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.

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.

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 featuring Koko Waller, Kyle Soukup, Lochlan Boling, Sophia Bridger, and Zelle Winter. Instructed by Daniel Kanow and presented by Gallery 81435. 

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?

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.

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.

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.

“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.

This collection of Tara Carter’s sculpted birds is just a small sample of birds that frequent Telluride. Not all of them stay here year-round, but the hearty ones stick it out (we’re looking at you, Black-billed Magpie). Then there are the breeding warblers who make their annual trip to the box canyon. These beautiful little birds come to the area, create a nest, and abandon it until they return the next year. And you can't forget about the migrants who stop through town for some rest and recuperation on their larger journey. Much like the people who make up our community, all of these birds contribute in their own way to make Telluride a place we love to be in. Some may stick out more than others, but that's what keeps our little town so interesting.

Jesse Crock is a Colorado-based artist with a love of climbing, cycling, and the outdoors. The rich color and sharp contrast of his acrylic paintings attempt to capture the vibrant Colorado landscape of the places he travels. Jesse is an art teacher who finds that he often connects his work with the playfulness of his students and is inspired by the energy they bring to the classroom. As an outdoor enthusiast, he brings the viewer’s eye to places that are not often painted.

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.

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.

Telluride Arts put out an open call for entries of x-rays, as well as optional small artifacts, short stories, poems, etc. that tell the story of how “you broke and/or got back together”. Nearly 30 people submitted their x-rays, and over 50 x-rays were received and will be displayed, representing a full range of injuries and procedures. The narrative told through these portraits of our broken insides is a unique, and sometimes dark, reflection of the lifestyles we choose to live. 

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.”

As the specter of the automation and artificial intelligence continue to advance, slowly replacing more and more blue-collar jobs, Dave Pressler imagines a parallel universe in which his classic robot characters must show up for factory work the same way we begrudgingly did at the turn of the 20th century. “We’re having another industrial revolution right now, but most people aren’t really talking about it,” explains Pressler. “There’s all this rhetoric about immigrants coming in and stealing blue-collar jobs, but it’s not really true. It’s the same thing that happened in the 1800s when local furniture-makers and garment makers were suddenly replaced by factories powered by steam and assembly-line workers. We’re seeing the same kind of job displacement that we did at the start of the 20th century, but this time it’s being driven by automation and AI.”

Telluride Arts’ HQ gallery in Telluride, CO presents, Mid-Summer Mardi Gras, a group exhibit featuring seven artists from New Orleans, Louisiana. The show will be on display beginning July 31, 2019 and runs through the month of August 2019.

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.

Addressing the intersection of art and science through a series of mixed media paintings, the work is an abstract visualization of the processes occurring beneath the forest floor. The Mycelia series incorporate white fibers that represent the Hyphae, fine branching tubes that are important structures required for the growth of tree species. Other pieces are a composite of observational drawings and patterns taken from early botanic studies. Inspired and informed by the writings of British naturalist Robert Macfarlane, the artist is pleased that the show is opening a month after the publication of his new book Underland. The connection between the human and natural worlds and the urgency to address current issues regarding the health and future of our landscape is what Nemirov is interested in communicating through visual works that depict the mystery and complexity of the invisible process that is the mychorrhizal network.

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.