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Masterpieces of Colorado:
A Rich Legacy of Landscape Painting
July 28 - September 23, 2007
This major landscape exhibition showcased over 60 works by artists from the late 19th century to the present.
There was a wonderful mix of both prominent 19th century and contemporary Colorado landscape artists. Generous collectors and artists opened their doors and allowed precious works to travel throughout the state. Many of the paintings of late 19th century artists had never been in shows outside of these collections, and therefore, never before accessible to the public. Styles and impressions of Colorado's landscape range from the romanticized early works of Thomas Moran, Helen Henderson Chain and Joseph Hitchins to the more modern views of Ernest Lawson, Charles Bunnell and Vance Kirkland. The same is true of the contemporary artists whose works range from those of Clyde Aspevig and Gordon Brown, Charles Forsman and Ned Jacob.
This exhibit was sponsored statewide by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Colorado Council on the Arts. Local sponsors A.G. Edwards Sewell/Arledge Group, Halliburton, and Williams made the exhibit’s Grand Junction stop possible.
Left: The Art Center's first building (1970)
Above: The Art Center offered its first children's art classes on Saturday at Tope Elementary in the early 1950s.
This photo is a 1957 class.
Al Nestler
One of 19 founders
and an artist in The Art Center's Permanent Collection
The Art Center's
55th Anniversary Celebration
September 5 -- November 15, 2008
Underwritten by Shear Inc. & Chuck and Patti Shear
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Contemporary Clay Biennial 2010 Juried by Ceramist and Clay Times columnist Peter Pinnell May 14 -- June 26 Opening June 4, 7-9pm
Title Sponsor
Presenting Sponsors
Bob and Leslie Zentner
Invited Artists: Jason Briggs, Meredith Brickell, Susan Dewsnap, Steven Hill, Matt Kelleher, Monica Kieffer, Simon Levin, Monica Ripely, Sean Scott, Kate Sherfenberg and Shoko Teruyama Juried artists: Jake Allee, Tom Alward, Marion Angelica, Steve Belz, Doug Blechner, Allison Bohlke, Michael Bonds, Magi Calhoun, Benjamin Carter, Neil Celani, Meagan Chaney, Jinah China, Autumn Cipala, Jim Connell, Laura Cooper Elm, Patrick Dougherty, Gary Erickson, Delores Fortuna, Anne Fremgen, Daniel Gardner, Michael Garlitz, Anne Golberg, Seth Green, Guillermo Guardia, Mark Harro, Ross Hilgers, Steve Hilton, Barbara Hoffman, Tom Jaszczak, Virginia Jenkins, Chris Kanyusik, Jonathan Kaplan, Kristen Kieffer, Diane Kenney, Amy Kline, Martina Latin, Minkyu Lee, Chris Lively, Peg Malloy, Elliot Marquet, Sharon McCoy, Lee Middleman, Robert Milnes, Paul F. Morris, Tom Meyers, KyoungHwa Oh, Wenfen Pan, Matthew Patton, Molly Peacock, Joanna Powell, Sara Ransford, Abbey Rothenbuehler, Donna Rozman, Jim Sandefur, Phyllis Savage, Arun Sharma, Gloria Singer, Daniel Slack, Hunter Stamps, Kyla Stid, Julia Timm, Goedele Vanhille, Sumi von Dassow, Derek Walter, Tim Wedel, Tony Wright, Hong-Ling Wee, Lars Westby and Scott Ziegler. |
Juried Artist Awards
Best of Show Kristin Kieffer of Baldwin, MA
First Place Tim Wedel of Palisade, CO
Second Place Tom Jaszczak of Appomattox, VA
Third Place Martina Latin of Gatlinburg, TN |
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Spare Change: works by Paul Collins
June 4 - June 26 Opening June 4, 7-9pm
Sponsored by Flint and Elisabeth Ogle
Paul Collins uses his daily experiences as a jumping off point for discussing the world through his art.
"I am more of a sidewalk artist than a white box artist...", " I am a diarist artist...." says Collins about the way his work takes from and preserves the feeling of daily encounters that are both public and private.
About these coin pieces he says, "I've been making coins for 20 years to commemorate changes and happenings in my life. These last few years have been a whirlwind of change so it seemed like the perfect time to blow them up and figure out what they really mean." The show will feature carved ceramic and wood coins from 4" to 1 foot and large scale drawings of the slogans and images that make up these personal tokens.
Paul Collins received his MFA from Yale University and attended as a resident of Skowhegan School, ME. Currently Paul the artistic director of painting and critical studies at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village Village, CO.
