MARCH 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).

JANUARY 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.

NOVEMBER 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.

OCTOBER 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.

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

“Parallel” represented the long-term creative friendship with artists and 2018/19 Aspen Art Museum (AAM) Fellows Wewer Keohane and Andrew Roberts-Gray who have known each other for over 25 years and had many “parallel” experiences along the way.

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.

JULY 3 - 31, 2020

Local artist Wewer Keohane sent invitations to artists to accept a randomly chosen flash card from her as inspiration to create artwork and as a prompt to examine their time of isolation during the pandemic. Over 50 artists accepted the challenge.

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.

MARCH 6 - 27, 2020

Andrew Rice’s mixed media work in “Accessed (Means of Entry) investigated the psychological implications of the spaces that keep us alive but also prevent access from outside surroundings.

MARCH 6 - 27, 2020

Elizabeth Morisette’s work used recycled or repurposed materials, drawing viewers in to experience these often common objects in a new manner.

JANUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 28

This show featured 50 Roaring Fork Valley artists and included two and three dimensional work created in with wide variety of media.

NOVEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 29, 2019

Presented each holiday season by Carbondale Arts, Deck the Walls is carefully juried and open to artists and craftspeople all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado.

OCTOBER 18 - NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Our identity in relationship to technology is rapidly changing. This exhibition, by K. Vuletich, Perry Taga, and Sarah Espinoza, used interactive technologies and mixed media collage to emulate this changing relationship.

SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 4, 2019

This retrospective features long-time local Jack Brendlinger’s bronze sculptures which are produced with the lost wax technique. With age, his work has become abstract, gravity defying, modern, and filled with whimsical characters.

SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 4, 2019

A solo exhibition of Etar’s transcultural journey through fabric, highlighting her experiences working with locals in Peru, Bolivia, Uzbekistan, Dubai, and many parts of Europe as well.