SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 29, 2021

Named for the essay that inspired this collaboration, this exhibition featured work by Roaring Fork Valley artists who engage with material as a way to contribute to the cannon of women in contemporary abstract sculpture. Participating artists: Leah Aegerter, Nori Pao, Louise Deroualle

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.

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.

JULY 9-29, 2021

Travel through time in this first-ever gallery exhibition about the history of Mountain Fair, which began here in Carbondale in the summer of 1972.

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.

MAY 7 - 28, 2021

“Transformation” was a solo exhibition with Carbondale-based painter and mixed media artist Hunter Hogan.

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.

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.

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.

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.