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Contemporary 2009: Sculpture Material, Physical, Structural and Awake! May 15 – June 27, 2009 th Presenting Sponsor
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Bay Area artists exhibiting are Terry Berlier, Keith Evans, Nathan Lynch, Seth Koen, Barbara Holmes, Christine Lee, Matthew Scheatzle and Sculpture 2009 curator Michael Meyers. The exhibit also showcases nine local artists and twelve other talented artists from all over the country. Michael currently resides in Oakland, California but has strong connections with Grand Junction. He grew up here and attended Grand Junction High School. His father, Don Meyers, volunteered for The Art Center before there was a staff to run it. In 2001, Michael exhibited the installation Cold Shivers Point at Mesa State College and in 2003 produced We Saw Sprites here at The Art Center. Outside of Grand Junction, Michael participated in a collaborative installation at the Whitney Biennial in 2003 and has produced work for the Lyon Opera Ballet. His work has been seen at Stanford University, the Oakland Museum of California and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. He was awarded a Pollock Krasner Grant in 2007. He has graciously accepted our invitation to jury and bring in six other Bay area Artists to participate in our Juried/Invitational Contemporary Exhibit. The contemporary exhibit is in its twelfth year, and is supported by sponsorships from local businesses, community support from a network of area artists, patrons, The Art Center membership, and a growing number of youth involved in our intern and volunteer programs. _________________________________________________________________________________
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Jac Kephart Retrospective
Fifty Years in the Making
September 7 - November 10, 2007
Local artist Jac Kephart has shown in numerous galleries including those in Santa Fe, NM; Sedona, AZ; Breckenridge, CO as well as the West Coast. Although Kephart has a national reputation, The Art Center is the home of his first comprehensive retrospective.
The work is bold and exciting. Using his previous landscapes and the deserts and canyons of the Colorado Rockies as a starting point, Kephart creates compositions that have a grand scale and geological depth that resolve the luminous textures of their surfaces. His use of different materials gives his abstractions a sculptural feel.
The Legacy of
Mauricio Lasansky
November 30, 2007 -- January 19, 2008
Amalfi Moment
Jack Orman
artists represented:
Mauricio Lasansky, Jack Orman, Charles Hardy,Gerry Wubben, Douglas DeVinny, Joshua Butler, Jennifer Bauer, James Ehers, Charlie Huang,Greg Porcaro, and
Camille Silverman
Master Printmakers highlighted the processes of intaglio prints. The intaglio print has certain qualities that other mediums do not. The deep rich blacks of the inks, the precise marks made by engraving, and the use of acids as an etching device make the intaglio print different from all other mediums. In the intaglio process, an artist will work metal plates with burins, scribs and acids. Each print must come from a plate that is freshly wiped and inked before it is run through the press. These prints differ from the mass produced prints that we are familiar with today for they are generally very labor intensive and in extremely limited edition. Intaglio has been practiced throughout art history by artists such as; Whistler, Rembrandt and Durer. The mechanics of this process has stayed the same for centuries.
The long awaited 2nd Biennial Contemporary Clay 2008 Exhibit opened with the First Friday reception on May 2nd and runs through June 28th. This national juried/invitational exhibit will feature works in clay spanning a wide spectrum of expression, ceramic firing process, and forming techniques.
This year’s jurors were Tom and Elaine Coleman of Henderson, Nevada. With over 40 years of studio ceramic experience, these two highly acclaimed artists had the challenging task of selecting work from submitting artists from all over the U.S. as well as inviting 10 artists to also show. With a discerning eye, they have put together a very engaging exhibit with clay work rarely seen in Grand Junction. The Colemans had pieces in the first 2006 Contemporary Clay Exhibit as invited artists and will show a few of their impeccable porcelain pieces this year.
Out of 81 submitting artists and 225 pieces entered, the jurors selected 48 artists to show 62 pieces. In addition, the 10 invited artists have 25 to 30 pieces representing their work. All told Contemporary Clay 2008 is a feast for the eyes with over 90 examples of diverse clay art on display. This second biennial clay exhibit, now nationally known, speaks to the high caliber and expressive efforts of serious devotees of clay work.
In total, work by artists from 18 states is represented. Western Slope Colorado artists are well represented including Grand Valley artists Tim Wedel, Joanie Post, Harold Snider, Norm Olson, Elizabeth Lynch, and Sara Ransford. Works by the ten invited artists, while never seen in Grand Junction before, represent a national cross section of clay artists. Most of the artists have achieved national and international recognition for their careers in clay and include Linda Arbuckle (Florida), Susan Filley (North Carolina), Chris Gustin (Massachusetts), John Hopkins (California), Pat Horsley (Oregon), Matt Long (Mississippi), Frank Masseralla (California), Seth Rainville (Arizona), Ellen Shankin (Virginia), and Al Tennant (Washington).
John Hopkins
Grand Terrace, CA
Elaine Coleman, Judge
Henderson, NV
Wells Fargo presents
11th Annual Contemporary Exhibit: Contemporary Clay 2008
A National Juried and Invitational Ceramic Exhibit
With
Judges Tom & Elaine Coleman
May 2 – June 28, 2008
Generously Underwritten by:
