a refurbished gondola cabins. The public art project adds vibrant works of art in high visibility areas throughout the Mountain Village Center, turning ordinary spaces into community landmarks.

The project is a collaboration between Telluride Mountain Village Homeowners Association, the Town of Mountain Village, and Telluride Arts.

Ballou’s original painting from this project is featured in her show at Telluride Arts HQ.

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art

The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is presenting “Emergence,” an exhibition featuring two gallery artists: Malcolm Liepke and Shawna Moore.

Through distinctly different methods, these artists demonstrate both playful experimentation as well as sophisticated execution in what they each do so well: paint lusciously. Seen together, the work of these two artists adds up to a duet of visual pleasure.

Malcolm Liepke is a largely self-taught artist whose figurative oil paintings are often set in intimate interiors with subjects “caught” in intimate moments. Liepke paints from photographs and works in a wet-on-wet technique in which layers of oil paint are built up without drying in between.

Shawna Moore uses encaustic painting to both reveal and obscure, creating mysterious surfaces and depth within line and color. By mixing pigment into heated beeswax and layering it onto a wooden substrate, her work becomes a visual record of selected memories.

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.

Wilkinson Public Library

Telluride Arts is presenting a Wilkinson Public Library exhibition: by Caroline Schnetzler.

Left-handed, right-brained, Schnetzler grew up in the city of Chicago, but fell in love with Telluride the moment she arrived for a summer visit. Three months later, she was calling Telluride home.

And now, her muse.

Schnetzler started painting in high school. Her profound love and passion for self-expression led her to pursue a degree — and now a career— in the arts. Having the inspiration and freedom to be whoever she wants to be on canvas is a gift Schnetzler is very grateful to be able to share with the world.