The Plants We Live With by Forrest Zerbe
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.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast
Identidad y Libertad
Identidad y Libertad

JUNE 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.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast
HELD: What is the Value of the Vulnerable?
HELD: What is the Value of the Vulnerable?

MAY 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.

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TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast
Contemporary Fiber Art: Crossing Thresholds
Contemporary Fiber Art: Crossing Thresholds

APRIL 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.

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Carbondale ArtsPast
Stone Souls
Stone Souls

APRIL 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.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast
Deck the Walls: Holiday Market 2020
Deck the Walls: Holiday Market 2020

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.

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GROUP EXHIBITION, JURIEDCarbondale ArtsPast
Shadow Entanglements: Jim Harris & Vanessa Porras
Shadow Entanglements: Jim Harris & Vanessa Porras

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.

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TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast
Self-Reflected Universe: Brian Colley
Self-Reflected Universe: Brian Colley

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.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast
Motion: Philip Tarlow
Motion: Philip Tarlow

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.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONCarbondale ArtsPast