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The Body Electric: Winter Show

The Body Electric: Winter Show

Telluride Arts HQ Gallery in Telluride, Colorado is excited to present The Body Electric: Winter Show, a group exhibition curated by Britt Bradford and featuring the artwork of Casey Hagerman, Joshua Penrose, Katy Parnello, Sara Scribner, Shane Scribner, and Britt Bradford. The Body Electric highlights figurative art and light art—asking its viewers to meditate on the idea of humanity, embodiment, and our unique light.

The show will be on display beginning December 17, 2020. The Art Walk opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 17, 2020, 5 - 8 pm at Telluride Arts HQ Gallery (135 W Pacific). The gallery is open Monday-Friday from 12-6pm or by appointment.

Curator’s Statement:

“I live in the Kingdom of eternal joy and absorbing interests. My body is "the body electric,” timeless and tireless, birthless and deathless.” - Florence Shovel Shinn

"As I sat one morning reading the complete works of Florence Shovel Shinn, this quote made me pause and ponder what this might really be like. What is it to be birthless and deathless? What is this Kingdom? Is It really possible to live in such a vibrant and expansive way? Completely absorbed in the beauty of life…

Then I began to think about what brings me joy and captures my interests. Painting. Spiritual growth. Being out in nature. Connecting with friends. And as my mind began to wonder, as minds do, I landed on community. Are there other people who would desire to live in this way? What would it be like if we were all living our higher purpose in joy and freedom from limitations such as death or time? If any place comes close, I would say Telluride attracts those of us looking for this greater life. And so, this conversation felt relevant to bring to our little mountain community. And since I’m an artist, naturally, I wanted to have this conversation presented by art.

And so, The Body Electric was born.

It is my hope in bringing this show to the Telluride Arts District galleries, you will ask yourself some questions. And maybe you will ask others what they think… Hopefully, you will make it to the galleries (or even just look in our windows from a distance) and wonder, “How are the artists engaging with the idea of an electric body?” And in this way, we can come together as a community and steep in the mystery and beauty of life and embodiment. What it means to be human, in a collective, learning and growing and coming into our own unique light. "

- Britt Bradford

Artist Bios:

Britt Bradford

Britt Bradford is enthusiastic about two things: the great mysteries and the beauty of life and painting. Everyday, Britt works to expand her understanding and translation of these two passions, and as she does, they grow together and inform one another. At times, she says they seem inseparable. Painting has taught Britt just as much about herself and life as seeking truth has taught her about good draftsmanship and eloquence of applying paint. Through her work, Britt explores humanity and our unique paths and the evolution of the soul. Britt strives for a sense of vulnerability and power in her figures and portraiture. She is inspired by the Dutch Golden Age and Renaissance portraiture in technique and style, and she aims to push this craftsmanship while exploring more contemporary concepts.

Brooke Einbender

Brooke Einbender, a.k.a. Mindbender Art, is a leading pioneer in the exploration of XR art (extended reality art) & community-based VR collaboration. Brooke is establishing new frontiers at the intersection where art and technology meet in the context of its impact on consciousness. She creates mind-bending experiences purposed to harness spiritual energy; transporting the viewer to different inter-spatial dimensions.

Dan Gundrum

Dan Gundrum specializes in immersive digital art through projection mapping, lasers, and special effects. He is an active member at Deep Creek Experimental and fine-tunes his plethora of creations in his studio built inside the old limestone mine. Dan regularly shares his talent through artist workshops and holds an annual welding workshop through Telluride Fire Festival. Dan also works as Technical Director with Telluride Theatre, helping direct the cogs behind the scenes to make the show go on seamlessly.

Casey Hagerman

Casey Hagerman believes in the old adage that a picture can be worth a thousand words—when it stirs emotion and intrigue. In her work she strives to bring the viewer into feelings of nostalgia, whimsy and connection. Casey grew up in San Francisco, a youngest child with an active imagination. She experimented with painting, drawing and writing through school but took a break from art post-college. After a traumatic experience a number of years ago, she found healing and relief in the meditative act of using scissors and adhesive to create scenes out of magazine images. Casey specializes in mixed media collage using found images in print. Her work is influenced by portrait and landscape photography as well as the ability of art to arouse feeling in us. 

