Until Aug. 14, the Carbondale Arts Gallery is featuring two local, eclectic artists, each with a unique method to finding inspiration and creating their art. “People say people are artistic or not. I think it’s most everybody’s artistic, and then somebody tells them that they’re not, and then they think they’re not,” said Vallee Noone, […]
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In ‘plein’ sight — a celebration of natural art in the Crystal River Valley
The Redstone Gallery and Redstone Art Foundation are partnering in 2025 to bring another Plein Air Festival to fruition. From June 23-29, artists will gather to paint under the open sky and the public is encouraged to mosey over and watch them work. June 23 will feature a private painting workshop with Scott Ruthven at […]
Exhibitions showcase local artistry and unseen beauty
Two exhibitions, “Tiny Shiny Guild” and “Seen/UnSeen: an invitation to presence,” are showing until Sept. 21 at the Carbondale Arts’ R2 Gallery in The Launchpad, at 76 S. 4th St. Tiny Shiny Guild “Tiny Shiny Guild” is an invitational show curated by Colorado Mountain College (CMC) instructor Natasha Seedorf and boasts 150 pieces from current […]
Intimate Locality: The art of color with Andy Taylor
On Thursday, July 21, the Ann Korologos Gallery on Basalt’s Midland Avenue presented a new collection of work by Carbondale artist Andy Taylor. It was the opening night and artist reception for Taylor’s solo exhibition titled “The Art of Color”, featuring landscapes painted in either oil or pastel. Taylor, who has his studio in downtown […]
Local artist shows at the Launchpad
It took a while for The Sopris Sun to get an interview with longtime Carbondale artist John Toly — roughly three years. Polite requests would be gently rebuffed by the quiet, humble 83-year-old. But then he worked with Carbondale Arts to line up a solo art exhibition at the Launchpad in Carbondale that opens Friday, […]
A wild impulse, landscape painter Peter Campbell
“I have a triad, like a pie. In that pie, there’s what you see. There’s what you know. And there’s what you feel. The feel part is huge — it’s why you do what you do.” Plein air painter Peter Campbell will be celebrating winter works at Korologos Gallery in Basalt this Saturday, Jan. 8. […]
Escaping into art
“Dan came with the gallery,” Ann Korologos teases, referring to accomplished local painter Dan Young. Long before purchasing The Basalt Gallery from its retiring owners in 2007, Korologos counted several of Young’s paintings among her personal collection. Some years earlier, she introduced 20 of Young’s paintings to Europe, with her husband Tom serving as U.S. […]
Artist Tracey Harris settles in Marble
Here is something most non-artists don’t know and many artists can only dream about: when an artist starts doing solo shows, galleries take notice and sometimes contact them to join a roster, rather than the artist contacting the gallery. That’s what happened to Marble artist Tracey Harris. She is now carried by five galleries, located […]
