JULY 7 - AUGUST 10, 2023
This 2-person exhibition features Brian Chen and Gabby Gawreluk who finish their 2-year residencies at the Carbondale Clay Center this fall. Brian uses the idea of form following function, in the context of biology, architecture, and design, as a guideline to create. Gabby constructs functional and sculptural ceramics that are constructed from wheel thrown parts and slabs of clay.
Read MoreMay 26 - June 27, 2023
“Stone Entropy” features three local marble sculptors all living and working within the Crystal River Valley: Chet Haring, Luke Leone, and Gregory Tonozzi, exhibit new works both inside the gallery space as well as outside in The Launchpad’s sculpture gardens.
Read MoreAPRIL 14 - MAY 18, 2023
“FROM THE CENTER: Maps, Wefts, Shifts, Hoops” is a group exhibition that binds together four women: all mid-career artists, all witnesses to the everyday: Elizabeth Newman, Emily Payne, Augusta Talbot, and Marcia Weese (curator). All have been wives, all are mothers, and all continue to weave life’s fabric in the studio.
Read MoreMARCH 3 - APRIL 7, 2023
Studio for Arts + Works: Join the 25+ artists of SAW (Studio for Arts + Works) based in Carbondale. This group exhibition will feature artists working in painting, printmaking, & letterpress to ceramics, jewelry, & textiles.
Read MoreMARCH 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.
Read MoreJANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The Valley Visual Art Show is one of the longest-standing community art shows committed to showing the work of local artists. VVAS began in 1980 as a venue for local artists to share their artwork with the public.
Read MoreNOVEMBER 17 - DECEMBER 24, 2022
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms our gallery space into a shop filled with artisan 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 creatives while supporting our local economy during the holidays.
Read MoreOCTOBER 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.
Read MoreAUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Carbondale Clay National is a national exhibition of ceramic art held annually at the Carbondale Clay Center Gallery in Carbondale, CO. Each year CCC’s selected juror(s) develop a theme for the exhibition, invite a handful of contemporary ceramic artists who emulate the theme, and choose about 25-30 works (scale dependent) from the jury pool.
Read MoreJULY 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.
Read MoreMAY 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.
Read MoreMAY 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.
Read MoreAPRIL 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!
Read MoreMARCH 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.
Read MoreMARCH 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.
Read MoreJANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 25, 2022
This year’s show features 60 Roaring Fork Valley artists and included two and three dimensional work created in with wide variety of media. An Artist Reception (open to the public) will be held on First Friday, February 4, from 5-7pm.
Read MoreNOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 24, 2021
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.
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 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
Read MoreAUGUST 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.
Read MoreAUGUST 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.
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