"Cosmic Compost: Beauty in the Breakdown & Magic in the Mess" by Rachel Z. Becker
FEBRUARY 28 - APRIL 4, 2025
“Cosmic Compost” is an experiment in honoring and acknowledging decomposition as an essential process in the continuation of life. Using both organic and manufactured materials that have been gathered, scavenged, and arranged in new contexts, the artworks explore the ephemerality of the material world and the fabric into which it is woven — built to change, and embedded with potential.
"Where the Wild Things Live" by Kirstie Steiner
FEBRUARY 28 - APRIL 4, 2025
The environment is a product of us: man made commodities intertwined with nature creating change on earth, but not a healthier one. Animals make their homes in shoes, displaced boxes, tires in the ocean, even their beds are made out of plastic threads, old clothes, and wire. How much longer can wildlife sustain this?
"Patterns of Consumption" by Kalliopi Monoyios
AUGUST 16 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
“Patterns of Consumption” is a solo exhibition by Denver-based artist Kalliopi Monoyios who works to mature the conversation around plastic and American consumerism. Though much of the environmentally themed work about plastic leads with guilt and shame, her work seeks to balance that with awe and beauty in an effort to embrace the complexity of our relationship with the material.
"A Love Letter to Indian Creek" by Clarissa Fortier
AUGUST 16 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
“A Love Letter to Indian Creek” is a solo exhibition by local painter Clarissa Fortier. Located just south of Moab, Utah, Indian Creek has been cherished by Native peoples for thousands of years and is a part of Bears Ears National Monument where Clarissa loves to rock climb and paint. This show is an ode to the place that has held Clarissa through so much change over many years.
"Porcelain Memories" by Dara Hartman
JULY 5 - AUGUST 8, 2024
“Porcelain Memories” is a solo exhibition by Dara Hartman whose ceramic sculptures and pottery reference the handmade quilts, toys, and clothes that she grew up with that were made by her grandmothers, serving as inspiration to her latest body of work.
"Xerocks & Potholes" by Lindsay Jones
MAY 24 - JUNE 26, 2024
"Xerocks & Potholes" is a solo exhibition by Lindsay Jones that focuses on themes of nature, and its cycles of change. The title is a playful allusion to the subject matter in her work, and the processes she uses to create her mixed media drawings, paintings and animations.
"Intimate Landscapes // A visceral collaboration with time, weather, and the living" by Ashley Mosher (Ash/er)
APRIL 12 - MAY 16, 2024
Ashley Mosher (Ash/er) is an artist & storyteller working with mediums of photography, encaustic, resin, 3D art, video projection & storytelling. Her art practice is an organic evolution of her work as a photojournalist, fine art photographer, and filmmaker over the last decade.
"Use Is Beauty" by Justin Squier
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.
"What Is This Gold Toothed Beast" by Kia Neill
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.
"Simple Shapes" Retrospective by Elliot Norquist
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.
Tania Dibbs at Carbondale Arts
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.
“The Nature of Representation: Evidence and Metaphor" by Esther Macy Nooner
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.
“Prospects” by Hannah Stoll
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.
“Our Place” by John Toly
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!
"My Birthday Party" by Marilyn Lowey
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.
"I except it: I accept it" by Simon Klein
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.
The Plants We Live With by Forrest Zerbe
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.
Small Glimpses, Many Times: Mt. Sopris Edition by Nancy Lovendahl
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.
Transformation: Hunter Hogan
MAY 7 - 28, 2021
“Transformation” was a solo exhibition with Carbondale-based painter and mixed media artist Hunter Hogan.
Saiopor: Chris Hassig
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.