TELLURIDE ARTS EXHIBITS
Judy Haas
Since the sixties, Judy Haas has been inspired by the art of rock music. The images and artists are unique. Originally intended for inexpensive promotional devices, rock posters evolved into extraordinary visual equivalents of the music they advertise. The posters themselves are created by many different artists. Some of them are silk-screens and signed by the artist. Some of them are “show editions,” rare and no longer in print. Vintage movie and stone lithograph posters are unique and were produced from 1900-1960. All of the posters are embellished with imported Swarovski crystals, diamond dust, and/or hand-cut paper.
Emma Kalff
Since 2018, Emma Kalff has been painting from life while traveling across the United States. Her body of work is in some small part an alternative to the politicized and polarized accounts of our country that seem to come at us from all sides. Emma seeks to create a creative space for processing the present and contemplating the future of this country. This exhibit serves as an intimate look at the state of our nation through the eyes of a painter.
New Orleans Group Show
Gallery 81435 and Telluride Arts’ HQ Gallery in Telluride, CO presents a group exhibition featuring artists from New Orleans, Louisiana. The show will be on display beginning August 6 and runs through the month of August 2020.
The exhibit features a variety of fine art, including paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry, and more. The featured artists are Karoline Schleh, David Borgerding, Arlyn Jimenez, Niki Fisk, Akasha Rabut, Erica Lambertson, Gogo Borgerding, Christian Van Campen, and Joe Flemming.
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto + Eric Bourret
Gallery 81435 in Telluride, Colorado is excited to present the work of Shinji Turner-Yamamoto and Eric Bourret, an exhibition brought to Telluride by Sapar Contemporary. The artwork explores humanity’s relationship and history with the natural world through sculpture, photography, and time.
Tammi Brazee
We want a world filled with beautiful landscapes and exciting megafauna that we enjoy while on vacation, and if we are lucky, while sitting on our own front porch. However, our current way of life demands high rates of natural resource consumption that destroys precious ecosystems, which by association, destroys the beautiful view. We want the best of both worlds; we want our view and to eat it too. Tammi Brazee’s work satirically explores this paradox and the tension that exists when society attempts to reconcile these competing desires.
2020 Mountain School Senior Exhibit
2020 Mountain School Senior Exhibit featuring Koko Waller, Kyle Soukup, Lochlan Boling, Sophia Bridger, and Zelle Winter. Instructed by Daniel Kanow and presented by Gallery 81435.
Brooke Einbender
Brooke Einbender’s work blends several practices including painting, virtual reality, augmented reality, projection, and video, to form altogether an Unknown Zone of art. She is a leading pioneer in the exploration of Virtual Reality, establishing new frontiers at the intersection of art and technology in the context of its impact on human consciousness. Einbender creates mind-bending experiences and paintings that are designed to transport the viewer to different inter-spatial dimensions. Brooke’s process involves translating and trans-muting her oil paintings into Virtual Reality. She seeks to constantly dissect, replicate, and layer parts of her oil paintings to create new “material” as a basis for future 3D digital works. Each of Einbender’s original oil paintings evolves into having a soulful counterpart within a virtual plane of existence, taking on a new digital identity. Einbender’s work raises the question: In today’s world, where does the real begin and the virtual end, or can we no longer distinguish between the two?
Molly Perrault
Telluride Arts’ HQ Gallery in Telluride, Colorado is featuring Layers, an exhibit featuring artwork by two local artists: Brandon Berkel and Molly Perrault through March 2020. The exhibit explores two different approaches to the medium of collage.
Brandon Berkel
For Brandon Berkel, the act of creating is about guiding his imagination from internal to external places. After moving from St. Louis, Missouri to Telluride, Colorado to work on his second novel, Brandon felt inspired to switch to a more visual medium. With a background in writing, Brandon continues to tell stories through his mixed-media collages. He invents and arranges surreal landscapes, merging elements of both reality and fantasy. His current growing body of work is deeply inspired by the epic landscapes of the San Juan Mountains.
Jonas Fahnestock and Goedele Vanhille
Gallery 81435 in Telluride, Colorado will be featuring the work of mother and son duo, Goedele Vanhille and Jonas Fahnestock for their show Family Juxtaposed on display through February 2020. Goedele’s work is organic, full, and rich with curves and emphasis on natural form. Goedele’s son, Jonas pulls inspiration from the natural world, architecture, and the ever-present dialogue between chaos and order.
Shannon Richardson
“I am able to take the gravity of life and turn it into something tangible, and beautiful, but not quite real. The truth becomes the fable and what I find is not myself, but the remnants of dreaming.” Artist Shannon Richardson begins each day with a sense of excitement and wonder, never knowing what will be revealed in the many canvases she works on simultaneously. She paints daily in her light-filled studio loft above the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in downtown Paonia, CO. A back and forth of ideas, questions and answers start to unfold a narrative organically, and the fable is realized.