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.
Read MoreMAY 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.
Read MoreAPRIL 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!
Read MoreMARCH 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.
Read MoreMARCH 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.
Read MoreJANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 25, 2022
This year’s show features 60 Roaring Fork Valley artists and included two and three dimensional work created in with wide variety of media. An Artist Reception (open to the public) will be held on First Friday, February 4, from 5-7pm.
Read MoreNOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 24, 2021
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms the R2 Gallery into a shop filled with artisanal goods which make up the annual Deck the Walls Holiday Market. We strive to help small businesses grow and to encourage the community to engage and connect with these artisans while supporting our local economy during the holidays.
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 29, 2021
Named for the essay that inspired this collaboration, this exhibition featured work by Roaring Fork Valley artists who engage with material as a way to contribute to the cannon of women in contemporary abstract sculpture. Participating artists: Leah Aegerter, Nori Pao, Louise Deroualle
Read MoreAUGUST 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.
Read MoreAUGUST 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.
Read MoreJULY 9-29, 2021
Travel through time in this first-ever gallery exhibition about the history of Mountain Fair, which began here in Carbondale in the summer of 1972.
Read MoreJUNE 4 - 24, 2021
Identidad y Libertad explored the issues around identity and freedom for those who are Spanish-speaking immigrants as well as those who are born in the United States yet are presumed, because of their heritage, to be undocumented immigrants. The artists in the exhibition (Tony Ortega and Claudia Bernardi, along with youth immigrant detainees in Virginia) examined the questions that arise around identity and what it means to be free. Their works tell the stories of the varied experiences of Latinx people in this country and of those south of the border.
Read MoreMAY 7 - 28, 2021
“Transformation” was a solo exhibition with Carbondale-based painter and mixed media artist Hunter Hogan.
Read MoreMAY 7 - 28, 2021
“HELD” was a joint show honoring how we as people can hold the vulnerable in meaningful ways, while questioning if, when, why and how it matters to do so. Ceramic artist Jenn Weede of the Fireweed Studio exhibited ceramic vessels holding aspects of nature, life and death, and the edges thereof. Shelly Safir Marolt painted images of the vulnerable to illustrate that it matters, immensely, that we value holding each other when we are at our most vulnerable.
Read MoreAPRIL 2 - 29, 2021
“Contemporary Fiber Art: Crossing Thresholds” was an exhibit of innovative work by award-winning fiber artists, which explored the intersection of art, nature, spirit, science, and the social and political environment, while pushing the traditional boundaries and application of fiber art.
Read MoreAPRIL 2 - 29, 2021
The works of photographer Greg Watts and mixed-media and print artist Alice Bedard-Voorhees expressed the importance of their relationships with stones and the spiritual and aesthetic relationships they inspire.
Read MoreMARCH 5 - 25, 2021
“NESTed Roots”, a collaborative exhibition in partnership with CU Boulder’s “Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts program and Aspen-based CORE (Community Office for Resource Efficiency).
Read MoreJANUARY 22 - FEBRUARY 26, 2021
This show featured 50 Roaring Fork Valley artists and included two and three dimensional work created in with wide variety of media.
Read MoreNOVEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 30, 2020
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms the R2 Gallery into a shop filled with artisanal goods which make up the annual Deck the Walls Holiday Market. We strive to help small businesses grow and to encourage the community to engage and connect with these artisans while supporting our local economy during the holidays.
Read MoreOCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Jim Harris’ attention once pointed outward towards incredible places and people, but he had to learn to turn his observation inward. That inner terrain is convoluted, rugged as any place stamped in his passport.
Vanessa Porras’ “Entanglements” series explored heredity through patterns and linework found in hair and nature, and now transformed into abstract prints inspired by undulations, topography, braids and lineage.
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