Small Glimpses, Many Times: Mt. Sopris Edition by Nancy Lovendahl
Nancy Lovendahl carving stone (photo by Rob Kittala)
“Through this body of work, I hope that a beautiful and non-threatening subject — the mountain — may provide an entry through which we can investigate our patterned responses and assumptions.”
Carbondale Arts presented “Small Glimpses, Many Times: Mt. Sopris Edition”, a solo exhibition by Nancy Lovendahl, at the Carbondale Arts R2 Gallery, on exhibition August 6 through September 10, 2021. The public was invited to an outdoor artist talk (see link below to view) on First Friday evening, August 6, at 5:15pm at The Launchpad to hear Nancy speak, along with Forrest Zerbe, whose solo show “The Plants We Live With” began the same day.
An experiment in self-awareness…
What we see with our eyes is only transformed and understood as truth by our minds. This exhibition is an invitation to view this phenomenon as a metaphor for the conflict between perception and reality that divides us from each other.
Over the three years that I had been preparing this body of work, my questions have 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? How is this boundary self-imposed? I began to see the circular nature of my concept — how the repetitive form is not only illustrative of the problem of narrow-minded thinking, but how it can also be the solution to finding the way out.
*Due to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic, the surge in Delta variant cases, and our commitment to be responsible to our constituents and ourselves, masks will be required at all events and openings, regardless of vaccination status.
“Small Glimpses, Many Times: Mt. Sopris Edition” was generously sponsored by Power Surge Productions, creating films since 2009. Thank you!
This exhibition opened the same dates (August 6 - September 10, 2021) as “The Plants We Live With” by Forrest Zerbe.
Nancy Lovendahl, mixed media artist, Old Snowmass, CO
“I was born and raised in the Chicago area and escaped what I anticipated would be a confining future to the vast open space of Colorado”.
Following studies at The University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana in ceramics, Lovendahl has expanded to making work for both inside and outside environments in ceramic, stone, metal and mixed media exploring issues of social division, perception and awareness.
Her artwork can be found in private & public collections and museums such as The Smithsonian Institution in Wash., DC, The Keramikmuseum, in Westerwald, Germany and The National Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia.
She has won numerous monumental Art in Public Places awards nationally in cities such as Dallas and Denver. Nancy teaches and lectures in institutions such as The Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, China, Anderson Ranch Art Center and Nebraska Wesleyan University. She exhibits internationally and nationally with recent solo exhibitions at The Red Gate Gallery Residency in Beijing, The American Embassy, Belmopan, Belize and Denver’s Michael Warren Contemporary.
Nancy lives in rural Old Snowmass, CO with husband, jewelry designer Scott Keating. She works in studios in Old Snowmass and Denver.
Artist talk with Nancy Lovendahl on Friday, August 6.
Enjoy a virtual tour of "The Plants We Live With" and "Small Glimpses, Many Times: Mt. Sopris Edition", on exhibition at the R2 Gallery from August 6-September 10, 2021.
Take your own tour of this exhibit here.