Carbondale Arts presents two new exhibitions at the R2 Gallery, both on display August 6 - September 10, 2021. Opening with an artist talk for First Friday, August 6 at 5:30pm. The R2 Gallery hours are weekdays 10am-5pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm.

Traditional photographer Forrest Zerbe’s subject of choice for this body of work is local botanicals. Most of these plants were found on his small farm right outside of his darkroom. Forrest uses the plants as characters in an attempt to construct a narrative landscape. These works are an attempt to revisit the basics of photography while speaking about our environment on an emotional level.

Nancy Lovendahl’s “Small Glimpses, Many Times” - 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. Through this body of work, the artist hopes that a beautiful and non-threatening subject — the mountain — may provide an entry through which we can investigate our patterned responses and assumptions.