Past
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Beverly Crilly: Making Meaning Mine
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, October 3rd, 5 - 8 pm 3 - 20 Oct 2024 In conjunction with Telluride's 2024 Original Thinkers Festival, Slate Gray Gallery presents 'Beverly Crilly: Making Meaning Mine.' After several visits to Deep Creek Mine, a decommissioned limestone mine near Telluride that has morphed into a subterranean site for art, local cold wax artist Beverly Crilly was inspired to embark on... Read more -
Brett Schreckengost: Panoramas
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, September 5th, 5 - 8pm 5 - 29 Sep 2024 'Brett Schreckengost: Panoramas' will feature eight images of the San Juan Mountains around Telluride. This selection of work is mainly large-format landscape panoramas that allow for greater appreciation of detail. The thread of the work is an ode to trails, routes, and destinations in the area that locals and visitors... Read more -
Lisa Barlow: Holy Land USA
Photography Pop-Up 29 Aug - 3 Sep 2024 Between 1980 and 1981, while local photographer Lisa Barlow was a student at Yale, she spent time in Waterbury, Connecticut – also known as Holy Land USA. As the name implies, Waterbury is a devout Christian town complete with a miniature Jerusalem featuring scenes from the Bible and biblical quotations... Read more -
Joseph Toney: Points Unknown
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, August 1st, 5 - 8pm 1 Aug - 1 Sep 2024 Slate Gray Gallery is excited to host an exhibition of new work by Joseph Toney, a Utah artist with an illustrative painting style that reimagines the landscape, mostly mountains, in a contemporary and often geometric way. Joseph is well known for his black and white ink renderings of the mountains,... Read more -
In Place: Recent Paintings by Rebecca Crowell
Exhibition Opening | Tuesday, July 2nd, 5 - 8pm 2 - 28 Jul 2024 'My paintings are always influenced by my surroundings, especially wild, natural places. The ancient, rugged landscapes of northern New Mexico where I live, and other remote places like the west coast of Ireland where I go each year are the basis of my abstract visual language. Their dramatic vistas are... Read more -
ALL OF US: Aela B. Morgan
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, June 6th, 5 - 8pm 24 May - 30 Jun 2024 Slate Gray Gallery is excited to present a solo exhibition of works by Aela Morgan. This is Aela's first show with the gallery. Aela is a citizen of the world who currently maintains a studio practice in Telluride. Her works are her personal responses to the biting reality of human... Read more -
Peaks & Petals: Kathryn Tatum & Nicole Finger
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, March 7th, 5-8pm 7 Mar - 7 Apr 2024 For our last exhibition of the season, we will say goodbye to winter by celebrating the beauty of the mountains. Slate Gray Gallery artist Kathryn Tatum's work will be on display alongside local artist Nicole Finger. This exhibition will highlight how these two artists capture the essence of the mountains... Read more -
From Darkroom To Digital: Jerry Uelsmann, Maggie Taylor, and Topher Straus
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, February 1st, 5-8pm 1 Feb - 4 Mar 2024 This exhibition highlights the various ways in which three artists transform photographs into unique and exceptional works of art. The late Jerry Uelsmann , known as the 'Father of Photoshop,' is remembered and respected for his application of multiple exposures utilizing traditional darkroom technology to create surreal photomontages. Maggie Taylor's... Read more -
Special Feature: Hooey Mountain
Exhibition Opening | February 1st, 5-8pm 1 Feb - 4 Mar 2024 Slate Gray Gallery is excited to feature a new artist in the gallery for the month of February: Hooey Mountain. We'll have a selection of prints from her 'Skier Series' available, both framed and unframed. Nearly 20 years ago, Hooey bought the first two antique toy skiers in what has... Read more -
All the Good Stuff: Group Exhibition featuring Karen Scharer
Exhibition Opening | January 4th, 5–8pm 3 - 30 Jan 2024 In this special group exhibition, Colorado artist Karen Scharer will debut seven new paintings at Slate Gray Gallery alongside a selection of artwork from other gallery artists including Judith Kohin and Lisa Pressman. Join us for the exhibition opening during the first Art Walk of 2024: Thursday, January 4th, from... Read more -
Clay & Ink: Goedele Vanhille & Jonas Fahnestock
Exhibition Opening | October 5th, 5–8pm 5 Oct - 20 Nov 2023 Clay & Ink featured local artists - also mother and son- and their respective mediums. Read more -
Marshall Noice: Curious by Nature
Exhibition Opening | September 7th, 5-8pm 6 Sep - 2 Oct 2023 Slate Gray Gallery is excited to present a collection of new paintings by Marshall Noice. This will be the artist's first exhibition with the gallery although he has shown his work in Telluride for more than 20 years. Read more -
Julie McNair: Offerings
Exhibition Opening | September 7th, 5-8pm 29 Aug - 2 Oct 2023 Since 2004, Julie McNair’s sculpture has been reflective of the natural world and our place in it. Many of the pieces are metaphors of the imbalance between humans and the natural world. Some are psychological studies seeking balance. Julie’s latest series “Offerings” portrays a more harmonious relationship between humanity and... Read more -
Mark Bowles: Memories of Landscapes
Exhibition Opening | August 3rd, 5-8pm 2 Aug - 5 Sep 2023 Recent paintings by Mark Bowles suggest vaguely familiar land masses and agrarian fields of central California, but they are clearly imaginative responses not intended to be read as literal. They balance the familiar with the highly personal. Read more -
Sylvia Benitez: Every day I see majesty
Exhibition Opening | July 6, 5-8pm 5 - 30 Jul 2023 “I usually paint from my memory’s images of my surroundings. I started to think about mountains from my past: upstate New York, my winters spent at the MacDowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, areas I am familiar with. But these memories were 20 to 40 years old and quite fuzzy.... Read more -
In the Valley of Beautiful Surprises: A Group Exhibition Featuring Marketa Sivek
Exhibition Opening | July 6, 5-8pm 5 - 30 Jul 2023 In The Valley of Beautiful Surprises highlights Marketa Sivek's recurring house theme - a metaphor for shelter as well as circumstances that can change suddenly. Read more -
Waxing Rhapsodic | Judith Kohin, Shawna Moore, and Amy Van Winkle
Exhibition Opening | June 1st, 5-8pm 26 May - 2 Jul 2023 Waxing Rhapsodic is a celebration of wax as a medium and the versatility of encaustic painting. Each of the three artists in the exhibition has developed a method of working with wax that results in a style entirely her own. In different ways, they have all pushed this ancient technique... Read more -
Mountainfilm Pop-Up with Beth Moon and Ryan Neil
Exhibition Opening | May 26th 4pm-7pm 25 - 29 May 2023 In conjunction with Mountainfilm, Slate Gray Gallery presents the work of two artists featured in the film 'Trees, and Other Entanglements.' Both artists will be present for Art Walk. Photographer Beth Moon will show large scale, richly toned pigment prints of trees. Bonsai master Ryan Neil will display a selection... Read more -
Without Reservations | Fran Nagy & Gina Sarro
Exhibition Opening | March 2nd, 5-8pm 2 Mar - 2 Apr 2023 Read more -
Christopher Warren: Watershed Moments
Exhibition Opening | March 2nd, 5-8pm 17 Feb - 19 Mar 2023 Christopher Warren is a gay artist known for his intricate depictions of topographic landscapes. Born and raised in Durango, Colorado, the rugged beauty of the surrounding mountains and desert canyons sparked his fascination with topography at a young age. Warren's sculptures are a testament to his deep reverence for the... Read more -
Rhythm in Nature | Cie Hoover & Topher Straus
Exhibition Opening | February 2, 5-8pm 2 - 27 Feb 2023 Slate Gray Gallery is pleased to present the works of Cie Hoover and Topher Straus alongside
each other in “Rhythm in Nature.” Cie and Topher are both Colorado artists who use very
different mediums to reflect their experiences in the natural world. Cie, a woodworker and former touring musician, considers art and music to be a united pair. Topher, an avid outdoorsman and digital artist, seeks to understand the rhythm of nature by spending time outside and using that experience to inform his artwork. The result for both artists is an energizing body of work that speaks to the connection they each feel with nature.
