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 emabrk on a new series of work she calls "Making Meaning Mine."
"Often it feels I find my work in the world around me, the aged, chipped paint on a factory door, the lichen on a boulder, textured stones, shaped rocks, the play of shadows and light. That summer day, exiting the mine and seeing that treasure was an affirmation- that the beauty exists and it is ours to see. In this show, I am holding onto and sharing the beauty and meaning found as I emerged into the sun from the impossibly dark, vast, softness of the mine. Acknowledging the beauty and meaning that is always there when we can attune to feel it.”
- Beverly Crilly
Please join us at the gallery on Thursday, October 3rd, from 5 - 8pm to celebrate the opening of this exhibition. The artist will be present, and refreshments will be served.
