Telluride Arts HQ West Presents:
Organic Elements: An Exhibit Featuring Kirk Drogsvold, Lucy Peveto, Rebecca Messier, Tara Carter, and Ted Moore
224 W Colorado Ave
This July 2 – August 22, Telluride Arts is presenting Organic Elements, a group show produced in collaboration with Art + Architecture 2023. New in Art + Architecture 2023 is the Garden Tour on Saturday, July 15th. Meander through private gardens and experience the landscape designer’s use of nature’s palette to create beautiful, personal outdoor spaces. In a similar vein, not only have the artists represented in this gallery exhibition explored nature as inspiration, many of them have also used elements in nature as tools for creative expression.
Organic Elements features local and regional talent including Kirk Drogsvold, Lucy Peveto, Rebecca Messier, Tara Carter, and Ted Moore. Telluride Arts will host receptions for Art Walk on July 6th and Art + Architecture on July 14th, both 5-8pm. There will also be an artist panel conversation in the gallery on July 14th from 1-3pm.
The gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday from 12-6pm or by appointment. Contact Telluride Arts at 970-728-3930 or info@telluridearts.org. To see past Telluride Arts HQ Gallery exhibits or to submit an exhibit proposal visit www.telluridearts.org/telluride-arts-exhibits.
Artist Bios
Kirk Drogsvold
John Kirk Drogsvold is an artist with a passion for exploring new frontiers in art and technology. He is excited to explore the possibilities of blockchain and digital fabrication art to create stunning works that are both authentic and cutting-edge. In addition to his passion for innovation, John values collaboration and welcomes the opportunity to work with other artists, designers, and creatives to bring creative vision to life.
John Kirk Drogsvold is a versatile artist who plays alpine flamenco on guitar, whistles, and builds 3D sculptures for both real and digital environments. With a passion for exploration, he has traveled the world in search of creative inspiration, including journeys to Brazil, Spain, and Colombia. Through his music and art, he seeks to convey authenticity and honesty, constantly refining his craft to find the perfect expression.
Lucy Peveto
Lucy Peveto is an artist and former attorney who seeks to show how lives can be transformed.
"I utilize mixed mediums to celebrate the assurance that we can be born again through grace and the beauty of natural transformation. I deconstruct 'pattern' to represent how we may find unexpected light and shadow in nature and in art.”
She has worked as a full-time artist for over 10 years and her work has been featured at the following: Art to the Power of Ten, sponsored by McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum, McNay Art Museum; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum Red Dot; Southwest School of Art; AnArte Gallery; Neiman Marcus and galleries across Texas, New Mexico (Santa Fe, Canyon Road), Hawaii and Florida. Corporate collections include San Antonio University Hospital, The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of the Incarnate Word, La Cantera Resort and Spa, Scaleworks, Children's Bereavement Center and Estancia Hotel, by Hilton.
Rebecca Messier
Rebecca was born in Seattle and raised in the mountains of Telluride, CO. Over the course of her young adult life, she spent time in Boulder, Los Angeles and ultimately London studying hair at Vidal Sassoon. After landing back in Telluride and running her salon for 16 years, she decided to turn her focus back on honing her creativity as an artist. Her current works, large scale ceramic wall installations and thread on paper, run with a theme of repetition in nature, using muted and organic tones and materials such as clay, paper, thread, cold wax and watercolor. Both in practice and presentation, her goal is to create a slow rhythmic meditation.
Tara Carter
Tara is a ceramic artist living in Sawpit, Colorado. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, she earned both her Bachelor of Arts in Ceramics and her Master of Business Administration from Otterbein University. Since graduating in 2011, Tara has been teaching ceramics classes, developing her own work by attending a variety of workshops, and exhibiting her wares. Currently, Tara works full-time at the Ah Haa School for the Arts as the Ceramics Program Director and manages a pottery co-operative, the Wheel House. She fills her spare time making pottery and bird sculptures while enjoying the mountains of Telluride.
Ted Moore
Ted’s artwork is inspired by the landscape, cultures, and history of the Southwest U.S., with a particular focus on trees and wood. Trees measure the passage of time and seasons of life, creating ecological and cultural records; Ted’s art addresses layers of history embodied in both nature and everyday cultural items. His work is characterized by realism, monochromism, and the co-optation of centuries-old European art and craft forms. He combines photorealistic ink painting with historical European cabinetry forms such as retablos, triptychs, reliquaries, writing desks, apothecary cabinets, and cabinets of curiosity, mediating between the known and the unknown, the mundane and the transcendental. His research as a medievalist informs his ability to adapt traditional visual vocabulary to a contemporary aesthetic in order to explore an ecological ontology, a different way of navigating conceptions of what is transcendent, what is present, and how those two meet. By juxtaposing devotional and organizational objects and natural objects, he seeks to overturn anthropocentric and dualistic thinking to convey a sense of interobjectivity. His work allows objects to be traditional as well as ahistorical, products of both nature and human labor.