Cie Hoover is an artist and musician with a lifelong passion for the visual arts. After nearly seven years of touring North America with his wife as part of their folk-rock duo You Knew Me When, Cie settled in Ouray, Colorado. There, he bought and remodeled an old 1898 mining house and discovered the versatility of wood as an art medium. He transformed his garage into a woodworking studio where he creates carved sculptures and “wooden canvases.”
“My aim with my pieces is to enhance the innate beauty found in wood. I use [woodworking] as
a means to stay connected with the natural elements that surround me. Through nature I find art. Through art I find balance. And through balance I find peace.” - Cie Hoover
Topher Straus is an artist who has created an entirely new medium to capture nature’s grandeur.After a successful career in the film industry, Topher shifted gears in 2018 to become a full-time artist whose work represents an unconventional, stylized approach to both natural and urban landscapes. His digital paintings are sublimated onto aluminum sheets and coated in a glossy resin. His colorful and dynamic work has been exhibited in galleries, institutions, museums and private collections worldwide.
“My work is a celebration of nature. A large part of my art is the first step, the actual journey, experiencing nature in person.” - Topher Straus
A portion of sales from “Rhythm in Nature” will be donated to the Ah Haa School for the Arts. Read more -
Sky High | Group Exhibition
Exhibition Opening | January 5, 5-8pm 5 - 30 Jan 2023 A group exhibition featuring artists whose muse is the sky. Featured artists include Mark Bowles, Gordon Brown, Jill Holland, Angela Okajima-Kempinas, Molly Perrault, Marketa Sivek, Maggie Taylor, and Jerry Uelsmann. The opening reception takes place Thursday, January 5th from 5-8pm and the exhibition runs through January 30th. Read more -
Ode to Lift 9 | Brett Schreckengost
Exhibition Opening | December 7, 5-8pm 7 Dec 2022 - 16 Jan 2023 As the official photographer of the Telluride Ski Resort, Brett Schreckengost's span the ski industry, travel industry and more and capture the risk-taking spirit of the San Juans. The series of works featured in Ode to Lift 9 pay homage to the infamous lift and its new iteration at Telluride Ski Resort. Read more -
Group Exhibition featuring Dan Gundrum & Cie Hoover
Exhibition Opening | Thursday, December 1st, 5-8pm 1 - 9 Dec 2022 In partnership with Telluride Fire Festival, Slate Gray North is featuring the works of local abstract and multimedia artist Dan Gundrum and Ouray-based woodworker Cie Hoover. Gundrum is a Telluride local and diverse artist who works in many mediums. His most recent work which will be on display features abstract artworks with Augmented Reality designs projected onto the canvases. Read more -
Colors of Colorado
Exhibition Opening | October 6th, 5-8pm 6 - 31 Oct 2022 Slate Gray North presents Colors of Colorado featuring a selection of our Colorado artists. It is no secret that Colorado is a place of inspiration. Artists flock to the state to absorb the colors and scenery around them, spilling it into their art. Read more -
Reminiscence
Exhibition Opening | October 6th, 5-8pm 29 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 Slate Gray South presents Reminiscence – a reflection on 2022, a year of challenges, triumph, and growth. Read more -
NAVALNY | Daniel Roher
Pop Up Art Exhibition Opening | September 1st, 5-8pm 1 - 8 Sep 2022 Starting September 1-8, Slate Gray North will feature a pop-up art exhibition of
behind-the-scenes sketches by Daniel Roher, director of NAVALNY, the award-winning documentary of the shocking attempted assassination of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, from CNN Films and HBO Max. Read more -
Place to Place | Rebecca Crowell
