Category: Durango
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Color as field, Durango Herald, Dec. 28, 2007
Top: Frankenthaler’s “Flood, 1967” is synthetic polymer on canvas (124 by 140 inches). Middle: Mark Rothko’s oil “Number 18, 1951,” is 81 by 69 inches. Bottom: Helen Frankenthaler’s 1973 acrylic on canvas”Off White Square” (79 by 235 inches) is in the Denver Art Museum show “Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975.” All photographs are courtesy…
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Ben Nighthorse profile in Art of the 4 Corners, Fall 2007
Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.
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Big art versus bad art at DAC, Durango Herald, Nov. 30, 2007
Library Gallery show hits a broad spectrum Judy Brey’s ceramic sculpture “Tiny Dancer” ($225) is part of the “Smaller Than a Breadbox” show. The DAC Library Gallery is a small, cramped space like an attic, with a sloped ceiling and low-level bookshelves. For many years, local artist Mary Ellen Long and a committee that currently…
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Emotional Chords: Ethridge displays two photo shows at Open Shutter Gallery, Durango Herald, Nov. 27, 2007
Photos Clockwise from top:”Contemplating the Goddess” is from Ethridge’s “Solitary Voyagers” series.”Pieds” is from Douglas Ethridge’s “Solitary Voyagers” series, on display at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango.”Tea Time” captures the aloneness one can feel in public. The photographer uses shallow depth of field, a technique that focuses on the man at the counter, while…
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This lounge singer’s a cowboy, Durango Herald, Nov. 27, 2007
Greg Ryder plays Western music from the 1850s to songs he’s just written in the Diamond Belle Saloon on Saturday. Greg Ryder sits alone with his guitar on a small stage at the Diamond Belle Saloon. He wears a smudged, off-white, cowboy hat that’s a bit small for his head, a crisp white shirt, wrangler…
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Sorrel Sky Gallery Newsletter
Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.
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Lime Berry to Close Doors, Durango Herlad, Nov. 23, 2007
Joe and Melissa Carroll, the owners of Lime Berry Gallery, are moving to upstate New York, and they are taking their store with them. Not literally, but they plan to take some of the friends and family they represent in their Durango gallery and introduce them to buyers on the East Coast. “We love Durango,”…
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Art for Art’s Sake, Durango Herald, Nov. 20, 2007
“Untitled” is created using complementary color schemes. In this work, a color like orange must touch its complement blue.“Untitled,” Rod Craig’s oil pastel painting of two pears are not pears; they’re clouds or water in the shape of pears, says Craig. (Author’s Note: The color matching on these images is not representative of the actual…
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Goebel selected as finalist for Arts Writer Grant
I’m thrilled, honored and excited to have been selected as a finalist for the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. What is the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program? The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is a three-year pilot program designed to support writers…
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Fighting the fight, Durango Herald, Nov. 16, 2007
It’s one thing to be opposed to Desert Rock on principle, because of global warming, because of health concerns. It’s another to see those principles documented on the faces of the people who are breathing coal dust and drinking toxic water, watching their sheep and cattle die.
Leanne Goebel 