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Telluride Arts’ First Thursday Art Walk is a festive celebration of the art scene in downtown Telluride for art lovers, community, and friends. Participating venues host receptions from 5 –8 p.m. to introduce new exhibits.

The final Art Walk of the winter 2018 season takes place April 5.

Be sure to check out highlights of the 2017/2018 season at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. Immerse yourself in an eye-dazzling series by Trine Bumiller at Telluride Arts’ Gallery 81435. Telluride Arts HQ features “Is This Water?” by a maverick young artist.

Tune into Open Art Radio on KOTO from 12 – 1 p.m. to hear interviews with the participating artists. Complimentary gallery guides are available at all the venues for a self-guided tour.

Art Walk Venues, April 2018: (Specific exhibit information listed below.)

Elinoff Gallery
Gallery 81435
Kamruz Gallery
La Cocina de Luz
Lustre Gallery
MiXX projects + atelier
Picaya
Slate Gray Gallery
Studio G
Telluride Arts HQ Gallery
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
The Turquoise Door Gallery
Tony Newlin Gallery

Gallery 81435

Gallery 81435 presents “Centenary: Selections from 100 Paintings for 100 Years,” an exhibit by Trine Bumiller, up through April.

Bumiller’s “100 Paintings for 100 Years” is a series of 100 paintings inspired by a residency during the centennial year of Rocky Mountain National Park. But the work evolved into something much greater, an immersive experience, both in practice and in installation, that points to our human need to record, remember and reflect.

The images are meditations on our relationship to nature and, through various perspectives, present a deconstructed portrait of the landscape. They advance the dialogue between abstraction and representation, resting somewhere between the two. As if between experience and memory lies the finest version of reality.

Kamruz Gallery

Kamruz Gallery presents photography by local Mary Kenez.

La Cocina

La Cocina features local artist Kellie Day. A variety of her latest works is on display, all created over the past eight months.

Kellie’s show is a series featuring three different genres: Winter Trees, Butterfly Explosion, and Tulips.

See the work while enjoying wholesome, handmade Mexican food featuring local and organic ingredients.

Lustre

This month, Lustre Gallery presents a special collection of golden South Sea pearls.

Farmed in the pristine waters of the Philippines off the coast of Palawan, the pearl is one indicator of the health of the planet. On its lustrous surface, every typhoon, every change in water temperature, and every nuance in the cleanliness of the water is recorded.

Jewelmer, an international luxury brand born out of a commitment to the world’s most lustrous cultured South Sea pearls and exquisite fine jewelry, has cultured these pearls for over 40 years.

While they sell 97% of their harvest to top pearl companies such as Mikimoto, the choicest pearls are kept for their own hand-crafted collections. These jewels will be on display at Lustre Gallery for Art Walk.

MiXX projects + atelier

Celebrating a broad range of artists from MiXX’s in-house collection, MiXX is launching its first Mini Art Fair.

Featuring small works by regional painters Meredith Nemirov, Katie Stewart, Pam Conrad, and Britt Markey, as well as international artists Marco Grassi, Sheila Giolitti, and Lisa Kairos.

From encaustic medium to watercolor studies, floral abstraction to figurative portraits, the Mini Art Fair brings to the forefront a fresh perspective on the dynamic capacity of small-scale fine art.

A grand opportunity for collectors, check out MiXX for the finale Art Walk of Winter 2018.

Picaya

Picaya will feature local Colorado and Telluride artists from its own stable, including TaiDK designs, Colleen Thompson, Tony Finocchio, Juliana Designs, and Smart by Nature.

Slate Gray Gallery

Slate Gray Gallery showcases Ali Launer and her beads on bone.

Launer combines luxurious precious, semiprecious stones, handmade Bali Sterling silver and glass seed beads on the skulls of noble animals to create an impressive, signature style of art.

Each piece is a combination of beautiful patterns and extraordinary bold presence. The animal form, often with large, gorgeous horns, serves as the frame housing the intricate details of her designs.

Studio G

Studio G shows the work of artist Margaret Rinkevich and her experiential landscapes.

The artist’s objective is to achieve visually arresting images from what she describes as an “all-consuming mental grind in the creative process.” The artists’ goal in this series is to charge the apparently simple relationships of form and color charged with as much force, feeling and meaning as possible.

Telluride Arts HQ

Telluride Arts’ HQ Gallery presents, “Is This Water?”, an exhibit by Austin Halpern.

“Living in this increasingly digitized and modernized world, we often spend our days mindlessly looking, without truly seeing,” states Halpern.

His first solo exhibit “Is This Water?” is a meditation on the practice of seeing. With his photographs, Halpern attempts to reframe how we go about visualizing our day-to-day lives.

Born in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Austin is a 19-year-old sophomore at Colorado College and a part-time resident of Telluride, who interned with Telluride Arts during the summer of 2017.

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art

Telluride Gallery features selections from its 2017 and 2018 winter exhibitions.

Check out madrone sculptures by Christian Burchard; abstract paintings from Gordon Brown; cold wax paintings by Rebecca Crowell; mixed media abstractions by Krista Harris; minimalist paintings by Daniel Mendel-Black; and geometric minimalism by John M. Miller.

Tony Newlin Gallery

The Tony Newlin Gallery features a new release, limited edition image, captured by Tony this summer in Denali National Park: Tundra Nomad.