Joshua Penrose

Joshua Penrose is an independent artist living in Columbus, Ohio.  His work has been exhibited nationally.  Penrose works across a variety of media informed by the digital domain including sound, video, light, and digital automation.  He holds an MM in Music Composition from Towson University and an MFA in Art and Technology from The Ohio State University.

Katy Parnello

Katy Parnello is a self-taught wood worker and light artist.  Her Electroliers are wood-based wall hangings which incorporate light elements, such as incandescent bulbs, found object light structures and neon. 

Sara Scribner

The narrative portraits of Sara Scribner weave flora and fauna with realism to create paintings that have a timeless quality. The subjects of Sara’s paintings are often women that appear to have a powerful connection to their surroundings. They are often woven into a wilderness or dreamscape that uses flowers and animals to add a fanciful quality to the paintings. Often her characters wear lace and soft satins yet are strong and in command.

Her realist style is created by using oil paints in multiple layers until the subject appears life-like on the aluminum panel.

Shane Scribner

Shane Scribner is a representational artist who uses oil paints and strong color combinations to create contemporary portraits. Often using stark, white backgrounds the portrait of the sitter is painted in vivid hues. His use of classical painting techniques mixed with provocative compositions and color combinations create paintings that capture the modern woman in a new light.

Judy Haas

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.

New Orleans Group Show

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

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.

2020 Mountain School Senior Exhibit

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

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?

Jonas Fahnestock and Goedele Vanhille

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.

Wagner Custom 2020 Artist Series

Wagner Custom 2020 Artist Series

Each year Wagner Custom Skis builds hundreds of custom skis for people all over the world. Each ski varies in length, width, sidecut, tip/tail shapes, rocker/camber profiles, and is made up of a different combination of handpicked materials with diverse stiffness and flex patterns. But, what makes each ski even more special to its owner is the unique topsheet they choose. This is where Telluride Arts and the Boulder Creative Collective get to join in the fun. This year’s “Artist Series” ski designs have been curated by four different Colorado artists, each personalized with their distinctive art.

Trine Bumiller

Trine Bumiller

What is a monument but a memorial to a location or a moment in time? What we choose to memorialize and make monuments to reflect our history, our culture and our need to remember. Trine Bumiller’s 129 paintings depict all of the U.S. national monuments that were created to honor and protect places of cultural, environmental, and cultural importance. To add another layer, the paintings are all rendered in hues of pink to represent all phases of feminism, from baby blush and sexy hot pinks to reds of passion, rage and love.

Fawn Atencio

Fawn Atencio

Fawn Atencio has recently been exploring how we connect to land as a form of identity. “I am interested in how places tell stories, create memories, and transfer meaning,” says Atencio. Growing up in Colorado, her grandparents were avid fishermen and women who, year after year took Atencio and her siblings to explore, fish, and camp in the Rio Grande National Forest. “The landscape seemed very magical to me as a child. It wasn’t until I spent an extensive period of time Asia and northern Africa as an adult, that I realized how much of my identity is formed by the American Western landscape.”

Micheline Klagsbrun

Micheline Klagsbrun

Micheline Klagsbrun’s latest body of mixed media work on paper originated in a found object: a ledger containing observations of the 1874 Transit of Venus, a phenomenon occurring every 243 years when the planet Venus moves across the face of the sun, twice. Astronomers over the centuries, dating back 5000 years ago to the Sumerians, have tracked her movements and seen her as divine. The Transit of Venus becomes an entry point into a variety of inter-related ideas, celestial and astronomical, scientific and mythological, all of which become themes in the work. The depths of ocean and cosmos are evoked by Klagsbrun's creative use of cyanotype, a 19th-century photographic printing technique that produces deep indigo shades over which she layers drawings in ink and pencil.

