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“Forces of Nature” by Lynn Rushton Reed

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Join us on August 13, 5 – 7 pm to celebrate Lynn at her opening gallery reception. Her gallery show will run August 11 to September 2.

Artist Bio:

Lynn Noelle Rushton brings the Texas native’s bravado and love of the West to her work. Focusing on work-a-day scenes from daily life, in oil, water media, and the ancient hot wax medium of encaustic. She describes her work as ‘painted stories.’ Drawing on the rich cultural history of the west, she combines the techniques of European post impressionism with subject matter that resonates with the monumental scene painters of the WPA and the 30’s and 40’s. She has taught numerous master’s painting classes on the University level. She has studied Art History at Tulane University has earned a Masters in Art from Texas Tech University a BFA in painting from Vanderbilt University and won numerous awards nationally. She has painted plein air in Europe, Asia and South America. She lives and paints in Dallas, Texas.

“Path to Eminence” by Meghan Wilbar & “Memoric Displacement” by Alexandra Forsythe

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Join us to celebrate Meghan and Alexandra for their opening reception on July 9, 5 – 7 pm in the Kinder Padon Gallery.

“Path to Eminence” by Meghan Wilbar

As the clouds shift and change the landscape, I’ve been watching and drawing. I’m drawing the intimate story that exists by looking into the vastness of the open road and selecting the story through torn paper and drawn line. During the days of staying close to home, I’ve been drawing in my car with a pencil and an assortment of papers. It’s a process of careful looking and deciding what story gets told through the lens of shifting impermanence. Concentrating on a 5 mile stretch of Highway 96, I’ve returned throughout the year to walk, draw and absorb the change of form and color at the point where day becomes night. The stretch of landscape includes bluffs, mountains and prairie where shapes change depending on the light. Color, form and imagery create spaces that are both solid and ephemeral. I work to capture these moments through drawing and memory to use in the studio. Every drawing is a prequel to the story the painting tells and will be on view as a pair to show the journey through both observation and interpretation. This exhibition will include both existing works as works that are currently in process. As we move into winter with extended moments of darkness, the project continues with new forms and colors. Through this journey, my work reflects both the strength and fragility of our fleeting moments of time.

Check out her Instagram!

“Memoric Displacement” by Alexandra Forsythe

I learned bead stringing and weaving techniques at the age of 7. This combined with an eye for color and design, earned me several commissioned pieces from family and friends. After being introduced to silversmithing by local jeweler Dave Morgan at the age of 14, I was excited to take my love of stones and metal to a new level. At the age of 16 I attended the intensive jewelry program at the highly respected Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco, CA. I was one of the youngest students ever to attend the program and had a keen interest in every subject offered. My drive to master the skill set presented helped me place second in my class’s final design competition. Attendance at advanced seminars further opened my eyes to the possibilities of incorporating finely made hinges and granulation in my work. The melding of these elements with the organic texture of cuttlefish allows me to express my creative impulses and deep connection to nature.  Hand-casting cuttlebone in fine silver and gold provides an element of surprise and pure organic patterning that is impossible to create otherwise. I allow the inspiration of the waves and swirls that emerge to guide my placement of stones and the shaping of the final pieces. Those who wear my jewelry swear by the durability and comfort. My studio is located in historic downtown Buena Vista, Colorado. I have bench-side views of several 14,000 ft peaks and an expanse of wild terrain to keep me both inspired and grounded. Being able to take an hour or two each day to hike with my dog, rock climb, or raft on the beautiful Arkansas River helps me maintain balance and perspective.

Purchase from her Etsy store and view her Instagram

 

Jessica Marie Leak’s Repeat Until Dead Gallery Reception

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Repeat Until Dead by Jessica Marie Leak

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Connor Scalbom Gallery Opening

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Join us on February 18th 5 -7 pm for Connor’s “Nature’s Moments” gallery show opening. Celebrate with complimentary CBD cocktails and adventure-landscape photography.

