[click "Play" for Masriera rep Sally Lake's conversation with Susan]
The bling at Telluride's Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine, is as extravagantly fabulous as a Nebuchadnezzar of champagne.
Founded in 1839, the House of Masriera became synonymous with Art Noveau jewelry in Spain, ultimately sharing a podium with Lalique glass and Gaudi's over the top architecture. Lluís Masriera (1872-1958), son of jewelers and painters, pioneered several innovations in his field, including the technique known as “Barcelona Enamel”, a translucent enamel possessing brilliant luminosity and remarkable definition. Fortunately for jewelry collectors today, Masriera saved every mold used in his design process. Each contemporary Masriera is made from these original molds, and so they are not considered reproductions, but originals.
Telluride local Julee Hutchison paints in oils on canvas with loose, open brushstrokes. Her focus is almost always the Big Picture, as she creates valentines to broad, open vistas and little corners of the world, although her landscapes are unmistakably American. Even in her portraits, the artist remains at one cool remove to take in and reflect the whole package, mining poetry from a smile or the tilt of a shoulder. Hutchison, however, is not strictly speaking a realist. She takes liberties with color to add punch or direct the eye of her viewer.
[click "Play" to listen to Malcolm Liepke speaking about his art]
Will Thompson's Telluride Gallery of Fine Art features a higgledy-piggledy mix of artists with one theme in common: They march to their own drum.
Malcolm Liepke was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the unabridged honesty that comes with Midwestern roots shows up in his work. Liepke is an unapologetic realist, who paints with a smoking brush. His images, these freshly minted portraits of women, have evolved into a patented cocktail of sensuality and draftsmanly stylishness: definitely PG-13, as much for what comes through the surface as what's on the surface.
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Michelle Scrivner]
Telluride's First Thursday Art Walk, produced by the Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities, is a celebration of the local art scene, when galleries, studios and stores around Main Street stay open late until 8 p.m. In March Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine, celebrates the work of artists Michele Scrivner and her partner/assistant Brian Billow, which in turn celebrates nature.
It is not so much that Scrivner aims to exactly replicate the beauty of the natural world, but rather to express the feelings a place evokes through simple lines, rich hues, and complex textures. These feelings are colored green, as in eco-crusader.
The 2010 First Thursday Telluride Art Walk continues Thursday, March 4, 5-8p.m. at galleries around town.
Sponsored
by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Art Walk is a
day-long showcase of our local fine arts scene, galleries, studios and
arts organizations staying open “late ‘til 8” the First Thursday of
every month. The event, which kicked off three years ago, includes galleries located in and around Colorado Avenue (Main Street),
all within walking distance of one another. Stop by after work, après
ski, or on your way to dinner and add a little art to your life.
The
free Art Walk brochures, available at any participating venue (and our
hotels and coffee shops), offer a self-guided map of the participating
establishments.
[click "Play" to listen to Adam Field discussing his work]
In March, the Daniel Tucker Gallery at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts features the work of sculptor Adam Field. The opening of the show coincides with the First Thursday Art Walk, when galleries and retail outlets around Telluride stay open late until 8 p.m. Field will be in town for the reception at the school, 300 South Townsend, 5 – 8 p.m., which includes an artist's talk/ slideshow scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
In a case of aesthetic whiplash, in Adam Field's ceramic work crosses boundaries as it simultaneously looks back in time and into the future: past meets present, East meets West.
Ever notice that the word "pain" is embedded in "painting?" The Telluride AIDS Benefit's auction, however, is a wonderful way to transform pain into gain for the nonprofit's six beneficiaries.
Size matters when it comes to Valentine's presents. And small is better. The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art features bling made by some of the finest jewelers in the world, including the work of New York-based goldsmith Pat Flynn.
Flynn's creations are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Norway to name a few prestigious institutions.
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Katia and Steve]
Sponsored by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, First Thursday Art Walk has become what to do apres ski or pre-prandial for Telluride locals and guests, who get to soak in the town's fine art and retail scene: galleries, studios, arts organizations (such as the Council) and retail stores located in and around Colorado Avenue (Main Street) stay open late until 8 p.m. Lustre Artisans Gallery is one of the participating venues.
For Art Walk, February 4 (also Friday, February 5), 4 – 7 p.m., the husband and wife team of Steve Pflipsen and Katia Pflipsen-Olivová are on hand at Lustre for an artists’ reception. The couple will be talking about their newest large-scale sculptural glass vessels.( Also at Lustre, a trunk show featuring 24K gold jewelry by Gurham, who fashions his contemporary pieces based on techniques dating back thousands of years.)
First Thursday Art Walk, February 4, 5 – 8 p.m., is a big night out on the town. Locals and guests meet and greet on the street as they check out Telluride's fine art and retail scenes. Venues are open late until 8 p.m.
The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, 130 East Colorado Avenue, features the work of artist Adele Kaars-Sypesteyn , who paints images of aged and decrepit walls, floors and other architectural features of buildings marred – or enhanced? – by time. Repetition of forms, the visual marks of lives well lived, evoke a feeling of bygone days and the weathering of lived-in spaces. The power and physical beauty of Sypesteyn's abstractions and landscapes also suggest the artist holds some interesting views about the aging process in humans.
