JULY 7 - AUGUST 10, 2023

“Use Is Beauty” celebrates time by recognizing beauty as an aftermath of use. Justin Squier transforms found objects into mixed media sculptures by embracing uncommon characteristics and the additive process through which he combines textures, colors, and materials. Squier’s work is a unique melding of contemporary art and antiques that engages audiences of all ages and types. 

MARCH 3 - APRIL 6, 2023

Alma, Colorado-based mixed media artist Kia Neill works in photography, drawing & painting, collage and found materials. Her work is inspired by the push-pull relationship between human use of landscape and the land constantly reclaiming itself, as well as her own sense of spirituality in relation to nature.

OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Carbondale-based artist Elliot Norquist is known primarily for his metal sculptures but this solo exhibition, a retrospective titled “Simple Shapes”, also includes prints on paper from the 1990s, steel works from various periods, as well as his most recent metal-based sculptures.

JULY 8 - AUGUST 11, 2022

Tania Dibbs is an internationally collected artist who explores the jagged intersection between the natural world, humanity and culture through painting and sculpture.

MAY 27 - JULY 1, 2022

Historically the romantic ideologies of the sublime have followed the beauty of Landscape in paintings and photography through the centuries. In “The Nature of Representation: Evidence and Metaphor”, Esther Macy Nooner’s body of work continues the thread of challenging the expectation of what a photograph of Nature “should” be.

MAY 27 - JULY 1, 2022

Hannah Stoll’s solo painting exhibition “Prospects” invites viewers to look hard at ordinary moments, offering a window into the psyche of strangers and themselves.

APRIL 15 - MAY 20, 2022

Long-time Roaring Fork Valley resident and accomplished artist John Toly exhibits his watercolor paintings of the local landscape through the seasons. John is a local favorite!

MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2022

Marilyn Lowey makes assemblage sculptures with found objects which she chooses for their ability to interact with the protean properties of light. She invites the viewer to experience the play of illusion, abstraction, and the instability of meaning as the works ’appearance shifts from moment to moment.

MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2022

Simon Klein’s solo exhibition “I except it : I accept it” is a show in time. Everything here is a web of relationships between the work, the artist, and you, finding meaning through these interactions together and standing in the face of an unyielding clock.

AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Photogram is one of the most basic photographic methods, made by placing everyday items onto a substrate that has been made to be photosensitive. The substrate is exposed to light and developed leaving an impression of the item that had been used. This photographic process pre-dates cameras.

Traditional photographer Forrest Zerbe used plants he finds outside his darkroom as so-called characters in an attempt to construct a narrative landscape which often reads as ominous, possibly due to the state of the subjects’ environment.

AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Over the three years that she’s been preparing this body of work, artist Nancy Lovendahl’s questions evolved to ask: What if there was only one way to depict a mountain due to social convention? How would this affect our creativity and sense of reality? What we see with our eyes is only transformed and understood as truth by our minds.

MAY 7 - 28, 2021

“Transformation” was a solo exhibition with Carbondale-based painter and mixed media artist Hunter Hogan.

OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Saiopor”, a solo exhibition by Chris Hassig and was the first exhibition devoted primarily to exhibiting his 20-year fictional mapmaking project.

SEPTEMBER 4 - OCTOBER 2, 2020

In his solo exhibition “Self-Reflected Universe”, Brian Colley explored variations on the self-portrait as interpreted through both an intimately personal and existentially cosmic lens. Primarily showing acrylic on panel works as well as some watercolors, Brian chose to paint self-portraits as a way to examine his own experiences of sudden loss, change, and personal growth over the past couple years.

AUGUST 7 - 28, 2020

The work in Natasha Seedorf’s “Intimate Geographies” solo exhibition was about inner landscapes; about memory and emotion; about place and a sense of belonging to it.

AUGUST 7 - 28, 2020

Philip Tarlow has made hundreds of landscape paintings over the course of his career, but this was the first time he had made paintings of a landscape in motion. The water in the creek was in constant motion, and the forms and colors that emerge were based on his kinesthetic memory of the many plein air paintings he’d made sitting nearby.

JULY 17 - AUGUST 28, 2020

Local photographer George Hendrix shared his window on the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo where bull riders, barrel racers, ropers, bronc riders, and mutton busters entertain each summer at one of the most unique melting-pot social gatherings in the Roaring Fork Valley.

JUNE 5 - 26, 2020

Matthew Eames’ “Forever Until Tomorrow” showcased a variety of sculptures that play with scale in relation to the human body. The space was occupied by works comprised of multiple components and media, inviting the viewer to contemplate their relationships to built structures.

JUNE 5 - 26, 2020

Alissa Davies’ “Angel Places” depicted locations that had been a part of Alissa’s life that sparked life force, that rippled with magic and meaning and that were imbued with beauty, strength, and/or challenge. The focus was on natural environments, and her paintings were translated into abstracted landscapes.