Artist Statement

How I got into photography always cracks me up. For as long as I can remember, I always loved taking pictures. However, the true moment that put me here was the summer of 2017. I graduated high school, my girlfriend at the time and I were planning a road trip to the West. I had always wanted an actual camera, but I also wanted to lift my car for the road trip. For weeks, I was back and forth on what I wanted to do. I don’t remember exactly what made me decide to go with the camera side of the coin, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. Oh how my life could be so completely different if I went with the other option.

Hobby turned career, photography has led me down so many amazing paths. I moved to this valley to go to college, and begin that chapter in my life. It turned out, I was taking the first steps on an unexpected journey of my life. The Gunnison Valley could not have been a better place for me to chase my passion, and tune my skills into what is now my full time job. I bounced around from portrait photography, to events, thinking this was the only way to make a career out of this form of art. Or at least the easiest way.

Landscape and nature were always what I loved to photograph the most. I was always drawn to it, even before I always had a camera in my hands. The textures, movements of the planet, and how the conditions and weather can make any landscape look so completely different. I loved to the ability to go explore and capture everything from the smallest details to the greatest views. I quickly was sucked into photography, and going out to capture scenes almost daily. I fell in love with it, and was able to share these places I had been with so many other people. Being able to share a nice photo for others to look at, give them a smile, or even give them a dream of “I want to be there one day for myself” is a feeling I love to have. It feels like we’re surrounded by so much negativity today, having the opportunity to bring even a tiny bit of positivity to others makes me so happy.

About 

Connor Scalbom is a local photographer living in Crested Butte, Colorado. He grew up in Centennial Colorado, originally wanting to begin a path down the culinary arts. That desire quickly shifted to a different form of art. Connor is a full-time photographer at the age of 23. The support from his family, friends, and colleagues is what has allowed him to make this his career. Finding a way to combine a love of traveling, and a passion of creating brought him to this very point where he’s able to do so for work.

Connor began his career in photography in the Autumn of 2018 and has only grown from there. He got his first magazine cover this past summer on the “Crested Butte Magazine” summer edition. Aside from photographing nature, Connor has found a passion for photographing architecture and properties. Recently, he just got the cover of “Luxury Home Magazine” for a home he photographed here in Crested Butte. While quite a bit of Connor’s work features scenery found here in Crested Butte, he has a lot of work outside of the Gunnison Valley. Some of his favorites include Iceland, Utah, and Arizona.

Aside from photography, Connor loves to enjoy time on the mountain snowboarding. He and his dog Gracie go on many adventures together just to explore and get outside. His best friend and he love to explore new places, go camping, and meet new people. Gracie love’s it especially.

Learn more about Connor Scalbom: www.connorscalbom.com

“Outliers” by Teri Havens artist reception

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PLEASE NOTE:  Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test must be shown for entry into this event at the Center.  See our current COVID policy HERE

Please join us Thursday, December 9th 5 – 7 pm at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte to celebrate at the gallery reception of Teri Havens’ “Outliers” in the Kinder Padon Gallery. Enjoy a dramatic photography exhibit, live cello, and complimentary drinks and art-inspired cocktails.

For more information about Teri and her work visit terihavens.com

ABOUT THE SERIES

I’ve always had a thing for bars. The more marginal the better. I’m mostly drawn to rural or urban outliers – raw, dilapidated joints that evoke an earlier, grittier era. An authentic down-to-its-rotting-bones refuge where a hard-edged world is numbed and softened by alcohol and dim lighting.

Defiant vestiges of the past, the bar always seems the last to go. After the grocery store, the lumberyard and the barbershop long ago surrendered to the future and shut their doors for the final time, the bar stayed on. Slumped alone on the edge of a discarded town, its neon spills out onto the asphalt and burns through the night. Inside, the beer is cold, and the jukebox stocked with George Jones and dirges from an irretrievable past. Outliers is an homage to the humble bar. Handcrafted palladium prints of simple, solitary structures shrouded in loneliness and isolation, yet miraculously, as if blessed by some divine patron, still open. The images are captured using either moonlight or ambient streetlight. The finished palladium print, a hybrid of modern digital technology and 19th century printmaking techniques, reflects the context of the antiquated buildings – still alive, but barely – within contemporary society.