Exhibition Opening | September 1st, 5-8pm 31 Aug - 28 Sep 2022 “The paintings in the Place to Place series began in response to my move in the summer of 2021 from rural Wisconsin to our new home in northern New Mexico. Various moments, emotions, thoughts, and memories from this time of upheaval and transition influenced the work. Sometimes this applied in very particular, narrative ways. Read more -
Efflorescence | Dana Flores & Christopher Peter
Exhibition Opening | September 1st, 5-8pm 31 Aug - 28 Sep 2022 Slate Gray South presents Efflorescence featuring Dana Flores & Christopher Peter. Efflorescence – or the action of developing and unfolding as if coming into flower or blossoming – captures the root nature of both Dana Flores’ and Christopher Peter’s art. Read more -
Ment(or)/ee | Gil Bruvel & David Davis
Exhibition Opening | August 4th, 5-8pm 29 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Slate Gray South presents Ment(or/ee) featuring Gil Bruvel and David Davis. This mentor/mentee relationship began 6 years ago when Bruvel was looking for an additional studio assistant. Bruvel took Davis under his wing, showing by example and explaining how to self-sustain as an artist. Now, several years later, Davis gets... Read more -
Re-Wired | Judith Kohin
Exhibition Opening | August 4th, 5-8pm 29 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Slate Gray South presents Re-Wired featuring expressionist paintings by Judith Kohin. In 2021, after her 25 years as the executive director of Ah Haa School for the Arts, Judith has “re-wired” herself and is finally pursuing life as a full time artist. Read more -
Doorways of Ominous Portent | Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor
Exhibition Opening | July 7th, 5-8pm 30 Jun - 27 Jul 2022 In memory of Jerry Uelsmann (June 11, 1934-April 4, 2022), Slate Gray South X presents Doorways of Ominous Portent featuring photographic works from Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann. Formerly married for 25 years until 2016, the contemporary photography duo have a shared affinity for surrealist photomontages. Read more -
Sealed in History | Amy Van Winkle
Exhibition Opening | July 7th, 5-8pm 30 Jun - 27 Jul 2022 Slate Gray South features the encaustic paintings of Amy Van Winkle in her solo exhibition, Sealed in History. Amy’s works are a diary and visual representation of her journey from Chicago, to Southeast Asia, Telluride, and now Santa Fe. Her surroundings inspire her art. Recently, her paintings are influenced by... Read more -
Local's Loop | Gordon Brown, Bruce Gomez, Julee Hutchison, Goedelle Vanhille
Exhibition Opening | June 2nd, 5-8pm, Historic Presentation with Bärbel Hacke | June 2nd, 5:30pm 2 - 29 Jun 2022 Read more -
Sheer Imagination | Cie Hoover, Gina Sarro, Kathryn Tatum & Joseph Toney
Exhibition Opening | June 2nd, 5-8pm 27 May - 27 Jun 2022 Read more -
Rendering the West | Topher Straus
Exhibition Opening | March 3rd, 5pm-8pm 3 Mar - 8 Apr 2022 Read more -
Così Splendido e Vero | Silvio Porzionato
Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk | February 3rd, 2022 | 5pm-8pm 3 - 28 Feb 2022 Slate Gray Gallery presents Così Splendido e Vero featuring Silvio Porzionato. The exhibition is titled after his painting Così Splendido e Vero da Potervi Ingannare which translates to “so splendid and true that it can deceive you.” Porzionato’s large scale contemporary figure paintings combine classical, mannerist, and expressionist techniques. He begins each painting by photographing friends and people he meets on the street. Read more -
Intuitive Alchemy | Karen Scharer
Exhibition Opening | January 6th, 2022, 5pm-8pm 6 Jan - 2 Feb 2022 Slate Gray Gallery presents Intuitive Alchemy featuring Karen Scharer. At first glance, the vibrant colors of Karen’s paintings lure the viewer in. Her abstract works are the product of her surroundings, the events, and people she observes and interacts with. She works intuitively, ultimately outputting everything she absorbs around her. Read more -
Telluride Unveiled | Ryan Bonneau
Exhibition Opening | December 2nd, 5pm-8pm 1 Dec 2021 - 1 Jan 2022 Read more
