Small Works Show Reception
11 | 08 @ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Join us for the opening reception of our Small Works Show to celebrate the participating artists. Featuring complimentary beer or wine, live music and a chance to mingle with the artists.
In conjunction with the local Makers Market, the Kinder Padon Gallery Small Works Show will be the perfect place to start your holiday shopping. Featuring a variety of artists, there will be something for every important person in your life!
Catherine Robinson | Bound Book Works
Denise Liebl | Watercolor
Hilary Pulitzer | Oil
Monica Esposito | Oil
Valerie Strassberg + Kathy Babiak | Encaustic on Wood 3D
Virgina Unseld | 2D Mixed Media
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Catherine Robinson | robinsonfineart.com
Catherine Robinson, who hails from Brighton Colorado, will be displaying a series of handbound books that are inspired by her love of anthropology and our western landscapes. These rebound books with painted edges mimic the strata layers visible all around Colorado. Robinson pairs these books with objects of significance of either animal bones, certain rocks or cast bronze sculptures of the landscape. The books are meant to evoke a feeling of the sacred and call back to our distant past as a species.
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Denise Liebl | deniseliebl.com
Crested Butte local, Denise Liebl, offers a series of sketches combining her past botanical studies and her present work of ledger imagery. Liebl’s collection of work is a quiet examination of our history and future of the beauty of our environment. Color and shadow will combine to examine the challenges of water supply, temperature changes, and our human footprint. Liebl’s intention is that the viewer will need to step closer to the paintings to examine the content and gather their own perspective of the work.
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Hilary Pulitzer | hilarypulitzerartwork.wordpress.com
Hilary Pulitzer, who splits her time between Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and Hotchkiss, Colorado brings her oil paintings with the subject of flying, aircraft and aviation to the Center for the Arts. Defying gravity with any size aircraft is exhilarating and potentially dangerous, Pulitzer wants to Evoke the thrill and disorientation of flying at unknown altitude. Enjoy your flight!
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Kathy Babiak and Valerie Strassberg | @fireandfusedartcollective
Fire and Fused Art Collective, featuring artists Kathy Babiak and Valerie Strassberg, who split their time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Crested Butte South, Colorado, bring their encaustics to the Kinder Padon Gallery. Titled “Exploring Playfulness of the Ancients”, Babiak and Strassberg translate messages received from the outside, and share their inner world in wax. The versatility of the encaustic medium is used to share consciences; think of a friend you haven’t talked to in years and, they call. A range of colors, vibrant neons to earth tones; this exhibit speaks to the connections we share – as humans – and to the places, environment, and beings that inform our daily experiences.”
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Virgina Unseld | virginiaunseldfineart.com
Virgina Unseld, of Eckert, Colorado, shows pieces from her series, Winter Woods, which was created during the pandemic using materials already in her studio. Unseld was lucky to live in an aspen grove, giving her constant inspiration for her work. Just as you can’t step twice into the same river, you can’t step twice into the same forest. The light changes, the sounds change, the colors and values change, even within one season. One has to relinquish control with this process and accept the messages that reveal themselves. Each painting is a dialogue between the painting and Virgina. A mark has to respond to previous marks.
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Monica Esposito | monicaespositoart.com
Plein Air painter, Monica Esposito of Whitewater, Colorado is all about celebrating the golden hour and creating bodies of work dedicated to the peak moment of sunset. As fast as the sun illuminates its last fiery touches, it is gone, the warmth and vibrancy is so fabulous but so fleeting. Like many of us in the mountains, golden hour is Monica’s favorite time of day- which can also be the hardest moment to capture.
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