 

“Outliers” by Teri Havens

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PLEASE NOTE:  Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test must be shown for entry to events at the Center.  See our current COVID policy HERE.

Please join us Thursday, December 9th 5 – 7 pm at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte to celebrate at the gallery reception of Teri Havens’ “Outliers” in the Kinder Padon Gallery.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Teri Havens has been documenting fragments of American culture for over thirty years. Recurring themes in her work include individuality, isolation and the enduring self-sufficiency of people and places that are often left behind. Her photography is a study – and ultimately a celebration – of cultural and geographic desolation. 

After studying photojournalism at the University of Texas and serving as an intern at the Magnum photo agency in New York, Teri developed her printmaking skills by improvising darkrooms in kitchens and motel rooms across the country while working as an itinerant cocktail waitress.

Teri’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in numerous publications including: The Huffington Post, The London Sunday Times, The Sun Magazine, Photo District News and Adore Noir. In 2016 she was a recipient of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Teri is immensely grateful for the funding she has received from the Puffin Foundation, Dave Bown Projects, The Mind’s Eye and The Luminous Endowment. She currently lives in rural Colorado with her husband Mike and their beagle, Louise. When not lost in the backcountry, or in her darkroom producing palladium prints, she can be found in her beloved ’88 Ford Van on the track of the perfect roadside bar.

For more information about Teri and her work visit terihavens.com

ABOUT THE SERIES

I’ve always had a thing for bars. The more marginal the better. I’m mostly drawn to rural or urban outliers – raw, dilapidated joints that evoke an earlier, grittier era. An authentic down-to-its-rotting-bones refuge where a hard-edged world is numbed and softened by alcohol and dim lighting.

Defiant vestiges of the past, the bar always seems the last to go. After the grocery store, the lumberyard and the barbershop long ago surrendered to the future and shut their doors for the final time, the bar stayed on. Slumped alone on the edge of a discarded town, its neon spills out onto the asphalt and burns through the night. Inside, the beer is cold, and the jukebox stocked with George Jones and dirges from an irretrievable past. Outliers is an homage to the humble bar. Handcrafted palladium prints of simple, solitary structures shrouded in loneliness and isolation, yet miraculously, as if blessed by some divine patron, still open. The images are captured using either moonlight or ambient streetlight. The finished palladium print, a hybrid of modern digital technology and 19th century printmaking techniques, reflects the context of the antiquated buildings – still alive, but barely – within contemporary society.

 

Gallery Reception – Golden: Interpretations of Fall

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Please join us at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte to celebrate at the gallery reception for 11 talented artists in the show Golden: Interpretations of Fall.  Friday, October 1, 5 – 7 pm in the Kinder Padon Gallery at the Center.

PLEASE NOTE:  Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test must be shown for entry into this event at the Center.  See our current COVID policy HERE

Featuring:

Patrick Duke
Adam Freed
Harriet Huff
John Ingham
Jackie Kingsbury
Jessica Loving
Michael Mahoney
John Miller
Suzanne Pierson
Donna Rozman
Mary Tuck

Show runs September 29 – November 5, 2021.  Gallery hours are 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday.  Please wear a mask to visit our gallery during these hours.  

  

John Miller                                                          Adam Freed                                                        Jackie Kingsbury

    

Donna Rozman                                                      John Ingham

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Mary Tuck                                          Suzanne Pierson

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Harriet Huff                                                                                   Patrick Duke

     

Jessica Loving                                        Michael Mahoney

 

Iron Pour: Windows to the Imagination

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The Crested Butte Community School and the Center for the Arts is pleased to present Windows to the Imagination an installation of student iron pour pieces from the last several years. Students worked with Artist in Residence, Jesse Blumenthal at CBCS in both art and design classes. The installation includes pieces from a project focused on imagery and student imagination and mounted together in a tower display. Also on display is student molds of their faces transformed into ‘masks’ of different styles and mounted on bases. The CBCS Jazz band will provide music to accompaniment to the reception. All mask and separation protocols will be followed to make for a safe and fun evening. Please come and support our student artists and their beautiful work!