Danielle DeRoberts + Lindee Zimmer

Danielle DeRoberts + Lindee Zimmer

What do you attract? What do you emit? How do you balance the two? Magnetic/Radiating is the exploration of balance between attracting and emitting. Stored in the soft folds. Tucked in the deep tissue of our bones. Woven into our neurons. We carry our pain from trauma, from recent events, from our childhoods and/or from previous lives. Stored like a secret in our bodies. Through introspection, internal processing and arduous work the pain is liberated. The pain is unwound. Detached from our physical body. Energy is released. When cultivated it can be converted to beauty. Radiating into the world.

Favianna Rodriguez

Favianna Rodriguez

Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, sexual freedom and ecology. Her practice boldly reshapes the myths, ideas, and cultural practices of the present, while confronting the wounds of the past.  Favianna’s signature mark-making embodies the perspective of a first-generation American Latinx artist with Afro-Latinx roots who grew up in working-class Oakland, California during the birth of internet, and in the midst of an era of anti-immigrant hate and the war on drugs. 

Emily Palmquist

Emily Palmquist

Home Fire was composed alongside a series of moves that set Emily Palmquist voyaging from west to east and west again. This fluttering about left Palmquist and her work double-taking for a sense of place and connection. The results invite viewers to step into a narrative of mixed origins where the familiar comingles with the projected, the past, the day-dreamed, and other deviating realms.  

Ron Scharfe

Ron Scharfe

Ron Scharfe’s abstract modern art paintings are the result of color and form interacting, and the beauty and movement emerging from their interplay. Scharfe is inspired by exploration. “When you explore, the unexpected happens: color upon color; form upon form…movement creating shapes, which are suddenly rearranged into some other order. Mimicking impermanence, revealing and yet disguising what lies beneath.”

Katy Parnello

Katy Parnello

Katy Parnello's newest collection, Visceral grew from a desire to create space for her family.  Realizing on a deeper level the importance of environment, she created a comforting and inspiring room that provides strength, support and a reminder of what is possible.  Her stand alone pieces can be hung on walls or incorporated into the architecture of a building to further support and encourage the sensory experience of life.

Jorge Anchondo

Jorge Anchondo

Jorge Anchondo lives in Ridgway. He has studied in plenty of places and received plenty of degrees. Although he may be known more for his pigs than his paintings, art has been his life for over half a century. He paints because it provides a space to think and meditate. His paintings do not have anything at all to do with painting as painting, perhaps more with painting as a vehicle to let him wander in another land.

Chris Roberts-Antieau

Chris Roberts-Antieau

The colorful, humorous, and hopeful fabric works of New Orleans artist Chris Roberts-Antieau will be on display at Gallery 81435 through September 2018. Chris Roberts-Antieau is a self-taught pioneer of machine embroidery. Her main body of work, which she calls “fabric paintings,” are highly sophisticated tapestries created in her signature style of fabric appliqué and intricate embroidery, crafted on a simple Bernina sewing machine. Antieau’s subject matter ranges from joyfully candid cultural commentary depicting unbelievable true stories to more personal reflections on nature, perception, reality, and truth.

Jason Lee Gimbel

Jason Lee Gimbel

Known for his monumental figurative paintings, Jason Lee Gimbel renders full figure works through abstraction-expressionist brushwork and vibrant colors. Gimbel’s instinctual approach, random use of color and mark making pushes figurative work to the edges of representation and, in some instances, into abstraction. These painted drawings break up the surface through a visual harmony that disrupts the partially outlined figures, providing the viewer with a complex balance between the merger of the figure and background.

Gregory Botts

Gregory Botts

Every spring, Gregory Botts drives across the country from New York City to Abiquiu, New Mexico. Along the way, he visits natural areas and begins his works as plein air paintings. Each year, a narrative emerges in the paintings. A southern route through Florida, Louisiana, and Texas has heavily influenced the past five years. This particular direction points to an imaginative poetry sought out by Botts. The plein air paintings typically emphasize a concern for endangered environments. These paintings also serve as references in Botts’ studio paintings. In his studio, Botts enlarges imagery remembered from his trips and uses his plein air paintings to guide his ideas and artwork. After a simple narrative is formed, a poetry of symbols arises from the repetition and simplification of forms. In this type of painting, the Earth itself has become a character – playing the ideal part of the hero.