Category: ART

  • Klaus Ottman responds to critics Dec. 12, 2006

    “How to Explain Art to a Dead Horse,” was the title of Ottmann’s lecture. His basic premise? You can only explain Art to a dead animal because you cannot explain art. “You have to experience art first before you can intellectualize it,” Ottman said. Ottman defended his personal style and his choices for the SITE…

  • Four Corners forms: All is not predictable at regional show, Durango Herald, Jan. 16, 2007

    Lorraine Trenholm’s pastel “Yakin’ III (Animas)” won Best of Show Award and the Durango Chamber of Commerce “Reflections of Durango” Award at the Four Corners Commission Juried Art Exhibit at the Durango Arts Center. Envision an art exhibit in which the Durango Area Tourism Office and the Chamber of Commerce both select work to use…

  • All is not predictable at Four Corners Commission Juried Show as submitted

    Envision an art exhibit in which the Durango Area Tourism Office and the Chamber of Commerce both select work to use in promoting Durango. Imagine artwork that “celebrates the unique quality and diversity of the life, land and heritage of the Four Corners region.” Now add to the mix former gallery owner and local jewelry…

  • DAC turns Christmas gallery for the month, Durango Herald, Dec. 15, 2006

    It’s money-making month at the Durango Arts Center, even more pointedly than the other 11 months. The main gallery is crammed with a juried show of Christmas presents called Holiday Art Ole. It includes folk art, jewelry, paintings, photography, ceramics, sculpture, scarves, clothing,candles, boxes, ornaments, jackets, purses, pens, teddy bears and Santas. Lorraine Trenholm’s pastel…

  • Ole! Gift ideas are overflowing at Durango Arts Center as submitted

    Holiday gift giving doesn’t have to be redundant and predictable. Unique, original gifts are available during Holiday Art Ole at the Durango Arts Center. Holiday Art Ole is a juried show of fine arts and crafts, specifically selected for gift giving. The Barbara Conrad gallery is crammed full of folk art, jewelry, paintings, photography, ceramics,…

  • On the Road for Art, Durango Herald, Dec. 11, 2006

    Photos: C. Greg Gummersall, #6-C24-7, Acrylic/Collage on Canvas 6 x 5 ft. (Muse Gallery, Jackson, WY); #8-C25-15, Acrylic/Collage on Canvas 5 x 4 ft. (Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA);Jenny Gummersall, photo from Egg Series. Painter Greg Gummersall committed career suicide by moving to Bayfield. That’s what an Arizona museum curator told him. He’s proved her…

  • Hanging at the Mall

    L to R: Artwork by Adele Kurtz; Earth paintings by Maggie Remington; Adele Kurtz uses her shoe as a hammer to hang a new painting. Resourceful local painter Adele Kurtz is coordinating a project with eight other area artists, all women, to help themselves by setting up a seasonal gallery in the Durango Mall. The…

  • Eloquent Expressions of Indian Culture, Durango Herald, Nov. 7, 2006

    Courtesy School of American Research Press Painting the Underworld Sky: Cultural Expression and Subversion in Art by Mateo Romero with a foreword by Suzan Shown Harjo, School of American Research Press, 100 pages, 50 color illustrations, $60 hardback, $29.95 paperback. Courtesy School of American Research Press“Four Worlds, Four Tides,” Mateo Romeo’s acrylic on canvas from…

  • Artists Gather to Share Ideas, Durango Herald, Oct. 31, 2006

    I spent the last Thursday of October at Jess Leggett’s home in Durango talking about art with Leggett, an abstract painter and collage artist, Niara Isley, a mixed media artist, and Maggie Remington, an earth painter. The three women are relative newcomers to the Durango arts scene, having all moved here within the last five…

  • FLC Gallery Shows Art Transformed by Computer, Durango Herald, Oct. 24, 2006

    “Winter Fences,” computer generated art by Anna Ursyn The work of Anna Ursyn is graphically intense. Her cityscapes are busy and forceful with movement and color. Rural landscapes provide resting places for the eye, splotches of intense green or sky blue color. Call it digital collage or high-tech art or even algo writs, as the…